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23. Single page comic featuring Rainbow Dash
*Plan: 100%
*Dialogue: 100%
*Pencil Sketch: 22%
*Digital Outline: 18%
*Color: 18%
*Background: 40%
*Unicorn Magic: 100%
*Frames Completed: 1 of 6


22. Single page comic featuring the Mane 6
*Plan: 100%
*Dialogue: 100%
*Pencil Sketch: 100%
*Digital Outline: 100%
*Color: 100%
*Background: 100%
*Unicorn Magic: 100%
*Frames Completed: 5 of 5
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Updated 5-19-2013 11:58 AM (CDT)

Conventions

Conventions I have attended:

~TrotCon 2012
~Midwestria 2012
~Canterlot Gardens 2012
~Las Pegasus Unicon

Conventions I will be attending:

~TrotCon 2013
~BronyCon 2013

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Chris Behrendt
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art
United States
Hello! I am a 21 year old digital cartoonist who specializes in drawing blooper-reel style comics for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I am also studying the field of robotics at a low key community college in Chicago, Illinois.

My OC is Stormy Bluff, the very confused Pegasus pony. He doesn't have a back story of any kind. He just randomly shows up places, completely clueless of where he is or how he got there. Does he have short term memory loss? He forgot...

Here is a little bit more about me as an artist. I have always loved building and creating things with my hands, and drawing has always come second nature to me. While the actual origins of me drawing cartoon animals is sketchy, I remember being heavily influenced by my favorite movie at the time, Balto. Prior to that point, I drew mechanical things such as trains, cars, and wouldn't you believe it, even computers. At that point in time, I always stated that I was awful at animal/human art and refused to even attempt it at times. After becoming obsessed with Balto, I took it upon myself to begin learning how to draw cartoon animals. That is was soon led me into the furry fandom, where I broadened my developing skill from feral animals to anthropomorphic as well. After I got my hands on a better computer than my original Pentium 4 Compaq laptop I got hand-me-down from my father, I purchased Adobe Flash through my school and I taught myself Flash vectoring, learning and experimenting with the program over time.

I came into the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom very early on in the show's run. My first episode was actually 'Boast Busters' when it premiered on the Hub for the first time. The fact that I already drew anthropomorphic art really made it easy to segway into drawing our cute little ponies with relative ease.

I have never had any formal training in drawing, or using Photoshop or Flash. Each of my skills are self-taught, and I am constantly practicing to improve my style. How I create art, some may not agree with. That's okay, I've been told I've been doing it wrong for years. If that is indeed the case, I certainly have been doing it wrong the right way. Helpful critiques, however, are always welcome.

I sketch each and every character, object, and background on paper first using just a normal #2 pencil. I work at a school so pencils and fresh printer paper are easy to come by. Each picture is then scanned and digitized using Adobe Flash CS5.5 with a Wacom Intuos4. My method of creating art isn't as fast as other methods, but knowing that each comic contains only images that I personally created, and not public consumption vector files fills me with immense satisfaction.


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*NOTICE* -Please do not post any links on my userpage or submission comments. This includes links to deviantart pages and content submissions. If somepony disregards this rule, I will politely message them and ask that they please edit/hide their post. If they do not respond within 24 hours, I will hide the message.

Crap, I just realized that how I stated the above rule made it sound like I didn't want to be featured anywhere. I simply ask that nobody advertise their own personal accounts on my comments. Thanks!
Interests
  • Mood: Shame
  • Listening to: Itunes Pony Playlists
  • Watching: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
  • Eating: Milk Chocolate
  • Drinking: Water
Before my personal thoughts are stated, I urge everyone to read this post regarding the fan reaction toward Equestria Girls on Equestria Daily: [link]

Now, I don't like getting involved with the latest Brony news and hype, but I feel it necessary this time to state my absolute disgust and concern over something I was made aware of this evening. The fan reaction to the up and coming Equestria Girls movie. First let me be clear, my feelings toward the movie, either being optimistic or pessimistic, plays no roll in this journal entry. I withhold all of my opinions on the matter. However, I learned that there has been a major uproar in the community, and a good number of degrading, and/or threatening emails have been made to both Hasbro and DHX Animation. I can not even begin to state how appalled I am after hearing this.

First off, nobody likes being negatively criticized. If you don't have something nice to say, then do the world a favor and don't say it. I could care less how offended or annoyed somebody is, especially by something like Equestria Girls. If you find it necessary to write a nasty comment or email, then the issue lies with you, and only you. Don't be that guy. Don't be rude. Don't be immature. If My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has taught anything at all, is it to treat other people with kindness and respect, no matter if they are a friend, somebody you have never met, or the creators behind My Little Pony and Equestria Girls.

I want to publicly state my thanks and appreciation to the staff, animators, writers, voice talents, music talents, and everybody else at DHX. Without them, we wouldn't have the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic we all know and love. I am very, very saddened by, and sorry for all the negativity being directed toward you after all the hard work and passion you put into Equestria Girls. It is so, so wrong of people to direct their aggravation and disrespect toward you, or anybody else who is responsible for creating Equestria Girls. I respect all the hard work put into every single aspect MLP and EQG has to offer, and admire your devotion to both the show/movie as well as the fandom. It is difficult to please the huge number of people that watch My Little Pony, but DHX manages to do it extremely often. Not only do you have it down pat, but you have a real gift. Thank you DHX.

I urge everybody reading this journal to leave your rude, angry comments at the door, and give thanks to not only everyone at DHX, but every single person who make My Little Pony, and consequently Equestria Girls possible. I am not much of a twitter person, but there is a campaign underway to include the #thankyouDHX hashtag in your twitter posts, thanking DHX for their incredible animation skills and dedication to the show we love.

Thank you for sticking with me through this post. I just needed to get this off my chest.

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:iconkida54:
~Kida54 May 15, 2013  Student Digital Artist
I like Discord.
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:iconwildtiel:
*wildtiel May 15, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Heck yeah! =/)
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:iconkida54:
~Kida54 May 15, 2013  Student Digital Artist
MLP: FiM rules!
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:iconcjkelley333:
~cjkelley333 May 2, 2013  New member Hobbyist Filmographer
Eeyup.
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:iconwildtiel:
*wildtiel May 1, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Well thank you very much! Happy to hear that you are also a fan of Redwall and MLP =D
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~cjkelley333 May 1, 2013  New member Hobbyist Filmographer
I like your art! I'm a fan of MLP:FiM and Redwall as well!
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:iconwildtiel:
*wildtiel Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh course! Go right ahead! I look forward to keeping in touch =)
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:iconjamescoyote:
thanks :) its great to be able to keep in touch more too, i'll be submitting my furry art from you here also, hope your ok with that, i'll be sure to credit you too *hugs*
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:iconwildtiel:
*wildtiel Apr 27, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yay! Glad to see you back on DA!
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:iconjamescoyote:
well heres my DA page :P
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