Thing-a-day Day 31-32: s2e04 Princess Luna

Her Royal Highness, Princess Luna.

So! Okay, it's both rougher around the edges than Celestia and far less show accurate, but darn if it wasn't fun to try to imitate 's Luna style, even I fell pretty far short--my coloration is far, far brighter than it should be, for instance, to say nothing of the actual self-lighting effect.

The screenshot I was working off of had a few missing pieces, which posed another challenge from the normal translation from 2D screenshot to 3D shading, so her torso there is a completely new addition to the scene. I considered lighting it like I did the feathers, which in my mind was from the off-screen tail, but I wasn't sure how clearly I could really convey that, so I left it only lit by the top source.

As with Celestia, here are a couple of the in-progress shots, just to see what she looked like in her slightly earlier stages.

Luna Early Inking
Luna Pre-Detailed Shading