Calydor

Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 11:34 AM

Unicorn! I love drawing unicorns, and this one is explicitly inspired by Calydor, from Son of Summer Stars, the third book of the Firebringer Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce. Chaos, I love those books. Kinda ironically, since I was trying to lean into a more cervine unicorn, the Firebringer Trilogy unicorns are a bit more equine? Though they do have cloven hooves, long fly-whisk tails, and beards. ^_^ I actually super love that the beards of the Firebringer Trilogy unicorns are traits they develop as adults, and both mares and stallions have them.

Experimented with the rendering here, working to try a few different things with painting the lighting a bit differently. Heh, my lighting palette ended up primarily being tones of red, yellow, and green, so it kinda felt like I was painting with a traffic light. Usually I use more blues, purples, and yellows, with maybe greens, pinks, or cyans to pop. I think I prefer the effects of those colors, but these helped with the more natural palette I was trying to convey, here.