BaronEngel

Big Mac, John Canter of Mares 01

More development art for the series of pictures I want to do that I will

label under the "John Canter of Mares" series. The first piece I want

to do feature Big Macintosh as the reluctant earthpony barbarian warrior

and Miss Cheerilee battling diamond dogs. Classic loincloth barbari...

Picarto stream New Year's Eve with Dusty!

https://picarto.tv/baronengel

Just like Christmas Eve Dusty and I will be streaming on News

Year's Eve beginning at 8pm PST. However this time we ...

Big Spike!

If I am about to start on a finished color piece and if it involves a character, location, critter, effect, or piece of technology I've not drawn before I consider it prudent to do a few study sketches/drawings first. This is an example of some of those drawings.

A stalled project that I ...

Snow Muffin

I want to thank everyone of tuned into Dusty's Christmas Eve stream last night! I also want to thank everyone who donated to Second Harvest Food Bank last night. Dusty was able to raise way more than the target goal for the evenin...

They grind more than flour at the mill

The knock on the front door of our cottage repeated itself in my Equestria dreamscape. For an instant I considered ignoring it but decided it would better if I got it before any of the mares woke Full House from...

Antagonist

Before I go any further I want to thank everyone who tuned in for last night's stream. We had our largest audience yet! Next one will be January 3rd!.

This is a study sketch from my Equestria dreamscape,and it is for a dream arc that is coming up really soon. Without giving away too much o...

Winter Apples

I did this piece a while ago but since it was a gift for someone I have waited until the client gave me the green light to post it. It also seems very appropriate since I will be doing a colored pencil demo tonight on 2015-12-20 20:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Colored Pencil demo 5:30pm PST

Today, starting at 5:30pm PST I will be streaming again on Picarto  if you've ever wondered how I create such pieces as 2015-12-20 19:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Full House

I awoke, very groggy in my Equestria dreamscape. Within a few seconds I started to regret having drunk so much the night before. I’ve had worse hangovers but this was very unpleasant.

      I was lying in bed on my left side. By how bright it was in the room it ...

Suppressed mouse firearm

Geez! I thought I had posted this years ago! Mice and rats present some really neat, and at the same time maddening, bits of world building and tech design for my Andur and variants of my Angel and Knight dreamscapes.

     Having sentient, bipedal individuals who range i...

Queen Chrysalis color study

Testing out possible methods for doing some of the interior illustrations for the Roan RPG. One idea was to use colored paper as the working surface and doing my colored pencil technique on top of that. This was part of the for doing the 2015-12-15 17:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post

With the ones we care about

Okay so I've done something in the Holiday theme that was a bit racy Special little gift so now let's have something a bit more sweet with a high Awwww! rating to it.

I also did this piece to test wh...

Special little gift

This time of the year can be rather hectic, and sometimes it is nice to get a little something to take your mind off the frantic pace of the Holiday season. Well don't fear Petina is here to help with that problem.

Sombra

This is a 6 hour experimental piece that I did today. The media is my usual colored pencil, however the piece was done on black paper which gives it a different feel and required me to tackle the piece differently. I worked very loosely and quickly. I only worried about blocking in broad areas of co...

Previews

It was another fine evening in my Equestria dreamscape, and as usual Petina and Carousel were at the Bucking Mare tavern doing their weekly performance. Along with myself the regular crowd of was gathered to whoop it up and enjoy the evening.

    Although the Best Young Fliers ...

Back home for a bit

So after four amazing days in Canterlot my household boarded the train back to Ponyville in my Equestria dreamscape. Service to the Crown Day had been an amazing experience but now our focus was on another important upcoming event, the Best Young Fliers Competition.

     The co...

A meeting of the minds

The crowd of ponies who had gathered at Promontory Park to see Celestia and Luna perform their vows of office was beginning to disperse in my Equestria dreamscape. Couples, families and groups of friends began to leave the park and either to go home or head off to parties or other gatherings happeni...

November 2015 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

She sang to the Moon

Service to the Crown Day was drawing to a close in my Equestria dreamscape. The day had been filled with memorable moments and amazing stories. We had reservations for dinner later in the evening, but there was one more event that we had been told we had to attend.

     ...

One last thing to attend

Captain Solid Shot story of that fateful night at Fort Shield had come to a close in my Equestria dreamscape. Many a pony hung around to thank the Captain and all the soldiers present for what they had done in the defense of the realm.

    As I turned to try and find out where C...

Work and Play

So for one of my patrons Sonny Starbrite I did a sketch of Derpy pulling a toboggan full of Holiday mail and gifts for his November reward. One my other patrons 2015-11-23 21:55:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Was there ever any doubt?

Was there? Really? Earlier today I hit a bit of a mental brick wall while working on tech design for the Roan RPG. Well instead of beating my head senselessly against it I decided to shift gears and do a bit more anthro MLP character studies. As I expected Petina was more and happy to show me again ...

Streaming this Sunday November 22nd.

Once again I will be streaming this Sunday November 22nd starting 5:30pm PST. Picarto The bar will open for Daiquiris soon after. So get yourself a cold one, or maybe a warm one considering the time of year, and join us for an even...

Experimental Dreyse M1855 Cavalry rifle

Doing more research into making firearms for ponies. Particularly for the Roan RPG. Beyond my General Education in college, history was not required for my degree. However since I was studying illustration and was hoping to do historical illustration I took far more history classes than were require...

RMB-93 12ga shotgun

As part of my research related to my concept art for the Roan RPG, I have been exploring various firearm designs from our world looking for interesting designs that will give the Roan universe its own signature look and feel. One thing that Robert wants for the world is a feeling that the ponies hav...

Big shoes for Big Mac!

Some study sketches I did for an upcoming commission involving an anthro Big Mac. The client had questions about how boots would work with hoofs, and since I plan on doing some anthro work in the future that involves folks with hoofs I decided to give it a bit more thought and consideration.

The Crystal Empire

I once heard someone say that Canterlot was made of nothing but Penrose Triangles link and wishful thinking. That maybe true but it at least stays more on model! I have a commission working its way through ...

Stream this Sunday Nov 8th 5:30pm PST

I have held off making this announcement until I was certain I had beaten this cold/flu/crud into submission. Well this morning I felt more or less human again so its time to move on. This Sunday at 5:30pm PST I'll be streaming commercial-free from Picarto again!2015-11-06 17:36:56 +0000 UTC View Post

I has been sick

Tuesday morning I woke to discover I had a sore throat. Usually this

means I had been snoring in my sleep, which I will sometimes do. So I

didn't worry about much and went about my business in the studio.

However as the day wore on I found that my sore throat was getting worse

Medieval helmets

I have an upcoming Equestria dreamscape posting that has some ponies wearing some rather sinister looking sets of armor.  To get myself in the mood for doing the art for that posting I decided to do some rather quick sketches this afternoon of various Medieval European helmets. In particular I ...