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I continue to try get faster when it comes to digital art without giving up too much in terms of quality. I’m still far from where I want to be in both respects, I guess I just have to be patient and continue practicing.
 
This sketch pays a little reference to the musical side of my cartographer OC Leafhelm. I suppose that things may sometimes become rather too quiet for this very talkative pegasus when to do his job he has to fly far from where many ponys are (and where the land is therefore not yet charted). His lyre may then help to break the silence without talking too much to himself ;)  
It was only in retrospect that I realized that a winged character sitting on a cloud playing the lyre could give the totally wrong impression. Idealistic Leafhelm may be, but far from being anywhere near angel territory. At least I didn’t give him a halo but only the rusty oversized helmet onto his heat.
 
Lately I wrote a few lines of lyrics that Leafhelm might come up with:
 
Where mountains are so far unnamed  
Wilderness still quite untamed  
Where rivers’ runs are still uncharted  
And any ruins long departed  
Where anything’s discovery  
That’s where I am gonna be
 
Leafhelm is my name  
And Cloudsdale is my home  
But too tight for me the frame  
Set by that aerodome
 
I cannot stand in rank and file  
Nor fly in close formation  
When there is so much to explore  
That is my true vocation
 
The sky alone’s not right for me  
Weather making not my destiny  
Form clouds and make winds blow  
Instead I shall descent  
to map the world below
 
The blessing of the Pegasi  
The view from way up high  
Can help others find their way  
For that I’m gonna fly!