Brony Thank you Fund. Dr. Lyra Strange (Patreon)

This is a piece I did for an upcoming Brony Thank You Fund  MLP calendar which will have a Super Hero theme. I wanted to do  something out of the ordinary and character who I haven't drawn much. So  I asked if I could do Lyra as Dr. Strange.  

     The design of piece is something of a fusion between the original  Doctor who appeared in Marvel comics and the recent movie version of the  character. However I did study the movie and still shots from it  extensively for costume and color palette cues. The setting is loosely  based on the final scene in the film, but I cleaned up the background to  avoid the stupendous amount of clutter that clogged the screen.

     For the piece I also tried a speed technique on the orbs floating in  the picture I was much more aggressive with my use of marker  underpainting and for this piece and type subject matter it let finish  the background much faster. The entire background was done about 10  hours. The complete final piece from final graphite drawing on the  working surface to signing took about 24hrs. The image size is about  12.5"x 19.5" in size and was done on Strathmore 500 Series vellum finish  Bristol Board.