In 2019 it was announced that one of my all time favorite beat-em-up game, Castle Crashers, would be coming over to the Switch. To celebrate, I decided to draw one of my favorite characters to use in the game, Pink Knight, along with another favorite from an equally colorful but considerably less violent show, Pinkie Pie.
In Castle Crashers you’ll come by animals that you can ride in certain levels, so drawing Pink Knight riding into battle on Pinkie was an easy choice.
I started by finding a good pose for Pinkie. She’d be the type to happily bounce into a battlefield, so I needed something energetic.
I went with the second pose and roughly sketched where Pink Knight would sit, along with his signature lollipop weapon.
I refined the sketch and added two hamsters Pink Knight uses in his attacks. I thought about adding a defeated enemy they’d be prancing away from, but ended up ditching the idea.
I colored the lines to match the style of My Little Pony and added Pink Knight’s rainbow power, along with the sparkles and hearts that come with it. One colorful background later and it was finished!
Castle Crashers means a lot to me and this still stands as another one of my favorite pieces. I started doing a series of these with the other knights in the game that I’ll have to get back to later.
Thank you for reading!
2 replies on “Illustration Process- Pony Crashers”
Hi there just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your article seem to be running off the screen in Safari. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with internet browser compatibility but I figured I’d post to let you know. The design look great though! Hope you get the issue fixed soon. Many thanks
Hello, thank you for the heads up! It’s possible it could have something to do with the browser capabilities as I’ve been using Chrome, but will have to look into it.