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    Jesus Christ how horrifying

    Quote Originally Posted by Purple Tentacle View Post
    I initially wanted to do a drawing of Cat of the canals hanging around the docks but went another way. Put 3 of my favourite Game of Thrones characters together, is it obvious who they are? Totally flaked on drawing the dragon overhead

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    Eeh, I've only ever watched a few episodes of the show, so I don't know what the characters really look like there. Front one is maybe Daenerys?, other two I have no idea. I can't even tell if the left one is male of female.

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    ^ahaha a most pleasingly kitschy rendition

    I don't even know what that is :0

    yeah it's good I haven't seen a lot of marketing/raving discussion about it (just some friends and family saying it's great), because yeah it kinda ruins the experience if you have the hype/marketing at the back of your head

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    the right chestbuttcheek is too high and too firm now that I look at it again (I mean, I could've fixed it given that it's like, a sketch, but I'm a bad person), the coloring is messy and lazy (because, again, I'm a bad person)
    Butthole Surfers, you know the rock band? Eh I guess they weren't very big.

    You are a very bad person flyingchicken, I'm gonna have to see scary Frankenbutt as your avatar whenever I come back to this thread. Now excuse me while I go scrub my brain with some drain cleaner and steel wool.

    Cleaned up my last drawing and I feel like I'm done with it now. I knew I would have a hard time getting the likenesses down for the actors on the show so I really didn't bother trying. From left to right the people in the image are; Missandei, Daenerys and "The Boss" Selmy cause he does everything like a Boss.

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    Madcrafter: I can easily see Tyrion from his facial structure you've captured that pretty well. I don't know anything about digital painting to give you feedback but to say he is looking a bit too smooth and pink.
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    Butthole Surfers, you know the rock band? Eh I guess they weren't very big.
    I'm glad you clarified that, I was afraid to google.

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    Madcrafter: I can easily see Tyrion from his facial structure you've captured that pretty well. I don't know anything about digital painting to give you feedback but to say he is looking a bit too smooth and pink.
    Yup, I decided not to try and texture the skin, lacking a fast and easy way of doing so.
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    So, um.

    I made a pony.

    Specifically, a pony of Sheba from the Golden Sun games

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    So... do you think she's recognizable? How would I go about making my next pony more on-model? Something's up with her eye, but I can't tell what; any pointers there?
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    "Look at the show ponies", you say.

    Here's the thing: I did. I had four or five different screencaps on my references layer. That's how I was able to get the right general body shape and head shape and back leg shape and so on. But beyond that... I can see that they're non-identical. I can't see what to do to get a better match.

    You know OOTS, right? Very simple style. Circles, rectangles, curved lines. It took me a bit over two years (not all of it actively drawing, I admit) to get to a point where I could consistently make OOTS-like pictures that I now consider on-model.

    Pony is a much less simple style. I doubt I could quickly get where I want by simple observation.
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    Ponies are made from three circles. At least when I do them. Think its from a guide. Head is biggest by a decent margin. Then pony butt, that's a fair sized circle, and chest is the smallest.

    In theory, neck through chest to butt should end how with a simple line, like there is a sock stretched over the two circles. I'm terrible at getting legs the right proportion, think I tend to make them far too small and slight sometimes.

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    So... do you think she's recognizable? How would I go about making my next pony more on-model? Something's up with her eye, but I can't tell what; any pointers there?
    Listen to the experts above. The shapes are sort of ok, but the proportions are a fair bit off. There are (as stated) a bunch of guides posted in the OP, they might help; as for generally getting more on model:
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    -The body is too long, and as Tiki Snakes mentioned should be made more of two circles instead of an oval. That will let you see the dip in the back (as opposed to the bulge you have).
    -Head is too small compared to body size, and the eye and ear are too small compared to it. Pony eyes take up like half their face, and the ear starts in the middle of the head. The head should be made with a more circular shape as well, yours seems a little elliptical.
    -Eye gradient is wrong, but most people won't notice in all likelihood. Ponies also usually have two or three reflections in the eye, or they look a little weird.
    -It looks like you shrunk down the front legs and stuck them on the thighs to make the back legs, they're tiny compared to the front ones. The background legs also are a little longer than the foreground ones, which suggests a somewhat bizarre viewing angle.


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    Whales. Got lazy on the mist at the end.
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    So, in honour of the Rarity-Crab thing and the fight for the next ponythread title, I decided it was themed avatar time.

    So, yeah. Suddenly crab.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kd7sov View Post
    "Look at the show ponies", you say.

    Here's the thing: I did. I had four or five different screencaps on my references layer. That's how I was able to get the right general body shape and head shape and back leg shape and so on. But beyond that... I can see that they're non-identical. I can't see what to do to get a better match.

    You know OOTS, right? Very simple style. Circles, rectangles, curved lines. It took me a bit over two years (not all of it actively drawing, I admit) to get to a point where I could consistently make OOTS-like pictures that I now consider on-model.

    Pony is a much less simple style. I doubt I could quickly get where I want by simple observation.
    Simple rules of pony thumb:
    - Pony head is width of entire rest of pony body.
    - Pony head is same length as pony legs
    - Pony stomach curves gently upwards.
    - Pony eye is about 50% of headmass
    - Pony ear is about the size of pony eye.

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    Day 283:

    A bird. Not much.
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    Gestures:
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    Eclipse:
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    Pony, incomplete. Got this far before my tablet driver broke, decided I'd just stop instead of trying to fix it today.
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    Orange stuff, liked the style on an image I saw, so I tried the same. Lacklustre.
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    ^nothing I could say I haven't said already :0
    Yeah, I know... I'll get on it someday.
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    I don't get why I don't mind visible brushstrokes in others' work (like flyinchicken's above), but can't bear to see them in my own. Perhaps I'm just not skilled enough to do it well.

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    Ye Olde One Ring. Small, because it looks a littel better that way.
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    Tried going for a single brush approach. A minotaur, perhaps Iron Will.
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    A golfer. I think that it's not so much chicken scratching so much as the fact I like to go and repeat the same line over and over, which sort of gives it that look. Pose is a little stiff, spent most of my time trying to correct it to no avail.
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    Day 291:

    Not 'nuff pony. RD, in the rain or perhaps a shower. You knew it was bottled didn't you.
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    So, in keeping with the latest MLP:FiM topic title, and cephalopony plushies, and Rarity vs Giant Crab, and the talk on the first few pages of other pony societies... and Hasbro's dumb approval for a fat bearded merlion sea-king with a dumb name to be the ruler of seaponies/mermares...

    (I got nothing against fat bearded merlions but why is he ruling seaponies and mermares? That's like Iron Will being Prince/King of Equestria.)

    I drew "Princess Meridia", who in alicorn fashion is a mix between seaponies and mermares (based on the old MLP bathtub toys). I like line art but I'm not a good Photoshop colorist nor do I want to be one. If y'all judge my 3rd Sibling Princess to be worthy, anyone want to collaborate and color it? Whatever coloring style you want, be it flat Flash or more detailed.
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    1. My headfanon is that she's the 3rd sister princess. It mirrors the Greek gods triumverate of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
    2. The wing-fins extend all the way down her back in 2 rows. Inspired by lionfish.
    3. The breastplate is inspired by seahorse. Inset with pearl.
    4. Horseshoes use clamshell motif.
    5. Design of ear-fins, ankle fins, and eyes are canon.
    6. Narwhale horn. Narwhales are canon; see picture book.
    7. Cutie mark is a hurricane. Space view.

    Edit: Thanqol will be helping me color my Sea Princess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MLai View Post
    I drew "Princess Meridia", who in alicorn fashion is a mix between seaponies and mermares (based on the old MLP bathtub toys). I like line art but I'm not a good Photoshop colorist nor do I want to be one. If y'all judge my 3rd Sibling Princess to be worthy, anyone want to collaborate and color it? Whatever coloring style you want, be it flat Flash or more detailed.
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    1. My headfanon is that she's the 3rd sister princess. It mirrors the Greek gods triumverate of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
    2. The wing-fins extend all the way down her back in 2 rows. Inspired by lionfish.
    3. The breastplate is inspired by seahorse. Inset with pearl.
    4. Horseshoes use clamshell motif.
    5. Design of ear-fins, ankle fins, and eyes are canon.
    6. Narwhale horn. Narwhales are canon; see picture book.
    7. Cutie mark is a hurricane. Space view.

    Edit: Thanqol will be helping me color my Sea Princess.
    Your lineart is sooo much better than mine.

    Sorry, but couldn't resist colouring this as well. I'm interested to see what Thanqol comes up with though.

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    Princess Meridia. Based most of the colours off the king from those images that were posted, save the crown/breastplate which are starfish/coral/shell interior instead of his bronzen crown/horns. I think the hair could do with a bit more variation, and would've maybe like to texture the wing-fins a bit. Some more shadowing on the body too perhaps. But anyways:
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    EDIT: And looks like I managed to make the pupil orange too, probably by messing up my layers. It should be black. Fixed it.

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    A dude, not much. Not my finest work.
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    Been awhile since I've made an update. Just some scratchings really but for next update I've decided to focus on my lower body anatomy, legs, feet and groins etc. Then maybe clothing. Two areas I've had trouble with.

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    Character design undead elf. Ehhh its a pretty stiff pose needs to be livened up.



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    Some Guacamelee related doodles



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    Guacamelee, heh. Sketches nice as always, though I have the strangest feeling that the elf is falling backwards (hips/CoG way farther back from legs), though that may just be the way his pants turned out because of bagginess.

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    Gah, feel terrible today. Have bike. Stagnation continues.
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    A rare landscape. The more I look at it, the more I dislike it though.
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    Zoltar. Spent a lot of time watching the news during so didn't go so fast on this one. Lower half not done obviously.
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    Finally something slightly better. Watched some videos today too for the first time in a while.
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    Faces are hard, but I think you do a very good job of them.

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    Counterpart to 298. Not quite as nice, I think partially because of the darker colour scheme.
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    Well, that was annoying.

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    Was this or earth day, but 300 only comes around once. A few obvious missing things, and I forgot to texture the rock, but I was getting a bad headache from looking at it so long.
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    Scaling back a bit now.
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    Mountain man, GURPS character. All the usual criticisms apply I'm sure.
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    Sydney.
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    More single bad sketch. The thing in the bottom is a panda.
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    Well, that was annoying.
    Understatement of the year perhaps?
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    Quote Originally Posted by flyingchicken View Post
    While everything seems a bit wobbly, at parts scritchy-scratchy, and blurred at edges, the rendering for the 300 pic seems pretty ok.

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    Yay, best praise ever. That picture gave me a most terrible headache after staring at it for so long.

    Sorry I don't have anything particularly constructive to say about your stuff. It looks good though, to the best of my understanding.

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    A map. Theoretically for a game that might never happen. The mountains and oceans turned out ok I think, the rest is meh, but will serve.
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    Flat greyscale farm, fiddling a bit with some of the line drawing methods and some transforms.
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    Nothing special, just a scrappy little thing for posting in Ponythread, but it marks the second attempt at actually including a background in a short period of time.
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    Suitably cheesy, I hope.

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    Suitably cheesy, I hope.
    Ahahah, I love it. So wonderful. Is that your OC, or Bleakbane's subordinate (or are they one and the same)? The ponies confuse me.

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    Had less time than expected due to family dropping in overnight, so ended up being three days. Reasonably satisfied with it, even though it isn't really "complete". Also fine wrinkles are damn hard, to the point where, you may see, I didn't really do any (after experimenting a bit to see if I could invent a way). It makes me think that having a duo-tone brush would be nice, even if such a thing would be impossible to control. Same with the very fine hair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcrafter View Post
    Ahahah, I love it. So wonderful. Is that your OC, or Bleakbane's subordinate (or are they one and the same)? The ponies confuse me.
    Bleakmane the Space Vampire Unicorn Princess started out as a parody/alternate universe version of Bleakbane, but the concept mutated wildly almost right away due to the sheer level of ridiculous. She has a flying space castle full of stolen magical artifacts, a short attention span and probably a bit of a drinking problem.

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