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I agree with Madcrafter that it is nice!
Nit pick and suggestion:
For the highlights on the metal bits, have you considered using harder highlights, less air brushyness-type effect? You know, like how you did the white highlights on the eyes? Generally, the shinging things like eyes, wet things and shiny metal look better with harder highlights and a sharper contrast between the dark and light bits. Of course, all this is just a suggestion.
I've been having trouble with mine in my right arm, I found that binding it so it stays straight when I sleep helps.
I didn't bind it, but I have had to change my sleeping position to keep my right arm relatively straight and my elbow at rest. Granted, I might as the sleeping position is different enough that I tend to roll around in the night.
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The funny thing about the nerve injury was that for a while I was afraid it was something wrong with my carpal tunnel as the bottom of my right hand had was numb. I rested my wrists and hands but the sensation didn't go away. After a doctor visit turns out I must have hit my lower elbow at sometime as the doctor told me the nerve was injured there even though it felt fine besides a small prickly pain when a small spot on the nerve was poked.
After starting to rest my upper elbow (which felt fine) feeling started to return to my hand.
The whole event left me feeling extraordinary silly. Oh ye nerve problems.
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Day 142:
Part of the hanging our group leader brought back from his conference in China. This one actually does look better in real life, but it took me 24 pictures to even get it this close to focus. (And of course the actual print is amazing).
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Time: 50 minutes
Music: Pony
It does look nice, now I want to see the print...
C-9, or "I colored something. Mission Accomplished."
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I tried to give myself 1 hour to color a doodle. This is the result. It isn't that good.
More ponies in space, smuggling spice. Carrying crates, shooting guns. Scoot isn't going to shoot anyone like that and Applebloom is feeling guilty about unknowingly taking the safe caring position from Sweetie Belle. The colors are blargh, but I picked them with little second thoughts. The line work could be a lot cleaner too. And perhaps some different colors and not boring grey. Ok, there's a lot of things wrong with this doodle. Next time I guess.
Oh yes, and the tails are indeed, tacked on as a after thought.
I didn't bind it, but I have had to change my sleeping position to keep my right arm relatively straight and my elbow at rest. Granted, I might as the sleeping position is different enough that I tend to roll around in the night.
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The funny thing about the nerve injury was that for a while I was afraid it was something wrong with my carpal tunnel as the bottom of my right hand had was numb. I rested my wrists and hands but the sensation didn't go away. After a doctor visit turns out I must have hit my lower elbow at sometime as the doctor told me the nerve was injured there even though it felt fine besides a small prickly pain when a small spot on the nerve was poked.
After starting to rest my upper elbow (which felt fine) feeling started to return to my hand.
The whole event left me feeling extraordinary silly. Oh ye nerve problems.
Wow that is worse than mine. The outside of my arm about halfway each direction from the elbow is sensitive, but the worst I get in my hand is prickling and burning sensations on the outside edge/fingers.
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It does look nice, now I want to see the print...
Luckily I took a picture of it since I liked it. It was still crooked when I used it as a reference.
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C-9, or "I colored something. Mission Accomplished."
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I tried to give myself 1 hour to color a doodle. This is the result. It isn't that good.
More ponies in space, smuggling spice. Carrying crates, shooting guns. Scoot isn't going to shoot anyone like that and Applebloom is feeling guilty about unknowingly taking the safe caring position from Sweetie Belle. The colors are blargh, but I picked them with little second thoughts. The line work could be a lot cleaner too. And perhaps some different colors and not boring grey. Ok, there's a lot of things wrong with this doodle. Next time I guess.
Oh yes, and the tails are indeed, tacked on as a after thought.
Sweetie is cringing wonderfully, expecting a laser bolt to the back any second, and Applebloom's expression is great as well. I agree on the colours in terms of variety, but overall I don't think it looks so bad. The tails could have been integrated a little better, but at least you didn't forget them. I'm sure the empire'd love it if all spice smugglers dressed the same.
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Day 143:
This would've been recognizable as Elvis if I hadn't drawn his hair too low and royally messed up his facial proportions (his face should be much longer). As it is, just a more generic greaser.
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Time: 30 minutes thereabouts
Music: Pony
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
I have to say, I love your style. It reminds me of Scott Pilgrim.
So, the story behind this one is that the IRC is a wild place, full of as much roleplay as Ponythread itself. In the course of one session, Dive Bomb died, and was given one "free reincarnation" pass, or some-such. I chose to honor the great RP spirits, and come back as a fox; the cyber-fox.
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Details? SHADING? What is this WITCHCRAFT?
Pffftttheeeeeeeeee. You should do the IRC thing sommore. ^_^
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Signatures, man. @@
I have to say that BMO is probably one of the cutest robots around.
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Well the fox is kind of kind of a cute robot critter I suppose...
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Day 144:
Just a gecko lizard thing.
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Time: 20 minutes
Music: Pony
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
I have to say that BMO is probably one of the cutest robots around.
Yes indeed!
Not that Tec isn't cute too, of course.
Anyway, today's 30 minute challenge (which, as before, was actually 60 minutes. That tumblr is badly named) was AJ + The Mayor interacting, so here's AJ getting an award for some reason.
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Don't look at the hat!
Stop looking at it!
Also all the other mistakes! Don't look at them either!
JUST CLOSE THE SPOILER ALREADY, GEEZ!
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Originally Posted by SiuiS
Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
Anyway, today's 30 minute challenge (which, as before, was actually 60 minutes. That tumblr is badly named) was AJ + The Mayor interacting, so here's AJ getting an award for some reason.
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Don't look at the hat!
Stop looking at it!
Also all the other mistakes! Don't look at them either!
JUST CLOSE THE SPOILER ALREADY, GEEZ!
D'awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Cute ponies are cute. ^_^
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Avatar by Thanqol!
Signatures, man. @@
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Luckily I took a picture of it since I liked it. It was still crooked when I used it as a reference.
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
*saved for later inspiration*
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I'm sure the empire'd love it if all spice smugglers dressed the same.
You know, after reading your comment and stopping to think about it, I actually don't know why the CMC smugglers are dressed the same. If they are teamed with AJ and Rarity especially. While AJ would be lazy enough to just buy dozens of the same generic outfit, one would think Rarity would never stand for it. I need to sit down and try to think up alternate clothing.
C-10 and C-11, or "Color? What color?"
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Didn't feel like coloring today, so I just drew instead! It's relaxing to just doodle instead of coloring. I'll color them later. Probably.
Quick-draw Apple!
Applejack about to slice something, the wind is doing something action-y so the hair is twirling around in a impossible but flamboyant manner.
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Link
The lines are better then the last one, but I took longer on it so it doesn't really count as improvement. That line were her snout is is just to remind me were to shade! That's not a pig snout or anything!
Scoot as a werewolf!
Someone once requested scoot as a werewolf, I realized I needed to get off my rearend and fulfill it. So yeah, a work in progress. Not much to see, she's wearing her nightmare night custom and transforming at the same time. Yeah.
Nice, nice. Is the view on the scootaloo one from something? It's interesting with things wrapped around the center like that.
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Day 146:
One I had been holding off on doing for a while, but wanted to. A BoS Paladin/Knight from Fallout 3.
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Time: An hour ten
Music: Pony
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Nice, nice. Is the view on the scootaloo one from something? It's interesting with things wrapped around the center like that.
It's just supposed to be Ponyville with a one point perspective on the moon and the horizon line as a circle. Lazy, because Scoot's isn't really apart of the perspective...
Will probably "Lower" the horizon line (Or enlarge the ground circle line(if that makes sense)), to put more sky in the picture and less ground as I am not too sure what I can do with the ground to make it less boring. But the night sky is always easy to make interesting.
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Day 146:
One I had been holding off on doing for a while, but wanted to. A BoS Paladin/Knight from Fallout 3.
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Time: An hour ten
Music: Pony
Wow. I must say, that is your best drawing yet. The shading is great. Especially those pipes/tubes for the breathing apparatus. Hats off to you.
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Another 30 60 minute art challenge. Done in 45 minutes because I had to break for dinner.
Based on the latest episode of pony, so kind of spoilers.
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I accidently did this at a lower resolution that normal, so that's why the lines look thicker than what I normally do.
I forgot the tails on the upper Pinkies. :/
But other than that I'm quite happy.
The bottom middle one looks happy despite it all! Is it a case of grin and bare it or has she found true peace in her position in life.
Anyway, nice!
Spoil the spoilers I guess,
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I can't help but feel sorry for the clone pinkies. So what they're annoying soulless magical clones, they had a right to exist too! Couldn't they like, start a pinkie nature sanctuary to put them all or something?
Question, have you considered putting some white highlights in your ponies' eyes? I know you are doing the speed draw but the highlights would probably only take a minute or so to add and it would give the black part of the eyes more substance.
C-12, 13, or "Look Ma, I drew something two days in a row!"
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C-12,
Did another prompt, Tiki Snakes' Autumn personification, humanish and pony.
The actually mental shenanigans which led to this were odd to say the least. I went with autumn wreaths since leaf hair was already done by Diego Havoc. If I had been thinking I would have interwoven the branches with the mane and tail. OH WELL.
A rushed color job to finish a rushed doodle. The coloring still took about one hour and thirty minutes.
I left the lineart on a separate layer for this one as like I did with the CMC picture, as opposed to the ones from before where I merged all the layers after I was finished with the base colors, then added shading and other such things. Not too sure if it is better or not. I guess the other way makes a softer image, like with the dryad, squirrel and Twi and Dash pic. Maybe I'm thinking too much about this.
Wow. I must say, that is your best drawing yet. The shading is great. Especially those pipes/tubes for the breathing apparatus. Hats off to you.
Thanks. Interesting, because I think the tubes were the worst (and hardest) part. The original is a really good reference image for the shading, very clear and a large amount of contrast over the whole thing.
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Question, have you considered putting some white highlights in your ponies' eyes? I know you are doing the speed draw but the highlights would probably only take a minute or so to add and it would give the black part of the eyes more substance.
I agree with this. Any ponies I draw without them tend to come out looking insane. Yours seem to not go quite that far, but, it adds a lot to add them.
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C-12, 13, or "Look Ma, I drew something two days in a row!"
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C-12,
Did another prompt, Tiki Snakes' Autumn personification, humanish and pony.
The actually mental shenanigans which led to this were odd to say the least. I went with autumn wreaths since leaf hair was already done by Diego Havoc. If I had been thinking I would have interwoven the branches with the mane and tail. OH WELL.
A rushed color job to finish a rushed doodle. The coloring still took about one hour and thirty minutes.
I left the lineart on a separate layer for this one as like I did with the CMC picture, as opposed to the ones from before where I merged all the layers after I was finished with the base colors, then added shading and other such things. Not too sure if it is better or not. I guess the other way makes a softer image, like with the dryad, squirrel and Twi and Dash pic. Maybe I'm thinking too much about this.
The branches in the hair work well I think. One issue is the positioning of the pony on the shoulders; either it is about to slide down, fall off, or the human is pulling down on the legs really hard. Or the pony is just using its wings, in which case it seems an odd position to be in. Also, center of gravity on the girl might be off, its hard to tell. The colouring does look pretty good to my eyes though. And the griffin is charming.
Oh, and the pony's tail doesn't actually appear to be attached to its body at all.
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Day 147:
Early, since I'm home sick from work.
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Time: 35 minutes?
Music: Pony
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Wow. I must say, that is your best drawing yet. The shading is great. Especially those pipes/tubes for the breathing apparatus. Hats off to you.
Agreed. Well done with this one!
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Question, have you considered putting some white highlights in your ponies' eyes? I know you are doing the speed draw but the highlights would probably only take a minute or so to add and it would give the black part of the eyes more substance.
I normally do, I just forgot this time. If I'd had the extra 15 minutes I might have remembered.
I did them on yesterday's challenge though. Draw a pony (excluding mane 6, princesses or Spike) with a pet.
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*sigh* That is a very tiny monkey holding a very tiny banana. If I hadn't been in such a hurry I would have increased the size a bit. Oh well.
This one was done in 20 minutes, I think
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Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
The tiny monkey is cute though, I see no reason why he should be larger. Maybe the pony is just a giant. Head region looks a little flat in some places though, I don't know if you are drawing with shapes or not (they really do help). But that monkey... genetic engineering go! Make us more tiny monkeys. They are probably really useful too, if you could train one.
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Day 148:
And now after raising the bar so high for myself, I have to lower it a bit. Behold, one of mankind's greatest enemies.
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Time: 20 minutes
Music: Pony
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
We probably just have problems figuring out how you actually look. Closest I ever got was a Teutonic Robot. :P
Nonsense. Are you prepared to witness the true face of Tectonic Robot? Can you handle the truth?
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The tiny monkey is cute though, I see no reason why he should be larger. Maybe the pony is just a giant. Head region looks a little flat in some places though, I don't know if you are drawing with shapes or not (they really do help). But that monkey... genetic engineering go! Make us more tiny monkeys. They are probably really useful too, if you could train one.
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Day 148:
And now after raising the bar so high for myself, I have to lower it a bit. Behold, one of mankind's greatest enemies.
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Time: 20 minutes
Music: Pony
...That is a laser-guided shark. I am frightened now.
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"Everything I see is total, unblemished reality...Except for the flying carrots. Those are probably fake." ~Trixie
Time: No idea, probably around 20-30 minutes
Music: None.
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
The shark was obviously giving a slide show presentation just before the ship arrived. It was probably about how to get meat from ships.
Oooo, shiny new person. Hello shiny new person! Welcome to the pony drawthread. Provided I haven't been a complete dunce and missed a previous post.
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In any case, this is the full version of my avatar:
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I'm pretty sure it counts as a drawing.
Considering some of my previous posts in this thread could be summarized as "This evening's installment of scribbles," I think you're fine there. The bar to entry here is nonexistent, which is a good thing.
As for the drawing, nice, I like the vegitation especially. Only criticism I can come up with is the flags are very static, no way they would be propped like that without having sticks running through the top (and the fact they are in different directions). It could of course be intentional in the style, I don't know. Looks like background from one of those 2D indy games, with a runed turtle.
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Day 150:
I got the envious job of moving tables and chairs around after a "technology day" (read: extreme executive pandering) at work. Getting home late, I decided to try and do a pony in 5 minutes. My results:
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Time: 5 minutes obviously.
Music: None
(I feel bad for the secretarial staff, who now have to actually clean everything up. They are probably all still there).
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Day 151:
Iron Man's head. If you slapped a rune on it he'd totally be a warforged.
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Time: 40 minutes
Music: Pony
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Day 152:
A slightly disproportionate TF2 engineer.
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Time: 40 minutes perhaps
Music: Pony
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Day 153:
Just a Bad Seed.
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Time: Just under 20 minutes
Music: None
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Not until I was finished did it occur to me to get a reference for female bodies.
Might have been a good idea, seeing how much you anthropomorphised it/her. Vrocks being demons and all are technically gender-less (and also wouldn't have a belly button in all cases). Provided I remember my fluff correctly...
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Day 154:
A gun mage (Iron Kingdoms).
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Time: Not sure, possible an hour and a bit.
Music: Pony
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Day 155:
A guy, on the ground. Obviously facing something malicious (what is it?) Was a little more lax on the shading here.
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Time: 30 minutes about
Music: Pony
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Day 156:
Arm was hurting, so I decided to go with something simple and easy... and I screwed it up (and the picture too).
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Time: Don't know, not too long
Music: Pony
EDIT: Man, I really should have retaken that image some more. It hurts my head to look at it for more than a few seconds.
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
pinkie pie as the mother to filles and other things
other things being that I'm 100% convinced that Celestia is evil
a bit indecisive though
finally, what I worked on most recently, some character for someone I don't know who doesn't really know what he wants:
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first go, I wanted to paint over this but I think I'm changing my mind; also the bolt is too big for the bow yes, I was gonna redraw quite a few things
and gonna try to redesign the character first to something more interesting, mainly the arms and legs; first figure is a reject, not just with the technical aspects but everything
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And now, the stuff I made over the past two and a half weeks
Good to see you are back flyingchicken.
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pillowfolk
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These are bizarre, and yet, strangely compelling...
I don't know if you changed anything, but I personally find the faces in these a lot nicer. Also, do you care to translate that comic from Japanese?
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Your clothing is looking really good, Madcrafter!
Thanks; I think the toga people way back when really helped a lot, as well as the good reference drawings.
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Day 157:
A classic, which I just thought of today for some reason (probably Diego's drawing above).
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Time: 35 minutes roughly
Music: Pony
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Day 158:
Not quite, but highly inspired by Twisted Fate (A LoL champion). Some composition issues, but I like the look of it.
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Time: ~40 minutes
Music: Pony
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Day 159:
CMC Detectives. Didn't do much cleaning on this one, so lots of extra lines hanging around, which I actually kind of like.
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Time: Dunno
Music: Pony
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Day 160:
I ended up trying out PS again today. After seeing the Romeo and Juliet discussion in the main thread, I quickly sketched out this:
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then went to my computer, and emerged five hours later with this:
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Time: about 5 hours.
Music: Pony
This is probably the best I've managed with PS so far, and it felt a little easier working with it, though I wasn't doing much fancy stuff.
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Been a while since I tried to draw anything pony-ish, but I've been on a roll lately with getting back into it. I decided to practice making ponyfaces facing forward instead of in profile or 3/4, and felt I did pretty good for previously having done rather bland :I faces.
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I'm sure the empire'd love it if all spice smugglers dressed the same.
