Ponythread Learns to Draw! Together!

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Say who what now?

I've tried responding to your drawthread in detail around 8-10 times now. I keep getting 503'd, and after all that, it takes me a while to get the gusto to try again.

The short version is porn. Learn figure drawing through porn.

As I'm sure many of you are aware, shenanigans occur in the IRC.

This image is inspired by one such occurrence of shenanigans.

Specifically, my RP character Flashpoint calling in a 'favor' from Pinkie, in return for some 'Special Cupcakes'. Ponsoon yelled, "PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN."

Here, have Saucy Pinkie.

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That RP kinda died, but whatevs. Gave me a chance to work on drawing ponies wearing things.

I guess my ex's obsession with wearing corsets (which I hated) did have one payoff: I now know how to draw them.

Intriguing. A question I have to ask, from seeing other ponies in corsets - a phrase which completes my daily list of 'really? I said that out loud?' - why does she have a bust?

Very well done though. Not user about the color choice though. It works! But I wouldn't have expected it to. I must work on this whole color theory thing at some point.

I haven't popped in here for a while, hello again everyone!

Special cupcakes?

I have been trying to improve my vectoring skills through Inkscape (I am too cheap to buy anything ), and I ended up working on a picture of an OC I thought up a while back.

Maxwell Hyden (OC):

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The three things I am having trouble with mainly are the colors (I feel like I can never get colors correct), the lack of textures (I always have trouble giving textured appearances), and the pants/feet.

Pants/feet troubles generally occur when you build a head and torso, and hang everything else from them. The legs seem useless and muppet-y when that happens. The only suggestion I have are broad guidelines - make a circle so you know the rough head position, then use one or two lines to map the flow of the image. But I struggle with this very thing, so...

The second thing, is gradient use. It has to be done real subtly, and often in concert with cell shading (or whatever it's called adding blocks of different color to stuff). A shortcut is to add a top "shade" layer, that's black and has graduated transparency, or graduated white in cases like this where it's dark and you need things lighter closer to the light source.

I keep getting randomly sidetracked to do odd things here and there. A fellow forumite asked me, and so it came to be. Twilight Sparkle in a labcoat:

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Ponies facing the camera look odd, especially if you try to draw them semi-realistically. Plus the odd lighting conditions don't help. All in all, barely avoids uncanny valley (very barely) and shading is spotty and weird, but I suppose it could've been worse.

I really need to practice more, my usual drawing schedule has been derailed to hell and back by real life.

They do look different head on. It becomes easier when you realize they don't have equine skulls. They have humanoid skulls with equine bodies. They're an anthropomorphic dream - or nightmare.