Guess what? It's time to draw ponies! Are you excited? 'Cause I'm excited. I've never been so excited! Except for the time I went -- oh, right. Sorry. All right then, Heaven or Hell. Let's rock!
The Rules of Engagement
So here's the deal. Starting from right now, it is your job to draw ponies and send them to me. Every night at midnight, PST (that's Pacific Standard Time) I will pop out of the shadows and hand you a new assignment. Whether or not you take this assignment is up to you, but the more assignments you complete the more practice and exposure you get, so try not to shy away, either. You will have until midnight the following night to send in your work. For obvious reasons I'll be writing the actual post a bit beforehand, so if you're a late entry and don't see yourself right away don't worry, I'll get to it. For those of you interested, there's some helpful stuff over in the announcement post, like links to all those awesome tutorials. With that said, let's go over the rules:
- Send your submissions to [email protected] The subject line should include the phrase Artist Training Grounds, as well as the day you are submitting for. The body of the e-mail should contain an attachment to your picture, and the name you want to be known by. You must give me a name, or I can't post your drawing. These are the rules of Thunderdome.
- You're free to interpret the theme of the day pretty much however you wish, as long as you work it in there somewhere. Be as literal or as open minded as you want. If you choose to go a spicy or a bloody direction with a particular theme, please keep it within reason. Overly explicit images will not be posted.
- Any format you are able to draw in is fine. Digital art, a hand drawn sketch, whatever. If you handed me a doodle on a napkin I'd scan it myself. I'm cool like that.
- Have fun. I command it.
The Theme of the Day
Draw a pony standing. Something very nice and simple to stretch your sketching muscles with. Ok? Ok! Hop to it!
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Well here comes a bunch of Lyra and Octavia drawings.
VastaKustutaBut it's daylight time. So shouldn't it be Pacific Daylight Time?
VastaKustutaRight, I've been looking for a reason to start learning to draw (ponies) again. Looks like this might be it, in between assignments, exams and other things. I might not have a scanner, and I decided against buying a graphics tablet yesterday, but I have a pencil and a camera. Hah.
VastaKustutaNice idea too by the way.
does it have to be a pony?
VastaKustutaSimple..simple..
VastaKustutaToo hard! I give up.
Kidding, might do all the cutie marks or something.
Wait, so...just standing on all fours or "standing" standing?
VastaKustuta0 Drawing experience, GO!
...I don't have any way of getting these online. I should just go to Best Buy today and buy one of those drawing tablets. I've meant to forever.
I'm going to be in on this. Expect some......
VastaKustutaTwilight. She's got an easy mane.
I'm not an artist, but I will particpate. Beware.
VastaKustutaMy body is not ready.
It's a good thing Seth isn't doing this.
VastaKustutaEvery theme would be The Great and Powerful Trixie...
Yay, a chance to inflict the world withh terror! I mean.. not quite good but not quite enough to be laughed at Pony drawings..
VastaKustutaI'm scared.... I opened up photoshop but I can't.. I CAN'T. LAWD HALP ME.
VastaKustuta@ZettaLux
VastaKustutaYou can do it, I believe in you!
Oh, and Phoe, could you please add a link to the original post for the Newbie Artist Training Event? 'Cause I believe there are the tutorial links in that one.
VastaKustutaSounds good!
VastaKustutaI'll send a hand drawn little something later.
Maybe drawing ponies will keep my form insanity back in college! :)
@ZettaLux
VastaKustutaThank you, that was an excellent suggestion.
Submitted mine about 10 minutes ago, although it is one of my friends' OC ponies so hopefully I don't get any flak for that. It's also on paper. And recorded by a bad laptop camera. At least it's being seen!
VastaKustutaSmall question, can it only be one pony or can there be more then one?
VastaKustutaMaybe, expect massive amounts of Rainbow Dash, thanks for putting this up though. There have been too many times where I've wanted to start drawing but just never do it :D
VastaKustutaDear god I just sat there for 15 minutes doodling and I only have one thing to say. Oh lawds dem proportions.
VastaKustutaI had been working on a pony for an hour prior this post, and after spending another hour I've submitted it, feelsgoodman
VastaKustutaFinally! A reason to finish my half done pony drawings.
VastaKustutaDa Chi, ready for artistry!
I'ma do this but you can't see it since I used ancient pencils and paper and don't have a scannner.
VastaKustutaOhh Celestia... Photoshop is a tad harder to use when you don't know what you're doing than I thought.
VastaKustutaI think I'll start by just trying to get a decent outline of a pony from the show and just work with that somehow.
I gotta say, i LOVE this idea xD haha, its nice to see EqD giving every else a chance to shine when it comes to drawing :D and yeah to everyone who wasnt sure, draw the pony on all 4 legs, not just the two hind legs :P lol
VastaKustutaI'm no good at drawing...
VastaKustutaI CAN however add badass effects to anything in existence. (Turning a pristine royal guard poster into a realistic-looking, post-apocalyptic masterpiece!)
Autor on selle kommentaari eemaldanud.
VastaKustutaSo, I just got the sketch of one of the ponies I plan on using in this series of drawings. But to be safe, do you guys think it is okay if I use two ponies or can I only have one?
VastaKustutaI sooooi wish I could draw :( I've tried of years, really did. But all I can manage are stick figures, and even their proportions are all messed up T_T
VastaKustutaLa dee da submitted.
VastaKustutaThis is fun already. Tho now I gotta wait a whole DAY for the next assignment...
Hoho!
VastaKustutaMy first attempt at drawing Fluttershy was a "possible" success! (Also the third pony pic I've ever made. I'm movin' on up, baby!)
Just sent my submission~
Hope it's pretty!
Hooray for submitting bad Applebloom GIMPs.
VastaKustutaDefinitely will be taking part...
VastaKustutaBut not sharing. -_-
I may be good a vectoring, but that doesn't mean I can draw. :p
First time drawing a pony?
VastaKustutaBring it on. I plan to completely erode my eraser away...
I might actually try this out. I'm good at drawing, but rarely draw characters as far as I remember. I'm more focused on geometric shapes, or something along those lines.
VastaKustutaI love my super badass poster I just made...
VastaKustuta<---------
But I think the bottom left-hand corner is too darkly singed...
VastaKustutaWell this is convenient. gonna pick up my first tablet today and this will be the perfect practice.
VastaKustutaYea, suppose I am kind of obliged. Not that I really needed yet *more* reasons to draw ponies, but oh well.
VastaKustutaToo bad I don't have a tablet(been meaning to get one and learn to use it, for roughly forever and a day), so will have to scan these things. Oh well.
Works well with my own personal challenge of trying to draw something every single day this summer. ;)
Fickle.. LOL win :P
VastaKustutaStanding on 2 hooves, 4 hooves?
VastaKustutaWell, I lasted two hours before giving up. And even made some horrible art in the progress. Too bad my camera decided to be horrible or I'd actually upload it.
VastaKustutayeah... not happening any more. Turned out waaay to creepy when trying to colour it.
VastaKustutaAll these horrified reactions to their own works... I'm terrified of starting, now D:
VastaKustutacome on guys dont give up! mine were hella crappy too! when i first started out! :P perseverance! also, use lots and lots of references if you have to :P (screencaps) :D
VastaKustutaAlready sketched out my pony drawing...during class. Boo.
VastaKustutaCan't wait to get home so I can pop this abomination onto Illustrator and pretend I know how to use it...
Sent in my phone camera'd 5 minute sketch with only one practice outline on the side. Definitely looking forward to this so I can quickly draw ponies everywhere on my paper and whatnot.
VastaKustutahehe good reason to learn to draw ponies :P for school(well graduated as of sunday woot yay me :P) i had one folder, for all 6 classes; full of ponies/pony references on it :P lol and on all my homework/classwork, i drew a derp face on each one lol :P
VastaKustutaLet the embarrassment Begin as i have sent mine a while ago... after beating myself half to sleep trying to think of a cutie mark.
VastaKustuta@Lyushey, if thats your first time drawing ponies, then thats a hell of a lot better than when i started off! XD haha, you did the proportions almost spot on and it doesnt look nearly as blocky as my first attempt.. lol :P (I also noticed im pretty much every other comment lol.. the joy of it being 11:59pm right now and no need to sleep :P)
VastaKustutaSent mine in not too long ago.
VastaKustutaIt was really frustraiting. By the time I got to the cutie mark I was like...Fuck it, and drew what came to mind.
A Tic Tac Toe board... I need to sleep...
It was fun in the end though. I think I learned a few things between furiously erasing mistakes.
>use MS paint
VastaKustuta>expecting to make something that looks vectored
>knowing that won't happen
>went better than expected
@SonicRainboom93 11:59 huh? its almost 3:15 were I'm at, and thanks. I have a ton of references and it helped that I took an art class at the local community college here were i live
VastaKustuta@Lyus ah nice, and yeah, being in Hawaii has its benefits :P lol and yeah, references/the how-to's on drawing help a lot too XD
VastaKustuta@SonicRainboom93 now for my next feat... a pony that has color
VastaKustuta@Lyushehe, good luck! XD i believe in you! :D id give advice, but i didnt color much :P (i color with the tablet now so yeah :P) lol
VastaKustuta@SonicRainboom93 I'm hopping to get to the point were I can draw Neighpolian Ponypart ridding Napoleon Bonaparte
VastaKustuta@LyusLOL do it, never heard/thought of that before/yet XD haha, im drawing Luna right now :P hopefully itll make it onto Drawfriend 81 :P lol
VastaKustutaCutie Mark Crusaders newbie artists! Yay!
VastaKustutaI like this idea so much that I'm now determined to draw something, no matter how awful it will be (and probably it will be pretty awful). So showing the result to anypony is beyond me at the moment.
oh neato, I'll be sure to catch todays
VastaKustutaWhat can more experienced artists do to help out/add to this event?
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaPractice with us I suppose! You can always improve!
@Sethisto
VastaKustutaAh, it would be fun, but I've already heard the "I don't want to take part because x is," song and dance on projects before. Its very unwelcoming to have people back out of art groups because they think its a competition and don't want to play with someone who might have more knowledge.
Phoe's first act upon being promoted to Blogqueen was to steal my idea! >:|
VastaKustutaPrepare to face the consequences of your actions, in the form of having to look at my art!
I am so there.
VastaKustutaDoes one have to be a complete newfoal to drawing or can already existing drawfriends submit as well?
VastaKustutaI guess, if I get my scanner working, I could send in what I do... Since I don't have a tablet. ;-; I'm stuck with just pen and paper.
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaPonies of all skill levels are welcome to participate. The idea is to give a fun way to practice, and nopony is ever so good they couldn't use a little bit of that!
By the way, since this seems to be an oft repeated question: I was serious when I said you could play fast and loose with the theme. Standing on two hooves, standing on four hooves, one pony two pony red pony blue pony, heck, draw a pony sitting behind a pony stand. Just work in some vague representation of the theme somewhere!
Is there any better ways to draw on a computer than ms paint?. id like to try drawing but ms paint is awful and everything i draw with it is complete garbage.
VastaKustutaI'm going to go ahead with this mission later tonight. I need to learn how to draw ponies.
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaIf you want free stuff, there's GIMP for a Photoshop clone and Inkscape for an awesome vector editor.
Awesome! Now I have even more excuses to draw ponies!
VastaKustutaSubmitted. Good fanfics make me do fanart, so combined said idea to this. Two ponies with one stone? Or something.
VastaKustuta...and what was supposed to be relatively quick sketch turned into a shading job (nearly) overdone because I suddenly had an hour and half of empty time in my hooves at work today...
I'm excited, I gave it my best and it turned out pretty good. I did a pony standing showing a side view of it. Will send right now. Also haha good job referencing Guilty Gear. I will also like to take this time in thanking you for (in a way) pushing me to draw ponies. I probably wouldn't give it much a try if you guy didn't do this. Thanks :3
VastaKustutaAs soon as I wake up in about 10 hours, I shall draw the standing pony, and immediately start disliking the arduous process of coloring and whatnot. :P
VastaKustutaSent in a pic that I took with my laptop camera. Hopefully I'll get hold of a less suckish camera for the next upload. Also, I might have upped the ante on how and where the character is standing.
VastaKustutaDefine standing, cause ponies stand on four hooves and rear on 2
VastaKustutaI'm old fashioned, pencils and paper for me!
VastaKustutaNameless OC pony storm, here we go!
VastaKustutaSent in a pic of some random red pony with teal hair leaning on (standing at-BAM) a bar. originally had a stick figure thinking OMG TALKING PONY but i cut that out. I also drew the example topic of checkers. Giant board, yellow pony screaming NOOOO b/c he's about to lose.
Also, read the original post, you can interpret the topics however the buck you want.
Sent in my sketch, didn't color it like I originally planned...'cause every attempt turn out horrid.
VastaKustutaI hope it got sent properly, though. I'm always anxious about sending e-mails.
@SonicRainboom93 LUNA! can never have enough Luna
VastaKustutaI estimate lost of Luna
VastaKustutaLots, derp
VastaKustutaAND sent. Where are these going to be posted?
VastaKustutaSomething to motivate me to draw, I'll try to keep ups ometimes.
VastaKustutaI don't have a tablet, so it's pencil and paper for me. At least I have a drafting table and supplies.
VastaKustutaNot sure if my printer has a scanner on it, so if I send any drawings, it'll be in photograph form
I'mma give this a shot, since I've already put down what I had in mind in GIMP. But does it actually matter if you're a newbie or not...?
VastaKustutaSo....ummm...can we do this is we're already sort of good at drawing?
VastaKustutaScanned and sent! My art pencils ran out of lead so i had to use a regular mechanical pencil! :(
VastaKustutaI drew Luna.
VastaKustutaIt came out much better than I anticipated.
Turns out, I'm not as bad an artist as I thought...
Can't make a living on it, mind...
It was done with a No.2 pencil as I haven't fancy ones.
Would it be haxxors if I submitted under a different name tomorrow? 'Cus I used the wrong name and it's not connected to any of my other stuff yadda yadda yadda....
VastaKustuta@naektpov
VastaKustutaJust give me a note telling me who you were and who you'd like to be from then on. It's not really necessary to even do that much, but proof I'm not going crazy is always nice. Do try to stay as consistent as possible, though. Otherwise nopony can tell what kind of progress you're making!
Why do you need a name? That is the only thing I can see holding me back from this.
VastaKustutaSent mine now. Was hard to start off but ended up being tons of fun!. hopefully mine isnt too bad lol.
VastaKustutaSpent hours sketching a sketch, still looks like a rough sketch even with the guides erased, don't have any colours to colour it, doing it in Photoshop looked tacky, had to take a picture on a crappy phone camera. Hours of work for a pretty crappy outcome...
VastaKustuta...And I'm going to do it again tomorrow regardless! =D
aww man 5 hours on luna learning to draw from scrap on a tablet... tomorrow ill just jack my friends scanner i think -.-
VastaKustuta@Anonymous
VastaKustutaI need a name so that anypony who's watching and wants to offer advice has a way to track your progress and keep their pointers relevant. Just make up something unrelated to your normal personae, and in a month it'll be like you never had the name at all!
I just sent mine in.
VastaKustutaIt was pretty wawesome. I'm not gonna saw it looks like crap though, what if some pony else does a worse job? That would be awkward.
I'll say mine looks like crap later when I'm better. After all improvement of skill happens overnight right?
Now I've got some motivation to draw something.
VastaKustutaDamnit. I will most likely not send my first drawing, as I really need better pencils. But I got the basics down in building the body, so hopefully my later additions will be awesome.
VastaKustutaSubmitted mine! It's nice to have something to get me to draw again because I've been in a rut for awhile.
VastaKustuta@Phoe Okay, thanks! I'll send you another email.
VastaKustuta@^Graff Don't worry, all you need is a pencil and paper, nothing really fancy other than an inspiration to draw ponies. My profile picture is my very first drawing of a pony, all i used was a mechanical pencil. just make sure to keep the pencil sharpened and have a spare eraser handy as number 2 pencils erasers are not really the best choice for erasing mistakes.
VastaKustutaAhhhh I totally just sent in my picture! It's the first pony I've ever done (except for a *cough* incredibly bad practice attempt *cough*). Rarity, because she's got my favorite design. :)
VastaKustutaAaaaaand submitted. Used Illustrator and relied pretty heavily on references and tutorials, but it turned out pretty nicely and at least I became a bit better at using Illustrator.
VastaKustutaI just sent mine it, and by god, it looks bad. You'll see, its a pencil drawing of Luna, and I made myself sad drawing it. My favorite character shouldn't look so bad. ;-;
VastaKustutaPhew. After four hours struggling to get to grips with the tablet I borrowed, Paint Tool Sai and the pony tutorials, I finally got my drawing submitted... such as it is.
VastaKustutaMan, after a few false starts, I finally got it down and scanned it. Took an hour to draw it to my parameters (I am very picky) and 45 minutes trying to get the dang scanner to work XD.
VastaKustutaI wanted to clean it up, but I'm too tired to mess with itm anymore and make myself angry/deppressed.
My deformed creation shall stare into your soul!
Mwuh ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Just submitted mine and looking forward to doing more! This is great practice :D
VastaKustutaDrawing submitted; I'm going to look through every one of the entires as they are posted because I know I'd like my drawings to be seen too. It would be hypocritical of me not to return the favor :)
VastaKustutaI finally submitted a sketch I did today. Be thankful everypony, I decided against submitting my very first attempt at drawing a pony. Rarity will never forgive me...
VastaKustutaDid my first drawing of anything other than graphs for the first time since an art class in junior high. Hope its not too terrible. >.>
VastaKustutaFlash apparently doesn't like my scratch drawing.
VastaKustutaAnd standing Lyra made flash die, and then cry. And the it died again.
Submitted and stuff. God damn time-zones, I'll be asleep before the next one gets posted.
VastaKustutaOh well, sleep is good too.
Just submitted mine. I can draw a bit but I'm still fairly new to ponies, and the practice will definitely help. They are...deceptively simple-looking. :/
VastaKustutaJust submitted mine and looking forward to doing more! This, for some reason, is giving me the motiviation I need to get better at drawing. (:
VastaKustutaSubmitted. My artistic muscles are crabby, having woken up from a 14 month long nap, but I'm fairly satisfied with the result, given the circumstances :)
VastaKustutaSubmitted my picture. I didn't have the right colors for Doctor Whoof, so he ended up coming out something like a Simpsons character. But it still turned out OK. *shrug*
VastaKustutaWoo! Got mine done, and on the first try, too. I may have a talent for this!
VastaKustutaI just submitted mine, and now Phoe is blind.
VastaKustutaAh well it turns out I have not gotten better by not drawing. Any way my submission is submitted and perhaps this practice will help me do better.
VastaKustutaMy incredibly terrible drawing of Derpy Hooves has been submitted. Pretty fitting choice of subject, I'd say. Can't wait till 10:00 when the second post goes up!
VastaKustutahope mine is any good. sketched it in math class, had to scan this at school and had a lot of kids looking at me funny the whole time!
VastaKustutaGyah, So many errands to run today. I just managed to sketch something up last minute though. Bad-drawing incoming to email. >:P
VastaKustutaYay, something I can participate in!
VastaKustutaJust barely made the deadline, now to await the next one.
(also--woot! my first post here!)
Autor on selle kommentaari eemaldanud.
VastaKustutaI decided to take the safe route and ponify one of my OCs. I think I messed up on the head proportions, but ah well.
VastaKustutaSubmitted my... submission. I've been drawing infrequently for a while, so I like the idea of having something new to draw everyday, so I'm definitely going to try to do each one. Work schedule will make getting them in by midnight PST a bit hard; hopefully my speed will improve too.
VastaKustutaI sat down for four hours, and all I managed to squeeze out was a piece of manure.
VastaKustutaAlso last minute ftw.
Hmmm. I think Im going to make my ponies on Forza Motosport 3. I am also going to sell the clippings for from 5,00 to 10,000. I think thats fair. For a video game.
VastaKustuta* If I ever find time.
Did I ever mention how extremly lovely the top image is? :)
VastaKustutaIs it to late to join?
VastaKustutaI hope not I want to do this so bad but it's been going on for 11 days now :/
I will do it anyway and try my bestest to catchup!
Is this thing time set or is it for 30 days from whatever day you started? Cus I kinda wanna join, but Im not sure how it works...
VastaKustuta