So far this event has been amazing. After the 30 days are up, we might roll without another set of challenges after a short break... It has been a lot of fun. I really want to participate too! Confound this blog taking my free time.
I'll use a Lyra for the sake of continuity, and because I can appreciate her minty freshness just as much as the next pony obsessed lunatic.
Anyway, the Entires/Links/Topic/ect can be found after the break!
That's a whole lot of Celestia Wanna-be's! 173 to be exact! The nerve of someponies.
Have some Links!
Training Ground Submission Guide
Drawing Guide
Summer Achievements
And the topic for today: Draw a pony locked in a dungeon in the place they were banished to.
However you want to spin this, it's up to you!
I don't really get a whole lot of free time, so for late entries, please submit it to the training ground site anyway, and I'll toss them all up in an hour, later than that just submit it tomorrow!
1) By Tenchi Outsuno (I think Luna needs a wacky theme song.)
2) By Mush (Some humor for the UK bronies out there. And some EqD injokes for the rest of us.)
3) By PinkiePied
4) By ChaosDrop (The looks like the funnest fair ever. That's right, I said funnest.)
5) By Vest (So, um, hello new wallpaper.)
6) By Several Alpacas
7) By Narwhals' Bend (First you draw and then you pony.)
8) By TensaiOni (She really went all out with this, huh?)
9) By TheMediocreSock (Still love you, Madmax.)
10) By D4SHTH3R4INB0W (Glad to hear your wrist is recovering.)
11) By Rzadko
12) By Thanqol (It took me forever to figure this one out. He's raising his son. Get it? Thanqol I hate you.)
13) By Philith (I feel bad for Celly. I really do.)
14) By wesmir (Muffiiiiiins)
15) By FoxOfWar
16) By Gig (I can't decide what my favorite part of this is.)
17) By Fadri (Monocle'd!)
18) By Wolferahm (Surely THIS one will work!)
19) By Tarynsgate
20) By Cinder
21) By zorg (Despite your assurances, Celly looks really mad at Derpy for some reason.)
22) By Goggle Sparks
23) By Blu3berry Muffin (Who knew the sun was so heavy?)
24) By Farvei (Don't be too hasty!)
25) By Silver Shine (There is a blithe cheeriness to the scenery that accents Lyra's pain in a way that words struggle to keep up with. This is heartbreaking.)
26) By nekoneko (But... why?)
27) By Mister Bristle
28) By Rekkin (Twilight's getting ready for D&D night.)
29) By Saphin
30) By SelectFew
31) By NonoPony (There's a lot of neat stuff going on here.)
32) By Immersa (I approve of any and all instances of Party Girl Celestia.)
33) By Da Chi
34) By Vanner
35) By Smock (I'm trying to fill in a piece of background or come up with something witty, but really this is just adorable.)
36) By Emerald Dust (The longer I think about this the more my head wants to explode.)
37) By Mr.Paulsen (Why there are no humans in Equestria.)
38) By DB (Don't tell her I said this, but I think Celestia might be older than 1000.)
39) By Infinity
40) By Spaerk
41) By Invidlord (How To Raise the Sun; and Why You'll Never Do It. I'd read that.)
42) By Nido Media
43) By Alipes (Pinkie spares no effort for a theme party!)
44) By Ckik (Simply sweet and adorable.)
45) By Mingmingfurb (Celly's very first sun raising was accompanied by a lot of theatrics.)
46) By rich-tea
47) By ASGallardo (Oh neat, mosiac art!)
48) By RoyKirbs
49) By Mere Jump (I wouldn't have the heart to tell her either.)
50) By Colin
51) By Zarcophagus
52) By Amehdaus (The story of why there are deserts in Zebrica.)
53) By GonzaHerMeg (Ouch, poor Big Mac.)
54) By Kitsune
55) By Partition (You have way too much time to think. Celestia suggests you enroll yourself in one of her many Activity Camps.)
56) By EssAeEm (I mean, duh!)
57) By Erthilo (The headlines on these things continue to slay me.)
58) By SherlockHooves (You sure did!)
59) By purpletrauma
60) By TheLaughingMare
61) By Zach (Not pictured: Doctor Whooves hanging in the streets of Mos Eisley.)
62) By Wraith (A Summer Sun peach pie? That counts, definitely. Also, can I have some?)
63) By WoefulWriters
64) By Jiyrath (I have not the slightest idea what is happening here. I'm scared.)
65) By FilipinoNinja95
66) By Chocolate Splash (Razing the sun would be kind of hard, I think.)
67) By Lunar Apologist (Luna in a sundress? Luna in a sundress.)
68) By Nullh (I think this is technically the sun raising a pony. Still, young Celly always makes me smile.)
69) By Dragon Rage
70) By Vergioso
71) By BenaSPACE
72) By SpikeHawk
73) By Lunchmonkey
74) By Brongaar
75) By Doc Steedly (Ow, my everything. This was a bad idea.)
76) By Eliwood10 (On the thousandth year of the biggest muffin, the confectioner's sugar will aid in her escape.)
77) By Chris
78) By Chris (Trixie's sign amuses me more than it should.)
79) By Jdan-S (Delightfully immature.)
80) By Chromadancer
81) By frith (Yum yum, instant sun!)
82) By yiKomega (Epic Derpy action a go go.)
83) By Rachel (There isn't praise effusive enough to satisfy me.)
84) By Starlight Bolt (You know, it's the internet's fault she's become like this. Shame on you, internet.)
85) By Horizon Bound (One picture later, here's me shooting her. Do you guys plan these things?)
86) By Horizon Bound (Lyra's... plot is well developed. Plot to raise the sun. Yes.)
87) By Kt Kat (300% of your daily dose of cute in one easy serving!)
88) By facelessguru (I know make up days are hard, but thanks for delivering!)
89) By Argembarger (I'm honestly glad there are more of these than successful usupation attempts.)
90) By Prismatic Pretzel
91) By Latverian_Ponyfan_2993
92) By SiuiS (We say a lot of mean things sometimes. Even princesses have their limits.)
93) By Dangereaux (Oh wow, that came out beautifully.)
94) By pageturner1988 (Not pictured: ReDead ponies.)
95) By ShoeboxWarrior
96) By Mockingbird (Please don't be evil, Celly.)
97) By harley
98) By Kyouhen (...Whoops.)
99) By Doppelgänger (Derpy Shrugged.)
100) By toonboy92484 (The Sonic Sunboom.)
101) By Ori
102) By Djrk16
103) By kits (This is probably the best)
104) By kits (interpretation of the bonus bonus theme ever.)
105) By SiuiS
106) By Rydel
107) By Relias (Yay, a Lyra!)
108) By RaspleZS
109) By Croop
110) By Neoridgeback
111) By DJ RBDash
112) By Yuri
113) By Kovigary (How heavy is it, Dashie?)
114) By Luna (Raising a Sun Princess. Too cute for words.)
115) By fetchbeer (In answer to your question, I have no idea what color my eyes are, either.)
116) By DI-FL (Dedicated to everypony out there with a dream to follow and the courage to make it happen.)
117) By Virga Rainboom
118) By Leaf Growth
119) By Natry (Meeeeeaaaan!)
120) By Uncle Leo
121) By Atlur
122) By Buddy Vox (I want to hug her so much. I think we shared this storm today. Things keep flickering off and on.)
123) By Ambrose (Watercolor pencils are awesome.)
124) By McGack
125) By rabidcow147
126) By DiZaster321 (Keep trying!)
127) By Circuit Mane
128) By LifeSequenceBreak (That's a very good rope.)
129) By 20percentcooler
130) By Pcjoyce (I love the ninja theme attempts. Draw whatever! Sneak in Celestia so it gets posted! Aren't Derpy and Dinky cute?)
131) By Kelz
132) By MHPayne
133) By Kaiserin
134) By Spurs
135) By Kooldude
136) By Kooldude (Simply fantastic. And refreshing? If you can get the damn straw in.)
137) By Tabs
138) By Oliver
139) By 8ftmetalhead
140) By Passer Palmatum
141) By badzerg
142) By MasterofRoku
143) By otherunicorn
144) By Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi
145) By Shockwave
146) By Silverfang
147) By Easteu
148) By Prismatic Pretzel
149) By Doombah
150) By WraithX79
151) By Tabs
152) By MHPayne
153) By Thattagen
154) By Liska
155) By The Recliner
156) By Dinoburger
157) By A Terrible Person
158) By StarStep
159) By Phantom G
160) By Randomjack
161) By Tabs
162) By nuclearsuplexattack
163) By Moogie
164) By Virga Rainboom
165) By Mournblade
166) By Jena-su
167) By Fox E:
168) By Periphery
169) By djTeka
170) By Drilltooth
171) By Eeful
172) By RToasts
173) By Xiagu
105 kommentaari:
Epic
VastaKustutahuh weird topic, didn't post today on account of me not feeling well and waking up way late. I dunno about this one though...
VastaKustuta# 73 First? =D but really man do these kick ass, all these comics WOO!
VastaKustutaNumber 8 is pretty cool!
VastaKustuta129 btw,
VastaKustuta#83 is the best thing ever!
Hah! 62 checking in. The pie made it. If I could transfer pie via Internet, I'd share, Sethisto.
VastaKustutaI do have to report it's delicious. :D
Autor on selle kommentaari eemaldanud.
VastaKustuta#159 reporting in.
VastaKustutaI dedicate this drawing as a belated contribution/thanks to madmax.
Sadly I had too much going on to partake in that training grounds and I hope this makes up for it.
Thanks for all you do Madmax and to everypony else good job on today's drawings.
Oh come on no one went with a pun. Sun rays, it's not that hard.
VastaKustutaTo: 166 my heart exploded twice of dawww.
VastaKustutayou're killing me boss, already drew today's topic 20 times :[
VastaKustuta#76 here.
VastaKustuta...and then Derpy was banished to the moon.
80 here. Not that it matters, this gallery would look a lot better without it. I couldn't put anything decent on paper today. Maybe I'll do better tomorrow... yeah right, who am I kidding. Maybe I'll bow out early and save myself further humiliation.
VastaKustuta#5 Reporting for Duty (glad to provide your next wallpaper, thanks for the compliment).
VastaKustuta#14 left me rolling on the ceiling, gurgling in euphoric ecstasy!
106 here.
VastaKustutaMuch would postage would it cost to ship the sun across the sky?
I also drew stamps and cancelation for Equestria, which I'll have to ink and post of my DA and FA tomorrow
@Chromadancer - don't let a bad day get to you - I had the same reaction on the rope trick day. Just keep at it, you'll get back in the groove
VastaKustutaNumber 44 here. This was actually my first attempt at an Artist Training Grounds...
VastaKustutaAll of these are so good! Why are you guys so good at this?
>draw a picture
VastaKustuta>it's actually pretty awesome, for me
>almost get it ready
>laptop CRASHES
>reboot, picture gone, too late to do again
>???
>cry
in happier news, so many of these made me laugh!
yay #82 here. Epic Derpy action :)
VastaKustutagood stuff today i was # 97 today
VastaKustutaI hope someday that my technique refines more ..
just gotta keep drawing.
I hope Phoe is okay!
VastaKustutaActually, I hope she's BETTER than okay. I hope she's enjoying some deep restful sleep for once, and that she wakes up happy, healthy and . . .uh . . what else starts with H? Horny?
Oh, right. Pegasus, not unicorn.
Anyway, thanks for spelling her, Sethisto :3 I, uh, I hope you weren't offended by my drawing you barely afloat in the ocean on day 22 . . . hey, look over there! Is that Trixie in a bathing suit?
*flees*
Hello. I make it an unofficial count of 5003 ponies submitted since we started this! Congratulations! We have met Phoe's goal. *Pinkie Pie streamers and horns* for everypony!
VastaKustuta#111
VastaKustutaAnd Derpy raised the sun in her direction~
#135 and #136 here. doo dee doo onto mah comments!
VastaKustuta#1 Lawl. I love the faces!
#17 Great Scott!
#56 Oh Fluttershy...
#67 Oh that's cute!
#84 I like you to Celestia, please don't be like this :(.
#87 is not working
#109 That is epic!
#118 YAY!
#131 Lawl.
#136 It's worse when the straw gets torn off the pouch so you have no way of getting the juice. The straw wasn't too hard to put in for me. BTW thanks for the comment.
#149 Oh no!
95 here.
VastaKustutaI love how varied everypony made their pictures even though the theme was so specific! Ok it is time for favorites but I am going to put them in a list today because there are so many.
5 so peaceful and beautifully done in true mlp fim style
8 hehe I am glad to see a reappearance
11 That....is....how....win
14 O_O
17 bwahaha the monocle
18 omg I laughed so hard then felt so bad for laughing
31 whoaaa
53 wow I love so many parts of this picture-her hat her drink, Mac lol. Poor guy
61 heh heh heh. It all makes sense now-her eyes follow the suns of Tatooine!
71 made me grin
83 astounding
87 oh Fluttershy, we love you
106 haha I LOVE it. Only Depy could get stickers to stay on the sun
117 Ha…ha…ha (=
125 hehehehe cute
136 I know the feeling. Loving it
137 rofl awesome
#143 here.
VastaKustuta#17 - rofl
#18 - more rofl
#31 - interesting recursion
#54 - very artistic
#56 - even more rofl
#61 - prepare for a very hot day if Derpy is doing it.
#67 - lovely
#83 - a lot more than 20% cooler
#125 - chuckle
#166 - that was sweet
wich pony is on page 3 (that felt wrong to type)
VastaKustutaI loved all of these but 17 was my favorite because of Gurren Lagann.
VastaKustutaIs that Gurren Lagann I see on the right hand side of number 17?
VastaKustuta#153 today. I'm actually surprised a couple more people did the newspaper pun. Where I live, one of our local papers is the Kitsap Sun. I think there's a Seattle Sun too. And then there's just the magazine Sun. Why is the name Sun so popular with papers anyways?
VastaKustutaAlso, I've always liked the shape of newsboy hats. They're just so....muffin-y...
I'm too tired to list favorites today, but I really enjoyed the epic stuff and the comics.
#59 here.
VastaKustutaMissed out on a couple days, but I'm back... I guess that's pretty much the end of what I have to say.
Kinda like this weeks submission. Definitely improving.
Ok... I absolutely LOVE #87.
VastaKustuta137 and 151 (and 161, oops) here. Couldn't resist doing the pun.
VastaKustutaWell, my habit of ending up sending in half of my entries 5 minutes late came back to bite me today. I always seem to have just slightly less time than I need.
VastaKustutaLots of good ones today by the people who got their entries in on time, though.
#167 today. Bluh bluh, huge letdown. This is only half the comic I originally intended to draw, just didn't have enough time to complete it. I can actually feel my motivation suffering because of it. =X Want to get back to drawing higher quality pieces, but I do want to complete this comic later at some point.
VastaKustutaHow it was supposed to go:
Phoe is supposed to be wearing Trixie's hat, and a crowd was going to be in front of the stage, representing all the Newbie Artist Training Grounds submitters.
The second half of the comic would've had Phoe taking a few panels to restate how cool she is, while a stealthy solar prominence is coming out of the sun. The prominence would nuke Trixie's hat to dust, Phoe would get all Ren & Stimpy droopy–faced, and trollestia would make an appearance with face similar to the last panel of Ambrose's "pony building something" submission.
Then an extra panel with Trixie in the "why would you do that!" meme pose and Phoe doing the :shrug: pose.
TERRIBLE BONUS JOKE: Pretend Trixie's hat is named Snowflake!
+favs include #1, #5, #8, #12, #18, #22, #34, #38, #43, #49, #52, #53, #56, #64, #67, #68, #76, #78, #82, #83, #84, #85, #94, #99, #107, #117, #121, #122, #126, #131, #133, #136, #149, #150, #155 and #162.
#14: Favourite submission, I laughed too hard at this.
#47: Other favourite submission, I gawked too hard at this.
#62: Other other favourite submission, I drooled too hard at this.
#72: i admit, i chuckled
#86: A firm and developed plot, something to be put into actio— *shot*
#87: Loving these expressions.
#90: Chuckled again!
#98: You win the reference award!
#103 + 104: This is several lols rolled into two packages. Also, dat ending. |¦D
#119: The puns, they hurt so good!
#137: And this is simply hilarious.
#153: Nice, this never occured to me.
#166: Too sweet.
Haha! Really, the one time I leave important comments, you don't get them? Phoe, I am dissapoint. ;P
VastaKustutaLuckily, I'm real good at getting over myself. Haha.
—S
Hey ponies. It's your loveable Blogprincess here, not sleeping when she's supposed to. I wanted to apologize for flaking out on you: Seth offered to take over and I tried to do a quickie news post to alleviate my guilt, and... yeah, here I am up later than ever. Fail Phoe is fail.
VastaKustutaAnyway, I wanted to assure you that even though I'm not the one who compiled the post, I'm still the one who did all the sorting and commenting. We're in this together, forever! Sorry about the new theme. These things seem funnier on sleep deprivation.
Hey! Mine is here! :D :D :D
VastaKustutaThanks Seth!
haven't been drawing for a few days; loafin' like a bakery. reusing things i've said in emails and submissions. not using the shift key.
time to go crash
zzzzzzz
PS it's a pun-thing! see, somepony's getting a rise out of her! eh? eh? the joke is funny because *sent to the moon*
#36 today. Oh, I'll gladly explode anyone's head, if they want me to. ("explode: it's transitive now." - Dinosaur Comics)
VastaKustutaAnyway, we got a whole lot of comics here today, and I love those. Of course, the individual pictures are really great, too; let's see how long my list of favorites is going to be this time.
#5: Nice trick, Trixie. You can't even see the strings on that fake sun. I wonder why that is...
#8: I really loved Pinkie in her Celestia dressup a few days ago, so I'm glad we get to see her again. That's probably her great entrance for the Summer Sun Festival afterparty.
#15: Once again, Rarity proves that all you need to be a goddess is style. Way to go!
#21: Looks like Equestria is in dire straits. This is how far things have come, people; not even our fantasy kingdoms are safe from national bankruptcy.
#29: That's cute. And the inclusion of "Celly" makes it even cuter.
#32: I'd really like more information on that...
#40: Careful there, Scootaloo. I'm pretty sure you'll end up pulling a muscle.
#55: Anything that reminds me of that episode is great. Besides, how old are the CMC when converted into human years? Like, something between 9 and 13? Probably. I always thought they did an amazing job putting on that show, considering their age. They'll go far, I'm sure.
#67: That must be the most sophisticated-looking Luna I've seen so far. The placement of her hat seems slightly off, though; she should have cut a hole in there to put her horn through.
#79: This one should definitely be a commercial. It'd make television fun again.
#87: Proving once more that Fluttershy is all-powerful. She just usually hides it to give other ponies a chance.
#131: All this needs now is a laugh track and a wah-wah sound. Also, Princess Derpy should have a catchphrase. And her own spinoff.
#132: I'm glad to see the comic continuing. I wonder if Rarity will be able to live on the ground again, after having been stranded in a tree for a few weeks now.
#135: Luna is too good to be true, and that's how we love her the most.
#158: I like that idea. Maybe that's how she'll get her cutie mark.
#164: How can you even think about going back to bed when it's obviously waffle time?
#166: Oh yes, that is SO adorable. Also, sweet Celestia is a thousand times better than Trollestia.
Alright, I think that'll be all for now. On a sidenote, I'd just like to add that I don't understand why anyone would ever want to overthrow Celestia. She's pretty much the most laid-back ruler ever! Even with the whole sending-Luna-to-the-moon business... I mean, think about it. Basically, that just meant that Luna went on holidays for a thousand years while Celestia did all her work for her. Man! That should happen to me sometime. So what I'm saying is that Celestia is awesome, especially since she basically said "Screw this gala, I'll spend my night at the donut shop." Now that's a concept I can get behind.
160 reporting for duty.
VastaKustutaI liked how this one came out. The sun topic was a tad specific and gave me some trouble but it all worked out.
Also, tried a new colouring technique (redrawing lines on computer and filling, rather than using brush tool), which, if today is any indication, is faster and cleaner :) Training progress, check.
Great entries guys.
THANK YOU rabidcow and Tabs. I figured everypony would do that, so I didn't bother... But after browsing the pics for a while I was afraid nopony had thought of it. That would have sucked.
VastaKustuta#15 here. Kinda lazed out on the coloring job, but eh. Drawing Rarity doing in for Celestia was fun anyway.
VastaKustutaFaves this time around: 5, 17, 40, 41, 53, 91, 93, 154, 166. Some serious fits of laughter and d'aww were had.
"Banish you and throw you in a dungeon in a place you were banished to!", eh? Hmm. Now to find a way to make dungeon bars entertaining.
#69 here. What a number. Damn, a lot of people had the same general idea I had, and much better results too.
VastaKustutaAnd then today's guideline, huh... that's going to be... something. Hm. I have an idea. Gonna sleep first, though. I kinda sorta didn't get much sleep last night, on account of staying up to try to watch to the sunrise and then spending the rest of the day slowly drawing and getting my daily dose of ponies. Night, folks.
Great entries as always, I think it is totally worth it to stay up this late and watch so many talented artist draw. I seriously enjoy every single one of your drawings and just want to thank all participants for doing their best. I wish I had an ounce of your guys talent.
VastaKustuta@SiuiS I left a similar comment, and now it's wildly inappropriate. =X Ohhh do I have the worst timing ever.
VastaKustutaWe still love you though @Phoe. <3
@Sigil Practive! Drawing is a skill, those with talent just start at Lv.3 instead of Lv.1. =P
Well I can honestly say that #117 made me facepalm... hard; that's a good thing.
VastaKustutaTo #154: THANK YOU. I was going to try and draw something along these lines because it was too good a pun/reference combo to miss, but I forgot and also I can't quite draw my way out of a paper bag. So thank you for keeping my faith in bronydom up.
VastaKustutaAlthough I now find myself disappointed that we didn't have a Truman Show reference. "Cue the sun"
All in all, good show!
#70 here.
VastaKustutaI think I need to focus more on my pony and less on my backgrounds..
Ah well hope y'all enjoyed it.
Lots of great submissions today. Very creative and le humourous.
#31 here, hoping you think his first finished drawing ever is decent enough. I'm kind of nervous about stuff like this.
VastaKustutaAnd the Super-Derpy images are made of win.
#103 - #104 here.
VastaKustutaIt's nice to see people are amused by by work
No lie. This took forever. It's a continuation of my 'Pony In Space' comic -- which took a slightly less-lengthy forever. And now I draw them in a dungeon? In the place they were banished too?
It's like your putting this on a tee for me!.
Well, I'm late for work. Good job everypony!
#56 checking in. I ope Princess Celestia is as understanding about Fluttershy stealing her job as she was the time Fluttershy stole her pet...
VastaKustutaSome of my favorites today include 17, 26, 35, 53, 57, 82, 143, and 154. Keep up the good work everypony!
I liked all the pictures in which the sun was raised with ropes. I just find that concept so charming, and I'm glad others do, too.
VastaKustutaNo picture this day, but I guess I should try something today... but the theme... ugh... I can't come up with something clever...
VastaKustutaA list of favourites!
#5
#8
#18
#19
#23
#31
#35
#38
#43
#44
#54
#65
#82
#122
#133
#151
#166
#17
#53
#56
#64
#79
#87
#98
#131
#137
#154
#171
Really enjoyable pictures overall! Good work, every... pony? (I'm sorry, I'm kinda new to this <^^)
i seems we were having a misunderstanding, Sethisto. i now feel like a bigger fool. i shall attempt again later.
VastaKustuta#30 Here.
VastaKustutaConsidering that I'd been up for about 20 hours when this was drawn, I'd say it turned out pretty well.
My favorite is tied between #133 and #137
#18 Oh noes! Twilight running up in the background is an awesome touch.
VastaKustuta#84 Ahhh! So sad, but well done and worth a dark chuckle o.o
#127 Angry pony mom! I love it.
#164 Love the curlers and everything! I've been having way too many mornings like this lately -.-
87 today... my first comic of ANYTHING since I was in, say, middle school o.o Sorry Celestia, you gotta go talk the sun out of its shame now... IF YOU CAN!! >:]
#10 seriously mine are getting closer to the top every time!
VastaKustutabut anyway i don't like it when I see mine up there i go through the comments and i see like #11 being talked about. it makes me sad D=
-D4SHTH3R4INB0W
#11- Minecraft, lol
VastaKustuta#26 here. There was a ton of smoke outside and it was starting to get to me.
VastaKustuta#89 today.
VastaKustutaThought I'd try my hand at animation.
I wish the thumbnail was animated; there's no way to tell that mine's a GIF when one is casually scrolling.
140 here. I think my today's joke flopped. Let's see if I can make a joke about banishment and incarceration.
VastaKustutaI'm pleased that everyone agrees on what Celestia looked like as a filly.
We've got some incredible art today in pictures like 5, 8, 18, 133, and 166.
I like the self-reference in 31.
39's special effect is pretty good.
I like the background of 52, it's curvy, colorful, and all the colors work together.
62 is the most unusual. It even beats out the mosaic art.
84 poor Luna. Why is Celestia so bitter?
87 Fluttershy has game-breaking powers
I laughed hardest at 137. It goes with 45, too!
I don't know what 170 is supposed to look like, but it's funny if you imagine that Celestia is lying on her side next to the town. Gravid daikaiju!
@Anonymous
VastaKustutaYeah, I know right? I'm #66 but everyone else is talking about #67 or #65 or something. Same with yesterday too, nopony said anything about my submission... </3
@Fox E:
VastaKustutaThat's so true! If you (or anypony) wants to, take a look at my '"art"' gallery (http://kitsuneymg.deviantart.com/gallery/30538347) to see my first few poni sketches. D=
I've leveled several times during the course of this event. Of course, I've also had some colossal failures (day 21 was a terrible drawing) and some that I wish I could spend another week or so touching up and detailing (22 and 23). I've a few I want to re-do now that I am more confident in my own art style, (7, 8, and 18).
I have a few I absolutely adore! (19, 20, and 23)
I guess what I'm saying is what Fox E said: practice, practice, practice. With another 10 or so levels, I may be able to produce color, quality art that #mlp-fim will accept!
And @Phoe, @Sethisto I'd love to continue something like this after the 30 days are, but maybe a little more time between entries?
/if you don't want to continue, I probably will on flankbook and/or deviant art
@Andrew
VastaKustutaWhat really made it for me was that it was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, that is BIGGER THAN THE GALAXY.
I... I actually got the titlecard image today, huh. I'm... I'm so flattered <3~
VastaKustutaI KNEW I wouldn't be the only one with that idea, though. Even still, I like the way it came out -- and I love #94 as well, for that matter!
Another day full of absolutely amazing pieces, so many complicated and time consuming-looking pieces and comics and everything and I'm sure everypony really put their all into it, it's obvious. And then you have stuff like #83 that just plain blows me away.
Today's theme... Well, let's just say it's insane to even try and think what we may be seeing here tomorrow. Now to spend the next few hours thinking of something really clever!
And Phoe, don't worry! You surely deserve the little break you got today, but we're allllmost done all the same~
#17
VastaKustutaDO THE IMPOSSIBLE
RAISE THE UNRAISABLE
#79
VastaKustutaThis explains why luna's muffins are dark
@Chocolate Splash
VastaKustutayour a fellow no comment bro btw yours is good ^^
-D4SHTH3R4INB0W
#89 here again, trying to raise awareness that 89 is not a still-frame, it is an animation, click on it! It's really terrible, but click it anyway! It'd make me happy.
VastaKustutanow for some quick comments
1: Awesome facial expressions here
2: more like Always Funny in Sillydelphia amirite
7: pshhh everyone knows Spider-Man draws pony every day
12: I like to think he's moonwalking here
28: Phoe, Twilight is clearly more of a Warhammer pony.
34: Thriller dance?
35: d'awww
56: implications that the sun gets raised without consent every day
60: I really like Celestia's mane and tail here
72: lolwat
82: awesome!
83: awesome!
oh jeez I need to get back to work now. I'm not done. I'll comment on some more, but it won't be for awhile.
Eeeeek! My first sumission! <3
VastaKustuta168 made me lol so hard
VastaKustutaI loved the style of 126, sort of reminded me of the "Paper Mario" games, with a style of art similar to that.
VastaKustutaAlso makes me wish there was a potential Paper Mario-style "Paper Ponies" rpg game in the making.
So, are we stopping at 30 days, or at the end of June? I was sort of hoping for the latter, because then we would have 5 complete weeks of pony, but I guess we'll see.
VastaKustutaI think its til the end of June, ill have to read the first post about it again
VastaKustuta122 today. I had no ideas until I was going to work and it started to rain. I got off early so I was hoping to watch the late sunset and sketch outside.
VastaKustuta(Off panel: Phoe bribing the pegasi to whip up the storm)
~Buddy Vox
@Argembarger Terrible or not, it's actually kind of adorable. Plus, more animations always make me squee!
VastaKustutaWhen you do each frame, do you trace over a template to keep things consistent or do you manually redraw everything? It looks like the latter, and if so, I'm very impressed; I can't maintain that sort of consistency at all, even when trying to draw two heads of the same size right next to each other.
@Kits I want to redo a bunch of mine too, especially with actual vectory stuff and whatnot. Not like generic line tool work or anything as I can already do that, but the show–style weight–changing lines that make everything look awesome.
@Atlur Seth says in the Training Grounds init post that we'll go to the end of June, so as long as Phoe can still brain us up themes, we have until next Thursday to go, which is our last theme day.
As for the whole continuing–drawing–events thing, Seth said (check this thread's op) they might do another set of challenges after a break (any Iron Artist challenge is exhausting). There is the speed–writing challenge this weekend, so I don't see why we couldn't have another event at least similar to this one.
Great work, everypony! #67 here - I wanted to check in last night, but lack of sleep caught up with me :(
VastaKustutaSome favorites:
#1: Oh, Luna!
#5: This is gorgeous!
#18: Darkly hilarious!
#23: Poor Luna :(
#61: This explains so much
#82: Awesome!
#87: Funny, and I love the expressions :)
#121: Adorable :)
#137: I laughed so hard at Celestia's face in this
Also, @Emerald Dust, I was kind of going for her hat on her head at a jaunty angle (so it didn't have to have the horn through it), but I guess I didn't get that across well enough :(
I've got some ideas for today's theme, but we'll see if they're actually any good :\
75 Rising today. Sorry *snickerface.jpg*
VastaKustuta1 AHAHAH i love luna in the last frame
2 lol
3I dont get it O.o
4 YES YES GENIOUS
5 THis will be BY FAR one of the best ones in my collection. Beautiful, thank you soo much for making it wallpaper sized raibowwubbyface.jpg
6 D'awww that made my day.
7 Pony is easy, drawing is hard >.< least the planning anyway
8 AHAHAH i love the cardboard, wonderful!
9 awesome
10 it may not be, but its close enough lol
11 O.o is that . . . . wow lol nice
12 lol nice play there n.n
13 whoa harse O.O
14 OH DERPY... derpy wins everypony, why raise the sun when you can be it! Hence her other name "BRIGHT EYES"
15 OOOH RARITY, with ungaughty wings no less n.n THank you, i never did like the butterfly wings from the show
17 AHAHAHA GO TWI GO!!! SHOW HER UP!! ANd this is why Twi is my Fav Mare.
18 THats . . . uhh terrible O.O poor sweetie belle, terrible isnt what i mean by the pic, its that kind of grimdark funny ( terrible ) i think the pic is awesome!!
19 AWWWW this is adorable ( that coming from a 26yrold dude )
20 YES YES YES!! TWILIGHT *giddyface* this would have been an awesome background too n.n well anything with Twi, i want fer a bg
21 OH SHEESH Trollestia stop messing with everypone *sigh*
22 Honestly i did not think i would see Zecora today, yay Applebloom. n.n
23 Hilarity ensues . . . Luna also gets a much needed break from Trollestia
24 OOOOH lol sweets n.n
25 This is definately hard to look at, my emotions wouldnt be stable. VEry well thought out. PRolly the best emotional peice.
26 Trollestia strikes again.
27 ahahaha
28 ahahah soo cute n.n
29 Luna, you dont want to be EXACTLY like Celly.
30 THats gotta BURN
31 Wonderfully done, i really like these picture concepts
32 Just about anything you do is fine Luna.
33 AHAHAHA
34 YAY Trxie SHOW!
35 AHAHAHAA LOVE IT!!!! Twi is soo cute!
36 YEah this is kinda sweet. I had to think about it a bit
38 WOW really nice theme going on there
39 GOtta love OP Twi. Honestly these are my fav stlye pics of her, i just envision her being soo . . . . well exscuse the term, Badass.
40 Scoots, keep trying
41 GO TWI!!
42 CAPTAIN OBVIOUS HOO! Im sorry, i couldnt help myself there. Please dont be offended.
43 Pinkie is the hardest working party pony ever.
44 Love it, Celly and Luna, nothing else needs to be said.
45 WOW this is epic!
47 Wow, very artistic
49 Thats very kind of you celly
51 I really like the coloring going on there
VastaKustuta52 Only derpy could get away with that. I really love the backgrounds here.
53 Sorry Big Mac. Good Luck!
54 Not a fan of that sun bg, but i like the celly linework n.n
55 YEAH! THis is awesome n.n
56 OH FLUTTERSHY, yer sooo silly.
57 DERPY LOL
58 Yay. BIG Celly Smile.
59 THats a cool lookin sun
61 DERPY NOT TWO SUNS >.< lolol
62 MUH LOVE!
67 WEE new background.
68 YEs filly celly is cute.
69 Applebloom . . . APPLEBLOOM
70 Too much magic is never a problem. Too much magic= LOTSA FRIENDSHIP!
71 SOmeponies cheating!!
76 This is oo much WIN!!
78 AHAHAHA Yes long live Trixie. I would normally detest a personality like that, but she is just too dang adorable
79 OMC That is the most ingenious one! I LOL'ed HARD
82 LOTTA DERPY today . . . somepony is popular n.n
83 WIth a sonic Rainboom in space . . . Rainbow could prolly make suns instead!
84 Internet is the bane of many fandoms n.n LOL We love it tho.
86 I really love her frames form in this.
91 & 135 Luna, yer soo sweet, giving Celly the day off.
92 YEah, we love you Celly, despite what anypony says
93 AWESOME
95 YAY RARITY ADMIRATION, if she loves it, so do i. . . O.o
97 THe celly we see rise the sun is but a standin. THis is what really happens behind the scenes. Thats why she keeps Trolling, raising the sun this way is hard.
101 YAY CMC!!! BRAVO!
103 & 104 OOOH LET THE FUN BEGIN!!
105 WOW, this is quite awesome
106 Mailmare takes the sun for a trip. ONLY DERPY
114 OMG i want to read it, but i cannot >.<
115 THats could be an awesome trail multichomatic eyes O.O think about the awesomeness Phoe. GO LYRA!!
118 LMAO
120 Oversights are funny that way huh?
121 I REALLY HOPE TO SEE MORE CMC in season two. REALLY they are the best.
122 & 123 BEautiful colorings n.n i really love the traditional media of 123.
130 Yes they are n.n
131 We all make mistakes derpy . . .that will just be MUCH harder to fix later n.n
134 Yay more colored pencil work
137 YEah i always wondered if the sun raising would ever get old to her.
139 My eyes sploded from cute!
140 Now that makes sense O.O
141 THis is getting really COOL!
143 Dangit PINKIE yer inventions making you look smart again.
144 OMC My Twilight is being adorable sense just died.
168 AHAHAHA thats another question for me answered
173 You are my hero O.O i have always wanted to see Celly with a wingboner, please tell me this is getting colored later. Im sorry, you can think bad of me if you want. I just wanted see Celly that way O.O
tl;dr
VastaKustutaIf you've got tips/tricks to drawing in show style, please share!
@Fox E:
I would love to know how these artists do the weight changing lines. I've asked a few of them if they use illustrator and the universal answer has been no, they use photoshop. Which amazes me. TheXxxX did one of his awesome clop-tacular comics in show style and made a comment about using over 100 layers. I can't even draw a smooth line in photoshop, let alone the 23784523978 needed for something like that. It doesn't help that I can't find examples of people learning the style: Either they don't bother emulating the show or they're 99% show accurate.
I do remember a 'tutorial' about vectoring images posted here on EqD. I put tutorial in quotes because the author assumed that you could just dash off those curved lines w/o issue.
I look at a lot of art done in that style and I nearly give up. I don't have the knowledge, time, or talent to do something that amazing. It always makes me feel like a blank-flank, fumbling around using professional grade tools to do a finger painting while others watch on in bemusement. Even a few of my friends inspire this feeling in me.
@BronyQuest constantly dumps on his own stuff--And I can't believe how good it looks and how fast he does it. I can barely get uncolored sketches out on a daily basis (at least I semi-shade now), let alone actually use photoshop for anything beyond scanning. Maybe I need to start over using just a tablet and ps? But then I'd lose the little drawing ability I have!
I know it's not just the color, I've seen some sketches that make my jaw hit the floor. TheXxxX again is a great example. (http://thexxxx.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3fauyx) Those lines are so much nicer than anything I've ever laid down. And that shading! It's almost enough to make me weep! #MLP-FiM has a sketchbook section now. I submitted some of my stuff. The I saw the latest additions to the gallery. I damn near quit drawing right then and there. F*cking pencils, how do they work?
Man, I'm talking myself into a bit of a depression. I'll have to sit down and do a different drawing than the one I originally planned. These large, multi-panel ones are fun and nice for a laugh (and a Phoe comment =D ) but I'm almost never happy with how they turn out. I think my best art in todays is that 1/4" Bon Bon silhouette in panel 4, and that's kinda of pathetic. I'll have to stick to something simple that I can try to make it look as good as I can. Even if it barely matches the theme.
Anyway.
Does anypony have any sort of tips/techniques to share about doing show-style artwork?
#83 here. So many great entries today, and I really enjoyed this theme--I just wish I could've shaded Rainbow Dash more effectively. I spent way too much time thinking about how Equestria should look from space, and in the end you can't even see the continent very well anyway. Hah.
VastaKustutaFavorites include (but are not limited to) 1, 34, 14, 16, 17 (LOVE the faces! a little more attention to the lines in the hair and Twi's body shape would make this perfect!), 18, 35, 43, 52, 49, 65, 74, 76, 87, 99 (try putting a piece of scrap paper under your wrist when you work with pencil to prevent smearing), 101, 102, 121, 124, 137 (her face is awesome), 140, 151, 164, 166, 168.
And I love 128 an 133 for having a similar idea. :>
@Kits
VastaKustutaSorry for the double post--Kits happened to write his or hers as I was writing mine.
Anyway, I think you should switch from Illustrator to Easy Paint Tool SAI. It's a very simple, well designed, intuitive program with nice vectoring tools. It's very easy to adjust the line weight and then start coloring right in the same program. I ditched Adobe for it a long time ago and never looked back. It's also cheap and more forgiving on older computers/computers with low memory.
@Rachel
VastaKustutaI'd love to. Unfortunately it is not available for OSX. Between Sai and Vegas, I really need to find a windows machine...
Or buy parallels...
#117: I literally facepalmed.
VastaKustutaMe=123, checking in late. The colors were fun to play with, but my drawing is not so good. I need to start studying some references to see how to get flying poses that look less static.
VastaKustutaA few favorites to mention: 5, 8, 40, 93, 101, 121, 133.
@Doc Steedly
VastaKustutaI think I may have taken the mulichromatic eye thing a tad too far now...
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/173/2/2/i_can_see_rainbows_by_fetchbeer-d3joryg.png
ROFL @ 168! Ha ha!
VastaKustutaPinkylestia is best lestia
VastaKustuta@Fox E
VastaKustutaYeah, haha. I tried to trace one frame onto another, but the paper I used is too thick for that, I couldn't see through it at all! I used a ruler to generally try to keep the frame borders the same size, and everything else is good old-fashioned eyeballing and estimation. You can tell that from a few things, like how Celestia's horn grows and shrinks and how her eye kind of slides to the front of her head over time. When I was throwing the GIF together though, I kind of found myself enjoying the rough-and-tumble chaotic style of it. It probably could have used some more intermediate frames to help it be more coherent, though.
tldr on line weights: I dunno about SAI since I haven't used it yet, but I've never seen tutorials on it and all I can think to do is use erasers to mimic that style.
VastaKustuta@Argembarger I'm a fan of the not–fully–refined pencil animation look (eg. Rejected Cartoons), so I personally rather like it. So considering you eyeballed every frame, super job!
I use printer paper myself now so I can't trace things very well either anymore. So much for using that as a crutch eh? =P
As for "her eye kind of slides to the front of her head over time," that is both hilarious and :gonk: at the same time.
@Phoe's eyes, I don't know anything about colour theory so I always just coloured them magenta, same as her hair.
@Kits + @Rachel I'd forgotten about SAI, most of the artists I know of love it to death so it's probably worth looking into at this point, especially if it's more easily workable on an old machine like mine. I don't have Photoshop, so apart from that, the only way I can think of to mimic the canon vectory look is prodigious use of the eraser tool to trim down the ends of lines. =X
Even if I did have Photoshop, you're right in that I haven't encountered any tutorials for how to accomplish such a look. Maybe it's a plugin, or they really do spend forever manually erasing things into nice swishy lines.
I don't have a mac either so I can't help there.
And yeah, I have an artist friend who yesterday woke up telling me "I just learned to draw faces better in my dream!" And then he went from guideline sketch to fully completed work of art in like three hours. ò Дó!? mfw
It kind of saps motivation seeing that happen at the same time I'm trying to work out one of my dinky little pencil ponies, but then again he's been doing this for well over a decade now, whereas I have all of three weeks under my belt. Progress has been made in that time though, so as long as there's improvement to be made, there's drive to continue.
Honestly your stuff isn't bad at all, same as BronyQuest's. Better than mine in any case. =P It's one of those irritating "it takes practice" things.
And then TheXxxX's stuff. D= My god, it's full of win. That's my favourite kind of pencil art right there.
I use mechanical pencils, so what I do for that (when i have time which is never this week apparently) is use sandpaper to flatten the edge of the lead into a wedge shape, which gives me a nice sharp point on one side, and the perfect shading surface on the other. Just have to rotate the pencil to switch between them.
Alternatively you can sit there for five minutes scribbling your pencil back and forth on scratch paper until the lead takes on that shape, but that's boring and I cba to do so.
That doesn't help with drawing smooth lines of course, much less maintain proportions, neither of which I'm sure how to do. Anyone have a spare copy of The Geometry of Art and Life?
As many hours I have put on the road, the sunrises, the sunsets, and such, I put that in before crossing into Canada. Kent and Worthington Bringin' the Sun.
VastaKustuta#74 Brongaar. Bringing on the Sun..
117, 136. You are my heroes.
VastaKustuta#114
VastaKustutaSorry about the tiny picture, everypony. Those portable communication thingies don't take big pictures.
Here's an actual scan of it.
I'm skipping out on today's, as I already know first-hoof what it's like to be banished and imprisoned in the place I was banished to, and won't subject anypony else to anything like it.
While it may seem like I've already skipped some, I really just didn't get to give them to Phoe.
[ PS. I had some renovations done on the moon. Don't tell Cele, but I had a castle bigger than Canterlot built there after that fit she had the other month. ]
[ PPS. Yes, she does pronounce 'aliens' as 'Al-e-ans'. Still does, even now. ]
VastaKustuta@Phoe
VastaKustutaI'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply anything :(
I especially don't want to play down the amount of work you fine ponies do. Sethisto's comments especially, make me want to go so far as to break into your house and like, cook a feast up for you.
But then there is the whole "who are you/how did youget in here/I'm calling the cops!" dynamic, which really puts a damper on how swell such a gift would be.
So I guess, in thanks, I WON'T stalk anyone and show up randomly to bequeath them with gifts. That sounds like a plan :)
Ok. That's enough creepy thoughts for now. Thank you guys for your hard work, and thank you Phoe, for tolerating my particularly loquacious brand of crazy.
—S
@fetchbeer
VastaKustutaAHAHAH nothing wrong there n.n IT would be cool to see a gif with the eyes fading into different colors . . . O.o going from red to pink to blue to whatever . . IT would be aswesome fer such an awesome pony :3
@Luna
Thank you soo much for the larger scan, it was soo adorable n.n Reminds me when i used to "horse" around with the foals on the farm. I had one who i used to tackle, she would just jump up and tackle me back, Even when she got to full height and weight she still liked to tackle me, but she was soo gentle LOL . . . its kinda funny to see a full grown horse use her legs to takle someone and pin them down. WIsh i still had the pictures, yes i got bruises once and a while . . . but hoove do that, she never hurt me tho.
YEah im going to skip out todays content drawing, because in my pic i had already drew a pony getting banished . . . call me lazy if you will . . . but i gots me a story to write and some wow to play
I want to echo @SiuiS and note that you do play a huge motivational role here, Phoe. Upstanding pony if ever there was one.
VastaKustuta@Fox E: I am glad my terrible joke got a chuckle though I would have settled for a groan.
VastaKustuta#166 This is without a doubt my favorite one!
VastaKustuta@Kits
VastaKustutaGood heavens Kits, it would have taken me like 16 hours to make a two page comic like yours. It's good if I can scratch together 3 hours on a work day. No time for anything but pencil and paper, no shading.
Later, when I get a moment, I'll have to see what this Easy Paint Tool SAI is. I tried installing Art Rage on this Win 7 machine, but it did not work, and the hipster Win 7 MSPaint tries to pose as an emulator. Not cool.
VastaKustutaOh yes, I would like more challenges after the 30 day period, please (and a rest). Let's shoot for 10,000 sketches! While being so sleep-deprived that I started having halucinations was fun, a slightly less brutal schedule would be, nice.
@Doc Steedly
VastaKustuta#20 here.
Lol. Maybe I'll actually complete it and turn it into a background, but it was just a quick thing. I'm usually not very good at finishing art in one day. It's also my first attempt at drawing one of the mane six in the original style, so I was uncertain about it in general, but it came out a lot better than I thought it might.
i like 30,36,38,63 and all the derpy ones
VastaKustutaHere is a trick for "varying width" lines.
VastaKustutaRather then using a circle brush to make the lines, use a caligraphic brush. I use the gimp but I know this is in photoshop as well; somewhere in something like the tool options dialog is the shape of the brush. For (nonpony, just quick jab on paper) example: http://wardenscat.foxserver.be/caligraphicbrush.jpg
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
VastaKustutaA gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees!