• Newbie Artist Training Grounds XII: Day 9

    My Little Pony Newbie Artist Training Grounds Author Calpain
    Artist: Dusthiel

    Luna does make for a cute Kirin, but you'd better not make her angry.

    Wonderful job tonight everyone! I know switching from ponies to other creatures may have been a tough one with all of the different anatomy, but to expand as an artist we have to get outside of our comfort zone and explore new horizons, right? Who knows, maybe you found a species you liked drawing just as much as regular ponies in the process! Keep up the good work as we continue to press on, my friends.

    For today we managed to rake in 73 ponies which now brings our total to 692 ponies! Nicely done as we creep towards the 1k mark.

    For today, this one was inspired by not only a very old prompt but by a comment or two I've heard from other artists as well. We're very used to drawing ponies full-sized (or getting there at least), but I do notice unless someone is drawing the CMC or one of the other fillies or colts in the show they are usually pretty absent. Considering their stature it can be hard to get the proportions right to make them look good so for today I wanted to give you a little practice with that by having you Draw a pony as a filly or colt / Draw a pony sent back in time. 

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    Attention Discord Users:
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    Check on after the break for today's gallery!
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    1 Lord Forgive me for What I've Created - Pone-Dancer

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    So here we have Tony...as a reverse centaur XD I'm having waaaay too much fun drawing these fermented horrors lol. Tony is a unicorn tho so this one gets cloven hooves.
    3 Shadow glider halfling - Sup3r_poop

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    5 Mouse Cheerilee - Quint-t-W

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    Insignificant wordplay from “miss” to “myÅ¡”
    6 Look, I'm Silverstream! - EveryDayDashie

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    No, Rainbow. you aren't. This one really is a hard one because I have to transform Rainbow Dash into Rainbowstream (well, not necessarily, it just has to be a different species). Anyway, I think it took me around 5 hours to finish this and the result may not be as good as before because I'm trying to draw a different species as opposed to ponies. I know it looks weird, but I've tried my best to make it look at least appealing. Let's just hope that tomorrow's prompt would be a little bit easier.
    8 NATG XII Day 8: Seapony Explorers - Blazewing

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    Tough Cookie and Syntax's scope of exploration has increased after transforming into seaponies. Syntax would feel as eager about it as Cookie does, if he didn't have to worry about losing his hat underwater, lol.
    10 - FraniBilly

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    11 Obligatory Human - FraniBilly

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    12 Dinkcinno - GoggleSparks

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    You've never seen a pony-turned Cinccino before?
    13 Spiderses - Faith?

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    10/10 fic go read
    16 NATG 2022 - Day 8 - Twilight Owl - DarkDabula

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    "Booohhhhooooooooks !"
    17 Day 8: Different Species - Write Flyer

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    "So, uh, I've always kinda wondered what it would be like to be a griffon..."
    18 NATG #8: Goat(ee) - MrKat/Panko Pai

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    This is BAAAAAAAAAd
    20 Batyfication - Perelka

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    22 Mermaid Rarity - Karboom

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    23 ATG2022 08 Bananalestia - Bananissle

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    Celestia always wanted to know what it’s like…
    24 Filly - Soobel

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    two most beautiful fantasy creatures in one
    26 Breeziefication - [email protected]

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    Each year i'm wondering what i should do for this day - hope i'll find a different species next year to not repeat myself.
    27 Specieschange - Ragmo

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    Caveman pony becoming best yak in town and swift sword enjoying floating in the wind. Tbh the species change topic is one of my favourite topic of NATG :3 I don't want to do repeat in species and it's always nice to see how many different species exist in mlp fim
    30 Angelic Shy - Lore / Docard

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    Oh, YOU know what happened here...
    31 My Little Dalek - Extermination is Magic - Rapidsnap

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    My little dalek, my little dalek What is extermination all about My little dalek, my little dalek Extermination is magic My Little Dalek I used to wonder what extermination could be My little Dalek Until you all were exterminated by me.
    32 Swapping Species (NATG 2022 Day 8) - IronYoshi

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    IronYoshi is a hippogriff and Sea Lilly is a pony!
    34 NATG XII Day 8 - Draw a pony as another species - Artevi

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    Jazz Hooves from Make Your Mark humanized.
    35 EQD ATG2022 p8: Non-Pony Pony - meto30

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    This is my response to prompt 8, "pony as another species," depicting Sci-Twi in her pony form after passing through the portal in Spring Breakdown.
    36 A body change - Apic86

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    Turning a creature from another dimension into a pony did not work well… This time, change into a new body shape can increase a chance to attract special somecreature. Little she did know…
    37 ED: NATG 2022 Day 8 - Addelum

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    39 Twilight snek - Friendship is Horses

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    Twilight's phoning this one in
    40 Kirin and Bear It - Termyotter

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    (Re-upload after some problems with the first upload attempt)
    41 - derp-rose

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    44 Hippogriff Spike - Frown Factory

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    120m; a bit loose on the rules this time. Still, not-pony and species swap requirements are both fulfilled
    45 [SFM] Izzy has an announcement to make - red4567

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    Hey, if you don't think it's a big deal now, just you wait. Those cheaply-made bits of plastic can be health hazards.
    49 Sparkling Butterfly - Scribbling-Potato

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    Kirin Izzy because Kirin Izzy
    50 2022 NATG day 8 - a Pony as Another Species - C_||_R

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    "Spider Batplejack isn't real, she can't bite you" Applebat Spoder: òòòÒuÓóóó
    51 - ErrorStream

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    52 The Green Mare - Frith

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    The Green Mare, the über earth pone.
    53 Crab Cult - Mallow Malt

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    Spent a lot more time on the background for this compared to previous days, I'm pretty happy with how the water and sky came out. Refs used: 2873179
    55 Tatzljack - DominicToblerone27

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    Didn't quite finish this one today but I decided to submit the sketch anyway. Will hopefully look to clean it up and finish it for one of the later make up days.
    56 Goat - SOENJAY

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    I played an RPG with some friends tonight called "Goat Crashers" so while playing I drew Mustang as a goat.
    59 Roma Returns - Sigmath Bits

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    2 bits! 1 bit! 2 bits! 2 bits! 1 bit! Sold!
    60 Doki Doki Literature Club! (with MLP characters) - BlueSkies

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    Derpy - Bundle of Muffins Lily - Kind on the Inside Daisy - Lady of Mystery Roseluck - President of the Club Will you write the way into her heart?
    61 Kirin Izzy - Summer Gem

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    I think Izzy looks cute as a kirin.
    63 A Great and Powerful Yak - Optimistic Neightsayer

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    I'm surprised that this species swap doesn't happen more often. Trixie and yaks both have a flair for the dramatic and interesting ways of referring to themselves.
    64 Ebony Fox - Ebony Crystal

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    I know this isn't my best work, but I'm still proud I was able to get something in for today's prompt. At the very last minute after MULTIPLE ideas were tossed out, I decided to take this one as an excuse to practice my anatomy on a real animal and foxes are one of my favorites. I don't think I did too bad considering I did this in about 2 hours or so. :3
    68 New Dog Pone! - Creatio

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    Oh no! Noxi has been turned into a dog pone! Creatio doesn't seem to mind though, on the contrary, they look pretty excited.
    70 Uh Oh - Desert

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    71 Day 8 - Species Swap - Hiddelgreyk

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    Under the sea ^^
    72 A Curious Inkwell - Optimistic Neightsayer

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    A second entry for Day 8! I wonder if Sunny how many more surprises from the past she will encounter? (And don't tell me Guiding Light doesn't exist in G4, who knows what history will come?) The genie pony idea was in part inspired by Parcly Taxel, a specialty of his.
    73 Gilda the Dragoness - Rupert the Blue Fox

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    Wanted to go for this Newbie Artist Training Grounds stuffs. While this idea isn’t new, I wanted to see how a dragonified Gilda would look in MY take.