[SFW] Artist's Group Chat

Care to Dance

Sup. It’s been a while. :T

What if Sphinxy hosted a weird game show where you either had to answer a riddle or complete a humiliating Taskmaster-style minigame? :P

@Badumsquish
I would watch that

I drew Zecora last night, and happily got my computer working enough that the scanner works again, so … pic related.

OMG hearing that delicious machine whirrrrr into life and seeing an image pop up on a screen makes me wanna dance like I’m listening to Techno - LET’S GO!.

While drawing her, I realized that I don’t care how the final image looks. I mean - I know I will hate it with all my hate. And it’s fun when others like what I’ve drawn, but it’s also confusing. But, I love to draw anyway, because I love the process of drawing. I love running my pencil along her belly. Defining her thighs and her legs. Drawing her pointy sharp hooves. Her jaw … I finally realized the thing that was most making it hard for me to draw ponies was I wasn’t allowing myself to really lean into that jaw line.

And I wasn’t allowing myself to just go ahead and draw the sternocleidomastoid. Without it, I couldn’t ‘pin’ the shoulders or the elbows or the rib cage … I didn’t know where the neck began, or how to position the sternum under the jaw. But if I just let myself draw that, then BANG everything else works. There’s the hips. There’s the elbows. There’s the knees. And then the rear legs are Patella, Stifle, Hock … it all makes sense.

I know that people consider that anthro - even “too anthro”.

But, that’s just another check box on the ‘why my art sucks’ and that’s fine - there’s hundreds of other checkboxes there, too.

But this way, drawing is fun.

… But having drawn Zecora, and being able to scan her in but NOT do ANYTHING ELSE because I still need to reinstall Photoshop?

I suddenly looked at the drawing itself. And I realized that I am drawing Zecora like I’m drawing Princess Luna … that’s … odd. I wonder why I am doing that?

Looking at screencaps of her today I realized that I completely whiffed on her magnificent croup and flank. I think I should try drawing her with some more donk in the badonka.

But … drawing her like I did feels … good! I like running my pencil over her flank and along her inner thigh and refining the curve of her buttock …

Maybe it’s because her tiny tuchus excites me so?

Do others have that same feeling sometimes? When they’re drawing something and realize they aren’t drawing them on-book but just absolutely LOVE the feeling of making those lines that you don’t even care any more?

(ps: more, and better, music suggestions in the descriptions of that image - I’m really learning how powerful simultaneous overlapping music can be when helping to calm the ADHD)

Drew my Nuzlocke character dressed as Jessica Rabbit

Happy halloween, y’all! ;)

@Ponyvideomaker
Wicked. Happy halloween to you too