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@atalarikt  
Why thank you!  
I’m actually better at drawing small details than large ones. That picture was only half of the page at best.  
If I were to draw it one a blank piece of paper, it wouldn’t look nearly as good.

@HJSDGCE  
It’s true. I like the details there. It’s hard to draw details with a not-so-sharp pencil.

@atalarikt  
Is that true or are you just being generous?
 
I’m not offended either way.  
I’m used to people undermining me and my credibility.

@HJSDGCE  
8.5/10

 
Rate me.

@atalarikt  
Thank you.  
I appreciate that.

@HJSDGCE  
It’s like Cyanide and Happiness, except better.

That reminds me, I should post more stickman comics.
 
Shameless self-advertising

Kill yourself/10
 
I’m bad at art, and I know it.
 
~Filler.

3

DNP/10- not even on the scale

-Five year old in an earthquake/10.

I think I’ve been getting better. I’m going to give myself a 4.5.

I’d like to think that I’ve become better since I started drawing on a tablet.
 

 

@Phobia  
You know what’s funny it was a piece of fan art that made me “fall in love” with Celestia I was looking up clop when I found a picture by kloudmutt of Celestia in a maid uniform I zoomed in and scrolled around for a bit and I looked into her eyes something just clicked I mean I liked her before then but all the sudden she was my favorite character

I think I might actually be getting worse. Might make sense being as there is just literally no drive in me to do art as of late.
 

 
@tigerfestivals Too bad I’ve turned into the type who complains about certain kinds of fanart as well. Had my opinion of Celestia ruined by a certain picture.

Right now I’d say 4 I can turn out a decent looking anthro but I’m still not where I want to be yet

I’d go with 3

@zippysqrl
 
Well yeah. Key word “better” symmetry but by no means perfect of course.

What I’ve seen people do is just letting it flow. Dont worry about getting the drawing perfect during the sketch part of it. Let your hand go free and glide across the canvas. Worry about all that technical stuff later.

@ArkyNoid  
you would not believe how fuckin’ hard it is to make things symmetrical by hand, like holy shit don’t even bother. sketch the pose and structure and whatever, then copy and flip one side after you’ve sketched in what you need to, just make sure you add a little variety since nothing is ever truly symmetrical, not even boobs or faces. like flip the sketch, but nothing beyond that, like lines/colors, draw those yourself, because even if you’re tracing the sketch you’re inability to copy perfectly will add some variation, perfect symmetry is bad mmk.

Well some of the obvious yet commonly overlooked vital things I think I’ve finally absorbed for further improved art:
 
-Better symmetry  
-Better shading  
-Preplanning points (those preliminary lower layer sketches people use, for example a circle and crosshair within is used to coordinate drawing a pony head now make sense to me)  
-Smoothing out the lines  
-Repeatedly study the pro’s drawings

I think my Digital art rating just went up by 4 overnight. This WACOM tablet really made drawing on a computer much easier.
 
1st attempt:
 
2nd attempt(from today):

@Phobia
 
 
Now that I look back, several of my highest scoring images involve “plot”. Seems like that’s something people here really like XD. Though I guess I can’t blame them.
 
@ArkyNoid  

 
That’s kinda stupid of them since that’s something based off of fanart and not the actual show.

@Phobia
 
I’m kinda contemplating uploading her now. And share my plot worship with derpi I guess. Someone on Fur Affinity actually complained about me posting her, being a “rapey” character. Ha, what the heck?