Drawfag Improvement Thread

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Challenge #7!

Since it's the 7th challenge, how about we do a 7 day art challenge!

=RULES=
-Basically, the deal is you will take the day's theme and draw what comes to your mind when you think of it. So if the theme was "the beach" you might draw ponies surfing, swimming, or playing in the sand.
-By no means do you have to do this daily; in fact, the last thread lasted almost 2 weeks! So if you can do 7 drawings in about 14 days, you can do this!
-You have to do them in order and they have to match the theme (and have to be pony related in some way) but otherwise go nuts!
-Have fun!

=THEMES=
Day 1: Weather
Day 2: Food
Day 3: Hobby
Day 4: Pets
Day 5: Outdoors
Day 6: Villian
Day 7: Friendship

>Special thanks to Cronus

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>>29881595

God fucking damnit redline. I JUST fucking did the pallet thing.

Will also do the new challenge.

>>29881703
Hahaha sorry! Some people finish the challenges really quick while others take the full 2 weeks or so. I'm not being sarcastic but I REALLY LIKE HER MANE.

>>29881595
>>29881583
Emcee... just stop. It's not gonna take off.

>>29881954
What?

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>>29881954
>It's not gonna take off
>>29881703

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Hey, I just made a shitpost to bug my friend about the newest episode. It's not that great but I figured you guys would get a kick out of it. So here you go fags.

>>29882132
Holy shitpost is right, Batman

>>29882132
Aside form the tangent with Celestia's horn and the text, the composition is very well thought out. I'm really getting the feel the the emotions portrayed here. The redesign of Celestia's cutie mark and chasis is very good too.

I think if you really stick with this you'll be better than me within the year. Your lines are already cleaner.

>>29882172
SO FAMOUS

>>29882172
what's your next art?

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>>29882289
A new portfolio piece. I'll remember you guys when I'm working at GW by the end of this week.

>>29882322

Holy shit are you secretly Imalou?

>>29882322
Phew.

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>>29877877
Just woke up to this, thanks! I'll tweak some of those before moving to colour.

Speaking of which, any tips on painting? I roughly get colouring and shading, but I have a soft spot for brush strokes like celestiawept's.

>>29882826
Then try doing more prominent brush strokes? I don't have much advice if you already know coloring/shading, other than if you have some blendy brushes that add color and also blend it into another color if that makes sense? I'm still running on fumes here

>>29878421
>>29878905
>>29879580

Thanks anons from the last thread, appreciate the input. After making music for almost a decade I learned how to handle critique, so this shouldnt be a problem

>>29883086
As long as you have the right attitude and want to get better you'll always be able to ask me (at the very least) for help and I will.

>>29882332
Who?

>>29882371
:^)

>>29882826
I'm seeing a lot hard round and color dodge on a lower opacity soft round possibly made into a tool preset. Some others but those are the main. I can see at least 2 more brushes used here and I think I can recreate the shape for you in photoshop. For the fur, looks like a premaid texture was put over a base block-in. been used for fur, but most of it is also hard round.

Once you get the hang of drawing you can identify people through them easily. Fuck me if I can remember any names though.

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>tfw still haven't improved

>>29884438
How about you freehand instead of bezier tooling it to death?

>>29884486
I literally used my mouse

>>29884497
Then get a pencil and paper. It's not difficult, you're just making excuses.

>>29884509
>pencil and paper
Buddy, it's 2017 and I've got a graphic tablet

>>29884517
Then fucking use it and stop bitching about your mouse.

>>29884668
I have a tip or two for cleaner erasing but fuck it if I'm going to tell your retarded ass anything.

>>29882322
>>29885357
:^)

BAMPU

>>29885382
Ever massage an entire horse?

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hi, I posted in the last thread asking about rear hooves et al. any more tips about how to improve this smolpone's posture a bit? and does the angle feel too forced?

>>29884668
either freehand or stop posting your shitty vector traces, we've told you this like 1000 times

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>>29881595
My entry for weather. It's a really really bad blizzard.

>>29886720
I love it
Gotta work on those contours and contrast though

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>>29886740
Think I fixed it. Thanks for the advice, Anon.

>>29886773
Great job. No problem, glad I could be of assistance

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>>29884399
>Who?
Imalou is a pretty good drawfag that occasionally posts on /mlp/. She's divisive on /mlp/ since some people think she only comes here to show off.

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Everything became so good when I made myself shedule and started a project. Why haven't I done this earlier!

>>29886987
Teach me how

>>29886987
I don't know... Make yourself some goals and try to reach them.

>>29887067
>>29887129
Shit I replied to mysefl.

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>>29881595
holy fuck
this challege is tough

I'd say I'd give it a shot but that would not be the right mindset
I will fail horribly

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>>29881595

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Who would like a challenge?

Ponify this picture with (top to bottom) Discord, Twilight Sparkle, and Starlight Glimmer.

>>29887873
sounds like you're looking for the draw thread

Bump before bed

>>29887826
Turned out nicely, I like it.

>>29886720
Rat you never cease to amaze me
>>29887617
What? How is it tough? You can draw whatever you want provided it fits the theme. "weather" could be a pony in a raincoat, umbrella, and rain boots, for example. Also you have 2 weeks to do it
>>29887826
Is it RD bouncing rain over Twilight? Because I love that shit
>>29887873
Yeah dude, here's the Drawthread where you can request shit like that >>29857191

>>29888882
derpy attempting an assassination on a princess

>>29888887
HA, good.
>>29888882
Woops forgot my name

>>29887978
>>29888882
Thank you for telling me to fuck off as kindly as possible.

>>29889023
I mean I'm not trying to tell you to fuck off, but this isn't the thread you're looking for

>>29886883

In case the sarcasm was lost I was being facetious when I asked "Are you imalou?"

>>29886702
Aside from double-checking her eyelashes and cutie mark, I did draw that one freehand. But if you're going to be a dick about it, I'll post another vector one, just to piss you off.

>>29889520
freehand includes not using the circular guides you're using for the skeleton

>>29889548
>look at the Imgur album and learn anatomy, scrub
>what are you doing drawing like the album says to?

Fuck off.

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https://derpibooru.org/520035

>>29889730
Do you draw those circles yourself, or naw?

also, she preggo af

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>>29889752
Yeah, I've had more luck getting them rounder by drawing them a quarter at a time; it's let me be more consistent since I've started having trouble with my back and haven't been able to keep my shoulder movements as smooth as I used to.

And yeah, I figured a preggers pony made sense for a holiday based on a pagan fertility festival.

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>>29889798
If I enhance the fuck out of the image, you can see some of the guidelines I drew to line up the circles; I tend to draw them inside boxes, so they don't end up too lopsided.

>>29889861
Basically we just want you to not use like, circle tools, line tools, etc. If there's a circle, YOU should draw it. If there's a long line, YOU should draw it; not a bezier tool or a line tool etc. Also when you post, if you'd ask for on something then you would be totally welcome here. I know I went off on you the other day, but I'm just exhausted, so sorry if that came off more bitchy than normal.
>>29889861
Okay, but you didn't hand draw those circles, did you? If you did, could you show us how you can draw THOSE circles so well while saying that THIS is how you draw circles?: >>29889798

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>>29890075
Basically, the discrepancy is because I don't have a drawing tablet, so >>29889798 was drawn with a mouse in MS Paint. The closest thing to a "tool" I use, other than paper/pencil/eraser. is making little marks on the side of my eraser to keep all the hooves the right size.

I drew the circles freehand, and they're actually somewhat off as a result; the butt circle is too tall, and the chest circle has an odd forward slant to it, for instance.

>>29890111
Well if you're telling the truth that you don't use a template, tool, compass, nor trace and that you draw all of these shapes free hand, then I commend you on it. I'm still suspicious, but if you can prove it, we'd love it. Use your pencil and paper, not a mouse, btw. Your faces are almost always really well done btw and I'd give you advice on how to draw a pregnant mare I would, but I hav eno idea

>>29881595
EDIT: I might have forgotten to tell you, but you can start and finish this tutorial any day you like. You can even do them all in one day if you want. If you used EVERY theme in one picture, that'd be amazing, haha.

>>29881595
>>29885382
>>29887617
>>29884438
I'd hit it

>>29890127
I'm not sure how I could prove it short of scanning after each stroke, which would be insanely time-consuming.

>>29890127
I don't trace, but for the ones where I post the drawing with a link, I did use a reference, but I do those by eye.

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>>29890175

>>29890166
>>29890175
I mean, it's okay, I was mostly triying to explain what the other guy was saying in a much nicer tone. If you had a tablet it'd be really easy to take a video, so I guess I'll just trust you. Also using a reference is fine, but we're really, really like to see you draw your OWN pose that isn't copying someone else's pose. Do you think you could do that? I mean this thread IS about getting better and yeah, sure you have improved, but if you can't draw a pony on your own, then you can't go farther, and by now I know you can do it, just trust me and try it.
>>29890216
Oh I mean tracing circles, not tracing the drawing, but I can see how you'd be confused.

>>29890175
>>29890216
Okay I'm going to show you how I do an original post myself while also doing the Day 1 challenge (weather); give me ten minutes or so and I'll show you what I'm talking about

>>29890229
I drew >>29884668 without a pose reference.

>>29890306
Well why didn't you say that! Someone said you were tracing . Okay well I'm very glad you did that, but as you can see, you need help with anatomy when you draw without reference. The face is okay but the limbs are really off. Do you mind if I redline it?

>>29890335
I said I'd do that during the weekend; I didn't feel like repeating myself.
Go ahead. I think the front legs look a bit too much like they're from a front view, and the hind legs are too drastically curved below the hocks, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it.

>>29890335
>>29890404
While you're at it, I could use a new redline of >>29780862, keeping in mind that she's supposed to be hanging onto a ledge (>>29794787) and not just dancing on one hoof.

>>29890404
Well, I know I've said it a ton of times here but I'm exhausted and I don't remember very well when I'm fatigued, so sorry.
I was already redlining it anyway, hah.
And you are certainly right about the problems you have andI have a couple too so I'm still working on that. It's just a tough pose to deal with because of the perspective you chose.
>>29890426
Can I redline that tomorrow or do you need it immediately?
>she's supposed to be hanging onto a ledge and not just dancing on one hoof.
Hahaha yeah I will.

>>29890441
Yeah, you can go ahead and do that one tomorrow; I won't be drawing again until tomorrow evening.

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>>29890539
Alright sounds good. Here's what I had to do with your reference-less drawing. I know I redrew a lot of it, but that's because you're still learning. I wrote all the problems too and I used a reference to redline you so you knew how I did it along with the circles and joints and shit. I hope this helps

>>29890570
Oops, it should say "bigger rounder eyes" but Twilight's standing on it

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"Weather" challenge bump! I didn't realize the shading was really not right until after I drew the bg and that was a stupid choice buttfuck it I'm not going back

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>tfw there are tons of artists that are much better and 5+ years younger than you
>tfw you'll never catch up to their level
>tfw there's so much competition in this field that you'll never be able to turn drawing into your day job
>tfw you'll never have enough self discipline to draw 6+ hours a day
why live

>>29891857
You can always trendhop on the next big thing and make a quick buck there, if this is what you're after. Knowing that by the time I'll learn to draw properly this fandom will probably mostly die out gives me some sort of nihilistic solase.

>>29891857
>that doesn't even matter
>you can always catch up
>that is why I consider drawing as a source of additional money rather then future job.
>I can agree with this but you don't really need that much time a day to git gud.
I live because I don't even think about this and focus on my own gains. I treat other artists as source of knowladge, not comparision.

>>29891906
Fandom will never die if we don't quit and keep making stuff.

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>>29891857

>age is just a number so who gives a fuck
>stop worrying about the level of other artists and focus on your weaknesses while honing your strengths
>focus on what you have to offer as a content creator
>if you work hard enough and show that you're willing to work hard then people will come to you with jobs
>put in the hours you can and make the most of your drawing time - you'll be doing this for years anyway so dont stress over it

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b

>tfw even for a stoopid challange you came out with a pose you cannot draw.
Why brain... WHY!?

>>29893432
You know what the proportions are. You can draw it. Keep trying. Poses like that are the most rewarding.

>>29893519
Yeah... I think so. I am not a type who gives up. I have all night to make it!

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pony is pissed at me

>>29893755
I started drawing scrunching muzzles when I'm out of ideas. At some point the collective disapproval I get from them pushes me to actually draw something.

>>29893983
>>29893755
I can see you're using -some- form of a sketch, but whatever you're doing is wrong. The front and hind legs should not look like they're superglued to each other, the torso is far too long, tail is too far down the butt, and other stuff I'm too tired to explain. Basically it looks like you're trying to do a "Style" but I can tell you don't know the actual show anatomy yet, so try to do that first. Once you know the rules you can break them

>>29894379
thank you for the IC

I thought I finally made something not total garbage
Not good but it made me smile

I guess I am a little confused because it seems to me that everyone draws poners differently
also I'm shit

one day I will make an acceptable drawing
until then your advice is noted and I will work on it

thank you

>>29894449
>it seems to me that everyone draws poners differently
I'm going to say the cliched "if everyone else was jumping off a cliff would you?" thing. Because they might already know proper pony anatomy. Like me. I can draw show style and I can draw my own style and it's important that you know how to draw the show style ponies before you make your own style. Unfortunately you are not close enough to show style anatomy to make your own style. Use the gallery of tutorials and look at show references. Once you get the anatomy down you'll be able to break it like the people you are talking about. If you don't they will always look wrong.

>>29894449
Realizing you're shit is the first and most fundamental part on the long road to gitting gud.

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>>29894565
I dont know why but it seems like it doesn't matter what I do it turns out wrong.
I just can' wrap my head around it.
Maybe I studied horse anatomy too much or something.
All I can do is keep working on it until I get it right.

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>>29894650
Okay stop studying horse anatomy. Study pony anatomy and use the tutorial gallery. That's how I learned to do it and look at me; now I can yell at others for doing it wrong! Here, I made this tutorial so you could see how horse anatomy turns into pony anatomy. I hope it helps you.

>>29894449
>>29894650
You have to learn the rules before breaking them. There's no way around it. Real horse anatomy won't necessarily help you, but learning about of the cartoon ponies you want to draw will help without a doubt. You have the right idea though, keep working on it.

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>>29894671
thank you!

>>29894672
thank you!

I will go on until I get it right!
please bear with me

>>29894671
>Okay stop studying horse anatomy.
Ugh. Why would you say this without proper clarification? Don't stop studying horse anatomy. It'll help you understand what you're drawing circles and cylinders to represent. If you don't want to draw the long muzzle then shorten it down like the show does. It doesn't make it nightmare fuel to have a longer muzzle, it's merely less cute.

What you actually need to do is practice some human anatomy too, because G4 ponies mix in a lot of human facial features. A lot of people also like to draw their bodies in a more human-looking way when they sit or do human-like poses, although that's fully optional.

The idealizations are what make poners cute, but if you don't understand the fundamentals then you're learning to draw by route and that's no good.

>>29894835
This is like the perfect example of my confusion.

>The idealizations are what make poners cute, but if you don't understand the fundamentals then you're learning to draw by route and that's no good.
I will work on this, thank you!

>>29894746
Hey man, as long as you have the attitude and want to get better you're always welcome here
>>29894835
Really I just said that and forgot to erase it after I wrote it, sorry

>>29886720
>>29886773
This it's not yours, you didn't make this.
Don't claim things that are yours when they are not

>>29895577
shid. also checked

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>>29890570

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>>29895918

>>29895926
Great job! :)

>>29895931
Thanks. If I have time tomorrow, I think I'll try to put the fixes into practice without relying too much on the redline as a reference.

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Day 1 - Weather.

I'm a day late on my promise, but I said I'd do it, damnit.

Ponies facing up are weird.

>>29896413
Oh, no, it's fine you can start them any day you like. Honestly the only rule is to do them in that order, so don't worry about it.

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The "I only sleep 2 hours a night" bump

>>29897272
Did you ever draw that wing guide?

>>29899005
No, but I've been studying a lot of wings so I can. I'm just not up to it yet

>>29899022
where my trip at

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how do i git gud

>>29899119
stop selling yourself short you nigger you know damn well you're already up there

>>29899119
Hi Nearb. Keep studying boring stuff I guess? Getting gud,(i'd argue you're certainly well on that path already) is just grinding out images while reffing images. And figuring out more fundamental things like how a creatures skeleton is set up and applying it in a more "stylized" way.

Like >>29894835 and >>29894671 suggest. Just meet those two suggestions in the middle more.

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My attempt on the challange.
#1 - Weather
So original idea with the rain. What's the first thing in mind when you hear "weather". A fucking rain!

>>29899221
I fixed cleavage on the dress. I realized it was bad.

>>29899221
Totally! Now I wish I had done snow/winter wrap-up but oh well. This came out really cute although I'd think she'd be more shocked to find her dress blowing up all Marylin Monroe style? Haha

>>29899694
I wanted to make her more shocked like but it was 6 am and I struggled with the pose whole night so I went an easy way. Smile.

>>29899733
Give me like 3 minutes and I'll help you

>>29899733
Also please resize these before you post. That's a ridiculous size to work with for me D:

>>29899735
I should take some small emotion chart and fill it. I haven't done that when it was a challange.

>>29899773
I wanted to. But I couldn't delete post when I realized I've choosen wrong one. I always make a second smaller resolution to post here.

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>>29899221
Okay so I did a few other things I saw that were just a bit wrong. I didn't fix a whole lot other than the eyes and mouth for a "shocked/surprised" look
>>29899785
It's fine! Don't worry about it.
>>29899777
YES! I'm halfway through medium, myself

>>29899858
Thanks! Have I told you I luv you? Oh yeah I think I did.

>>29899918
I don't think you have, but hey I love you too, anon!

>>29886425
any tips on this? <: sorry to be a bother, still just trying to work out what i need to be improving!

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>>29881595
I did food

>>29900496
mostly that your foreshortening (especially on the arm/s legs) are off and the tail is far too high in the air. The horn is angled up too much, but aside from that, her face is really really cute and i would love to see this finished!

>>29900496
Oh I can redline this for you if you'd like, but it won't be til later
>>29900696
hahah Grabby, great job

>>29901444
>>29901463
thanks! that would be helpful

bun

>>29901476
Okay I'm going to do it now, give me a few minutes

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>>29896413

Day 2 - Food

>>29901476
Sorry, I got distracted but I'm almost done, sorry

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>>29903142
Okay here you go. I got carried away drawing some tips for you- like how to spiral a horn and how arms/legs work etc so I hope you can understand what I'm sayin'

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>>29896144
I had to check back to >>29895918 a few times. I'll try again tomorrow.

>>29903298
It looks a little better but the hoofs are still too club-like, and if she's not alicorn Twi, then she should be shorter. If she IS alicorn Twi then you're fine. I'd also move that eye closer to the muzzle but it'll be hard to do on paper

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I feel like I did pretty bad on this. I don't think I'm going to redraw it but I would like to see what I did wrong so I don't repeat that.

>>29903663
Stop doing the clubbed hooves; it makes them look like they broke their wrists/anklee and swelled up . It's not just you; there's quite a few people around here whom should know better anyway

>>29904067
Clubbed hooves?

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For people looking for a wngs tutorial, I drew this a year ago or so and it might be of help to you guys.

bub-ump

>>29904883

>>29904067
don't use whom in a sentence if you don't know how to use whom in a sentence

>>29903226
thanks, I'll work on that. definitely agree about the ears, mane and hooves. I usually do spiral the horn when I can but I think I was lazy and forgot to do it this time.

in any case, i'll work on it and post some more in here

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Bah. I can't into consistency.

>>29905511
Cute.

>>29905467
Good! I'd love to see it finished
>>29905377
Okay, I guess? I'm sick and on cough syrup right now so if I typo or use the wrong word I don't give a shit
>>29905511
I always enjoy seeing your pones. As for consistency goes, you just have to draw and draw and draw and when you think you're done, draw some more

>>29903417
>>29904067
It might be helpful for you to explain what you mean by "clubbed hooves".

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I've been messing with the legs quite a bit and I think I'm getting somewhere, though I still feel like something is going a little wrong here, particularly with the forelegs. I'd appreciate if someone could help me out.

>inb4 uninteresting pose/10

>>29906791
Clubbed hooves are basically hooves that are skinned incorrectly. They flare out too much and it doesn't follow the joints of the leg. Studying the joints will help.

>>29906910
HER right arm is tapered too much and her head's too big

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>>29906919
Thanks. I noticed the head being too big as well but only after I had already inked it. Oh well.

How's this? And is the other arm alright?

>>29906983
If you were crazy enough you could just make the body larger.
On the arm, I don't see the difference. It should be thicker at the top, like the other arm

>>29907011
I would actually but I'm pretty sure if I erased too much more the paper will simply give in.

Thanks for the advice, though.

>>29906342

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Hey guys. I haven't been here for some while o/
I drew this yesterday! I'm pretty happy about how it turned out.. but that also means I got attached to it, so I can't judge it properly.
I'm asking for /ic/ and possible redlines if needed.

>>29908111
The perspective seems off

>>29908290
It looks like they're standing on a roof

>>29908331
I never studied perspective rly. good thing you pointed that out. Thats a good thing for me to learn at this point

>>29906912
Too much tapering, then?

>>29909160
No, too much flaring at the end.

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day 2

Is there a way to tell the "limits" of a joint (how far it can bend in certain directions?)

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I'm not too great at drawing, but I color like a nut

pic related, I drew it earlier today

>>29909776
COLORED, I meant colored, not drew

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>>29903135

Day 3 - Hobby

On the subject of AJ, I had a hard time deciding what counted as a hobby for her. Everything she does is done way too intensely to be called a hobby, but buckball fit the bill well enough.

Have you guys gotten gud today?

>>29910299
No.

I wanted to, but time got away from me again. Didn't get much done at all today, really. And tomorrow won't be much better.

I'm starting to think that I'm not cut out to be an artist.

>>29910663
You could have chosen to draw instead of type this.

>>29910299
A little bit. I probably did too much contour line practice but also some portraits and joint practice. Was really getting into it. For some reason traditional is more fun for me right now.

>>29910676
I'm already in bed. It's midnight. I'm giving up for tonight.

At least there's always tomorrow. Right?

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#2 - Food
At least my handwriting is not bad. I think...
I know front hooves are a little too small compared to rear legs.

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how's my anatomy/proportions

>>29882322
rat, i think your horse has autism.

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Tracy thread made me draw for no reason after two months of "it's not worth it"

How am I doing?

>>29912556
Honestly it's kind of hard to tell because the anatomy is covered in mech stuff but the mech stuff is not properly perspective-d and your lines are super hairy. I'm sure this is a sketch but you should at least clean that up a bit. His (?) right leg should be farther from the viewer and foreshortened and the left arm also needs foreshortening

>>29912609
Alright, let's see if I can figure it out myself and with google.
Never really understood the foreshortening. Like, the concept is simple, 3D objects and stuff, but when it comes to actually draw something I guess it kinda falls back behind other problems.

>>29912669
Whait, that's not it.
I think I'm actually just scared of foreshortening, as stupid as it sounds

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>>29912747
Okay I did this a while back but it's basically how you figure out foreshortening. Try this and I think it'll help you. Spiral gestures work really well for foreshortening and I use them myself

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>>29912754
Oh, I know all that, I'm well aware of limbs being cylinders, I'm just having a hard time finding the right angle and position for them.
It never looks right.

I overdid it here, didn't I?

>>29912815
And now I'm scared of do anything else with it before some king of confirmation from here

I'm just scared of drawing in general

What the fuck

I can do what I want, no one's going to come and stop me
What is wrong with me

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>>29912815
Okay so I can't really, uh, TELL you in words so I tried to draw it but for me, it's more of something I can eyeball if it's just a pose? google "how to perspective" and click on youtube or something. sorry

>>29912849
They're just lines. Don't treasure them.

>>29912852
Oh, nevermind, looks like I actually didn't do it ENOUGH there

Yep, was scared to overdo it. Not going to anymore.
Thanks, that actually helped.
Gonna take a break and eat something and then I'm gonna go full ham on it

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>>29909775
Learn more about perspective - you indicated where joints are, but each joint is on a different level above the ground. Same thing about highlights in her eyes. I doubt that you used any vanishing points.
Your lines could use some variety - play around with width. Since you're copying style from the show, you could also copy their line quality.
Your drawing is messy and dirty; it looks ugly, like you didn't care. If you're smearing your drawing with your hand, then keep a clean sheet of paper between your hand and your drawing.
Buy more pencils. Visible construction looks ugly, especially on the head. If you used 2H instead of HB pencil it would be easier to erase it. And pupils in your eyes look ugly - you're pressing your pencil really hard. It would look better if you used 2B or 4B graphite pencil and pressed not so hard. Or even 8B. They're really cheap if you're not buying a whole set of pencils in a metal case.
You shaded her iris and inside of her mouth, but ignored the rest - it looks lazy. If you don't know how to shade in a way that shows depth, then at least put in some flat values. Twilight doesn't have white mane, white coat, white tail and with cutiemark. If you don't know what values you should use, then look at pic related. I put a black&white filter on a picture from google.
Those * on her cutiemark look shitty. Draw tiny stars instead of those lines.

>>29910139
The way you put in shadows looks really messy. If you're going for a cell shading look, then you'll have easier time using (in photoshop) a single hue/saturation layer (as a clipping mask) that would decrease brightness and shift hue. Then you could normal mask on that layer and black, hard brush to clearly define where's shadow and where's light.
And her face looks kinda squarish; not very cute.

>>29912238
I think her legs are a bit too thin and her eyes could be bigger.

>>29912556
D A B

>>29912924
>Then you could *USE a normal mask on that layer *and then use a black, hard brush

>>29912929
Can't fucking unsee now.

>>29912852
The filename is clearly describing my expierience with drawing. Not the guy btw.

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>>29913038
You dab every time you dash in MMZ

>>29913117
the image is standing still, not dashing

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>>29910139

Day 4 - Pets

>>29912924

I was kinda going for messy, but I have a feeling you don't mean the kind I was going for. Personally I want to try a little more than simple cell shading, but beyond that, I'm pretty poor on deciding on where to put light and shadow.

As for the square face? I guess I got a little lazy there on that one.

>>29912929
OH that arm was BENT IN? Shit I'm sorry I thought it was going out all the way. Well I fucked that up sorry
>>29913041
idontknowhatever.png
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Can anyone solve my little problem? I can't aimlessly draw. I mean, I need an idea. I can't just sit there, draw a circle and make something out of it. I need a vision... That's why I always go big and can't do small. I tried with the challange, I did 2 pictures but now I encountered a wall. I can't come up with anything in my mind. Do you have any ideas on how to make fun out of drawing small stuff?

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>>29914382
Look at old master paintings. They were never aimless. Most of all of them had a story behind them. Thinking of story, even small ones can help immensely. If you have some trouble with it, I suggest doing some world building and writefagging on the side so you have a pool of shit to draw.

>>29913704
Cute. Spike is hard to draw, though. How do his arms work? He's only two heads tall, right?

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>>29914017
>IM SORRY I KNOW YOU SAID NOT TO BUT I HAD TO.png

>>29914425

Spike is actually pretty hard to draw. His torso is a head tall, but his legs extend a little beyond that. I got a feel for how he looks by having a Spike Mini marathon while I was drawing that. I regret not twisting his shoulder a bit, but the image still works.

>>29914422

That's a fucking beautiful idea. I never even thought about it like that.

>>29914422
Music seem to inspire me, but it often gives big ideas. And the thing that bothers me is I come up with things I cannot make. I really like some games, I have plenty of ideas with them, some are even poni crossovers. Maybe I should put aside the fear and just start making them... They won't be good anyway as I am a newfag at this but waiting with them till I git gud is bad either. I need to make stuff to learn doing stuff.

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>>29914769
I don't get how he's drawn in show. It looks like his arm is on wrong.

>>29914921

It's the show's way of saying that if it works for the context (and more importantly, in motion) then it works. There are plenty of times when the ponies are scratching their chins when they reaaaaaaaaaaally shouldn't be. It means you have to be a little liberal with how you handle his arms (which are the most inconsistent part of him).

So I guess my advice would be to understand arms better since you then have to synthesize what would look "right." I would've said just look at noodle arms more so you can see what looks right, but that would build really bad habits if you start there.

Wow I just realized how shit at advice I am...

>>29914975
I just draw arms jointed properly and not backwards but it looks weird. Guess I'll do more studies of it.

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>>29914490

>>29915062
It is mine hoof!
I also have the I did all I could pls redliner do not hit me.png

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>>29915062

>>29915341
I love that. I know I have a ton more, but I only went through like 50 drawngs so

When drawing comics on paper and inking them digitally, is it better to draw each panel on the same sheet of paper or individually on separate pieces of paper?

>>29916270
I guess that's up to you, but I put them all on the same page so I know the composition will look good.

>>29916322
I feel like that's the best way to go about it, but I also feel like I run out of space even when I make a thumbnail sketch to plan it out.

>>29916402
use bigger paper

>>29916418
I don't think I have any. Can you recommend what I should be looking for?

>>29916430
I don't know what you're working with but just get a bigger sketch pad if you can't handle thumbnails

>>29916443
I've just been using normal pieces of paper, but I guess I should be using a sketchpad. Thanks.

>>29916459
Buy newsprint. you can get a fuck huge roll for under 5$ Way cheaper than a sketchpad too, only downside is that you have to cit it yourself and bind it to something if you want to take it out to draw.

>>29916705
Cut*

blimp

>write a lengthy critique and explanation how to avoid those mistakes next time
>next day artist posts a new picture with the same mistakes as earlier
^:(

>>29917341
>muh style

>>29881583
Thank you

>>29917341
Welcome to my world 8)

>>29917341
Might take them more than a day?

>>29917341
Did someone say my name?

>>29917341

Well instead of being passive as hell, you should call them out and try and start a discussion on it. You're helping nobody just posting like that.

So I went trought Fluttershy madness and her golden shadow hues but how the fuck do I shade Flutterbat... Just make her less saturated?

>>29918253
I posted that with intention to vent a bit, rather than to help that artist, but you're right. I should've call them out.

I was talking about Afh.

Now that I look at how he handled criticism earlier, he seems to be a lost cause.

>>29917341
I didn't have time yesterday to check this thread.

>>29912924
Most of your complaints boil down to buying new art supplies, which is going to have to wait until I can go to the store.

I'm not sure what you mean about the line thickness. I'm already using lines of different thicknesses; the main outlines are noticeably thicker than the internal ones (e.g., between her mane/tail highlights), for example. I'm also not sure what you mean about the joints either; I connected the corresponding joints in Paint, and they all seem to form parallel parallelograms.

The undersketch and construction lines are left in intentionally for this thread, so that my process can be seen more easily.

>>29917341
>>29917515
>Making the same mistakes twice.
Mistakes are good. But there's too many mistakes to learn from to be making the same mistakes more than once.

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>>29919444
>Most of your complaints boil down to buying new art supplies
Sure, because fixing perspective, shading, line quality, cutie mark and making sure that drawing is clean is about art supplies...

>I'm not sure what you mean about the line thickness.
>what you mean about the joints
Pic related.

>The undersketch and construction lines are left in intentionally for this thread
It sounds like an excuse from shading.

>>29920047
>Sure, because fixing perspective, shading, line quality, cutie mark and making sure that drawing is clean is about art supplies...
The drawing being "clean" is about needing a new eraser, so yes it is. I only have a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil so my options for line thickness are limited as well. Consistently shading a large area is also something I'd need a different pencil and a working eraser to even attempt. I'll try to make the joints more consistent.

>Pic related.
Considering that my lines are all half as thick, the difference being half as much makes perfect sense.

>It sounds like an excuse from shading.
I don't care what you think it sounds like.

>>29920328
you're one arrogant son of a bitch huh

>>29920328

>I only have a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil so my options for line thickness are limited as well

Going over lines multiple times can add thickness. Or you can even go out and buy a pack of ticonderoga pencils. Blaming your tools is poor form.

>Consistently shading a large area is also something I'd need a different pencil and a working eraser to even attempt

What is Hatching/cross hatching

Beyond that, I suggest you go watch the show and pause it every 1 or so minutes and sketch out the pony you see in about 45-90 seconds. It'll give you a feel on how pony should look while making your drawings a lot less stiff.

Thats all I can say now. The rest is on you.

Reminder that we're all gonna make it someday.

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>>29913704

Day 5 - Outdoors

>>29920526
In case you needed proof
>>29923093

>>29920328
From the OP:
>Would you like help drawing ponies? This is the thread for you!
>This is the Drawfag Improvement thread
Here you can share and discuss art, while also helping and receiving feedback from other aspiring drawfags!
If you refuse to take advice from anyone, and practically everyone, then this thread isn't for you. Go shitpost in the Drawthread if you're not going to act properly in here. >>29857191 Here's the door

Next you're gonna say "bump"!

A bump.

I finally did it!

The dop!

How do I start making full pictures?
I'm bored of drawing ponies in a blank void

>>29928034
Same question. I have the ideas but I don't know what style I should learn. Especially outdoors. Making a all with a window or a bed with blanked is not hard but trees, grass, especially the texture on trees. How to not make them boring.

>>29928329
(u) maybe

>>29924164
I took great pains to make sure the joints lined up. I drew the individual tiny stars as well as I could manage at that tiny scale. I made the inner outlines as thin as I could. I even bought a new set of erasers to minimize the amount of smudging. If you're not even going to acknowledge that I did anything, then you can go fuck yourself.

>>29928034
>>29928329
>>29929184
Draw thumbnails to get the ideas you have on paper. Just as a way to have a way to lay out your idea.

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>work hard
>feel confident
>post
>half an hour passes
>pic related

>>29929892
At least it wasn't bad enough to to give you downvotes.

>>29929892
Do not use upboats as a guide for your improvement.

>>29929982
Why not?

>>29929892
You could at least show us what you've done.

>>29929892
someone tagged one of my drawings as QUALITY
fucking killed me even if it had only 2 downboat

>>29930282
Link so we can critique and help you get better instead of bitching.

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>>29930282
Read the filename.

>>29929617
Not that anon, but you're still not understanding that anon's critique. Your erasers have absolutely nothing to do with the smudging, the joints are still fucked, you name it. You still don't understand that it's not about the tools but your skill, you still seem to not understand basic techniques like hatching, you still fail at the utmost basic fundamentals. Hell, you probably still only draw a pony or two per day.

Go learn and practice the fundamentals for once.

Bumpan.

>>29930045
Are you stupid? People like things for arbitrary reasons. Basing your art quality on upvotes is retarded.

>>29929892


You should post so we can help you improve to get those sweet upvotes. Also if you just want upboats, you should just draw porn. There's honestly no shame in it and you'll get all the gratification you need even if it is shitty.

If there was a problem with porn, its that your ego may swell to massive levels on even a little bit a praise, causing you to hard stagnate.

>>29931416
Oh i remember hitting my first and only 3 day topscoring with Twilights ass. Felt soooo gooood.
People on derpibooru seem to easly fall for porn. If you want attention you should definetely draw some plots. As told above there is no shame in it and you can still learn a lot. Seductuve sexy poses are not easy to draw.

>>29930045
>>29931527
Meant you with second part.

bumperino

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Okay, I added some shading to darken the far legs, and I added a more complete skeleton to anchor the bones.
https://cutepencilcase.tumblr.com/post/156775922635

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>>29932303
don't do exactly as pictured bc i have no idea what i'm doing-- but make ur goddamn hooves parallel
just to reiterate this is a bad example and i just tried to get my idea down, can someone illustrate this better?
also shade the whole thing

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did i fuck shit up

>>29932372
Yeah, someone else is going to have to illustrate it, because I have no idea what you're getting at.

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>>29932482
I'll make an effort, though I'm not the most qualified.

In the top drawing, the angle of the line that connects the back legs is faintly greater than the angle of the line that connects the front legs. This should be the opposite, as shown below. This is because due to perspective, the closer legs should be slightly more spaced out than the back legs. Likewise, the line connecting her left legs (the ones facing us) should be slightly longer than the one connecting her right legs (the ones further from us) due to perspective, which is also slightly the opposite on yours. Last thing is that the bottom of her hooves are fairly flat on yours, especially towards the front of each hoof, which makes her look more 2D. I rounded them out in the bottom one to give them more depth, with it being most oblong at the front, to maintain that pony appearance of their hooves being rounder at the front. Hope that helped!

>>29932457
Most of that looks pretty good to me! My only major point is that her front right leg (her right, not ours) looks a little too flat. Might want to give it a tiny bit more curve. May want to faintly curve the line for the back of her neck, too, just to keep it from being quite such a straight vertical line.

>>29932545
got it, thanks famalam

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>>29921756

Day 6 -Villian - Dash can be the biggest cunt when she wants to be

Also need help on Dash's left wing.

>>29932457

As far as I can tell, you have a good idea on what to draw, but you need to get your line consistency in order. Have more confidence in your strokes, my anon.

>>29932557
the lines were messy because it's a sketch but yeah i need more confidence, thank u for the input friendly anon

>>29931064
>Are you stupid?
No, but clearly you are.
As long as drawing isn't funny, arousing or thought provoking then viewers will have only one reason to upvote it - because of its quality.

If you really think that there's no correlation between upvotes and how appealing drawing is, then you're retarded.

>>29932858
>because of its quality.

You dont hang around DB much, do you? jesus fuck.

Be a stupid nigger and become an upvote slave then. Make sure to cash in that horse-fame when this fandom is dead.

>>29932858
https://www.derpibooru.org/search?q=first_seen_at.gt%3A3+days+ago&sd=desc&sf=score

>vast majority of popular art is NSFW

If you want upvotes then just draw porn. If you want to get good at drawing then dont think about "what's popular" because it wont make you a better artist.

How the fuck it's possible that people just start drawing and are pretty fucking good, while I've been drawing and studying for a long time and I'm still shit

>>29933194
Its not a race. As long as you improve over time other peoples progress doesn't matter.

>>29933237
I know, that's why I will never give up, but I've been drawing for a lot of time and made really little progress, while these people just start drawing and in a week improve in a really impressive way and I feel like they are already better than me in 1/250 of the time,

just makes me feel a bit depressed

>>29933194
>>29933479
How much is a lot of time, and how much is little progress? Everyone always thinks they could have done more and there's always people who improve faster. A lot of Dunning Kruger is always at play here.

>>29930282
link
it stings already let's make it work for you

>>29933704
a lot is 6 years, and little progress is that if I look at a drawing that I made three years ago, it looks like the drawings I'm doing now, if not better.

>>29933729
https://derpibooru.org/1376313
alright, I was trying to make NSFW for the first time

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>>29930045
You'll end up drawing the same shit in the same shitty way, a slave for the fickle public. Cases to consider:
> https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-aleximusprime
> https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-ivanovich
> https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-40kponyguy

At least the two latter ones have made it explicit that they draw with scores in mind.

>>29930282
if you're the whiny autistic muh leaking your cancerous doughfaced >picrelated then all pain you'll ever feel is richly deserved, and you need to fuck right off &staygo until you develop a rudimentary spine and something resembling a skin

>>29933740
I wouldn't have bothered with the tag
I mean it's sorta shit but it's not that shit

>>29933783
>it's sorta shit but it's not that shit
thanks, so what should I work on?

>>29933732
Have you been learning and trying new things over the years? A lot of it is often because you're not putting in the extra time and effort into newer things. If you want to push your work further, spend more hours, weeks, even months on one piece. (I think I stagnated a bit myself until I spent 4 months straight reworking one painting learning how to fix my mistakes instead of dropping it for the excuse "I'll get it next time.") If you don't already have an inspiration chart, make one so you have a goal in mind too.

>>29933806
well
- if you want to stay anonymous, use "anonymous artist" tag, otherwise it'll get tagged "artist needed" and some sleuthy wanker might end up tagging it with your artist handle

- treat the neck as its own anatomical unit, I know the show style makes it look like the torso and neck are a single, continuous sausage, but to make complicated poses look good you need to be aware what the neck is and what it does (look at real horses)

- ditto for wings, find the anatomical place they attach to and their basic structure

- try to keep all your limbs the same length and thickness

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>>29933999

>>29933999
I always try new things, like I always try new poses, lights, backgrounds, and even styles.

what's an inspiration chart?

P.S. nice dubs dubs trips

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Wew those numbers.

>>29934198
>I always try new things, like I always try new poses, lights, backgrounds, and even styles.
Then all you need is too apply. I believe in you, Anon.

>what's an inspiration chart?
Just a moderate sized chart filed with pictures from different artists you admire for different reasons. It keeps your eyes on the prize and helps you focus your studies more. Pic related is mine. I do a lot of color and anatomy studies to try to be as good as these guys.

Anyone has some good tips on how to render metal piece? I have to make a weapon, big gun and I don't want it to look boring.

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>>29933771
>when your name doesn't appear here

>>29933771
I'm not sure if that last guy really applies

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Made this today, it was on the Discord, but in case you mmissed it.

Supposed to be a joker-eque card, since the joker can be any card, and it's sorta appropriate with the bedboogs.

>>29933771

Fucking this. upvotes =/= sign of quality.

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>>29935032

>>29935404

Nice inspiration chart.

>>29935404
I know he's a bad artist, you didn't have to make a collage. I just don't think he really applies to a more serious environment because he does it more for fun, his children (I think) and as you said, score.

Have you guys gotten gud today?

>>29935443
the links were literally the first three examples I thought of when I wrote "draw the same shit in the same shitty way"

>>29935526
Okay?

bom

>Is quantity of upvotes on derpiboru correlated with quality of an image?
It's an interesting question and I spend some time doing research about this subject.
Here's what I learned:
- Drawings with score below 100 are amateurish in an obvious way: proportions are off, or lighting is inconsistent, or rendering is ugly, or it's a doodle made in your notebook, or nobody cares about topic of your drawing (it's your OC just standing there, or it's some cringy, edgy crossover with Bleach)
- Drawings that have score between 100 and 200 are much better, but they're still kinda bad: proportions are still off, anatomy on humans (especially hands) looks bad, unappealing faces, rendering tends to be flat, artist made weird stylistic choices.
- Drawings above 200 look good, they're appealing. It's a good idea to strive to reach that level. Some are traditional ink drawings, others are digital painting, but all of them have good proportions and anatomy. If some coloring was used then either it's very similar to the show, or it shows third dimension well.
- After reaching 200+ upvotes they stop to be related to the quality of drawing and becomes random. I found the exactly same picture (with only slightly different resolution) that once had 322 upvotes and another time almost 100 more upvotes (https://derpibooru.org/1327028 and https://derpibooru.org/1327030). I found beautifully rendered portraits with less than 350 upvotes (https://derpibooru.org/1299567), and a shit-tier drawings that had twice as much upvotes because artist included few lines of text (https://derpibooru.org/1290512). That being said (if you ignore drawings with text in it), then beautifully rendered paintings tend to have much more upovotes.

I was considering only drawing that are safe for work, not animated and older than 4 months (to filter out great pictures that didn't had enough time to get many upvotes)

>tl;dr
If you can't get 200+ upvotes without making jokes/porn, then study more.

Is it strange that I like drawing, but I don't really find it fun?

>>29936315
Lower than quality score can also be symptomatic of undertagging.

>>29936425
Oh. I didn't consider that. Thanks for pointing it out!

>>29936315
i consistently get ~20-30, should i kill myself?

>>29936507
Just git gud.

>>29936543
ive been trying for years

>>29936543
Just draw porn, if you're just doing it for fame anyway.

>>29936507
The first picture I drew in 10 years got 40 upvotes and no downvotes.

You've still got some way to go I guess.

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>>29936507
Don't read too much into it. Exposure counts, as does the number of peeps who follow your artist tag and/or the tags you usually post into. Some tags have rabid hatevoters, some have foam-mouthed fanvoters, both make differently themed pics stand on uneven ground. Getting +10 on a modestly dressed dark-skinned canon character is way bigger of an achievement than getting +200 on a generic pair of tits.

See >picrelated for two of my draws, top one is literally just my OC standing there. Basically the same score with the painting, but the top one got a lot of extra views from being in the community collab and more importantly, being posted in the collab thread which a lot of folks were checking out a lot.

>>29936605
My best has 479 but on avarage i get about 150. A lot to improve i guess.

>>29936856
Yup, but I've got time.

How do I draw humans from life if I don't have any good way to reference them?

>>29936845
Yeah, but you're drawing OCs. OCs hardly get any votes, even if the picture is good, because you just can't be arsed to care about what's going on in the picture.

You should really drop it, it's a bad habit.

>>29936957
Dude, there's tons of material on the internet. Just go to /ic/ and ask "Where can I find naked women for anatomy study?"

>>29936983
I thought you were supposed to draw from life.

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>>29936845
Did you seriously upvoted your own picture?

>>29936992
You just need to be able to see a fixed pose from multiple angles.

>>29937043
Okay.

>>29936315
This is a pretty gross understatement. Not counting porn, the biggest factor in having a popular image on Derpibooru is being a popular artist. Artists like CaptainPudgeMuffin and Yakovlev-vad are so popular that their art quality has actually declined, but they still get several times more upvotes than high-quality art by unknown artists.

>>29937094
>CaptainPudgeMuffin
Ugh, I hate that artist so much.

>>29937005
Yeah I did. It's my favourite out of anything I've posted there yet.

>>29936974
Who shall lift a cat's tail, if not the cat himself?

>>29937144
The point is if you're going to be making OCs, do the rest as well. Make your own world, your own characters and your own story. Don't latch them onto an existing universe.

>>29937166
Oh this old argument.

I'm enjoying the fandom in my own way ok? I rarely draw canon characters because the images I want to see of them are basically always already drawn, in a style and quality that I can dig. And in case it soothes your jimmies, I'll assure that almost all of my pony OCs are established pre-existing non-pony characters with their own stories, worlds, fellow casts, etc.

>>29937309
Then why keep imitating something else? You'll never grow this way.

You've diverted so far from show canon that nobody interested in MLP will care, yet not taking the plunge completely so you'd have something that would be enjoyable on its own merit.

Seems like a pointless endeavor to me, but if it makes you happy I guess.