Well talking about your ideas is the biggest form of procrastination, and psychologically makes you less likely to ever get it done.

Good evening, folks. Was originally supposed to be at wrestling practice now, but slipped on rain. Man, that hurts.

@The Librarian's video - Oh man, I love that animation style. That immediately reminds me of this one (warning: ponycest)

I just love Twilight licking Shining. So adorable!

Apple, you're beating around the bush, getting caught up in prep work, locked in analysis paralysis. The best thing for you to be doing is to start making a series of experimental comics to get a better feel for how things work (or don't work).

Don't sweat it too badly there Applelight. You've got a couple ideas to work with.

Anyways, what did I miss, aside from a lack of ponies posting? (I know I'm Tempting Fate here, but what can I say? They can provide some good subjects to speak about.)

@Apple: Do some simple 4koma first as a prototype to get a feel for your characters.

edited 10th Apr '13 5:39:48 PM by AceOfScarabs

Can't argue with that...I'm trapped in prep work.

Sure, but I need to design characters first like I said. Some of my crew I don't even know what they look like, even in my head.

edited 10th Apr '13 5:42:18 PM by ApplelightLimited

@Applelight - Just wondering; do you have any artist or writer whose style influenced you? Other than FIM writers, that is.

@ d Roy

Ben Elton (who wrote most of Blackadder) has been a favorite of mine. I want to get a Blackadder sense of humor in this. Sandy Mitchell's Commissar Ciaphas Cain too. I've never read a Terry Pratchet novel though and that shames me. And I've never even read a comic series...only recently took up One Piece...and here I am with the audacity to try and make one.

For artists...hmmm...hard to say...fuck I need to broaden my horizons.

edited 10th Apr '13 5:54:23 PM by ApplelightLimited

Incidently, Cracked recently had an article about tips for Writers Block.

Designing characters in a vacuum is... well, possible, but it'll be harder to mesh them together with each other, and with the setting and story. Just draw some comics for now, and use whatever concept for them you have floating in your head. We all know you have some ideas already, you talk about them all the time.

Once you have them drawn (but not quartered), you'll be able to decide that they either look fine, or that something needs to be done differently. But this way, you'll have more context. This color scheme blends too much with the background. This character needs to look more intimidating than that. And so on.

Yeah...yeah I'll do this...after the Uni work of course.

I have to find a way to use that phrase more in my life.

Chubbyshy

GLOMP

Human!Dashie

@Apple: Forget about the characters you don't have figured out yet. I know you have two or three characters settled already; take those and do something with them. It doesn't have to be an actual comic; write an outline or a script or something.

As for the prep work, the problem isn't that you aren't doing any preparation work, it's that you aren't solidifying any of it. The reason you aren't making progress is because you keep changing up the designs rather than just settling on one design and learning to write it better.

Case in point: Batty. You've changed up the color scheme, hairstyle, and overall design a bunch of times already. You need to stop doing that; you'll never be able to learn how to draw the character if you're changing what he looks like every time you draw him. Quit trying to perfect everything and just go with what you have.

I've only seen the first four episodes of Blackadder. I heard it's a lot different after the first season though.

Almost a completely different show.

@ JT

I...understand.

no but really, apple. Remember that "permission to lip quiver" comic you did way back?

go with that design/personality. It was great!

That was the Black Adder influence showing.

OK, my current objective is to remake that comic properly...better yet, first time around I believe I had him upset over something involving Fluttershy. This time, I'm make it even more mundane....certainly something that you shouldn't be crying over. Then to make the one involving the earths and that petition. With more appropriate language of course.

edited 10th Apr '13 6:27:49 PM by ApplelightLimited

Welp

This just in: Applejack cannot do math.

edited 10th Apr '13 6:29:05 PM by IrishZombie

now you can have your very own my little dashie!

Ah, Applejack...

@Irish: I have no clue what's going on in that picture.

I can't read what AJ says, but I can read the katagana:

Rainbow Dash - 30%

Twilight - 25%

Fluttershy - 20%

Pinkie Pie - 15%

Rarity - 7%

AJ - 567 votes.

That is what I can read; we need Red Savant.

I am assuming that it is the first popularity poll, and I am surprised that Fluttershy isn't as high as I thought.

edited 10th Apr '13 6:44:39 PM by dRoy

Probably something to the effect of, "So clearly I'm the favourite, fuck all y'all"

...Did they seriously use two different alphabets in the same image? Is that like, a standard thing in Japanese writing?