MLP Forum Archive - Page 2304

#57576 CDRW Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:18:39 PM

Wow, I just googled "how to draw" and it makes me sad.

And Fleur is bestpony.

#57577 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:18:46 PM from Singapore

How's it like seeing yourself with the Mirror of Truth, Mousa?

No worries, I downloaded some of my own drawfiend skillz off the internet, leeching techniques from random artists whose works I liked.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:20:11 PM by AceOfScarabs

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#57578 Applelight Limited Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:20:22 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Anymore Bright Ideas?

Tealove is best pony.

#57579 thefran Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:21:02 PM from a microwave oven

Wow, I just googled "how to draw" and it makes me sad.

I know, right?

I want to learn how to draw in a megaphotorealistic way just to make a manual such as one of these.

Draw some circles.
Draw some lines or whatever.
DRAW THE REST OF THE FUCKING PONY

edited 21st Dec '11 12:21:22 PM by thefran

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#57580 Fallen Legend Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:21:51 PM from Mexico City!

@CDRW why?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis

#57581 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:22:16 PM from Singapore

@Applelight: not yet, I need to catch up on sleep because drawing under tiredness looks terrible for me :V

brb catching up on sleep zzzzzz

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#57582 CDRW Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:22:22 PM

'cause I don't want to learn to draw anime.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:22:30 PM by CDRW

And Fleur is bestpony.

#57583 L Mage Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:23:08 PM from The Moon

re: Pinkie Pie

Personally I love how she's used and how she's characterized. To be frank this show has a lot going for it, most especaily how grounded and well rounced it's characters are for the setting, but sometimes it almost works against it. With such character's as TS, AJ, RD, and Rarity, it's important to have elements like Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to keep a touch of cartoonish humor in and reminds us that this is a cartoon, a very well done, engrossing, cartton but still a cartoon.

#57584 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:23:23 PM from Singapore

Still Life and anatomy books are your buddies then.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:23:35 PM by AceOfScarabs

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#57585 gingerninja 666 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:27:20 PM from Aboard The Damocles

@Mage I see where you're coming from. My problem is that Pinkie destroys any kind of illusion that this is real. She COMPLETELY breaks the mood. It stops me from letting myself go and engrossing myself in the characters.

"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony

#57586 thefran Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:27:20 PM from a microwave oven

There's this problem with "how to draw" manuals.

If they are not anime, they basically just say that you must forget about anything non-photorealistic and especially about how to draw anything from your head.

DRAW SOME RANDOM THINGS YOU SEE FOR FIVE YEARS, BITCH. If your drawings look off and you don't see any progress, it means you suck.

Pinkie destroys any kind of illusion that this is real.

She is very realistic for this universe.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:27:57 PM by thefran

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#57587 gingerninja 666 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:29:58 PM from Aboard The Damocles

And also, it wouldn't bug me so much if she wasn't one of the popular and omnipresent characters in the show. It makes me think that that's ALL people want to see

"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony

#57588 L Mage Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:31:34 PM from The Moon

I think the reason PP dosen't challenge my Willing Suspensionof Disbelief is because more often then not all of the other characters react to her crazy in the same way real world person might react to her crazy. ( I was going to say how I react to her crazy but that would be a lie since none of the characters had rolled on the floor laughing like mad men at her antics as of yet)

edited 21st Dec '11 12:33:35 PM by LMage

#57589 Applelight Limited Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:32:51 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Hey, L Mage?

Rubber chicken!

And whatever it is that Pinkie does.

Tealove is best pony.

#57590 gingerninja 666 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:34:34 PM from Aboard The Damocles

But the fact that they react like that only makes it feel more out of place!

Again, it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't feel like EVERYONE IN THE WORLD LOVED HER!!

edited 21st Dec '11 12:35:57 PM by gingerninja666

"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony

#57591 CDRW Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:36:09 PM

I don't love her, at least not all the time. She's the funny in the show but I have no real attachment to her as a character unlike Rarity and Rainbod Dash.

And Fleur is bestpony.

#57592 pvtnum 11 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:36:25 PM from drivers seat

I'll paste up my Royal Military notes into the google docs. I'll be paying attentin to Shining Armor for details (whenever that episode happens), and retrofix as need be.

Order of the Crescent Moon

#57593 Applelight Limited Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:37:31 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Can we not do this PP arguement again?

Can't we just...talk about the upcoming episode? Or the history of Equestria? Or the Foils!...or Mousa's genius?

Good. Good fanon is best fanon.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:38:52 PM by ApplelightLimited

Tealove is best pony.

#57594 pvtnum 11 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:38:30 PM from drivers seat

Already ahead of you, applelight.

Order of the Crescent Moon

#57595 Mousa The 14 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:38:58 PM from Northern Virginia

How to draw

Find an art style you like
copy it
Begin to develop ideas from your own observations
practice practice practice because there is no such thing as talent, there is only whether you are going to give up or not
never feel you're good enough even though everyone says you're great

That's how it works, now go do it

@ ginger, you don't have to do anything for me, I'm such a generous idiot ill draw your bustyshy at the drop of a hat. I mean did you not see amazon AJ and showgirl P Inkie? I need No incentive.

@ Fran, Pinkie isn't obese, you're just hyperbolically reacting irrationally because My design does not fit your precious little headcanon. You're Also brash and confrontational.

I analyze "Geek Culture" here.

When All Else Fails, worry, that's the 14 way.

#57596 CDRW Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:39:14 PM

There's a Knight in Shining Armor!

And Fleur is bestpony.

#57597 gingerninja 666 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:39:17 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Ok, upcoming episode:

Pinkie has to... GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Mousa didn't give me a reply regarding my one off Bustyshy request.

except he Totally did!!!

I insist, Mousa. Let me come round your house one of these days. I'll treat ya JUST right

edited 21st Dec '11 12:40:39 PM by gingerninja666

"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony

#57598 pvtnum 11 Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:40:46 PM from drivers seat

Need the link to the doc, shuffling through the thread is Teh Suck. It will be then added to my favorites, something I should've done the first time.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:41:12 PM by pvtnum11

Order of the Crescent Moon

#57599 thefran Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:40:50 PM from a microwave oven

it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't feel like EVERYONE IN THE WORLD LOVED HER!!

Okay, okay, we get it, you jelly.

Find an art style you like
copy it

John Josewhatshisface never madepast this step, I see.

The point here being that there oughtta be some sort of a manual on basic pencil-hand coordination, or one that goes in depth onto what mistakes you are likely to make.

Mark Crilley is good with this - he basically taught me how to draw hands that are like hands and not like blobs of jelly with sausages. But he only does anime. Which is bad.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:44:05 PM by thefran

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#57600 Applelight Limited Wed, 21st Dec '11 12:41:35 PM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Badwolfwho should put a link in his sig or something.

@ Mousa

That's sage advice sensi...also, don't ever let Pinkie shed a pound. She's grand.

edited 21st Dec '11 12:43:05 PM by ApplelightLimited

Tealove is best pony.