So, a question for you artists here. What do you do when you want to edit pictures like that? With writing it's pretty easy to go back and insert or cut out stuff that doesn't need to be there, but it seems to me like with a drawing you'd have to go back and re-draw the entire thing if you want to make anything more than a minor change.

Redraw in my case, I can remaster it if I leveled my skill between redrawings.

I am not a great artist but I tend to draw the basic shapes first before any detailsthat way it's easier to fix.

My personal theory about that is that since most of a unicorn's spells seem to be linked to their special talent that they can't really use much magic until they get their cutie mark. They might be able to use basic telekinesis, but that's about it.

You know what?◊

edited 28th Dec '11 12:57:16 PM by thefran

Hentai monster. Just saying.

I'm still surprised that we haven't even seen Sweetie TRY to use magic

edited 28th Dec '11 1:02:02 PM by gingerninja666

Her magic is probably what liquified her toast and burned her juice

I can totally picture Rarity not letting her use magic

Magic is taught in Pony Middle School.

But Twilight.

Is like those kids who earn A Levels at age 9.

... is an overpowered Freak!!

edited 28th Dec '11 1:23:54 PM by gingerninja666

She's just naturally talented.

This randomly reminded me of back at the end of "Ticket Master" when every pony had telekinesis. So random, and never brought up again.

what about Celestia's school for mutants I mean gifted unicorns?

No... no she's a freak

Those who say critics have it the easiest are poor fools - the greater curse of all is to lack an artistic talent to create and to have enough taste to realize it.

Reminds me of why I've quit drawing in the first place - you have an idea, you spend an hour drawing it, meticulously correcting mistakes, only to come up with something a five year old would doodle.

She is actually flying. And her limbs actually graw out of her body. And she is not hydrocephalic.

But that doesn't show does it?

Fuck this shit. I can do nothing but trace.

edited 28th Dec '11 1:37:04 PM by thefran

Don't give up that easily while I don't deny talent.For us without talent Drawing is a difficult journey but not an impossible one.

You should look at Vincent van Gogh. Despite his mental health problems he was self tuaght and a great artist.

edited 28th Dec '11 1:44:27 PM by FallenLegend

While your drawing does look a bit silly, I will say that it does take a lot of effort. My girlfriend can attest to that, and she would say the same thing I'm saying now: as you keep drawing, you'll gradually improve in both speed and quality. Just don't get hung up on how bad the results look, because you know that you can make them better later on.

Dammit, I want to start trying to learn how to draw again, but I know myself well enough to say that my desire isn't strong enough at this time to overcome my apathy and commitment to other projects.

The sad part is that I know the opposite. I don't improve. My mind is completely disconnected from my hand.

edited 28th Dec '11 1:50:51 PM by thefran

Funny thing about that, I don't know if it translates to drawing, but it worked well for me when learning how to slackline. I made myself stop thinking about what I was doing, because I had to let my body learn how to do the job before I could let my mind start giving directions.

I think best pony Lauren said it best

What Fallen quoted. So very much. I've drawn every day since mid June and it makes a huge difference. My first NATG drawing took 4 hours and was blobby and looked like a Twilight made out of pool noodles. And this was after drawing on and off for the last 20 years. Now I've actually reached a skill level where I can put out something someone is actually willing to say looks good in 2-3 hours. By spamming drawings, I've improved more in the last 6.5 months than I had in the last roughly 10 years (I was going to say the rest of my drawing career, but that would be a lie, since going from totally jumbled garbage to stick figures when I was little was a pretty big improvement ).