No Contest Creations

She’s probably angry that I tried this strange experiment on her. I went with a pretty basic pose so I could do some stylistic experimentation. I went with an angry expression because I don’t think I’ve drawn and angry Twi yet.

Used the 2H-HB-2B trio here. Took roughly 2 hours.

I used mostly vertical lines here, only angling them by about 15 degrees tops when I had to. The effect is interesting, but I don’t know how much I like it. I mean, it worked out fairly well for her face, but the rest of her coat it looks pretty weird for. I was going a little more aggressive on the shading again, trying to create a more gradual shift, although the whole vertical line thing wasn’t particularly conducive to that goal. I extended that to the hair too, where I shortened the highlights a bit.

This is my second submission for the Artist Training Grounds’ week 20 theme: draw a pony solving a mystery. I’m pushing it a bit this time, since I didn’t do a comic, but Twilight is solving the mystery of what might happen if she tried mimicking the makeover spell Rarity used in Boast Busters. In short, I wanted an excuse to give Twi a makeover. >.>

Anyway, it took 2 hours to do this, which is pretty good all in all, since I designed her hair and outfit on the fly. I tried colour again while still maintaining my tried and true method of shading, which mostly worked. The last drawing I had used sky magenta for her coat because I didn’t think I had lavender. And then it turned out I did, so I gave that a go. Looks great in real life. Digital, my scanner thinks it’s a darkish purple (rage!).

This is my submission for the Artist Training Grounds’ week 20 bonus theme: paper ponies.

So when this was announced, I was unprepared. My printer ink is low and I only have the low grade computer paper, so printing one of those pro papercrafts was probably out. And I didn’t have any construction paper. Naturally I decided I wouldn’t go to the store tomorrow to pick up supplies, but scrounge what I had around my room. MacGuyver mode go!

What I came up with:
-A handful of flimsy green, blue and red note paper
-A stack of recipe cards
-A roll of clear plastic tape
-My yogurt container full of a mish mash of different pencil crayon brands

So over around 100 minutes I drew up, cut out, coloured and taped together a flimsy Twilight Sparkle. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t even among the best designs I’ve come up with, but amazingly, she stands. And she looks all right from the one side. That counts for something, right? XD

Well, this was supposed to be a quick pose practice drawing, but it gave me a lot of trouble and I ended up spending a bit over 2.5 hours on it. Used the 2H-HB-2B trio and my hybrid shading style (although I was a little tighter on the line spacing than usual).

Basically I’ve hardly ever done rear views, so I was going for that. I chose Twilight because I’m most familiar with her and I knew of a couple references I could easily find where the pose is really close to what I was trying to do. Anyway, the legs gave me a surprising amount of trouble. They look completely different from the back. I also had to stare at her plot for a while, since I was having trouble getting it to look correct. Aside from that, I think I messed the proportions up ever so slightly.

Was running a bit short on time tonight, so I did this quick 75 minute drawing of Twi instead of the more extravagant piece I had planned.

Since I never got to do Twi with bed head before, I decided to do one of those just waking up shots. I chose this pose because it was simple, but different from the stock stuff I tend to fall into when I’m in a hurry. I also wanted to work on setting a bit, so I threw together the window.

Anyway, no references here, just kind of improvised her bed head and rolled with it. Done using 2H-HB-2B trio, hybrid shading style.