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I left most of the circles at least outlines so people could see that they really worked. The profile circle guides were a lot easier to use than the front ones though so I'm glad I did profiles first.
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And I thank you so much for doing that! I actually was able to make something that looked good!

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yeah. It's looks like a slightly worse copy of yours (with worse shading), but now I got the hang of it (I think).

Again: THANK YOU!

No longer must my poni suffer the humiliation of being horrendously mis-proportioned.
Nimaru's avatar
and as for getting the hang of it, that's the trick. Learning to draw the lines all curvy like they do was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Any practice you can get helps :D
Nimaru's avatar
Glad I could help :)

I think it was a pretty good effort with the only real need for change being her eye too small.

Use my closeup of the heads for a better idea of eye size and placement based on the lines:

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kittyhawk-contrail's avatar
Thanks so much! /)^3^(\

I don't know how I missed those the first time!

I wish I could free-hand better. I took me around two hours to draw that first one ¬.¬;

I still can't draw wings. I'm going to have to try putting circles on stills from the show.

I just want to thank you again for these images.

/is that illustrator?
Nimaru's avatar
Yeah, I used illustrator because you can't make circle outlines and lines very easily in PS.

As for the rest, I'm working my way up to freehanding and I mostly freehanded the Apple Bloom faces, but only after taking hours and hours to draw the others. Don't feel bad if it takes a while. It does for everyone at first I bet (except those pro types, but we all hate them right :)?
kittyhawk-contrail's avatar
I know what you mean. [#59] from _Newbie_ Artist Training Grounds: Day 10. He said it took ~2 hours cause it didn't call for exact details...

=/

Adoration shouldn't be mixed with the desire to fly into a blind rage and murder someone should it?
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oh wow! ha ha!