FancyPhoenix

Yes! I have once again been creative! I have drawn absolutely nothing after my last CMC drawing, and tonight I felt like making something cute. So here we have filly Vinyl Scratch in all her adorableness! What do you think? I need some honest opinions, hints, advice, critique anything that can make me improve. Thanks in advance! Also a big thanks goes to my good friend KittyCaty1 for giving me some invaluable advice through the drawing process

Well, I don't know how long reads you're looking for, but David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon sagas are definitely ones to read if you're looking for epicness and a long read Both sagas have five books that are about 500 pages each and there are two more preguel-like books that are a bit longer, about 800 pages each I think. I would also recommend Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle. Amazing story too. One of my absolute favourites. If you haven't read it yet, it's another must-read. It has four books in total, all are quite long, but the flow of the story is so intense, I finished the first one (656 pages) in two days. Also one of my favourite authors is Rick Riordan with his Percy Jackson -series. If you're interested in ancient Greek mythology, that's a nice series that brings together the mythology and modern world. It has five books I think, and there's a sequel series currently being written. Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments is also a great read. As is Angie Sage's Septimus Heap -series, the latter might be a bit more appealing for younger audiences, but I enjoyed it tremendously. But hey, we're not exactly the intended target audience for MLP either, yet here we stand What else... Oh, right. Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl is a fantastic series too. Can't believe I almost forgot about that Hope there's at least one her that you find appealing

I'm not native (Finnish), I've studied English in school for 9 years and I've spent one month in USA few years ago. The test says I have a vocabulary size of about 16 600 words :3 I'm pretty happy with the result. What do you people think? Is that a lot? I really don't know...

Aw, thank you so much Shaky and Beatrix :3 I promise I will definitely color this at some point just as soon as I get some good pencils and a bit of practice. I don't want to ruin this by making it the first picture I ever color, because frankly, this is the best I've ever done. I might start with coloring some of my older drawings, or I'll just draw something new, but this one I want to make perfect.

Okay, so I know I said I wouldn't color the eyes until I managed to get some proper coloring pencils, but I was extremely bored today so I did it anyway Here's the thing with the colored pupils. Thanks for the comments Creeping and Strawberry I appreciate all the advice I can get. Hopefully I'll get to try making the poses myself soon.

Thanks to both of you Chaotics A brohoof back at you Fluttershy *(\ Hmm... That mane... Yeah, you're right.. I think I drew it there at some point, but without the colors it made Blooms look a bit plump Even now I think it looks a bit like she's shrugging.

Thanks for the comment Concord Yes, this is hand drawn. I have just a normal sketch pad of white paper, my trusted pencil and my crappy eraser As for the reference... No. I didn't put the paper on the computer screen and draw "through" it (like I'm assuming you meant). I did have a reference picture in front of me almost the entire time though. I'm trying to learn to draw without the references, but I really suck at poses. My process of drawing is usually as follows: 1. Find a picture I like 2. See it through and try to memorize the basic poses and stuff 3. Close the picture 4. Draw what I remember 5. Open the reference picture again and finish up what I missed/screwed up 6. Draw the faces (I really suck at faces if I don't have the picture in front of me at all times) So... yeah.. Even though I don't just copy the original picture (anymore), I still have it in front of me almost through the entire drawing process... Ask me to draw something original and I'll probably never succeed

Made some changes to the previous one. Changed Scoots' eyes a bit, Made the lines on Swetie's horn, changed AB's left leg a little, small stuff like that... Here's the updated version

Thanks a bunch SurfSkate! I will definitely keep on drawing, and maybe at some point I'll actually get to drawing ponies without constant reference to another picture

Well... My sleep rhythm has been pretty much screwed ever since I first discovered fimfiction.net I usually stay up VERY late reading fanfics. What can I say? I like reading -_- I currently have 47 stories on my read later -list and 23 unread chapters on my favourites -list. (Although most of those are from "Background pony". Over 400 000 words... seriously ) That being said, I usually read until 2 AM or so. On some nights I can read until 3 or 4 AM. I have very little school at the moment so it's okay. On the weekends though... I might go to sleep around 5 AM or later... Then I wake up at 2 or 3 PM

Oh darn Totally forgot to do the stripes on the horn... I was thinking about doing that at one point, but I guess it slipped my mind About the additional curl on Sweetie... I dunno... Doesn't she only have two? I agree on AB's left leg. Should be a bit thinner. Thanks for the comment! I think I'll fix these if I ever get to coloring it.

Okay, so I thought I'd share this one with you guys. Once again I caught myself drawing, and to be completely honest, I think this is my best one yet. I did a little blunder on Scootaloo's hair at first, and due to a lack of a good eraser, the fixes left the right eye - hairline area a bit smudgy. But I'm still happy with it I will most likely put some colors on this just as soon as I can afford to get any sort of coloring pencils... I have absolutely nothing to color with at the moment Can you tell me your thoughts, opinions, hints on how to improve, etc. etc. Anything at all and I'll be glad EDIT: Oh, and yes, the centers of the eyes are supposed to be black, I just didn't want to do it with a pencil... You can check out my other drawings on these topics: http://mlpforums.com/topic/44407-opinions-on-my-drawing-oc-design/#entry1049543 http://mlpforums.com/topic/45002-a-few-more-drawings-by-me-opinionssuggestions/#entry1062175

I guess I'm a bit late since you already got both of them But I still wanted to make this because, frankly, I think Toxic Glare has an awesome design I made this using GeneralZoi's Pony Creator. Hope you like it, I know I do

Hm. I'm sure I've had several injuries during my life, but I'll just tell about the ones I still have scars left/ones I can remember. The earliest one I recall is riding my tricycle straight to my dad's car when I was three or four. Now this would've been nothing if I hadn't happened to be holding a meter-long stick in my hand, right before my face. Anyhow, the stick was the first thing to hit the car, and of course the other end happened to be right in front of my eye. It was only due to sheer luck, that the stick missed my eye by less than one cm. I still have a scar right next to my right eye and my sight is a bit worse on that side too. The next one would be a few years after that. I was ice-skating, and I had one of those... Whaddayacall'em... Kick sled's? Anyway I had one of those with me for whatever reason. And of course, as luck would have it, I fell over and slammed my face right into that steel-skid-thingies (dunno what they're called) Result: Once again my right eye was spared by pure luck, as the skid hit me right above the eye, splitting the skin above my eyebrow all the way to the skull. Five stiches and a mild concussion. The last one is something that happened not too long ago. July 17th 2012 if I remember correctly. I had a summer job at a local factory. Packing roofbuilding-supplies and other roof-related stuff so they could be shipped all over the world. Anyhow, there was this conveyor-belt-thingy, that brought the items from the machine that wrapped them in plastic, to be put into the boxes. I was working next to the conveyor-belt, waiting for the next item. I apparently had my hand somehow funnily on top of/next to the conveyor belt, and as it started moving, my glove was caught under it. Now, the glove would've been nothing, if it hadn't been tight enough to pull my hand with it under the belt. Suddenly I feel a crushing sensation on my fingers and notice where my hand is. I shouted for my boss to stop the machine, which he did as quickly as possible, but the damage had already been done. My right-hand index finger, middle finger and ring finger were totally crushed, two major lacerations on the index finger, around 1,5 cm cut off from the middle finger, and the nail ripped off + one smaller cut on the ring finger. I don't know why, but my genious dad decided it'd be fun to take a picture of the hand when we were at the hospital... I'm going to add a link here just for the sake of the picture existing (and for the sake of being different from everyone else ). Meaning, there's no reason for this picture, but the fact that I happened to find it just today WARNING!!! THIS LINK SHOULD NOT BE OPENED, IF YOU FEEL YOU CANNOT FACE PICTURES OF BLOOD/INJURIES. REPEAT, DO NOT CLICK, IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU'RE UP FOR IT! I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY OF ANYONE SUFFERING SOME SORT OF TRAUMA BECAUSE OF THIS PICTURE. (lol) But seriously, don't click this if you're not completely sure you want to. http://imageshack.us/f/13/imageppn.jpg/ Another note: I'm not sure, if a picture like this goes under the category of NSFW, thus breaking the rules of MLPforums. I myself would not put it under that label, since it doesn't contain any sort of pornographic material. If it does indeed break the rules in some way, feel free to delete this post, and please accept my deepest apologies. Wow. O.o talk about a wall of text.. Well... I guess I just like talking about this stuff

I'm 18 so most of these were around when I was a kid. 1. Yes, I know how to use a rotary phone and I have dialed one numerous times in the past. We used to have one when I was younger. Maybe like 13-14 years ago (Gosh it's been long...) 2. Yeah. Although I didn't really use internet a lot even when we first got access. Only after it became "free" (not paid by the minute) did I start using internet because then it didn't matter how long I spent there as it would always cost the same amount every month. I remember that dial-up sound and I still hate it this day (That's if I happen to hear it at some random place, because nobody really has dial-ups anymore, right? Right??) 3. Ugh... I blame my lack of following the news, but the first one I can remember is 9/11. I can't remember where I was when I heard about it though. I just remember later talking about it at school or my parents talking about it at home. 4. Dials? *Googles* Oh right! Those I can vaguely remember my grandmother, who was living in the same house with us, having one, but I can't remember my parents ever having one like that. I have seen many of those later on, though. 5. Ahem... Well... No, I can't, because I practically never read history books I didn't even know some of those things were in the history books already I know Bill Clinton and reunification of Germany are in there, and about those, I have no opinion.. They seem like any other part of history to me. 6. Nope. Everyone in my family has a cellphone. My mom sucks with her iPhone, but she's a klutz with technology anyway 7. Oh I sure do remember those. We've just never had a computer that reads those. I'm more familiar with the 3.5 inch disks. Most of the games I had on the computer when I was a kid were installed from those. I remember the biggest games taking like dozens of disks 8. Uhh... The yellow pages eh.. Can't remember for certain, but it's got to be no more than a few years back... Nowadays, not ever, but a few years back, several times a week. 9. Hmh... This is a hard one... I remember really liking this one called "Sport Billy" but I don't think I ever really "fell in love" with it. I'd have to say the first one I actually fell in love with was "Pokemon" I still love it to this day 10.Umm... Not really. I used to watch a lot of kids' shows from the 80s with my siblings when I was a kid, so I learned to like them just as much as the ones in the 90s. Sometimes the 80s shows were even much better in my opinion

Hm... I wonder... I'm gonna convert this to the scale of my room because I live in a very big house and I hardly ever spend any actual time outside my own room -_- First of all you'd see a very messy small room, with LOTS of stuff on the floor. Barely able to walk on it. I guess what you'd hear depends on the time you're in the room. If I'm alone in the house, you'll probably hear me singing along to pony music, usually very VERY loud, (just realized that's actually the only music i listen to nowadays -.-) or you'd hear me cursing and sighing while attempting to find inspiration for my fanfics. If there were others in the house you'd probably hear lots of shouting in Finnish, most of it directed towards me, trying to get me clean up the place. I'd be quite all right if you just stayed on the wall BUT DARE YOU MAKE ONE FLAP OF THOSE BUZZING WINGS OF YOURS AND EVEN CELESTIA CAN'T SAVE YOU FROM MY WRATH! I hate flies. Especially in the night.

Well a few ones that I've seen and actually liked on some level are: The Horse Whisperer (1998) The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. - It's been a while since I actually saw this last, but I remember it being quite nice - IMDB-page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119314/ Flicka (2006) Young Katy claims a wild horse as her own -- an effort to prove to her father that she is capable of one day taking over the family ranch. - Saw this a few months ago. It's a really touching story, and very nice to watch. - IMDB-page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434215/ I don't usually like to watch horse-movies for some reason, but these I really liked. I also liked Spirit a lot. It was one of my favourite movies when I was younger.

I'm not sure if this really counts, because it's really not a "film" but I really like it. I think it's cool how they've made it seem so realistic, even though it's just an animation. It looks like something that could actually be built in real life. I really can't explain it, that's just... cool