glacialchill

Okay, I've got good news and bad. good news first; my classes are winding down, and there is not much more left I have to do. after this week, I should have plenty of time to work on drawings. bad news, I probably won't have a spare minute until then. I'll have to ask you all to be a patient for a bit longer. sorry.

sorry for the delay... I suppose I chose a bad time to start this request topic. School is demanding 90% of my time lately, and I can't put as much effort into my drawings as I did before. therefore, I present a very bad Butter Bean. If you like, I'll give it another attempt after I do some other requests. Really, I'm just kinda stressed at the moment, and my art reflects it. I'm gonna start CXbrony's drawing soon, when I have the time and inspiration to draw something other than depressing pencil sketches of the third iteration of my character glacialchill (I actually put that particular drawing on the first post, if you are interested in seeing it. It might balance out the badness of this drawing. :I ).

okay! I've finished the drawing of butterbean. but honestly, it's the worst drawing I've done in months... I'll upload it later today, and I apologise ahead of time for it's horribleness.

whoopee! I'm glad you like it. always nice to hear positive feedback. Hopefully your internet finds a way to fix itself. maybe it's a browser issue? try chrome or firefox if you are using explorer.

I know exactly how you feel. I often try to ignore such thoughts, as they keep me awake at night if I dwell on them for too long. All I can really say is that when people act like that, they have their own reasons for it. Perhaps their reasons don't make sense to us, and maybe not even to them, but they exist. All you can really do is to be the better person and take comfort in doing so. Look through bad things that happen, find why they happen, and act avoid getting yourself in such a situation. Live your live the best you can, and don't let others drag you down.

Like rainbow Dash, hm? okay... I'll try to scrape together some competitiveness for inspiration when I make the drawing. I have little enough as it is... :I

@, looks cool. I"ll get to it eventually, I'm expecting less work over this week, so I'll have more time for drawing. @, I'd like to say okay, but I'd really like a personality. Without it, all I can really do is basic picture, like a pony creator picture but with pencil and pen. I'd much rather draw something I can relate to, it will come out much better.

So, it seems like my classes are piling up work on me now that I've decided to start taking requests. I'm still working through the drawings, but I have less time than usual. this means that I've only just finished penciling Butter Bean's picture. Oh, and I totally forgot to edit the first post. I'll do that now.

Browhoovian, good news! your drawing is done! I'll scan it into the computer when I have the chance and post it, as well as PMing you a picture. Butter Bean will be the next one I finish.

unfortunately, nearly every OC drawing I have ever done is traditional, and I don't know how to do true vectors with GIMP. I'll update this post with a digital picture, if I happen to make one before time's up.

@@Stormlight34, @@Screw Ball, sounds cool. It'll be a while before I will get to your guy's requests, though. I hope you can be patient. XD @@MyLittlePonyTales, I will probably do them with pupils. I find it hard to put an identity to a changeling with completely flat eyes. oh, and I forgot to bring my first drawing to school the other day... so I got started on butter bean's as well. Good gosh, is it hard to draw decent-looking curly hair on a changeling.

@@MyShiningArmor, well, I could do them digital. But really, I'd rather not/. It takes a lot more time than I'm really willing to spend, and I usually mess up anyway. Good news, though! Cobalt is getting me red pens. So I can do the color for your request!

I had told my friend @ that I'd draw his OC, and then a mirror image of him as a changeling. Finished that today, and I'll upload it here for others to see as well. Forgive the slightly sloppy coloring, my blue highlighter has seen better days. I'll be using a new one soon.

sorry everyone, I'm trying desperately to post, but I keep getting errors telling me that I need to enter a name between 3 and 11 letters, or that I can't use certain symbols. If anyone knows what's going on, I would appreciate an explanation. meanwhile, I'll just keep updating the first post as best I can. [edit:] Good news! I may have found a way to avoid these weird errors. @@MyShiningArmor, okay then, ponies it is. @@MyLittlePonyTales, looks like I'll be drawing shadow, then. funny thing... Her story is almost like an inverted version of Gale's. How interesting... and it reminds me to go back and fix Gale's OC page as well. @, ok, looks cool. I must ask though: are those mechanical wings? @, hey, I've finished penciling your drawing. if you want, I'll scan it in and let you see my progress thus far.

apparently commas and brackets are illegal to use in posts. So I'll be posting this without commas or mentions. sorry... Butter Bean hm... I think I'll have fun turning you into a changeling. I've drawn adowable little hatchlings before and I'll do my best to make her look just as good. MyShiningArmor I'm temped to just say that's out of my league try again. but you know what? I'll give it my best. Also unless you specify that you want them to be ponies you will get a picture of two changelings... I'll just give you the chance to specify before I add you to the list. XC Brony looks good! this will be my first drawing of a pony in motion but I'll see what I can do for ya!

a book with 42 on it, hm? that wouldn't happen to be a hitch-hiker's guide, would it? Either way, it doesn't matter. I'll take the request and draw you a pegasus, considering it will be first picture you have. XD

So, I'm told by friends that I can draw with some amount of skill, and due to the suggestion of a friend, I am starting up a request thread for drawings of OCs. (preferably OCs, at least.) Basically, when college classes become the majority of your high school curriculum, the high school classes themselves feel a bit negligible. So, I draw ponies and changelings instead. Of course, saying ponies and changelings is a bit misleading in my case. it really should be changelings, changelings, changelings, and the occasional pony. So, due to my tendency to look at a pony and see a bug in it's place, I'll be drawing your requested OCs as changelings unless you really don't wan't me to. Also as a note, I almost never work on drawings outside of my English and Web Tech classes, so please don't expect these to be done quickly, or even in the next few days. I do have work I need to do. Then there is the issue of color. I am limited to the five pens and four highliters (plus a pencil) that I have in my backpack. I can get awfully creative with those tools, but chances are high that I won't be able to get the colors of your request spot-on. Especially if one of the colors is red. the closest I can manage is pink unless I find a red pen lying around. a few guidelines I will follow when doing this: 1: I will do the drawings in the order I approve them in, not in the order they are posted in. 2: I will either need a reference picture to draw from, or a full description of the OC, including their personality. (yes, personality does matter. if fact, it would be great if I could have a personality description along with a reference picture. It does change how the drawing turns out.) 3: I reserve the right to ignore outrageous posts asking for something I can't draw. I'm not Da Vinci. please don't request something too complex. I'll probably ask you to lower your expectations and try asking me for something else. 4: If I forget to draw certain features, (horn, wings, etc.) I may or may not go back and fix them. Ink on paper has a tendency not to erase. and I will make a list here of requests I have approved. It won't get any longer than 6, and I'll remove names as I complete them. 1. XC Brony 2. MyShiningArmor 3. MyLittlePonyTales 4. Oireann 5. Lunar Red 6. finished drawings : (look through the thread to find the pictures) Cobal Crescent BroWhoovian test subject Butter Bean a few samples of my work thus far: my OC Gale, in her dress for the Grand Galloping Gala my first OC, Trace Echo the third version of my first character, glacialchill. perhaps not my best drawing, but it sure helped improve my mood when I drew this. I'd upload some better pictures, but MLPforums seems to frown upon certain file extensions. So... I'll put more up when I happen to convert them.

"yeah, I'm fine. nothing hurt but my pride." She stood up, kindly refusing Kismet's offers for help and looked toward where the pony had disappeared into the crowd at top speed, as if something was chasing him. She let out a long sigh. "I swear, I'll never understand why ponies do half of the things they do."

Gale had just finished her question when suddenly, a hoof slams down on the table in front of her. She jumps back quickly, hissing like a snake through her teeth and dropping into a low stance, ready to fight or run. Noticing how the pony on the table wasn't even looking at her, she tries to cover up what she had done by faking a slip and falling to the ground with a yelp of surprise.

((oh, gosh Symphonia. You make me laugh. XD)) Cloudsdale? I can't even fly... Where did she see me? "Well, my story..." How should I go about this? She thought. "I was born in the far north, where it snows constantly. I was born with... defects. I'd rather not go into that, if it can be helped... I left my hometown with another pony at a young age, I've been kind of bouncing around Equestria since...I only came to Ponyville a few weeks ago." She thinks for a moment before asking: "the beasts in your vision... what were they like?"

Gale hums thoughtfully and taps her chin. "I guess that makes me a bit of an oddity then. How strange." I certainly haven't spoken to her before, she thought, but maybe she's seen me without realizing it. "Have you always lived in Ponyville? Perhaps you have seen me somewhere else and just didn't think about it."

Gale sits down on the opposite side of the table, relieved that she wasn't asked to order anything. It was always awkward to turn down an offer. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to talk a bit, hm? My name is Gale." She smiles lightly before adding: "Is there anything else you don't know about me? You seem to have a pretty good idea who I am already."

((OOC: @ I notice that as you type, you tend to repeat words a lot. Technically, that isn't bad, but it makes it weird to read.)) Gale looks at the stand, then back to Kismet before giving a slight shrug. "Good as any, in my opinion. I'm not exactly picky." She glances at Pinoak "Look good you you?"

Gale breathes an inward sigh of relief. Bullet dodged. Mostly. "I felt the show was... very well done. Very professional... even if I'm not a fan of the story you performed..." She breaks eye contact for a second, before bringing herself back and smiling. "I'll join you two for that drink, as long as you don't expect me to actually drink anything."

Gale's eyes grow wide and a cold shot of adrenaline runs through her body. How did this pony know who she was? How much does she know? Gale wrestles down her rising panic and manages to keep a mostly straight face. "You... know me? How? I don't think I've ever seen you before."