Antidaeophobia

Hello,

I moved into my house on Feb 1st, and I'm finally getting my office set up. Unfortunately since I'm renting, I can't do anything permanent or major that I can't correct later. One of my walls I'm setting up to be cat friendly, so my beasties have a place to climb.

My office is also where I hold meetings with customers, and with social workers, and so on, so I'm looking to make it really visually interesting, and welcoming- while on a budget. I intend to put all my fan stuff out and on shelves, and put my posters and stuff out. However, I'm looking to decorate my walls with a few small paintings (max size 15"x15" inch). I'm considering pixel art.

I might do a few Mario related ones, but frankly Mario art in geek offices has gotten really cliche. I'm looking to do mostly pokemon and MLP stuff. Do you have any recommendations of art that might look cool in my office? Also, any DIY geek stuff that might be cool in an office?

(I like Doctor Who, Star Trek, MLP, and Pokemon)

How's this work for you? Ok?

think you can do Star Dreams? She's a toyline only pony, so I'm afraid I don't have any past drawings of her, officially. Also, she's a blank flank

Hmm, this has peeked my interest!

 

This horsie's name is Cupid Strike: http://imgur.com/a/XCMPN

 

The red and blue one is the one that is mine, just to avoid confusion. You speak of artistic free ranging, and in that I will put my trust. Do the justice you consider... well, just~

I got you next. 

I'm gonna rock this shit outta the park. *happy bird dance*

Hello everyone. I every once in awhile do free commissions for people. I'm offering 3 free drawings for the first three people to reply to my post. I do show accurate style work. I can make you an image 500x500 px with a transparent or white background, with your pony in show accurate colour. I require you ponies name, any past drawings of it or proper description as well as if they look similar to a show based pony, and cutie mark. I will not design a character for you, that's up to you. If you're ok with my doing some artistic free ranging, let me know. 

Some of my work: (the images below belong to me and are not for others use. Thank you)

LMAO! Awesome, great expression too!

Merry Krampus my fellow bronies. I present my yearly holiday card for you, I hope you enjoy it.

http://alektorotelumphobia.deviantart.com/art/Merry-Krampus-578019603

For those uninitiated to Krampus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

I do show accurate ponies. What does your OC look like? Full body shot would help, or at least references. I can probably do it in a few days.

Hope you're not overbooked, but I'd appreciate a drawing. Could you draw my draconequus, Tiamat? I love seeing drawings of OC's by other artists.

Here's a reference: (Not shown: she has tiger paws)

This is something for etsy I imagine. That kind of stuff you might find on there.

It's pretty expensive on Etsy. Like $200 for a full custom sheet set of just basic 2 pillows, flat sheet, and fitted sheet. 

Yes, she's very egotistical. It can be so bad sometimes it can annoy people to the point people don't want to try and befriend her.

Tia's idea of giving isn't really something that someone would want. She wouldn't give you money, as she has none and see no point in it. But she'd probably give someone a pretty rock, or a piece of yarn, or pretty much anything that catches her eye that would typically be considered junk. She doesn't really give typical things- but is highly offended if you don't appreciate it in the same way she does. She only gives to people she considers her friends, but as her friends they pretty much know that she's not going to give them anything of typical value, it's more 'the thought that counts' sort of deal.

She's a draconequus, so that's going to make her a dork anyway. But since my OC is based directly on me, then yes, even if she wasn't a draconequus she would be a dork because I am a huge dork, nerd, geek, weirdo. I gave up on trying to change that aspect about myself a very long time ago. 

not so much him, but his existence is a reflection on my own dork levels.

Your icon makes me hungry. 

So I know this is strange for a newcomer but the truth is I've been observing the brony fandom for a very long time. There was once a time I was an obsessed type of brony but nowadays I just keep to myself and;or people I know who are bronies.

 

However it is by obseriving that I've ntoived a rather distubrbing trend, whether here, Equestria Daily, or anywhere on the internet. And it's that some bronies I feel are total hypcorites.

 

First example: Flash Sentry. I've seen the hate on this guy (erm pony), despite not being that bad of a character personality-wise. Yet one minute bronies give him labels such as "waifu thief", "shoe-horned love interest", etc. then the next minute same bronies ship Twilight with their own terribly-made OCs who are just as bad or even worse than Flash is. I mean at least practice what you preach!

 

Next up would be: the complaints about reforming villains. For years I've come across fanfic after fanfic where Trixie/Chrysalis/whoever gets reformed and yet when it actually happens in the show, people are calling foul. I'll give a recent example with Starlight Glimmer, I've seen cries about how she was instantly forgiven despite the things she did, yet there are like a gajillion fics where Trixie does the same and she's aklso forgiven. Seriously it's why I can't take these complaints seriously as it sounds like bronies just upset that their headcanons/fanons were smashed to pieces.

 

I have more things I can think off, but for the time being this is what I have. I would like to hear some input about this as it is something that is bugging me for some time now.

I think many bronies are hypocrites in terms that they talk about love and tolerance, but then they verbally abuse each other. I've seen it for years, and it's getting worse. It makes me very sad to see people tear down other people down. We really are forgetting about following through with the whole love and tolerance thing.

I find lots of bronies can be pretty brutal towards people's art, and especially if that person has an OC.  

As an artist, I take the whole 'if I don't like it, I ignore it' and 'there's no bad art, just art that isn't my taste' approach. But I had an incident recently where some bronies tracked my deviantart gallery down from another site I was on privately, and spent a good amount of time leaving mean comments, and harassing my friends and customers all because they didn't like my OC and felt the need to vocalize their dislike. I actually make a living by my art, so them leaving comments like that actually made people leave my page. It was rather surprising and pathetic they would go so far as to follow me from one site to another, and take time to leave mean comments. But then in the same breath I saw them telling some new bronies about how much we care about each other, even though they'd just spent time earlier that day calling me names like 'c**t' and 'talentless wh**e'.

I've also noticed some people that harass people for disagreeing with them, and seem to create a witch hunt to the point the person leaves the forum or site they are on.

The whole fandom could do to chill out. I miss the good old  days of the fandom where we actually did good, and cared about each other. We seem so bitter now as a fandom. I'm sad, because as a group, we have so much potential to do good.   

I associate with draconequus species most (my icon is my fursona-I did have pink, white, and grey dreads when I made my character). I associate with draconequui because I've always been weird, and been called weird. I'm very colourful, and funny.

I find Discord's struggles with friendship to mirror some of my own. I joke way to much, even during serious situation, but I can also be pretty wrathful. I also have some jealousy about sharing my friends.

My second option would be earth pony; because I admire their work ethic 

I'm upgrading to a larger bed, and I'm looking to get some new bed stuff. I've seen a few of the items in target and walmart stores, but they tend to be pretty immature looking. I'm trying to have it MLP, but not quite in your face girly. I was going to make my own sheets, but I don't have the money at the moment to get the fabric I want. The fabric I was planning to use was

this: http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1878274as my room was going to be painted purple. I would be open to making my own sheets with cheaper fabric, but I'm on a bit of a budget hence why I was thinking of just buying premade sheets. My goal is just not to go overboard with the ponies LOL.

Any suggestions or links?

My chair throw is this fabric: 

Our local dollar store, gas station, and one of our auto supply stores. The dollar store had puzzles, bracelets, and a few other kid items, such as a jump ropes and etc. The gas station had some brushable figures, and other knick-knacks; there are quite a few bronies working there LOL, and the auto store had car MLP stuff, like air fresheners, and seat covers (which I see me getting). I live in a college town, so being a brony is no big deal.

My icon is just something I threw together quickly from one of my OC pictures I had in my files. My icon is my OC, Tiamat.
Tiamat is basically me as a draconequus, and it mean't to look like me.
My icon says that I'm both lazy (not bothering to make an actual icon) but also that I am colourful (I am), and also that I've got balls enough to use a draconequus OC even though people give me shit for it, and call me a furfag.
Long live the Discordian Agenda! 

Not much of a fan of the episode, but at least we got these faces out of it.

 

I suppose if I had to say something else good about it, Discord was VERY Q-like in this one, which is somethng I appreciate a lot. Q was always teaching Picard tough lessons which ended up benefitting him or humanity. In that respect, it did have some value in teaching Twilight she's allowed to have flaws, such as jealousy, and to not hold herself up on a pedestal where she could never live up to standards she couldn't maintain. 

I agree. It's nice to see that Twilight isn't flawless, and I think Discord helped her see that. In his own messed up way, he's teaching Twilight some of the lessons that Celestia was too nice, or unable to teach- such as, the worst aspects of ourselves. I love Q, and I guess that's why I love Discord so much. It wasn't a great episode, I think making the audience part of the out crowd instead of in on the jokes really made this episode difficult to enjoy, and also, missed a great opportunity to animate some fun scenes- which Discord is perfect for. Discord is one of the few characters that dominates, and uses every element of the environment. They really short changed his character this time, and the episode could have been handled better even though the lesson was solid. 

I know know, this is actually my least favorite Discord episode. I felt like it was just a bit awkward. I get that Discord is needy. He may be ancient, but he's really just a petulant child on the inside. I guess through the episode I felt like the audience was with Twilight, and because they didn't show us what happened, we couldn't find any of the jokes funny, so it just came off as annoying. I think if they'd included us on knowing the inside jokes, it would have made the episode more enjoyable, and also would have given us some funny scenes. You can also tell that Discord really wants Twilight's friendship and wants her to feel left out. Maybe they'll give us an episode where Twilight and Discord actually do something fun together. 
It's good to see that Discord is still an asshole as always. I doubt/hope that never changes.

I agree that being able to use your equipment is the most important, though I can also admit that having better equipment can help, but it's not going to make you amazing. Like I benefit from a larger surface area with my tablet definitely. It makes it far easier to work, but yeah if you suck at drawing, you just suck. No $5,000 tablet is going to magically make that vanish.

Being on deviantart for 10yrs, I here so many young artists say 'if I only had a tablet' or 'if only I had photoshop, I'd be a great artist'--if you can't draw a dog in real life, you wont be able to draw a dog magically perfectly just because you have a tablet, or photoshop. There are people that draw amazing art with nothing but a mouse, and MS Paint, because they practice, and try and use what they have to the best of their abilities. A good art program is nice, as is a good tablet, or decent real life supplies, or etc, but your skill is worth far more than any of that.

That's the one I have too, it's dependable and I find that it works like a charm!

I think some people assume that you need something more expensive to draw good art, but actually, it's your personal skill, and a decent art program that matters more (I use Gimp and Sai). I think that the Bamboo fun is a good one to start because it's cheap, and from a reliable company, also, if you learn to deal with the hypersensitivity issues, it'll make working on future tablets easier since you know the little tricks. 

Note to all tablet users, sometimes Gimp 2.8 doesn't work with some tablets, so use 2.6 instead.

-3D ponies, like those digital cartoons where the mlp characters are CGI or whatever (sorry StephenP) 
They creep the fuck out of me. I see them and they just look weird as hell. 

-FB minions
 Seriously, screw those little yellow bastards. They are everywhere, and they've been crammed down my throat. So I despise them.

-Jesus/Christianity
Sorry, but it's gotten to the point where this religion has turned into an annoying meme for me. People are always cramming this stuff on every social network I'm on with cutesy little cartoon angels and crap with stupid prayers about loving America, or prayer chains. Here's an idea, how about stop praying, and instead get up off your ass and actually do something to help. 

-Steven Universe

 It's just ok, I could watch it if I was bored, but I'd rather watch a MLP rerun if I had a choice. 

I have a Bamboo Fun, it's about $200. http://101.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_fun.php

I have a sheet of tracing paper cut to fit the sensor part, so that the pen wont damage my tablet over time. The sensor is fine and pick ups great. It's a good tablet to start with, although it can be a bit hypersensitive.