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Hey! Welcome to my art archive Since I plan on making a few pieces a week I decided I would make a single thread instead of spamming the sub-forum. I am always looking for criticism and advice when it comes to art. If you see anything major off with anatomy or coloring, whatever it may be, feel free to let me know. An artist can only look at their own work so long before hating it -- or at least that's how it goes for me Keep in mind the older it is, the less relevant it is Whether you're here to check out new art I've made, look at how I've improved over my time span as an artist, or just because you are bored and have nothing better to do, I welcome you Without further ado, my art in chronological order:

It does appear that way, but really I just like fluffy pones :3

I mean if you want feel free to add me on here / on any of the other places listed on my profile

My first "actual" drawing in Clip Studio. Note: Not my first drawing, my first drawing using clip studio Critique is always appreciated!

This is just a quick (~15min) doodle I did of Philomena. As always, criticism is welcome. This is my first piece done in Clip Studio, which I quite like.

Thanks guys! Thanks, and I'll keep that in mind. I definitely tried a bit with the eyes, but I settled for a gradient because I haven't found a style I like for them yet. Perhaps one day ;P

Wow how did you actually find that small little bleed through into the pupil? I scoured this piece for like 3 minutes before posting it and didn't even notice that But yea, the eyes could probably be a bit smoother. Thanks for the input!

I noticed that but just decided to go with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In hind sight perhaps I should have fixed that

Just another practice image. As usual, any critique is welcomed! I am always willing to improve.

I've heard a lot of music that I'm not a fan of to be honest, but it's usually very specific songs. Standing with my idea of not judging groups from a few examples, it would be impossible for me to say "all rap songs" or "all rock songs", because I'm sure there's at least one I would enjoy. If I had to answer this, though, I would go with the general consensus of how most pop songs today are poorly made all around.

Yea definitely. There's a lot of good fan art for each, but there seems to be much more for Luna. Perhaps it was that bias that made me want to draw Celestia for once

Ooooh now that you point that out, I totally forgot to shade it properly. The wing itself is actually further up, but I forgot to shade it to show that, since there aren't any outlines xD

That was pretty much the style I was going for, though it is technically digital. Yea, I thought perhaps that might be it but it would be a lot of work to move it back and this was just practice so

This is radically different than anything I've ever done. Kind of just tried my hand at coloring rougher/with more colors. Also, I'm aware that you should most likely see the other wing; I have been working on this for 3 hours and am therefor too tired to draw it in Also something is wrong with the face and it's really bothering me but I couldn't figure out what it was after redoing it 3 times

Wow, those are very well done. I especially the style of the celestia one

Ah yes, I just heard of this from Mark. His life was seemingly going so good, like Mark said in his video, makes you really wonder what must have been happening inside his head that caused this to happen. I really hope his family and friends are doing well and working through this. I knew Mark much more than the guys at Cyndago, but I recently started watching them a lot more. With everything that was happening, this was incredibly sudden and unexpected.

Okay... I have one more attempt Unless there's anything specifically wrong with it I'll probably stop editing this and carry any advice over to whatever I draw next xD Also, just to make sure I know what I'm talking about, let's say we're talking about the RGB picker in Photoshop: Sliding it vertically adjusts value, and sliding it horizontally adjusts saturation, right? In this case I almost entirely moved it vertically, though I did make adjustments to saturation (I think that's generally a good thing to do when working with light?)

I completely forgot about checking values with grayscale Thanks for the advice! Sorry to bother you if you're in the middle of anything, but I've tweaked it a bit (under the original). I think I may have gone a little overboard with the contrast, but in your opinion does it seem any better?

I draw and do basic coloring in sai then bring it into photoshop to do complex shading like this, so it's exported by photoshop. If you're asking because of the compression, that was my bad, may have lowered the jpg quality a bit too much In fact I'll probably redo it quick. Alright, re-uploaded with better quality

Pulled up a pseudo-drawing I had from a while ago and decided to practice shading and coloring on it. Sorry for quality, it got a little compressed in the process of uploading it here Also her face is a bit too far out, was too lazy to fix since I just wanted to practice coloring. EDIT: Newer version with better(?) shading below the original. EDIT: Third iteration o_O I've been trying to improve my shading/coloring techniques so... Critiques please :3

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I'm sure a message from me is the last thing you'd want right now, but please just read this. For the past 2 weeks or so I have had so much stress thrown on me that I had barely had time to do anything. I wasn't the one that left you. Hardly. I told you I was busy, I told you I was barely even doing anything involving my friends, but you never listened! You unfriended me because my avatar on skype was switched from MLP to League! You think I abandoned you for my "league friends", but in actuality those league friends were only 2 people, both from my school district that I am VERY good friends with. Sorry, but friends in real life will always hold more value than friends online to me. Anyone, not just you, even poetic, is surpassed by my school friends, that's just how I am. But I didn't just abandon you like you said. Honestly, you say we caused you pain, and I can't deny that if that's what you believe. However, you sure as hell caused us pain at the same time. Do you know what it's like to honestly, deeply care about somebody, and try your fucking best to help them, and they just turn around and think you don't care at all? If you knew me, you would know that I try my very fucking best to keep people happy, and when they just ignore those attempts and then say that I wanted to CAUSE YOU PAIN, yes, it hurts. I tried my best to help you with your art, try to solve your problems, give you compliments when you did something cool, but you apparently just don't care about that? That isn't how friends treat friends. As I said, you cut ties with me because of a fucking league of legends avatar, and now you go here and try to make it sound like we just up and left you, treated you like shit. You didn't point me out, but you didn't think I would have ran into one of these posts you made? I read through it and feel like shit, because now I'm sitting here wondering what the fuck I could have done to stay your friend. Did what I say mean nothing? Did "you're one of my best online friends" just feel like pointless words? Because I don't know what the hell I could have done to say I cared. The reasons you unfriended me were hardly even in my control.