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Welcome, my fellow swede =) Nice to know there are more swedish bronies out there.

Cute stuff, I like the expressions =)

No problem =) I'd watch you on deviantart or something but I don't use Deviantart anymore.

Spooky. Looks cool, but creepy =p

I like the Winterbass OC one the most, happy pony in nice colors =p. And the "Kerriodoxa Elegans" one is cool too.

Looks sweet, you have some nice art. I checked out your deviantart a bit too =). Your deviantart link on your profile isn't working correctly if you click on it though. Just try it and you'll see the problem.

@@Dark Heart, Don't you think that getting rid of the core problem (unclear deadline) and preventing the issue from even arising is better than trying to find ways to work around the issue when it has already happened? Since the deadline was unclear we literally did not even know when "the last minute" was. Having to submit a few days ahead of deadline just because you don't know when the deadline is, is silly. What is "enough" time? Why would we not use all the time given to us? Especially in art where you can keep on refining and editing your piece into infinity. One person might finish in a day but that doesn't mean that it's "enough" for everyone else. I'm not sure what you mean with that. We don't want the same thing to happen again, that's all. It's not the end of the world that the deadline was unclear but it's not the end of the world to fix it either. And if it is fixed for next time there won't be the same problems next time. Information about what? Information on the internet may differ, and without having a shared source of reference we can't know if we are looking at the same information that the organisers of the event are following. If the intro post has clear information then everyone can follow that instead of every person having to go out to personally research what the intro post is saying. Agreed. And next time we can make sure it will not be complicated, and there will be no problem. We just had to explain why it was complicated, so that they understand it was an issue. That doesn't actually solve the problem, that's just a workaround. It's a good attitude for when things are out of your control and you have to make due with what you have, but a clear deadline is not something that is out of the organisers control and it's not a lot to ask for. If I know the deadline I can plan accordingly and I will feel the least amount of stress because I know what is going on and when I need to be done. Not understanding when the deadline actually is, is stressfull. This isn't an issue of poor planning by artists, it's an issue of a confusing deadline. The contest participants shouldn't have to worry about deciphering the deadline information, they should be able to focus on making their artwork. Agreed. And preparation requires information. Information is all we are asking for. This could have been solved by saving more often! Save multiple iterations too. Such as: Save_01, Save_02, Save_03, etc. You should never have to start entirely from scratch just because your program crashes. Save save save =) I hope you managed to finish what you wanted to do in time anyway.

I feel the current way you listed the deadline is unecessarily confusing, and since understanding the deadline is crucial for even being able to take part in the contest I think you should have made sure it was a lot clearer what time the deadline actually is. Since it is too late to change now, at least please consider it for next time. Your current deadline information is this: "August 16th 2015 Please submit your entries by Midnight GMT+1 Please submit your entries by EDT: 6:00 P.M. Please submit your entries by AEST: 8:00 A.M." Ok biggest issue first. Dates. I read this and think, alright, so midnight GMT+1 on the 16th of august? ok! And another person thinks, alright so 6:00 P.M EDT on the 16th of August, neat! Third person thinks, alright, so that is 8:00 A.M AEST on the 16th of August. Sweet as! Except only the two people who decided to follow the AEST or the GMT+1 time are going to submit at the right date! The person following the EDT timezone will be too late and won't have a chance to participate in the contest. For it to all line up correctly you would have to say 15th of August EDT: 6:00 P.M. The way the information is currently presented it can not be interpreted as anything other than 16th of August 6:00 P.M EDT. If it says 16th of August, why would someone assume that, nope it says 16th of August but actually it means 15th of August? Personally I didn't even look at all the time zones you listed, I just picked the first one because I should only need to follow one of the listed timezones to submit my artwork on time, and I'm Swedish so that is the timezone I recognized. I was lucky that I picked GMT+1 to follow. Someone who is comfortable with EDT will look at the listed EDT time and try to follow it, and they will get the wrong information! Why would they need to cross-reference all the other time zones to make sure the stated deadline time is actually correct? Anyone who planned to submit their artwork according to the EDT times have been mislead with the wrong date. I hope that it did not affect too many people. Another issue is using "Midnight" as the deadline. Midnight could be either at the end of the day or the start of the day. What we need to know here is if you mean start of the day 16th of August, or end of the day 16th of August. That's a 24 hour difference! Please make it clear next time exactly what date the deadline is and exactly what time it is. Don't use vague terms like "Midnight". It could mean different things. Just say "start of day" or "end of day", or pick any other time at all other than midnight, and there's no problem. Instead of the list you have now it would have been much more useful with something like this: GMT+1: 12:00 A.M. (start of day) 16th of August 2015 AEST: 08:00 A.M. 16th of August 2015 EDT: 6:00 P.M. 15th of August 2015 OR Pick one single timezone for simplicity, for example "EDT: 6:00 P.M. 15th of August" And then everyone can follow that timezone. This way it is perfectly clear when the deadline is. No vagueness, no confusing mess of multiple timezones and dates. This is the first contest and there's bound to be mistakes and that's ok, but it would be nice if it's fixed for the next time. =)

By which point you had already accepted to yourself that Tulpas exist. Since you already believed in them you didn't stumble upon one. Like you said, you intentionally looked for your first, and you found it.

I mean that the people who make the Tulpas have the incentive to believe that they are real and exist. Which makes them biased and it's no surprise that they "find" what they wanted to find. If they don't believe in Tulpas being real then making one doesn't work, or at least that's how I understand it. I don't think I've heard of any case when someone stumbled upon a Tulpa, or found one without looking for it. I Agree, and I see it the same way about Tulpas, practically impossible to check if it's true. And for me the healthy thing is then to assume that it is not true, until some kind of evidence is presented to prove that it is true. Since a Tulpa can't be observed by an outsider I don't really know how it could be proven.

Sounds like you're just telling yourself that something is real long enough for you to start believing in it. Voluntary brainwashing? It doesn't help that everyone who has made a tulpa has wanted to make one. How convenient :v I have read a bit about Tulpas before but it was all from one site (which I forgot the name of... but it was a site meant to help people understand Tulpas and how to "make" one). What I took away from it was that it seems to be an almost religious thing, or spiritual.. at least based more in faith than science. I don't know where most of the people in this thread get their information, and I'm sorry if I missed it, I didn't read 220 pages =[. An important question though (for me) is, how does the pursuit of having a Tulpa affect the person? If it does not have any negative impact on the person or hurts someone else, I guess I would have to be okay with it. I don't want to stop people from doing things they want to do as long as it doesn't hurt other people. It still makes me a bit uncomfortable though, in the same way I would be uncomfortable with someone claiming a ghost lives in their house. Or someone claiming to be psychic. Tulpas just seem like a supernatural idea that is then attempted to be explained scientifically, or is explained through spirituality and philosophy, which makes for rather weak arguments, IMO. Oh and I bet that this has been brough up before, but is it possible that people who claim to be able to talk to god are doing the same thing as the people who have Tulpas? Since people with Tulpas claim that their tulpas are real and sentient and can be talked to, it would explain why some people are so sure that they can indeed communicate with god, because they have created their god as a Tulpa in their head.

I'm pretty damn slow myself, often taking a week to finish something =p. And I didn't mean to say that you were fast or not, it doesn't really matter, I was just trying to explain to him why he might feel slower.

She sure looks happy, and or determined.

Yo I completely disagree with Ice Blizzard. If anything, everyone is an artist, but some make it their hobby or their profession, while some people find joy in other things. If you want to be an artist then you're an artist, and you just got to keep practicing if you feel that your art is not as good as it could be. If you think your art could not improve at all you should practice more anyway because you are wrong =) As for you thinking that you're not as good as VengefulStrudel and how he has got to the point he is now so fast, don't think about it so much in years but think about how many hours you have actually spent drawing. If you only draw a little bit every now and then for 10 years, while he sits down and draws all day every day for 1 year, he is going to be better because he actually spent more time doing it. Secondly, how much you improve depends on how you practice, not just how long you have been practicing. You have to push yourself and learn new things and work hard to improve. If you draw the same thing every single time for example, you are going to get good at drawing that one thing, but nothing else. It's kinda like always doing the same amount of 10 pushups and expecting yourself to get stronger. Gotta push your limits to see progress. I haven't really seen a lot of your art but I took a quick look and what I saw was mostly bases that you painted or drew over. I don't mind people who do that but you just have to realize that you won't learn how to draw something unless you draw it yourself. TLDR If you think you're not improving quick enough or in the direction you want, look at what you currently do to practice and improve your practice methods as much you can, and keep pushing yourself. Oh and you shouldn't compare yourself with him anyway. I compare myself with other artists all the time too but it's bad and we shouldn't, mkay. Crap I always start ranting in the middle of threads, I'm sorry <.<. None of you were probably as serious as I took it. But I'm going to post this anyway.

Looks pretty neat, keep it up =p.

Good luck! And at least in the sense that I still have so much that I want and need to learn, I am a beginner =p And I have been drawing for a relatively short period, about 3 years. And during that time I haven't always been able to draw as much as I would have wanted.

Sweet, thanks =p I had a pretty long period of inactivity on my tumblr but the addition of Vox hopefully marks the start of my comeback. Thank you. You can definitely reach this level if you practice. I am still a beginner artist and I managed to =p

No problem. And I agree that rough lines can look nice, if they look as if they were drawn so intentionally. I followed you on tumblr btw ;p

Thanks =D I tried to draw in a slightly different way than I usually do and it turned out not too bad. Well your name makes a lot of sense then =P and I love dragons and ponies too. The lines are freehand, I just drew a line, ctrl-z if I didn't like it, drew it again, until I got a line that I was happy with. I also try to draw the whole line without stopping, especially with curves. For example the curve of her neck, chest and belly is drawn with one continuous stroke. The horns were drawn with two strokes each as well, meeting at the top of the horn. Trying to stop in the middle of a curve and then trying to continue it with a new stroke is hard and doesn't look too good. Some more complex or really long lines though are hard to do with just one stroke but then I just try to draw it with as few strokes as possible anyway. Sometimes lines are easier to draw smoothly if I zoom in more and try to use my whole arm to draw, and sometimes it's easier to zoom out and draw with just the wrist. I haven't really found a way that I stick to all the time, I kinda go for what feels best at the moment. Hope that makes sense and/or answers your question =).

Thanks haha ;p I'm hoping I'll be able to post some more art soon. Thank you =)

Ah no you don't have to do that xP If she already has an image and if it isn't too much trouble to put it up somewhere it would be cool to see it. But really it's not a big deal I was just curious. Thanks a lot =D and I'll try.

Thanks =p. And she likes electronic music so maybe a drum n bass band or even a rock or punk band is something I think she would like to be part of. Thank you =) This is the first dragon pony I have drawn and I don't see other dragon ponies that often, but the few I saw were pretty cool so I wanted to make one myself. I did a quick check of your friend Flash Brush's profile but couldn't see a dragon pony anywhere, otherwise I would have checked it out =p.

I'm back from the dead =o And I bring a dragon-pony. She is Vox, and she is a singer. =) Now I just have to put her in some band.

Soo many booombs! Is funny.

So awesoome. She looks really cool.