HaroldGenhi

How I look at things for the detail is a painting. You have to describe to the reader your world so that they can see what you see. I haven't read your fanfiction, so all I know your writings are vastly superior to mine, but that is still how I look at it. Other than that, reading fanfictions of people who have a superior ability in terms of detail would help. One of the best means of learning how to write is to read other's works. As for tense issues, I've never really had that problem and maintain a past tense in my stories. I tend to be generally terrible at a present tense story. So take that how you will.

The Story of Eyn Spyyr: Back when I first became a brony, I wrote two fanfictions (original and a sequel) that were generally in the style of my previous writings, dark and with what I hope to be a nice amount of suspense. I'm basically pulling this fanfiction out of my archives and blowing off the dust and cobwebs because they are more than a year old and they also lack a bit in the grammar department. Anyway, I don't have the original chapter sets with me, but I did post these onto FiMFiction and I hope it's fine if I just give a link to both of the stories here. I will admit that they are generally dark with Everything Ends... being exceptionally dark so be warned about that one. There was to be a third installment in this series, but honestly, my interest wavered out and I never finished it. In the Background: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/2146/in-the-background --and-- Everything Ends...: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12089/everything-ends It would be up to you if you would want to delve into these relics and wade through shoddy writing of myself a year or so ago. People liked it somewhat then, it still might be of interest to others. Who knows? Again, if this format is unacceptable, I can change it to fit the proper format. --- And speaking of fanfiction, I am in the process of writing a new one that isn't dark and is basically going to be a heavy amount of fluff. The only issue being is that I don't have the motivation to finish it right now and it is only a few chapters long and shared nowhere. If I ever did finish it, I would update it onto here in case there would be an interest in reading it. The general plot is the starting relationship between Octavia and Vinyl Scratch (I ship them, I admit it). It is a very clean story of just how the relationship started with some allusions to a backstory.

I am fond of the first name being Spectra, but I don't like coming up with last names but maybe Spectra Shine. Beyond that, I bad with names.

I took a jab at drawing it relatively quickly. A pony with no metal plating or strange anatomy is quite a bit easier to draw, but I still fudged some of the proportions up. Also, boring background because I'm bad at drawing those. Anywhoozles... It's a quick draw so it isn't the best.

Was this a straight shot drawing or did you use basic shapes to set up all the proportions and whatnot?

Why not maintain both to some regard? Drawing in general helps refine your abilities and helps you come up with ideas. In my case, I tend to doodle with traditional art and work on sketching out problem areas that I am having with something that I am trying to tackle in digital. There is even the option of drawing something traditionally, scanning it, and then going over it with digital. I see this as a means of proofreading your drawing as with the new medium will cause you to notice problems that you didn't see before. The big plus to that is that you'll have a traditional and a digital copy of the drawing. I've only just recently switched almost exclusively to digital as I feel that I've transitioned comfortably, but your mileage may vary. As other people have mentioned before, digital is liberating in its freedom, but there is a nice feeling behind pencil and pen to paper, or in some cases, the ability to look at exactly the drawing and not a circle on the screen. Can I ask what program you are using and if you have a tablet?

Thank you all for the compliments. Hopefully, I can release these drawings in a relatively timely manner. Normally takes me about a week or two to finish them (taking into account college). It has been questionable to me, if I should include the fan-fiction story sections that apply to each picture. These story arcs are, at the current moment, tumblr exclusive, but I could copy it over into a spoiler tag for each picture so that context can be given as to what is happening with my characters. I will say that the story of Comet and Creator stretches more than 2000 years, and some hintsy-doodles if you haven't followed these characters before, Comet is not her real name. It was made from her experimental designation of C0.M3.T (Containment Tank 0, Model 3, Terrestial). Her old self, lived before Luna was exiled to the Moon, and actually her death is linked to the resulting battle between Celestia and Luna. Given that Comet and Dreamweaver (her old name), I will be doing a remake of her, before she was hurt so badly to the point of dying from her wounds. Those are at least my plans. As for the other OC that I have, Eyn Spyyr, an alicorn prince of the Northern Lands. He is a bit more complicated of a character and in his most common state he has a lot going wrong for him. He is blind with third degree burns across his eyes and parts of his body. His wings have been severed, his horn snapped in half and he has a prosthetic leg that runs on magic. As can be seen, I have an affinity for tragic characters though they all do get happy endings after their trials and tribulations. So yay for that. Again, I can't express my deepest regards for compliments for my work. I might critique rather than looking at other's work at some point. Still acquainting myself with the site and stuff. I don't want to shotgun my existence onto this site. I'm not a fan of these small updates, but I decided to add the story attachments to each of the drawings so the picture can be drawn as to their characterization and what is happening in their universe. It will be found under each of the characters and once I finish the Creator redesign, he will be getting a new Spoiler tag with his section of the story. The story will most likely not be completely chronological as each drawing will be a piece of the story in my head. So yeah, hopefully small updates like this won't need to be made in the future. I prefer posts with more substance. Thanks for the brohoofs.

Welp, this will be my first time posting here so I'll try to make this good. I'll start off with saying that I am in the middle of revising two of my old original characters and potentially revising the third one who is not in these two's story arc. The two that I will show are Comet and Creator whose story is advanced whenever I finish some piece of art of them in their lives. This is unlike my 3rd and relatively unrelated character who was strictly fan fiction based and then I attempted to draw him afterward. I will apologize in advance if I mess up the formatting. -Old Style- Anyway, I'll show my old art first and then transition to my remakes. The first picture is Comet Cloudburster with my old style. She is a cyborg pony whose slender tail ends like a plant and generates clouds. She doesn't remember her original purpose or 'who' she is though she knows her name. She woke up in a crater in the Everfree Forest and has hid herself among the branches once she sees how different she is from other ponies. She instead finds a great interest in generating images with clouds, like rabbits or dogs, and watching the ponies turn their heads to them. --Comet V.1-- The next drawing is of old-style Creator. He isn't a pony per se, but his body is one. His true form is the plant under his hat controlling the robotic pony body. He is an alien infiltrator sent to help in the conquering of Equestria. He is also the one who 'saves' Comet, when he finds her pre-cyborg state, dying in the Everfree. He tries to save her naturally, but upon her passing, he uses her body and his technology to fix the damage. Upon the request of his masters, The Consortium, he was to convert her into a weapon. This is where her second set of ears, antenna, strange eyes, and unique tail come from. --Creator V.1-- -New Style- That would be my old style and I have a few more drawings of at least Comet in this old style. If there is any interest in it, I can post those as well. Now, for the remakes of them. Looking back at these, I didn't overly like what I was seeing and I really wanted to capture them in a different light. I also wanted to try new things out and dump the attempted style of the show and move to something more my style. First picture will be of the redesign of Comet. This will also be when Comet was first turned on by Creator. This would be before she found a love of creating cloud art. She is very much akin to a cold machine at this point in time. --Comet V.2-- EDIT:And the coupled story with this picture: Going with my attempt at redesigning my characters, I have also started though not finished the remake of Creator. Another point of his remake was to remove his over-confident nature and move to a more somber tone. He is the reason for the downfall of many civilizations and he watched his own civilization burn in front of his own two eyes by the same empire, The Consortium, that he now serves. I felt this needed a more somber character would be more fitting for the role. --Creator V.2-- Finished version of Creator has been posted. His section of the story will follow: Also, as a generally open thing, I am willing to maybe try and draw your own OC characters. It can't be anything fancy and only one pony at a time. I may or may not do it as it depends on if I have the time, motivation, and interest to tackle it. Plus it would be free of charge (hence the uncertainty that I will do it). I would hope my time here to be enjoyable. TL;DR: I drew stuff one way, now I drew it another. Here are both styles. Hope I didn't mess up anything.

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Twilight Sparkle How did you find MLP Forums?: I did a google search. How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I skeptically tried to find why it was so popular and thought nothing of the show until I watched Bridal Gossip. I enjoyed the show from then. Since joining the fandom back in Season 1, I actually told myself that I was going to strictly only watch the show and make no contributions in terms of art or fan fiction. This didn't come true as I eventually began writing my first fan fiction for the show called In the Background. This story received a bit of popularity and eventually caused the sequel Everything Ends.... Of course, this was a gateway to attempting to draw as well. I'll actually be posting my artwork's evolution in Octavia's Hall section if anyone is interested in that. Drawing and writing is only a hobby of mine. I'm actually a physics major and will be graduating with a minor in chemistry after this semester and starting on getting my Ph.D. in Optics Materials. Drawing and writing is just a hobby of mine.