http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/01/pony-drawing-guides.html
There you go! There's lots of excellent tutorials on there If you want to learn how to draw ponies, use those. And also, forget that it's never a shame to use references, as long as you only use them as a reference and not as something to trace from (because you never learn from tracing stuff). For references from the show, there's a nice dA group (http://mlp-vectorclub.deviantart.com/) with a lot of vectors, usually taken from the show So they're safe to use as a reference. Try not to use the art of others as a reference too much, because if you do that you will most likely copy their errors too, and we don't want that! (most of the tutorials are safe, though, just go for the ones that look best. )