My Traditional Art

[TerminalObsession 250]

So, things happened, and now I have a working scanner! To celebrate this amazing event, I will be posting some of my slightly not sucky drawings from this school year. Don't be fooled; This gallery is kinda like a lesson in all the ways I can screw things up fatally.

 

So I drew my OC, Ironblade. As it turns out, coloring with a graphite pencil and then lugging around a drawing in your backpack for months is a great way to make it blotchy as all hell. I mean, look. At least Iron has a fairly blotchy coat anyway, so it's no big loss, and I used colored pencils for all the others.

 

As it turns out, my scanner is still a crappy one and can't see colors very well. This is Donut Steel, whose coat was originally a peachy cream color before my scanner decided it was going to be blind. At least you can kinda see it in her left hooves, which are darker. Her eyes are supposed to be bright cherry read, with the streak in her mane being much pinker than shown. The black spots are oil stains. 

 

This one actually turned out okay, with no obvious horrible flaws other than me accidentally cropping out my signature a little bit. The blue-to-white gradients in her wings turned out really well, in my opinion! I also just really like this OC in general.

 

I don't quite like the accessories on this one, but, being the first time I tried that at all, she turned out mostly alright! Her wings could have been better, but I still don't quite have a style for them. And the scanner dulled out the shading and her colors, but whatever, she still looks nice!

 

These two are technically the same pony, so I decided to try a mirror image-type thing, which absolutely did not backfire horribly on me. This is my most recent color drawing. I kinda screwed up Vermilion's shading, and Mercury's coat looks kind of blotched (not nearly as bad as the first drawing, though.) But that's minor nitpicking; I'm still proud of this one.

 

I'll also post some pencil sketch things, which I drew in a different style.

 

This is Rainbow Dash, with mechanical wings that I kind of messed up terribly and never went back to fix. I didn't quite understand what I was doing wrong with the way her wings are attached to her body, and they don't look that good, which is kind of bad. They were supposed to be the focal point; Mechanical stuff is not my thing, apparently. On the bright side, I really like how her face came out.

 

Sorry about the darkness; It was the only way I could find to actually make the lines visible, because they're not drilling-holes-through-the-paper dark. Even so, some of them aren't the most clear, but at least you should be able to see it. God, my scanner is bad, but it's better than the alternatives. But other than that, I actually really like it. It's not complete; This drawing was supposed to be a cover for a fanfiction I really like, but I'm almost afraid to color it, lest I screw it up.

 

So yeah, look at my arts and give me virtual internet points! Those are nice. 

[Your Nightly Spectre 1,061]

That is actually very neat. Gods praise your scanner for delivering us these exquisite pieces of art. xD

 

No but seriously, very neat work!

[TerminalObsession 250]

That is actually very neat. Gods praise your scanner for delivering us these exquisite pieces of art. xD

 

No but seriously, very neat work!

Yes, they are truly perfection! All hail scanner!

 

Also, I may have screwed up on actually using the scanner, but whatever, past is past.

[Ankha 35]

The necks are too long for ponies. You should try to work them into giraffes instead.

[TerminalObsession 250]

The necks are too long for ponies. You should try to work them into giraffes instead.

Yeah... I'm trying to curb the urge to make everything into a hybrid giraffe. Not much progress so far, sadly.