The time has come...

[Gigapony 650]

...to draw human pones.

With the coming of Equestria Girls (which I loved, by the way), so comes my inevitable desire to want to draw them. So, just like when I drew my first pony, I went with Twilight again, and looked up a reference.

JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE HARD TO DRAW.

Few things you should know about this image. The reference I used was pretty poor (small resolution, older image, missing a few details) and the picture suffered as a result. Also my inexperience with this design really (REALLY REALLY) shows.

So while I do welcome constructive crits, please be gentle!

 

 

Not 100% happy with it, but also not 100% unhappy. Most of what's wrong with it I'm already aware of (proportions being the biggest issue), but I'm going to try to improve on this once better reference images start trickling in.

[Naught Important 434]

That is amazing compared to what I can do. I can't draw humans to save my life...

I can see the eraser marks all around the fingers, which seems logical, considering that is, in my opinion, the hardest part of drawing humans...

 

Sadly, I am no art critic, but I do really like it!

[Lost 1,411]

Everything about this seems fine, I haven't watched Equestria Girls so I'm not 100% on If its show accurate proportions or not

 

The only criticism I have is that the right foot as we see it (her left foot) is larger than the other.

 

Good job though, humans are hard to draw

[Gigapony 650]

Thank you both~

 

Interestingly enough, I didn't do any erasing on the hand, but the lines there are indeed very sloppy/fuzzy looking because I could barely see the fingers in the reference so I just kinda half-arsed the hand. The legs on the other hand, so much erasing there...lol

 

And I definitely agree on the feet/shoes. I was surprised at how hard those are to get right.

[Burnt Toast 9]

I think it is cookie-worthy, my good sir. My only quibble (hah! I love that word!) is that her right eye's pupil seems like it should be a bit bigger, but maybe that's only me.   Continue your art, I would like to see more.

[Silverwisp the Bard 2,354]

 

 

please be gentle!

Very well, I shall wear my metaphorical mittens. Have at ye!

 

-face is a bit too wide

-the angle of upper body and neck makes her look huched

-eyes might look better a bit rounded out

-bagstraps go beside boobs, not over

-poor girls legs are nowhwere near close nough together to connect in any healthy way

[Gigapony 650]

Ouch, bro!

 

Nah, just kidding, that's just the type of constructive crit I was looking for, cheers.

 

As for the face: agreed, the neck angle: agreed, eyes: hmmmm, yeah I think so too, bagstraps: semi-agreed, it really depends on the scene but at least in the stock image I referenced, her straps do indeed go over her chest, the legs: mostly agreed, now that I better understand this style's anatomy/proportions and how LONG the legs are meant to be.

 

SO. Time for another go, yeah? Probably wasn't ready to freehand it, so I'm taking a different approach. Normally when I draw (realistic) humans I draw a body first and then layer clothes over it. But EG doesn't use realistic proportions so I have to create a custom base so I know what the body should look like and get a better idea of it.

 

And so I did, in a semi-cheating way. I looked up the same Twilight image, and literally placed a paper over it and traced out the body lines (or rather, my best guess at them). So I give you: Twilight Sparkle, the adorable Grey Alien...

 

NOTE: She's not meant to be "naked" in this pic, it's just her body outlines.

 

 

 

 

Apologies for the faintness of the lines, I used very light pencil strokes to keep it eraser-friendly.

Edited June 25, 2013 by Gigapony