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Day14_Its_All_In_Your_Head

Perhaps it was the bag of cherries on the counter, perhaps the cherry ice cream in the freezer, but I came to realize that what we were asked to draw, the impossible 'living of the best life' or a sterile cityscape coated in scarlet paint, that the answer is "that it's all in your head". Or in the Magical Land of Equestria, it's in a changeling pod, as per Kris Overstreet's Changeling Space Program where the bright green chrysalises act like full immersion VR simulators. Those pastel love bug metamorph critters have to have a food source and some ponies got to have sunshine in a bag. But not for long, the future is coming on.

The ponies living it up are Svengallop, Angelwings, John Candy, Twist, Wind Rider and some other pony. The 7th pod might as well be empty.

As for drawing a town and dozens of buckets of red paint, nope. Not doing that. John Candy in pod 3 can take care of that.
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Day13_Hitting_the_Road

Well, I'm back on track. I started this yesterday and the 48 hours between prompts gave me time to fix a few things after work today before breaking out the coloured pencils. Redrew the ears for the umpteenth time, gave the sledgehammer some pushed perspective, rounded out the face, increased the eye size (might not have been an improvement) and added some wrinkles. The 2nd to last prompt drops in a few hours. I hope it's a good one.

NATG XV Task 12: Special Talent Mark

Jun. 25th, 2025 05:25 pm
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Day12_Cutie_Mark

Yesterday was a complete write-off, a migraine had me in its clutches from morning until well into the night. It's amazing to me that after spending all that time napping or attempting to nap, my eyes resisted opening this morning. So I'm _still_ playing catch-up in the art challenge. This is for 'trying something new; getting a cutie mark'. So this is a 2 fer 1. Neighberry getting her cutie mark. Accidentally swallowing green bottle flies is now her special talent.

NATG XV Prompt 11: Dressed to Kill

Jun. 23rd, 2025 10:43 pm
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Day11_Dressed_to_Kill

Dressed to kill. It was either this or Friday the 13th. Tomorrow: if your special talent is accidentally swallowing insects, what does your cutie mark look like?
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Day10_Blucifer_at_the_Beach

This combines "learning a new skill" with the alt-NATG "beach" prompt. Blucifer is a gigantic statue outside of Denver airport in Colorado. Blucifer is anatomically correct where it counts, so naturally a My Little Blucifer is hilarious. I was going to have Princess Celestia (with Princess Luna) as the pony admiring the view, but I couldn't get her drawn right. I decided to give Blucifer dreads, but perhaps spikes held up with gel would have been more apropos.
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Day09_Crossover

I finished colouring this at about one minute past midnight, too late for the deadline. So I went to bed. The task this time was re-imagine as a pony or insert pony into something. I replaced Bambi with Fluttershy.

NATG XV Prompt 7: Hobby Horse (late)

Jun. 16th, 2025 09:55 pm
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Day07_Hobby_Horse

Well, since I was ahead of the game in this art challenge thing, I was mulling over translating "hobby" as a pony eating grass in an emulation of a Joe Camel advert. But 'pony drawing a human' as a hobby was suggested to me and I got to thinking. So here we are, a pony getting humans wrong as a comment on people drawing ponies as bipedal amputee cats. Ha!

Oh crap, I must have just missed the extended deadline. The Prompt 7 submitter is closed. I'll just store the "original size" URL here in case there's a "do any of the past prompts" prompt. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54594686216_6509c3415e_o.jpg

NATG XV, 8th Task: Cry Me To The Moon

Jun. 15th, 2025 06:04 pm
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Day08_Over_the_Moon

Two, two, two tasks in one: pony beside themselves and pony over the moon. So you get an anguished foal bawling like a calf while sitting over three moons. One moon is mostly hidden under Princess Luna's tail. Now the question is why is Princess Luna giving pony rides?

Well, I'm early, deadline is tomorrow. Now what? Maybe draw a pony whose hobby is eating grass, as per Task 7.

View Page Source works on Flickr if javascript/cookies are disabled, but it takes a while. I think it causes Firefox to use too many resources and everything gets very slow, then Firefox crashes. But I get my "original size" URL, despite Flickr policy.

Save an astronaut, ride Luna.