So since I’ve dabbled a bit in digital painting and didn’t fail miserably, I feel I might actually be able to get the hang of painting ponies. The only problem is that I need to do some serious practice when it comes to the basics of ponies, and drawing in general. (I tried to take some classes but they kinda back-fired, but that’s community college for you).
Unfortunately, most of the pony tutorials are crap, especially the ones that everypony likes to show to newbies asking for art advice.
You know, these ones:
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Now they aren’t inherently crap.They certainly have a lot of information, but none of it is useful to somepony like me who doesn’t know how to process it. To their credit, I’m pretty sure the creators made them with the thought that the viewer would be able to do the guess work of what it all means, but I need my hand held when it comes to this stuff. Like having it explained like I was a 5 year old. I look at the tutorials and for some reason it just doesn’t click with me, and then when I go to draw with what I’ve taken away from the tutorials my ponies come out looking robotic, or their poses don’t look natural, or I can’t get the proportions right.
So I was wondering if anypony could give me some easy to understand resources to learn how to draw ponies with.
I’m struggling with proportion, scale, anatomy and body structure, drawing ponies in different and dynamic poses. It all revolves around the basics of drawing.But more specifically, I need help understanding the anatomy of an mlp pony (e.g those lines and joint circles drawing inside the body and hooves), I need help understanding how all the parts of the pony relate to each other when sketching (like how far to make the head circle from the body circles, how far apart to make the body circles from each-other).
I fell if I can get a hang of those then I’ll be able to draw ponies in different poses other than a standing side view or a 3/4 shot, but right now I just don’t know what tro do to make a good looking, proportional pony.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everypony.
As much as people say you need to, you don’t really need to focus on specific anatomy.As for me it’s just instinct that tells me whether or not something just looks right or not.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
then when I go to draw with what I’ve taken away from the tutorials my ponies come out looking robotic, or their poses don’t look natural, or I can’t get the proportions right
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