Amen.

I’ve gotten involved in a vast array of art forms, from drawings to music to fanfiction, but I’ve never been able to get involved in larger projects. I really want to work with some other bronies, in any way really!
 
Particularly if I can do voice work :D

This is a necessary and positive thread, and I wish to add my widespread congratulations to the artists who put in all of that work to bring us this awesome flow of pony pics.

Yep, making (good) art is a massive time investment.
 
When some (very) pro artist post the number of hours, say, 3-8, that it took them to finish a quality piece, I flip out, because I work days on the crappiest, sketchiest things usually. When I make something that I am even remotely happy with, that usually means a solid 8+ hours of work over multiple days - and I hardly ever do even basic retouching like shadows and such.
 
I’m not saying this to discuurage anyone because it can become a lot faster if you are talented & experienced, but anyone who will do that daily for free has my respect.

I’ll join op thanks. I can’t do anything myself and I’m fully aware place like this won’t even exist without artist.

^^^ Letting it slide as an exception is a-OK, but I think that text topics and fanfiction belong on sites focused on them (Ponychan or /mlp/ and FiMfiction), primarily.
 
Does not mean that a small amount can’t be allowed to exist, but only at a minimum. For example, I thought that one “episode 13 discussion” post was a good idea (it lets everyone to leave/discuss their opinions in one thread, rather than scattering it among random images), but posting your opinion as a text upload instead of a comment, I consider that spam.
 
Was “here’s an obligatory pony” ever anything else than an in-joke? I think whether you paste in a pony screencap isn’t what matters, it’s whether the text itself is pony related or not.

I know that feel.

@TheLoneLampman  
This, art, in its many forms, can take a massive time investment, not to mention other things, just to try and get to a point where you can say you are getting good.
 
I’m a very technical person myself, i don’t have a drop of creativity or artistic skill and, while i could probably learn said skills, the “me” from right now is unable to make anything one could call art. That alone is enough to make me appreciative of other people efforts and results.

Creating can take a lot of work, yes, this is very true.
 
Thanks to everyone making, viewing, voting, and commenting as well.

I think we can let text only stuff slide without ponies if it’s talking about ponies/fandom directly.
 
The standard practice of “obligatory pony” opens up too many loopholes to be exploited anyways.

Where’s my pony?!

V The art flow is also seemingly never ending, and picture or text is just a matter of how you express the same thing, you can definitely take it apply to yourself. :)
 
(PS Derpibooru is still (mostly) image-only, before anyone misunderstands this.)

I add to the never ending fanfic flow, does that cou-
 
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Yep, makes me envious of all the fine artists out there.

Amen.

You’re welcome, but couldn’t you have put in the effort of drawing a pone for this all text post?

i agree, it takes quite a bit of work to make so much art.