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Would you ask this ask blog things if it were a thing?
Dunes replied to Dunes's topic in Art Discussion
I DUN DID IT. Bam! Theme/layout/whatever still pretty simple, but, whatever. QUESTIONNNN: Is the text readable like that? If not I shall either use a typeface or force myself to slow down when I write. -
For some reason, I tend to see Flutterdash as a close-friends type relationship, and then I end up spinning it that one of them likes the other but it's not mutual in that way, never will be, and someone gets left heartbroken when the other falls in love with a stallion. N-not that I'm projecting or anything... Of the common Dash 'ships I see, though, Flutterdash is the one that breaks my head the least. I never cared for Appledash. Yes, I do turn characters into lesbians in my head (because I am starved for gay characters; The L Word sucks, there are only so many Sarah Waters BBC adaptations to watch, most mainstream gay characters are either terrible or are treated terribly within the show, and God help me if I ever see another "two lesbians try to have/adopt a baby" storyline, RRRGHHH.) But even though they're both tomboyish and I could easily picture them as gay, I see them as more... lady-bros. And none of the other ships with Dash really appeal to me, either. I liked the FlutterDash logic Dessa posted. That's the kind of reason I'll often read fics with them in it.
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Would you ask this ask blog things if it were a thing?
Dunes replied to Dunes's topic in Art Discussion
So I think I may have just answered my own question about whether or not to do this. >.> -
Would you ask this ask blog things if it were a thing?
Dunes replied to Dunes's topic in Art Discussion
Haha, the yeti thing is my own personal blog. I just posted the pictures there to put them all in one place without having to upload them individually through FTP and linking to them one by one. I figured I'd save putting up an actual Tumblr for that character until I made a decision one way or the other. That does concern me too, the burning out thing... But then, if I never try, I fail anyway. And so long as I ended up with enough people paying attention to occasionally ask stuff and give me fodder to use, I'd be fine. I don't really need to be Tumblr-famous or anything. I just want an excuse to draw cute ponies. >.> -
[Update] My art skills have improved (I think)
Dunes replied to CrossStitch's topic in Art Discussion
I went and found the older topic. These drawings show that you're more comfortable drawing them now, I think! The lines looked pretty hesitant in your older drawings, and in the sketchier tablet pictures, they show a lot more confidence. And I really like the sketchy, expressive lines you used. I would suggest is to make sure that any white you leave in your picture while coloring is deliberate. The airbrushing looks streaky in some of these. Something that might help with that is to turn the brush hardness all the way up so the edges aren't fuzzy at ALL, filling in your colors, and then going back in with the soft airbrush to add shadows and highlights. Also, I would definitely, definitely do some studies of real horses and ponies, too, if you haven't already. I know MLP ponies (especially G4) are very simplified and operate a lot more like rag dolls than real horses. But having a feel for how horses move and how their bones and muscles are structured will give you more knowledge to pull from when you are drawing FiM ponies. That goes for any cartoony style, too -- study and draw the real thing, and your simplified versions will look so much more believable. Keep at it! I think you've made some good headway since that first post. -
So. Those ask blogs look fun. They look really fun and I want to do one. So I made a mock-up of a start for one. I'm using a tweaked version of this character (who is now less mean-sounding, and more along the lines of 'well-meaning curmudgeon with borderline PTSD'. Still handicapped former military who's gone into teaching in a run-down school, though.) POINT OF POST: Is this a start-off that has been done a million times or something on blogs that I've missed? Does it sound like a decent enough concept? Would you ask it things and/or possibly follow it if it were an actual blog on Tumblr? (Assuming you are the kind of person who follows ask blogs on Tumblr in the first place, that is.) I am 100% accepting of feedback and criticism and whatnot. It would be a little more polished up and would likely look along the lines of this, albeit without the textured background. Normally I'd be all "to heck with it, I'll do what I want 'cause I want to", but since the ask format kind of relies on audience participation... I'd like to know if it would be able to expect any! Thanks y'all!
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From the album: Dunes' Art Stuff
Help, I accidentally Florence Welch. (Yes, her cutie mark is a pair of lungs.) -
Sapphire nodded at Timbre as he hopped up on the stage. She closed her eyes and swayed as he started to sing, humming in harmony with him as she got a feel for the rhythm. His strange syllables and nonsense words came in a fairly fast succession, hitting upbeats and downbeats and all the little beats inbetween. Words long and slow would be the key here. “I can’t wait, To be home, a—gain…” Each word hit the downbeat and held through the bar, her voice ringing like a bell, allowing Timbre’s singing to come through. “With the ships A – shore, Light spills Out your door…” Crescendo gave way to decrescendo, and back again, never leaving a note without a direction. Her jaw trembled sympathetically with her vibrato – a bad habit she’d learned before training properly, and one she was still trying to kick. “I’ve come a long, long way, Just to see Your face, Come and warm my heart…” She realized she hadn’t opened her eyes once since Timbre had gotten on stage. It was as if her entire world had become the lilted melody he was singing. “But we’ll always be So far apart, I’ll just be off again Come morning sun, And that’s just the way It has to be. I’ll be home again, Just don’t wait for me.” Her eyelid tickled as a tear welled up, but she blinked it away as she opened her eyes. That wasn’t anything like her normal music, but the words had poured out of her. She wasn’t even sure who she was singing about. She felt startled at herself. Shaking it off, she exhaled and grinned at Timbre. “Heck of a duet, Mr. Timbre. Heck of a duet.”
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Crystal smiled at Arrow when the filly ran over, relieved that her cruel little joke’s effects had worn off without ill effect. She supposed that the desert really wasn’t the place for things like that. She’d never been much of a prankster; she always ended up feeling guilty. It seemed the little one wasn’t holding a grudge, at least. She perked up at Telki’s offer. Fresh fruit? Full of water and everything? Her mouth watered at the thought of it; she couldn’t hide her expression of filly-like glee. “That would be awesome, Telki!” She’d been looking away when Arrow stuck her tongue out at Milky, and missed the rude little gesture entirely. She raised an eyebrow and tilted her head at Milky, who had angrily flown up to the ledge. “What’s with you?”
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Thanks! After many attempts with unsatisfying results, though, I've started trying to insert my own style into Ponydom less... realistically? It never quite looks right when I try to draw them more like I'd draw a real pony. Been working on getting them to look like I drew them (rather than looking like I tried to copy right offa the show) in other ways, though. EDIT: blerg, question retracted until I fix the presentation to my liking.
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So when did you... if at all... take the plunge into buying Pony stuff?
Dunes replied to Eureka's topic in Pony Chatter
I'm not 100% sure. Last... october? november? Maybe? I resisted for a while. Then I was at Walmart, spotted an Applejack, and thought, "Well, heck, I'll just get my favorite character. That'll be the end of it." Then I got the rest of the main six. Then I got Celestia, Luna, Cheerilee, and the CMC. Then people just started buying me ponies. Which is fantastic! But I went from having one pony on my computer desk to having to install a shelf just so I'd have a place to put them. >.> I have all the McDonald's ones from this year, too. Plus a Celestia from last year! My mentor teacher took it up from a kid last semester, and they never came back to claim it, so she let me have it. SUCCESS. Now I have MLP bedsheets, a pony pillow, a pony blanket, an entire pony shelf (and I'm running out of room)... I'd have a pony plush except the ones that hasbro sells are creepy looking and I couldn't afford one of those awesome custom ones that artists make. -
From the album: Dunes' Art Stuff
I DUN COLORED IT. I tried to pick dusky colors, and make her cutie mark look like the evening star in the night sky. Also made her head bigger. Her head did not look as freakishly tiny in sketch form as it did when I colored it. :< (I guess it probably did, I just didn't notice until I colored it.) Leave it to me to turn a pretty badass ancient goddess into a pink pony. >.> -
From the album: Dunes' Art Stuff
Doodle thingy. So I had a thought after the season finale. Who’s Cadence’s mom? She’s not really presented as Luna’s daughter, nor Celestia’s, so presumably there’s another alicorn out there somewhere. Then I got to thinking about Celestia basically being a sun goddess, Luna being a moon goddess, and hey, there’s a bunch of celestial bodies out there. So I got to lookin’ at Venus/Aphrodite, thinking, hey, didn’t Venus have a daughter named Harmonia? (Harmonia, Cadence, eh? Eh?) But Aphrodite wasn’t as interesting to me as Astarte, an earlier goddess who the Greeks may have borrowed aspects of for Aphrodite. Both are goddesses of love, but Astarte is also a goddess of war. War/love struck me as an interesting duality. So, uh, I turned Astarte into an alicorn. With one of Astarte’s symbols as her cutie mark (a star inside a circle, to represent the planet Venus/the evening star). Her hair’s meant to be fiery, like love AND war. I also saw a statuette of Astarte with a two-horned crown on, so I stole that too. And my explanation is either "Astarte was the predecessor of Aphrodite, goddess of love, so Cadence is equivalent to Aphrodite in that equation because of her love powers" or "Astarte is equivalent to Aphrodite, who had a daughter named Harmonia, which is kinda musical sounding like Cadence, and who was also the goddess of harmony and concord (Cadence made those two ponies stop fighting!)". Which is a lot of thought put into a doodle-pony. Definitely overthinking it, and may have missed any canonic declarations of whose daughter Cadence is during my self-imposed, pre-expensive-test-taking internet hiatus, but whatever. I may finish this if I figure out a background and don’t decide the pose is too boring. Or I don't decide that I have basically made Rapidash with wings. -
GUESS WHO PASSED HER CERTIFICATION TESTS. This lady, right here. All that time studying paid off! I'm back!
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Alright. I'm in the home stretch. I have my Art Content certification test next Thursday, and my PPR exam the Thursday after. Until I've gotten both of those tests out of my way, I am gonna go on a bit of an internet sabbatical. I'll be back in two weeks!
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The goal is to show how different visual characteristics can affect the mood of a piece. The Hedgehog clip is very muted in color, highly textured, and the characters are more realistic looking. Ponies are brightly colored, vectored, and cute. MLP does have its tense moments, but it definitely has a different feel than the russian animation short, which is much more subdued. I'm gonna use it as a segue into talking about paintings, how the dissonant colors and jagged lines of a Picasso create a much different mood than the delicate, cloudlike brushstrokes of a Monet. That kinda thing! I'm loving these clip suggestions so far! Thanks everyone.
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Haha, that may have something to do with the middle school students I teach. There's only so many times you can hear "HAHA Joey's ga-a-a-aaayyy!" without briefly considering it. -
I was a Trekkie way before I was a Brony. John DeLancie 4 LYFE.
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That there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the Apple family keeps pigs. D:
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... D: Seriously? I think if you've reached that point as a teacher, it's time to retire. Some of the best days I've had as a student teacher were when the students were up and about, working on things they wanted to work on. Half of the class was finishing a drawing project, the other half was either stitching or finger weaving. They were relaxed, enjoying themselves, and working on art! Voluntarily! (uh, suffice it to say this character is not at all a reflection of my own teaching style or philosophy.)
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Dunes commented on sarcatsic's gallery image in Canterlot Community Art
I enjoy that her cutie mark is a muffin. Is there a story about her or is she an RP character or something? -
I figure they probably give her the difficult kids that nobody else wants to deal with.
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So! I'm a student teacher at a middle school, and I am working on a lesson talking about artistic style and how it affects the mood of a piece. To start that, I'm gonna talk about cartoons. I want to compare a clip of (because it's artsy and Russian and I love it) with a clip from MLP (because it's awesome). Hedgehog in the Fog is kinda eerie, moody, and with subdued colors; yet still intended for kids. My Little Pony is colorful, chipper, and funny, and also intended for kids. I think it would be a good compare/contrast.MY QUESTION TO YOU, BRONIES: Which pony clip should I pick? I've got that link up there set to the timestamp I'd start the clip at for the Hedgehog one, but I'm at a loss of which Pony clip I could use. There are so many! (I'm not 100% sure which section this should go in -- apologies if it's in the wrong place.)
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From the album: Dunes' Art Stuff
I'm considering making this a thing on tumblr. I've had this idea rattling around in my head for a while. Plus those ask blogs look SO FUN but I am so busyyyyy D: Blast Effect is ex-military, turned to teaching, honorably discharged after a bomb defusion went wrong and cost her a limb. MISSILES OF KNOWLEDGE, DETONATING WALLS OF IGNORANCE, ARMING FOALS AGAINST THE FUTURE. (Just don't pop bubblegum in her class; she startles easy.) I looked up horse prostheses to A. see if they existed, and B. see what they look like. There's actually a pony twenty minutes from my house that has a prosthetic leg like that, named Midnight. APPROPRIATE. So I used that design for her leg-thingy. I'm still debating whether or not to do it. Does it even sound like an interesting concept? Either way, I'll probably wait until after I pass my certification test. PRIORITIES. -
FiM items (which stores to get them in)
Dunes replied to carameldelight's topic in Friendship is Magic Series
Found an activity book set at a... Love's Truck Stop? I was going to a cousin's wedding with my family, and my mom walks out to the car with this "My Little Pony Activity Set". The box was covered in G3 ponies, and my brothers and I rolled our eyes at her (we regularly talk about how awful and inane G3 is and I guess she's picked up some of that vicariously). She thought it was hilarious. We decided it'd be kinda funny to make fun of how bad it all was, anyway. Then we opened it up and there were three G4 coloring/activity books inside! Some had stickers! Otherwise, I've occasionally spotted the random, non-show pony figures at Big Lots, and others at Wal Mart, Target, and Toys R Us. I think there's a lot of bronies in this area because I keep spotting the EMPTY blind bag boxes around here.
