Astalakio

This is great. Why aren't they ever drawn as children?

I totally did draw them as children, like a couple of weeks ago

Nice one kiddo, great work with the expressions and nice clean line art too!

Excellent work!

I like what you did with the shading, especially the bits on her wings. Did you use any path finding functions or did you free hand the edges that are up against unshadowed areas?

Thanks All the lines are vectored with vectory tools, and the shading was done freehand with the lasso thingie in Photoshop

This is looking lovely!

Thanks! So are you!

Damn straight ~ this is the bees' knees

When I first saw this, my first impression was that she kind of looks like a ponified version of Gumby. But the hair doesn't fit with a crossover. In fact, her mane stands out so prominently on closer inspection that I think its probably my favorite part. Its got this crazy implied volume even though there's only a little bit of shadowing.

Well I don't know what a Gumby is, so that's obscure enough for me anyway! Thanks as always

...falling? :I

with STYLE!

Well the mouth looks much better now, and props for trying a complicated angle! Nice one

Saw this at your dA and was like "DONT YOU DENY CANTERLOT ITS PINKIE PIE"

Crazily I just forgot to upload it last night! It's weird, Canterlot used to be the only place I uploaded pony pics, and now I almost forget it! Forgive me Canterlot

That your structuring is unconventional is precisely why I'm interested. I've gotten decent at drawing forms that make sense, but bending and stretching them cartoonishly like you do is something I haven't been able to wrap my head around yet.

Well you've done the hard bit then. Cartooning is largely to do with a state of mind rather than a set of rules like standard anatomy. Keep at it and you'll get it though

I love this sort of thing! It's super informative to be able to look at all those sketch lines and make out the process and construction behind these.Do you have any pencils? I want moar sketches! (And if there are too many for gallery, the Art Discussion forum works too)

I love doing that too - hunting down the sketches and WIP pictures from great artists to try and go behind-the-scenes with what they do. It's great fun XD I'm not sure my sketches would be much help in that area though - I believe my structuring method is quite unconventional.

That said, if you want more sketchy stuff from me, check my deviantART scrapbook http://astalakio.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps which I've started putting more things into recently. If I have WIP pics I want to show or general/pencil sketches, I'll put 'em there

Maybe Derpy's cutie mark isn't bubbles at all, maybe its loop-de-loops.

Derpy used Upside-Down Flying!

It's surprisingly effective!

Fluttershy: Hugs?Twilight Sparkle: Hugs are go!I think my favorite part is their baggy, hand-me-down outfits.

Gotta love the bagginess XD

I think I just had a heart attack. That's so precious, I suddenly want daughters.

Whoa there, that's dangerous thinking O.o I'm sure little girls aren't always this cute (actually, having a sister, I know it for a fact XD)

That's all I have to say, nice job

Ha, thanks

Why does Fluttershy look so sad?

I have no idea

Excuse me while I squee. This is absolutely fantastic Astalakio!

Haha, thanks!

I'm just gonna sit here and... look at it. Wow.

Oh you Thanks

Can't argue with that :)Awesomely done

Thanks man

Aww yeah! Not only is it the best pony, but its the best pony x2.

Can't have too much Twilight

Woot awesome twilight is awesome.

Thank you

Pinkie is best pony, but I always admire it when someone picks a one-shot or BG pony as their favorite (So one like for SkyMunki!).Twilight isn't my #1, but I adore her nonetheless, and I really like her smug pose here.

Ha, she's like "How many books have YOU read? Hm, that's what I thought..."

hehe, the first step to achieving Pinkie Pie levels of self levitation is levitating your tail. Sometimes its really the simple things that make you smile, you know, a quick sketch with a bright expression.

I agree, that's why I decided to digitize it so I could share the smiles

She's happy because she finally figured out how to levitate her tail, Rayman-style.

Achievement unlocked!

It's.... it's.... IT'S SO ADORABLE

Heehee, thanks

Seriously should try DA, just afraid all my pony stuff would flop.

Trust me my friend, there is NO chance of that. Throw each of your pics into a couple of the pony related groups, and after that they just spread of their own accord. You get a bunch of notifications from people wanting it in their groups, and the more of them you get in, the more people see it and so on. You'll do well.

One of the very few ships that I actually actively support.