Lux

I remember POGS. Still have one of the metal slammers. Ah nostalgia.

that advice. Actually I hand draw the sketch, scan it, and then trace it on GIMP. Although I haven't drawn an art from scratch on GIMP, I can try that. Usually for layers I have the sketch which I delete when I'm done doing the line art, a line art layer, a color layer, and a shadowing layer. Sometimes below the line art layer I have a background layer.

(OOC: Thanks Bonfire. You'll be seeing a new thread from me soon for the training session.) "Thanks Bonfire," Fire Heart said still trying to calm her flames, "I'll be there Wednesday then." Now that she had found a possible teacher with Bonfire, she could now devote her full attention to Firework. "Sorry about not talking too much to you. I wasn't ignoring you, but I guess I got wrapped up in the conversation. You wanted to go to the store to get supplies to build your fireworks, right? Do you still want to go?"

"Alright, don't blink. You might miss the awesomeness," Sky Flare said before taking off into the air. He then turned and flew a little distance away from where the other ponies were. He then made a U turn and accelerated as fast as he could back towards the ponies, creating his fiery contrail. Just whe he was above them Sky Flare pulled up and acring himself in the air created an elongated loop with the contrail that matched his cutie mark perfectly. It was tricky building enough speed to complete the full loop, but Sky had been practicing this move. He knew every stunt pony needed a signature move, and for now this was his. "So what do you think," Sky said as he landed.

What an interesting episode. Scared Fluttershy is scared to meet dragons. Rainbow doing nutty things? Balderdash! Spike, I'm sorry but when i think of a dragon I don't picture an apron. Bully dragons. I saw that coming. The badly made dragon costume. Now Spike has a pet phoenix? Hope the phoenix parents don't find out...

Can you draw Sky Flare as a request? His pic is my avatar.

"Hmm... best trick," Sky thought trying to reply to Lightning's question. No pony had ever asked him that. Most were just amazed at his stunts without asking if there was a favorite or his best. Finally though he did one trick in mind. "Well all my tricks are awesome, but my favorite has to be my Mark Trick. I need to come up with a cooler name I know. But basically I can create in the sky my cutie mark." While saying this Sky turned slightly so Lightning could see his loop mark. "So... do you want to see it?"

I liked Rasomon and The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari. Others I like are Crouchng Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, and The Illusionist

(OOC: Sorry about that. This thread must have got buried.) "Well it seems mah music is attractin' all sorts of ponies today," Apple Cinnamon said with a little laugh. She never expected to have anypony drop by let alone two. But music was like a magnet to metal, always attracting. Apple Cinnamon didn't mind at all. In fact if she was to be a country music star, she would have to get used to the fans. "So Dunder, do ya want ta here me play? In showed LaughN'Stuff here a little of what ah can do."

Got my Wacom tablet up and running (Yay!). Here's my first art done with it:

Light was pacing about in anticipation as Rarity was busy in the back and Sweetie Belle was busy with the royal pony. Then Hookline came out and announced the status of the dressmaker. "Oh hello Hookline. I'm Guiding light, but you can call me Light. I'm from... well... here." He didn't really know much else to say. It was tricky for him to start conversations, especially with ponies he didn't know.

My confeion is that my friends say I act like Twilight Sparkle most of the time (Constantly reading, talking about nerdy things, sometimes freaking out). This is how I normally act, but when I saw my first episode, I was like "I'm like her!" (Except I'm a guy)They also say I act like Pinkie Pie because I can get hyper excited (and I like sweet things and parties).

Well if it's just me who's seeing it, then I can try it.

A corn huh? You know after the movies you're always stuck in between my teeth. (popcorn, get it?) Anyway, welcome to Canterlot.

I use GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ It's a free art program that contains some nice tools like layers, gradients, brush sizes, text adding, etc. I just started drawing a few months ago. i was looking for an easy tool to clean up and color my sketches. I love GIMP, and it's very easy to use. By the way, my avatar icon was made using GIMP, so that will give you an idea of what it can do.

"Oh thank you thank you thank you," Fire Heart squealed with delight at the thought of getting a mentor who knew spesifically about fire magic. Now she could learn basic magic at the university and fire magic from Bonfire. Suddenly her fire magic activated again due to her excitement. "Oops. Sorry. It'll die down eventually. But yeah, Wednesday is great. I don't have many classes on Wednesday. I'll be there. Oh this is so exciting!" She then turned to Firework who was watching the conversation unfold. "Did youhear that Firework? I got a mentor to help with my fire magic!"

(OOC: Time to add in a little madness.) With all the ponies in the library now, Guiding Light knew that the dragon had his hands full. The unicorn knew that if he was to get the answers he was looking for, he'd have to be patient. Now all he had to do was find a way to occupy his time, and what better way to do so than read! As the dragon was talking to other ponies, Light began to wander the library looking for his first book to read. There were so many to choose from this was going to be easy to find a book but hard to find exactly the right one. He weaved his way through the ponies there, trying to find his perfect book. There it was, on the highest shelf, was a book called Advanced Magical Spellcasting. Light knew there had to be something in there relating to illusion magic. The trick was how to get it down. Light focused his magic on the book, trying to get it down telekinetically. He slowly began to wiggle the book closer towards the edge. Suddenly Light didn't realize the true weight of the book and the book immediately dropped like a stone on Light's head. "Ouch, that didn't go as well as planned. Maybe I should work on my telekinesis too." Now he had a book to read.

Well I believe in ghosts. Had some ghostly experiences happen to me. I sort of believe in aliens. My idea is there must be some life out there in the universe besides what's on Earth. Not I don't think they're the Little Green Men in flying saucers, but who knows? The point is there's lots of things that cannot be explaines, so I keep an open mind.

My goal: Work on my novel. (Already doing that). 1. I'm a Gemini. 2. I don't like eating fish. 3. My first CD I got was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Very random I know... If you met your future self, what would you do?

Exactly... a hologram.

Thanks for your help! I've decided to get a Bamboo Create. The trick is to see how well it will work with GIMP. This will definitely give my art more of a polished look by smoothing the curves and such.

A young white pelted unicorn entered the Carosuel Boutique, a little unsure of himself. It wasn't that he looked lost, but he looked like he never set a hoof into the shop in his life. He lloked around the shop, trying to get a sense of the place. There were several dresses on pony shaped mannequins, a dressing room, a few dresses that were in progress, and other things. Guiding Light wondered if he was in the right place as everything seemed to be for fillies and mares. Yet his concern was calmed as he saw two male ponies there. One appeared to be a fisherpony type. The other looked... different. He certainly didn't have the look of being in Ponyville. He had a rich almost royal look, maybe from Canterlot. Guiding Light then saw Sweetie Belle talking to the royal looking pony. He had to be careful what he said. He didn't want to spoil the party Pipsqueak was planning, and he certainly didn't want to spill the fact that Pipsqueak was head over hooves in love with the unicorn. Light waited until Sweetie Belle was finished with the unicorn stallion, plotting how to go about getting a suit for him for this party.

Well royalty would have to hear from committees, pass laws, attend social gatherings, attend peace treaties, maintain a royal image in all things, see to the affairs of all of Equestria, raise and lower the sun, deal with disputes between the three pony types, etc.

Hmm... who to pick out of my OCs? I think I'll go with Sky Flare and Guiding Light for starters. Note that Guiding Light is a colt, so his would be more of a school crush thing.