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GiantMosquito β How to Draw a Pony
Published: 2012-01-10 03:55:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 37643; Favourites: 1128; Downloads: 2641
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People occasionally ask me how I got as good as I am. Although I'm far from the best fan-artist out there, I thought I'd make this helpful guide to help people learn the process of constructing a cartoon character out of simple shapes. Also, this joke is so very old.Related content
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Haha I kinda feel like this is helpful despite the joke. XD
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hahaha! thats awesome. o just use two circles and go from there ^_^
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I know it was meant as a joke but... that's basically how I do it. I don't bother with stick limbs or spines for ponies anymore.
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Haha, this is an old joke. A funny one, though. xD
However, this has actually helped me a bit... Any time I try to draw ponies, I dunno how to start. xD
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Haha XD I've seen this, but it's an owl in the first place
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But it really helped me though, I really like this long, detailed tutorial.
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How to draw a pony:
Step 1: Don't, because someone else did enough of them to make up for it.
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You just made me realise why ponies are so popular on dA (apart from whole huge MLP fandom). You can construct like half of character just with circles and ovals.
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Haha best tutorial I have ever seen xD This is just how I do it 
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When I do sketches, it's more of odd blobs connected with lines, and everything sort of appears from there. XD And even if this is an old joke, me lovies it!
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i dont even do circles. i just put random lines and hope they come out right.
they dont.
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It's so true. Heck sometimes I don't even draw the two body circles. XD
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What makes it funnier, is that's just about how it works in a nutshell.
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Yeah, I've seen this before, but it still warrants a good laugh. Applause!
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Similar to Kliban's step-by-step instructions on how to draw a cat. Kliban, of course, got more & more crude & insulting with each book, and , if the Bible is true, he had to answer to God for all the insults and such he dumped on Jesus.
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May be an old joke, but I still laughed.
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Alright.....so i draw 3 circle then press the awesome buttom? THATS GREAT
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Before even clicking this I knew what the joke was.
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I normally draw 3 circles then just draw how i feel like. but i trying to keep the legs and body about the size of the head diameter. I did a speed drawing about a week ago [link]
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You know, it's easy to take this as a joke, or arrogance, or haughtiness or so on and so forth, but it just occurred to me that it's actually a really good point.
It's so easy for me to sit here and think and plan and draw and redraw stuff over and over and over again forever, which honestly kind of ruins the fun of it, so I just tried literally drawing only stickponies, then simply drawing the rest of the damn horse, and (probably unsurprisingly) it worked!
I mean I know it sounds arrogant and all, but it's like...do a quick sketch, be it with circles, guides, gestures, what have you, then just fill in the rest of it! Don't even need to OCD over quality or anything, just ride your skills and experience along to the completion of the drawing.
Let it happen, I guess is one way of putting it. It's really hard not to sound like a bad pseudoβintellectual, but I think it boils down to too much thinking, not enough doing.
That's how I did my first drawings ever, and they turned out stupendously, so it's interesting that I'd forget that (or not even be aware of it in the first place) until like half a year later.
Anyway, thanks GM. Intentionally or unintentionally, you just helped me learn a MAJOUR lesson in art.
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Yup
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Aha, now i know where I was going wrong! I kept forgetting Step 2!
Haha, I love this
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Gotta love this joke, no matter how old it gets... I think it's funny that a lot of people work with geometry this way. Maybe I'm just shit or something, but I've always practiced a work of flow called "just f*cking wing it".
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That shows in your work. 
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I'll try to implement it a bit more, but so far, my results usually end up better when I just start sketching without any geometrical shapes and then erase and improve upon that initial sketch
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I knew I was missing a step somewhere. . . people kept complaining about my circles not being pony enough.
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I always hated 'how to draw' books, because they ALL read that way to me.
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Most of them just go to step two, in my experience. The ones that actually have step one are slightly useful.
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Ooooooh~ I see! I was doing Step 2 wrong. Now I know what to do with all these damn circles...!
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I've been doing it wrong this entire time!
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This is just what I needed, thank you so much!
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That's pretty much what I do...except I use less circles....as in...one circle.
Quality beginner's guide to pony drawing.
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