I like pandas.

Jul 24 2018

ATG Day 1: Draw a pony standing / Draw a pony frozen in place.

I’ve been looking forward to EQD’s Artist Training Grounds all year, so I guess I’m drawing again.

Jul 25 2018

ATG Day 2: Draw a pony in action / Draw a pony on the run.

You want action? That’s Rainbow Dash’s middle name.

Rainbow Danger Professionalism Action Dash.

Aug 01 2018

ATG Day 10: Draw a pony doing something you like to do in real life / Draw a pony doing something they wouldn’t normally do.

No, I don’t like to go to bars and drunkenly hit on stallions. Yes, Marble gets a bit flirty after a cider or two.

Thanks to all of y’all that watched the stream! I’ll be posting the sketches later.

Warmup sketches from last night’s late late stream. Thanks again to everyone who made it! <3

Aug 12 2018

ATG Day 19: Draw an exhausted pony / Draw a pony out of gas.

Even a party pony can’t party forever. Take a break, Ponk.

This is how I’ve felt most of this week while I fought off the last traces of the flu. I just want to go to bed and wake up feeling 100%, or at least a B+.

Aug 22 2018

ATG Day 28: Draw a pony reaching the end of their journey / Draw a pony meeting their end.

Totally original interpretation, I know.

Day 29′s prompt is to redraw an older piece. Feel free to look through my old stuff, let me know if there’s something you’d like to see me redraw. Leave your suggestions as a link in an Ask. If something gets enough attention or tickles my fancy, I’ll consider it.

https://yakoshi-art.tumblr.com/ask

Aug 23 2018

ATG Day 29: Redraw an earlier piece from the ATG or if you’re a veteran artist redraw one of your early pieces / Draw as many of our prompts as possible in one drawing.

Poked around through some of my old posts and ran across this Sunny Shimsham from 2015. The difference a few years of practice make!

Sep 18 2018

Wanted to do a little experiment. The left is Pinkie using circles and guidelines, the right is attempting to draw her freehand. As you can see, the left is much more precise and proportional. That’s not to say that every artist needs to use circles, but until I form a consistent template, I sure as hell do.

There’s no shame in it, but the more often you draw and practice, the more comfortable and less reliant you become on certain tools. All in good time, no rush.

For funsies:

Sep 19 2018

Oct 01 2018

Jacktober!

That’s right, while everyone else is doing Inktober or Spooptober or what have you, I’m drawing Applejack. October is National Apple Month (in the US, anyway), so I’ve decided to dedicate it to the Best Pony.

Before I go any further, let me preface this by saying I can almost guarantee I won’t be drawing an Applejack every single day. I’ll try, but I know how quickly I can burn out, and the last thing I want is to get tired of drawing my favorite horse.

That being said, Happy Jacktober, y’all!

In other news, I’ve hit another milestone!

Thank y’all so much! This legitimately brought a tear to my eye. I honestly thought I’d peaked back around 700 a long time ago. At one point I was actually losing followers, most likely due to lack of updates, among other things. It’s awesome to know there are still people out there that are just now discovering me and liking what they’re seeing.

I was feeling a bit more confident, so I decided to open up a ko-fi! If anyone enjoys what I do and wants to help out now and then, well, now you can. Anything helps!

Now, what to do if I ever hit 1000…