Sixthousandbees tries an art

Hello! This is a place to collect my drawings. I'm not very good, but I'm getting better! This blog is family friendly, with no swears or nsfw stuff or even stuff that people might find squicky.

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Hey whos your favourite pony?

Maud, Trixie, and Applejack. I cannot choose!

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Happy super early christmas gift fpp!

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A family portrait of Tempest Shadow and Twilight Velvet with their daughter Electro Pop, a charming little filly with a passion for music!

Commissioned from my good friend @suenden-hund

Background from here

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My sister didn’t like throwing decapitated changeling heads about, which was a fair criticism, so now y’all be launching these dumpy lil guys. Also managed to put together a sprite for who they’ll be attacking. fly dash fly!

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lookit what eye made!!

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CHECK this out, this is a shader I’m making using math and GODOT, and even though this is supposed to be a 60fps gif, the version in the game engine is just luxuriously smooth.

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febpont 19 fanartist, tried @drawbauchery style and fav ship

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saw a nmm post on my dash and I was inspired

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febpont 18 humanize: Celly

So normally these humanise pones challenges go mane 6, and I was agonizing on who to draw and how to do diversity without falling into stereotypes. I’m super white, and this is something I worry about. I have no experience with this and I want to do it right. This was a bullet dodge, as celestias white, tall and ethereal, was going to use a ref of gwen christie but this pic of liz debicki stood out.

Wings were from a ref of a swan. Aint drawn wings in a long time and certainly never inked them, this came out so good. Some faults, but I wasn’t going to sketch the individual feathers, so more fool me I guess. I love the effect I got with the lineweights on the gown being obscured by the wing. good job me ^_^ the thing you missed was the back bit of the wing as it curves round, if the arm is visible so should those background feathers. 

horn(s?) are a shoutout to the cool idea that a devils horns are a broken halo, so an angels halo would be a closed loop of horn. I think a singular central horn on a human skull looks weird, so this bypasses that, and links Celly to angels, this idea of holiness, of being set apart and above. oh wait the wings do that too, derp. uuuuuurgh I sincerely missed that when adding in this symbolism lmao.

the proportions seemed so wack when I was sketching it, 8 heads tall?!? isn’t that too tall??? but it looks good, so what do I know of proportions. dumb brain with the bad measuring.

Had the cosmic hair effect be a fireball (re: the sun) centered in the horns instead of the skull. it could’ve come out better, but I was expecting it to have gone much worse.

I aint never inked a human face before (and I still haven’t lol), not too bad, its not making me squirm too much. Man I wish I knew how to draw faces.

This is the full A4 scan, I’m getting better at using more of the paper. Thinking of finding some watercolours or smth, to add some colour to these. we’ll see in time. 

I’m a day and a month behind. .-. 

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febpont 17 fusions

I thought twixie would be interesting, what with the power + no ego & ego + no power. strange how I take the positives rather than the negatives, I’ve never considered a twilightxtrixie fusion that has neither power nor ego.

ran out of space for the hat, I think the stars on the cape is much better done on this one than yesterdays. forehoofs too small, cape too short, horn too long. teef too big/forward? tail could be bigger. I still have the sketch for this so maaaaaaaybe I’ll reupload this better tomorrow? eh.

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febpont 16 DRAW TRIXIE

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febpont 15 fav species unicorns/alicorns, they’re like failed wizards.

They’ve got MAGIC. this ought to be impressive, but its mainly used by the general populace for carrying groceries. The most powerful magic users are ancient beings who dictate how long the sun stays up, yet get kidnapped on the regular.

typing this up I realized they’re quite like discworld wizards. Potentially they could be fearsome, but push comes to shove you’ll find most of them finding a solution thats not magic.

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febpont 14 fav ship: twishy! its niche & kyuut

dont worry sneks not poisonous! shy aint laughing at twis pain either! Twi was trying to help shy but handling the snek all wrong, and snek was getting annoyed but snek only speaks snek. Shy was hearing all the complaining, but forgot twi didn’t speak snek, until she heard a yelp and heard snek make jokey nomming noises.

I don’t really ship anything, this has been a pairing I think would be cute & supportive & complimentary. both just being quiet and gentle. sooooo I think this ship probably started really early, with twi trying to get to know her new friends better, & shy still being cripplingly shy around twi despite having just saved the world together. Twi reading up about animals and how to care and understanding the concept but being baffled in practise, as animals is organic and reading about an animal is a world away from handling an animal. Shy getting enamored by the clumsy but earnest attempts to get to know her & participate in what she loves, even if twi’s scared of some critters. 

“wait is this a date???”

onto the art. I can see theres good stuff, but I want to address the bad, as thats the main method of improvement for me. “I think this would look better”. shys hoof closer to chest, no blackout for shys top hair, the undershadow works tho. slightly change the shape of the shadow on twis ear to show its a startled hors ear, its not easily read here. more poof to twis hair.

I like what I achieved with shys left eye (our right), but the other one is slightly bulgey.

also spoilers but pone noses are the things I am super bad at, I can’t get the shape right, and here I have managed to hide BOTH

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febpont 13 bes princes celly!!

This is chronoligically out of order, I did this before the rarity gown pics as can be told by the gown on her. The gown works, but the face needed work.

Celestia probably should’ve caught the “best pony” spot. sure she’s weak and ineffective, but an immortal ruler that genuinely and completely cares for their mortal subjects is such an idea. just imagine. Like sure she doesn’t manage to do anything in the show, and shes mostly been used as a “oh gosh this villain of the week is super bad!! :O”, but each time she tries. 

She takes the cynical immortality tropes and turns them on their head, shes been faithfully serving her subjects for a thousand years alone, and even with the bratty elite, crushing responsibility and loneliness, she still cares.

She inspires.

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febpont 12 ponysona

I dont have a ponysona, but heres an attempt. Going off of personality rather than irl looks. I should’ve gone over the bee again after rubbing out the pencil, but it was rather fine stuff. I’m pleased with the effect, but trying to cartoonise a bee was hard :s I tried just an oval and it caused me anguish

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febpont 11 fav non-pony species: FRUIT BATS

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febpont 10, villain: the indomitable fizzlepop berrytwist

it was originally going to be chrissi, as she said “friendship, naaaaaaaah” but I had just done a chrissi pic and I wanted to diversify the things I drew. I was a lil bit stuck, then remembered the movie. Tempest is an enjoyable villain. perhaps because she was a competent villain, who talked a big game because she could deliver a big game. A+

trying out some large solid black shapes to give the piece some interest and pop, and I think they worked. You’ll be seeing more of them as we progress :)

the pics where I’ve used the movie as a ref have come out SO GOOD. this face and the rarity& flutters face in the fav song pic i’m really proud of.