Newbie Artist Training Grounds, 13th edition

The 13th edition of the Newbie Artist Training Grounds is in full swing on Equestria Daily. Give it a try! It's looking a lot like participation is continuing to wane slowly, year after year. The prompts are still idiom rich and situational, more apt for drabbles than drawing improvement pointers. Case in point, yesterday it was: "Draw a pony lining their pockets / Draw a pony finding a silver lining". Several people said they did not know what either prompt meant. 'Draw embezzlement'. 'Draw the positive aspect of a bad situation'. Really now. Calpain shouldn't be passing off idioms as drawing prompts. Even if you preferred to extract the action from the prompt and draw that action, "lining" is not an action in and of itself. So I twisted the whole silver lining on clouds thing.

Remember Hurricane Fluttershy, how Cloudsdale collects groundwater for cloud production? Well some of that water could contain leached silver. That silver would get into the clouds, and when the sun hits the cloud just right, a silver lining appears! Ergo, silver refinery, pegasus style. TEAKAY C II R also knew where to find a silver lining, but they had a different head canon. See https://www.deviantart.com/teakay-c-ii-r/art/2023-NATG-day-9-Finding-the-Silver-Lining-967490059