Question to anyone who can draw: could you please point me to some human drawing tutorials? (Not the standard Equestria Girls style.)

I feel that the time has come for me to learn how to make art for my stories, as commissioning is still beyond my current financial possibilities, but my Googling attempts only left me confused and I cannot choose. Maybe your expertise can help?

First, you will need two important programs. Photoshop and Adobe Animate With Photoshop, it is easy to add the title and background to the image and make other adjustments if necessary. This is the simplest part of the process and the one that takes the least time.

With Adobe Animate, it is much more complicated and complex. First, you need the flash files of the ponies or any other MLP character; they can be easily obtained on the internet.

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I'm going to show you all how to turn this

Into this.

Using only Ms Paint.

Take a picture of your sketch with your phone. Make sure you use a filter on the photo so that there is no black in the picture (this is important later on).

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Foalcon might technically be legal, but there are people who would hurt people that write it, or the sites that host it. After getting blocked from here by CloudFlare for the umpteenth time, I start to look for ways to protect myself from that, and in turn protecting Fimfiction from any such malicious action. So, I thought I’d share what I found, for what it’s worth.

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Y'know, trying to watch a tutorial video while working in Blender at the same time really starts to cramp the screen when your resolution is 1920x1200.

Here's the linkey.

This is sort of a repost. A long time ago, I helped out the founder of a group, and they gave me admin rights. So I wrote up a tutorial in that group. Barely anypony saw it. I thought it was worth copying it, dusting it off, and posting it as a blog, as others might be interested, and I think it was a good tutorial.

So here's my tutorial on how to make a group:

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Greetings, you curious readers! Seeing as I frequently get questions regarding when/how things will happen with my weekly review blog, I’ve decided it’s long-past time to show exactly how I organize everything. This blog will be a rundown of my methods for selecting what stories to read, when they are to be reviewed, and so on. It is, basically, a direct walkthrough of my actions, following along as I schedule a blog for this week in realtime. This will likely be a long and winding path, and

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If the pic seems small, right-click it and choose "View image". It's bigger than it's supposed to be.

This guide is mainly for people who are new to Fimfiction, because there's no great "How to Groups" tutorial on the site. I've explained it a lot over the years to new people, and I wanted a permanent blog I could just link to, plus I figure it might help some of the new authors following me (and even some long time ones don't really get the importance of this). Because it's aimed at new authors, I'm gonna explain pretty much everything in detail, assuming you know nothing about how groups

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I've always been jealous of speed readers. Y'know those people that can read whole novels in hours and you can only scratch your head in wonder as they turn yet another page after 45 seconds. Perhaps you're one of them. And don't worry, I know about Spreeder and I've spent hours trying out techniques in order to read faster. They don't work for me yet. Though I will no doubt keep trying.

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Jawbreaker's 1995 album (the only one on a major label), Dear You.

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In this I go over how to learn to draw using tracing guide-lines. Enjoy!

Hey, eveypony.

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Hi again, everypony!

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