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Pony Sketches 4k

For the Day 4 theme, a rescue mission. A magical rescue from an all-consuming shadow (featured in my last sketch) defeats something far greater than the mortal army of your foes.

Pro Flows

Real debaters doodle all over their flows. Or at least I do. These are the best ones I've found from my massive pile of flow sheets:

And I might not understand all of it now, but at the time, all of this made sense (minus the primarily non-sequitur doodles, those never make sense).

The Brony Contentions Part 3: The Works

I've already explained why MLP is awesome, how bronies came about, and why the fandom is as brilliant as it is. However, that last respect has hardly been done justice. Which is what I'm here to exhibit now: the works and wonders of brony culture, what makes them legitimate.

  I am more than aware that I have already mentioned it, but the first and foremost factor that lends itself to the genius in brony culture is that of the cooperation and community between bronies. Here's a bit more along those lines:

  Another earlier issue that I've covered rather heavily is that of brony hating. Brony legitimacy has never really been threatened by this, but here's a bit of reinforcement:

  That's enough on recap- it's time to move on to what this section is really about- the genius of bronies. Bronies are by and large a highly skilled group of individuals, spanning the spectrum of the arts. Likewise, the unskilled are encouraged to develop and practice their own talents via community support and events. The arts are well and alive among bronies, with high quality productions being produced nigh constantly.

  There are dozens of crafts employed among bronies- rendering, painting, programming, composition, acting, writing, sewing, business, design, science, rhetoric, the way bronies creative juices are employed are without limit. The amount of fanmade content is unfathomable, with thousands of songs, pictures, videos, etc. There's plays, movies, videogames, podcasts all being designed around the franchise. These large projects are out of the hands of normal chaps, but that doesn't stop them from doing what they can, with the art and music divisions especially vigorous.

  The visual arts of static images is probably the second most impressive of brony-based art. These span paintings, sketches, photoshop, and computer images. The styles are likewise diverse, from complex to cartoony, classical in style or flashy. If you couldn't guess, there is going to be less writing on my part and more linking.

 Some rather well-detailed pieces

Rarity the Magnificent

Steampunk Profile

Luna and Twilight

Derpy War Poster

Caitlyn (from LeagueofLegends) Sketch

Celestia-GLADoS

 Crossovers

Cartoony Filly Derpy

Dr. Adorable (Dr. Horrible)

Not authentic, sadly

Ponified GLADoS

Doctor Whooves and the TARDIS

Ponified Zealot

AJ Bucking in Minecraft

And a bit of Miscellaneous

Steampunk Mane 6

Pinkie Pie Dreams

There's an awesome song to go with this

Seal of Twilight Sparkle

Mane 6 Dias

Fluttershy for Pres

That's more or less how the rest of this will go. By that I mean a pain to format and ridiculously long.

  Moving on, there is the writing that bronies themselves do. I'll admit I do not know much myself in this category- I haven't read many. Regardless, there are quite a few rather well written and extremely popular fanfics. Due to my lack of experience, this list will be short (feel free to add to this in the comments, I'm woefully uninformed in this respect).

My Little Dashie

I said it would be short. I know there are good ones from word of mouth, but I really don't read many (by which I mean I've read 2). As a warning, however, there are a few fanfics that are remarkably well known, but solely from infamy. The principle one is Cupcakes. Do not let curiosity make you read that. Ever.

  Before getting to the big one, I ought to mention all the diverse projects that are being carried out. Here is a brief list of some of the more prominent ones:

My Little Dashie Movie (It is REALLY popular) -in the works (itw)

My Little Musical -(itw) But here's a song from it.

A few videogames:

MLP: Fighting is Magic demo -(itw)

Legend of Celestia (itw)

Pony RPG trailer-(itw)

Equestria Online - MMORPG

MLP The RPG- A role-playing game, like Dungeons and Dragons

Plus plushies, shirts, and a mass of miscellaneous merchandise.

  Now comes the crux of all brony creation- the music. There are dozens of highly talented bronies who compose, remix, remix compositions, and sing original songs. This is the most brilliant facets of the fandom, The original works, parodies, remixes, etc are absolutely wonderful. They span the genres- dubstep, techno, rock, classical, country. Some are lyrical, profound, and others emotion-evoking ambiance.

Classical/Orchestral:

One of personal favorites. One of the best bronies in this field is makkon06.

Electronic (Dubstep/Techno/Eurobeat/etc):

OdysseyEurobeat is a pretty important chap. ChainAlgorithm and Foozogz

Rock/Acoustic/Rap/ThingsRemotelySimilar (if you can't tell, I'm not too comfortable identifying these genres):

LivingTombstone, GeneralMumble are big here.

Lyrical:

MandoPony is my favorite in this category.

Even more (YTPMV, misc, etc):

I've been building quite a collection of songs. If you want to see more:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC813343E2FCC0977&feature=mh_lolz

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FC0355A4F407146&feature=mh_lolz

If you couldn't tell, there is just a bit of a bias towards classical/orchestral pieces (as they invaded the other categories).

  And this is the end of this compilation- not so much of an argument but an exposition of the skills of others. But the fact remains- the skill of bronies is impeccable and undeniable. And it hasn't avoided notice. Modern media is abuzz with news of bronies- everyone is fascinated/horrified by the phenomena. While a non-biased review is hard to find (I'm looking at you WSJ), it is rather refreshing to take a break from those who basically trash on it without base or rationale (ie they never looked past the cover). Some fair fame has been garnered, however, as bronies received a shoutout on the Colbert Report.

And possibly, the most important shoutout is that of Hasbro. They have officially recognized bronies in their ad campaigns (specifically mentioning them in Equestria Girls), as well as employing the fan-given names for a number of background ponies (most importantly DJ Pon3 and Derpy Hooves). Derpy Hooves, so-named for an animation error that caused her to be cross-eyed, has since been frequently inserted in the background with the "derpy" eyes solely  because of her popularity among fans.

  Bronyism has come to thrive and propagate, persisting despite negative coverage to make it worth those rare acknowledgments- consistent quality of every art and imagination possible has attracted bronies in and of itself. If nothing else, kudos must be given where it's due, and bronies certainly deserve it considering the wonders they've pulled.

Pony Sketches

Equestria Daily is running a rather nice art event for non-professionals and I decided to try my hand at it. There is a daily theme and you just whup something up for it. The first one was done before the event, just for fun, but the 2nd is for today's, which is to draw a pony in armor or uniform.

Merry Christmas!

It's a good day to give something, even if it's a simple picture on a blog no one reads.

Redux

Revamped the BG and the Gibs page. I also plan to add some more species I found in my old files.
Other content can be expected, whether it be minecraft, ponies, or whatnot.

Either way, here are some pictures I've made recently (but not since I started posting again).

The New BG

The British Eyeball

The Lich- The Dichotomy of Lawful Evil

The New Gibs Species Chart

Rammer Dragon

The Intrepid Reporter

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Gibs of Equestria

Considering I am a brony, and my symbol is a Gibs, I saw fit to do a mash-up.

It's still not the best, but I'm getting better at this:

 Even Earth Gionies (?-working on it, I'll figure out something) have something special- 6 legs.

Le random content:

A Long Way from Equestria- by MandoPony.
Found this and it entirely sums up my thoughts:
"I will never give up the fight.
I will never surrender to the hate
I know this world ain't perfect at all
But the world is just what we create
So let's make love,
Let's make friends,
Let's take time to make amends,
Let's make the world more like Equestria"

On a similar note: 

A Pale Blue Dot- Carl Sagan

There's no reason to be so vile as society frequently is- let's make this pale blue dot something a little better.

And that's it for sentimentality, I bid my "audience" adieu, and thus complete this post.

A Compilation of Craziness

Creeper-pony

Considering I managed this after a week of being a brony, not too shabby. The confused pose is actually more difficult   than any of the others. From the top:
1a. Gentleman Creeper- the ultimate critic of architecture, he attacks 100% of buildings he doesn't like by airdropping creepers at night (and he happens to dislike everything a player builds)
1b. Derpy Hooves no habla espanol demasiado bien. Es su problema.
2a. Definitely not Blitzcrank from League of Legends in Pony form
2b. Creeper ponified and dealing with personality conflicts
3a. Nyan Wright.
3b. DJ Pon3 has some epic glasses.
4a. Morshu combined with "Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman
4b. Some hipsters like to run social experiments. Why not Twilight Sparkle?
5. Fluttershy in a trench-coat playing chess.

I actually made each one (minus creeper-pony) for Christmas to give to someone. That is why somethings may seem a tad bit random- it's composed of our topics of conversation, something in their character, etc. And if it is not obvious- I am in fact a brony. Love and tolerance is a pretty cool guy. Eh pacifies aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.

That is all for tonight. I don't anticipate any more than say 5 people to read this (unless I by mad chance become famous and you are a journalist trying to dig up stories on me, or an employer, or something of the like).

-xkcd