Someone Once Said Something

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” -Bruce Lee

Thank you, Bruce Lee, for that something. It puts my failure to complete 52 weeks of art projects into perspective because I certainly did try. In fact I made it much farther this year than I did the two years before. I think this means that the fourth time is a charm and I shall tackle my goal again in about three weeks when 2014 dawns upon us.

That being said, until yesterday I hadn't drawn anything since the middle of November besides some casual sketches. As it so happened, what pulled me out of my slump was a Netflix marathon of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I ended up drawing my favorite pony, Rarity, in a fabulous winter coat.

I'll color it digitally because the paper has so many smudges, but I wanted to show it off just inked... in blue. I accidentally bought a blue inking pen but it's growing on me.

Week 24 Can Lead A Horse To Water

We should all be grateful that I only updated three times for this one. Otherwise the puns would have been much worse.

Straight from the Horse's Mouth

I warned you about the bad pun titles for this one.

This is actually a big leap from the last progress image, but rather than finishing the background right now I decided that pacing myself more and coloring it tomorrow was best.

Note: Don't actually put collars on your guinea pigs. It's not good for them.

Week 24 Horses Around

It's going to be a personal goal to find all the dumb horse phrases I can for this week's titles.

Anyway, for style variation practice (and for fun) I decided to try myself as a pony again. This time I'm going with a design that's more my own, as opposed to last time using the adorable design that a friend did of me. She still has her guinea pig name Squeak though, and I decided to name the pony Amethyst Glow, because all the art-related names I came up with were really dumb.

And yes, there will be a background on this one. I've been too lazy with those of late.