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NATG XIV - Day 29

Prompt: Draw as many previous prompts in a single picture as you can / Draw a pony feeling nostalgic.

Previous prompts: 1 (standing), 5 (mystery/high place), 11 (stars), 15 (another world), 16 (species swap), 17 (scared), 24 (secret)

Gallus and Smolder find a magic box with some strange powers... Meanwhile, Ocellus (who is now a hippogriff) finds some stars, all while being observed by Mistyglow/Polaris (one of the fairy brights/celestial/fancy swirl ponies from G1).

NATG XIV - Day 26

Prompt: Draw a pony finding their happy place / Draw a pony clearing their mind.

Kind of a loose interpretation of the first one. Pinkie and Gummy are celebrating something... but what? Or are they doing it just because?

(alternate titles: happy together, party together)

NATG XIV - Day 24

Prompt: Draw a pony stumbling on a secret / Draw a pony making a deal under the table.

This one has G2 ponies. What exactly is Secret Tale (the white one) hiding? Only she (and Sundance) know.

NATG XIV - Day 22

Prompt: Draw a pony finding the light at the end of the tunnel / Draw a pony finding a glimmer of hope.

Continued from the day 17 piece. Izzy encounters her friend Sunny, and with it, some color!

Day 17 piece:

NATG XIV - Day 21

Prompt: Draw a pony following their dreams / Draw a pony feeling defeated.

Based on a screen from Kirby 64.

"Where's Pipp and Misty?" It may have something to do with whatever led to this...

Original:

NATG XIV - Day 20

Prompt: Draw a pony experiencing a twist of fate / Draw a pony delaying the inevitable.

I had trouble coming up with ideas for either prompt, so I just drew Serendipity, a pony from G3. Here she finds two pots of gold and a double rainbow! How lucky!

NATG XIV - Day 13

Prompt: Draw a pony experiencing their 15 minutes of fame / Draw a pony in the spotlight.

Based on a piece I did for last year's NATG, where a changeling disguised as Fluttershy becomes really popular.

NATG XIV - Day 12

Prompt: Draw a pony exploring a place lost to legend / Draw a pony off the beaten path.

A weird interpretation of Skyros, based on the tapestry from "The Lone Alicorn". Sunny is talking to one of the alicorns in said tapestry, Izzy and Misty are just chilling in the rainbow water, Hitch is watching Sparky, and Pipp and Zipp are just there. (Partly inspired by the celebration pictures from Kirby Star Allies; Sunny is smaller because this was intended to have a chibi-ish style, but that didn't really pan out. This took me hours to make... "Alternate versions" under the cut.)

Background:

Izzy and Misty:

Hitch and Sparky:

Sunny and her friend:

Pipp and Zipp:

NATG XIV - Day 9

Prompt: Draw a pony working for peanuts / Draw a pony working a crummy job.

Sprout finds himself becoming the mascot for a cheesy space-themed milkshake place while a pair of children gaze (gawk?) at him. How humiliating.

(The kids are OCs of mine; Sugar Cookie is the pegasus and Chamomile is the unicorn.)

NATG XIV - Day 7

Prompt: Draw a pony with their better half / Draw a pony finding someone special!

Figured I'd draw these two, since I've never done Yona digitally before and I wanted a bit more variety in terms of characters. Thought of drawing some food in their thought bubble, but I just went with a simple heart ("better half").

NATG XIV - Day 5

Prompt: Draw a pony shrouded in mystery / Draw a pony with friends in high places.

Sunny and Zipp discover a beautiful, mysterious garden... and a familiar looking pony. Is it really her? Or is it just a ghost? An illusion? You decide.

NATG XIV - Day 3

Prompt: Draw a pony throwing caution to the wind / Draw a pony tiptoeing around danger.

Sunny leaps across a dangerous spike pit in a crystal cavern. Sure, she could just use her alicorn powers, but where's the fun in that? (The title is a reference to an old, unofficial name for the "Crystal Dungeons" track from Kirby's Return to Dream Land.)

Submission for Equestria Daily's Vinyl and Octavia Day, featuring a gradient background and a style semi-inspired by the G1 Takara Ponies.

A trio of G3 ponies I had done before, but with more interesting backgrounds and poses (instead of just pure white/not transparent/basic standing).

Top to bottom: Daisy Paisley, Morning Monarch, Glitterbelle. (The stuff in Morning Monarch's mane is meant to be tinsel.)

Here we have Sunny's mom (or Velvet, as I'm calling her) as an alicorn, sleeping peacefully in a mysterious bedroom, dreaming of the daughter she left all those years ago.

Experimented with a more loose/"messy" coloring style; the overall style was semi-inspired by Kirby's Dream Land 3 (crayon/pastel aesthetic).

Turned a few background pony concepts from the G5 movie into actual characters! Clockwise from top left: Gloomshade, Swiss Roll, and Nightshade (not related to Gloom).  Reference: https://derpibooru.org/images/2731703?q=concept+art%2C+g5

Yes, catnip works on leopards, too. Experimented with a more "lineless" style. (as well as an environment, and combining Sunny's mane stripes with her old braid)

Some of the easter ponies from G3.

Last-minute submission for Equestria Daily's Student Six Day. Did a bit of cross-generation stuff for this one.

Did this as an experiment with shading, highlights, and backgrounds. Based on the story included with the mail offer for Clipper from G1, shown here with the Sparkle Pony Sunspot. (I'm not too fond of the sky, mainly the left half.)

Various random MLP drawings, each done with a different brush in MediBang. Ember (G5 style!): Sumi (and yes the "cutie mark" blends in with the front leg scales.) Gummy: Alcohol Marker Pinkie Pie: Airbrush Zipp (as one of those little nerds): G Pen Izzy (as a Fraggle!): Rough Watercolor 

One last round of drawings before the year closes (still 2023 where I live). Happy (early) new year!

First drawing: random set of doodles. Purple mouse critter is a wishing nymph, like Milkyway from the latest arc of the G5 comics.

Second drawing: various G2 characters in a UPA-ish style. (left-right, top-bottom: Clever Clover, Fire and Flame, Giggles and Wiggles, Bright Bramley) (completed earlier this month)

Third drawing: just a friendly assortment of characters.

By jove, Sunny meets Alice, one of the Gift-Givers of the Grove!

A pair of winter/December-themed ponies from G3, done in a slightly UPA-esque style.

Moon Shadow, a pony from G2.

This was made yesterday. A trio of teal/turquoise ponies from G1: Mirror Mirror, Wiggles, and Princess Pristina.

From last month. The text is just filler; I was going to draw a third pony there but wasn't sure which one.

This is from last month; it's an experiment with different brushes. Characters depicted: Bangles, Wishful the Bushwoolie, Princess Royal Blue, and Smokey the dragon.

Quick Sandbar, done as shading practice. (I did this yesterday but forgot to post it until now)

All of the Mountain Boy ponies from G1, a set of UK exclusive Big Brother Ponies. Each one was done with a different brush in MediBang:

Fireball: Turnip Pen (outline), Paint #2 (colors)

Ice Crystal: Chalk

Sunburst: Fluffy Watercolor

Tornado: Round Brush

Thundercloud: Oil Pastel

Lightning: Rough Watercolor (plus the actual lightning brush for the two bolts under his name.)