Reddit mentions of My Little Pony: Art is Magic! (MLP Art is Magic)

According to Art is Magic, Andy always does his art traditionally. He will occasionally color digitally, but prefers to do it all by hand.

Practice and repetition will be the best thing to do and you already have a stylization sense which I see you're working towards and that is also a good foundation to build on. There are three things I'd like to touch on below:

1) You're already familiar with the first on under-sketching and construction. While mimicking the finished product and understanding through that is good seeking to construct from the ground up. This will also be important and help through the basic shapes and how they intersect for the original sketch and lining. ECM also touched on this so I won't spend any more time on this point, but definitely this will be a vital baseline to work with and it seems you're already developing this.

2) This second point is actually a recommendation that Tony Fleecs (MLP comic book artist) gave me at the last convention I was able to make and I'd definitely recommend it to you. If you don't already have it, take a look at the book, Little Pony Drawing Book: How to Draw and Create Magical Friends. This is a good baseline to start with and covers many of the initial points of drawing MLP art with areas that can be used in traditional and digital. It isn't a complex guide, but it is a good foundational build starting with shapes construction and skeletal/muscle anatomy and eventually building to emotions and scenery development. There are PDF and book versions available from multiple sources. I've added a second one that is also a great read and development tool I'd recommend in tandem to the first. Links are below:

-- A) Little Pony Drawing Book: How to Draw and Create Magical Friends - Good start for a foundation and a good baseline. Plenty of sellers, but mostly based in PDF or Canada

-- B) My Little Pony: Art is Magic! - Made by the MLP comic artists and a great resourse. Plenty of sellers for this one

3) One thing I'd also recommend is to take a look at MLP and horse movement guides. These will help you develop movement and momentum as well as perspective and work at constructing a life rather than just a still. It will definitely help you, especially as you build your styles and worlds. Definitely look for ones detailing body parts as well as full models. Linked a few below for example:

-- A) KP-ShadowSquirrel's Pony Sketches 3 - Fitting this one is from your favorite artist as well

-- B) FimFiction Amateur Artist Group Reference Thread - A lot of great walk and run cycles on this one as well as a number of other great references you can work with

-- C) Trot Cycle Animation from Mannequin - A simple animation with great construction lining

-- D) Animation Running Testing - Get some good frame shots of these animations. Some great references

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There are plenty of other great stuff to work with out there, but for points this'll be a decent start. Keep up the practice and always keep having fun.

• Mas