The drawing thread

I'll just quote myself on this

I'll cover this one.

Basically, it's a "comic jam" dating way back from 2003 where people get together to "draw" a collaborative comic (or in many cases cut-and-paste screenshots and pictures from the internet together). The idea was one person would post a comic, the next person would post a following comic, and then a third person, and so on.

Initially it was mostly poking fun at CFC and particular posters. It quickly took on a space opera feel due to contributors (mostly CivGeneral) using private armies and space fleets in their comics. Later each thread had a basic plot that was supposed to drive the story, for example, an absurd quest (DYOS 5 and 6), strange events happening on the forums (DYOS 4, 7 and 8), a rebellion by old avatars (DYOS 10), and a hacker running amok (DYOS 11).

The Consul (intentionally misspelled from "Council") is a result of the contributor consensus after DYOS 9 that there needs to be a place to discuss ideas, resolve disputes, and so on. Basically a place to chat and, if needed be, deal with trollish/uncooperative behaviour.

The current thread (DYOS 11) is a bit messy but it is wrapping up and a new one will start soon that should be more accessible to newcomers. And we welcome new contributors. All you need to get started is MSPaint.

There's also a spin-off thing (DYOS 10.5, or "Plans Within Plans") which is a continuation of DYOS 10; it exists mainly as an experiment to write/draw a more "serious" story as opposed to the more playful/chaotic banter of mainstream DYOS.

Some are cut-and-paste comics (ie comics made from collection of pictures found on the internet); they are however quite rare among the recent contributions. CivGeneral, choxorn, and Stylesrj use models and screenshots from games. Thorvald, Kan' Sharuminar and I mostly draw our own work. e350tb's comics are a mix of the two.
 
asdgsfahsgdgsgad! /dies suffocated by his own drooling in terrible convulsions.
 
If I can do it, and I have drawn two pages already, you can too, fc.
 
that's 10 years worth of material to read up on

... only if you're a masochist. Reading the entire series is not necessary or even recommended since 99% of it is either 1) spam, 2) worse than spam, or 3) not relevant to the current story arc. In fact it is by far healthier not to bother with old stuff at all. And generally-speaking, new thread = clean start; any continuity between threads is minimal and usually easily apparent.
 
All... that... spam... I read the whole of 10.5 and it was horrible. The Nazi War should have been over by page 15 and much other stuff. At least the laat few pages are 'quality' comics.
 
I mean, there are a few really good comics, but of course its all just amateur stuff so it obviously doesnt have pro quality. :p

The Great And Powerful Trixie is looking at me. :hide:
 
Well, I woke up yesterday morning and my tablet was no longer working. It seems the usb connetor has wiggled itself loose.

Wacom takes a month to process an RMA too, so I'll be w/o it for awhile.

Spoiler Tablets last image (Poni) :
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I was asked to do a painting of a vulture recently for a display.



The painting took about three days. I guess it shows how bad I am at using brushes.

The same display used old paintings that I did, so I took the opportunity to take photos of them with my new camera.



 
I like to color

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Hey guys. Firstly, sorry for the false alarm; no art here. Secondly, I wanna say something.

I want to try and improve my work, so as a way of doing so I've decided to begin taking art requests. Basically, just pm me(I have a mug better chance of remembering a pm'd request than a vm so just pm's please) what you'd like me to draw and I'll give it my best shot. I'll post the result here. Thanks for your time.
 
There was a drawing competition in our last brony meetup. Since I can't actually draw ponies, I decided to draw Fluttershy. As a tree. If you don't understand it, you don't need to anyway.

It was supposed to provide a background element before drawing a pony or another. But when I finished the tree that was no longer possible. I had to draw a landscape. This is of course a WIP, but God knows when will I resume work on it, so here you have:

Spoiler :
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Well on the one hand I don't see the resemblance, but that's a pretty kick-ass tree.
 
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