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/Bale/ Beginner And Low Effort art thread - #63 Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:48:29 No. 20116

Welcome friends, ITT: We make and share pony art, with absolutely no pressure to deliver anything that's technically good (besides having ponies in it, which makes it good by default) Make something, share what you've done, and give feedback and motivation to help us all keep improving and creating! This thread's focus is art, but beginner or low effort content of any kind is welcome here. If you do want to post about something else like music, gamedev, or crafts, though, just note that you may find better help and feedback posting it in the T:EM/P/O thread Are you an experienced artist? Leave some tips, feedback, guides, or tutorials, they're well appreciated here! Guides, tutorials and resources! Start here! https://mares.horse/bale https://ponepaste.org/8268 Draw with other /bale/ anons! https://magma.com/invite/DXPPI_ZG /bale/ videos: https://pony.tube/c/bale_stuff/videos T:EM/P/O thread (for bigger art projects and all other types of content):>>216 Previous /bale/ thread: >>/mlp/42102724

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:53:55 No. 20133

Not the origianl OP. But I decided to make a bootleg thread for the time being in case /mlp/ takes more than a day to come back

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 21:01:55 No. 20158

>>20133 Based I was on the fence about doing it, but glad there's a backup

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 21:09:45 No. 20170

I was going to hang this on the fridge but apparently someone burned our horse house down

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 21:18:39 No. 20179

>>20170 Needs more butt (to balance head)

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:39:23 No. 20317

Where's the anon that did Pen2Pone........... I'm ready for my next mission

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:43:32 No. 20328

>>20317 I'm here, I guess this is technically a new thread so I'll work on the pen part.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:45:37 No. 20336

>>20133 I hope the rest of /bale/ knows about nhnb. It'd be a shame to lose so many posters if 4chan is down for a more extended period, which given the xitter post seems they're implying is likely.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:48:32 No. 20343

>>20336 >Just I've heard between days months and years

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:52:01 No. 20350

>>20343 Years sounds unlikely. Days definitely. Months... perhaps. RIP to the sunburst+anoncolt green rgre had going on. It was enjoyable.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:56:44 No. 20358

>>20336 Not like we could really tell them now, best thing I think could be done is adding a link to the op to a thread on here. >T.lunanon

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:19:54 No. 20408

we retvrn

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:20:23 No. 20410

Fuck. Now there's a bale thread on mlpol too

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:21:25 No. 20412

>>20410 redundancy is a good thing in these unstable times

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:21:28 No. 20413

2 /bale/ threads to keep track of. This, and the thread on mlpol. I guess the first /mlp/ thread brought over to any other site will always be /bale/

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:24:09 No. 20421

>>20413 2cakes.png Content creation is great and I'm glad anon's first instinct is to make a place for it

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:27:30 No. 20425

>>20421 hell yeah brother same

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:31:11 No. 20431

>This thread's OP was copypasted from /mlp/ >/mlpol/ has a new OP pic Looks like mlpol is more /bale/ than nhnb

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:36:50 No. 20440

getting back into the groove

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:37:15 No. 20441

>>20431 I'm sorry anon, I'm not an artist in the sense that I haven't picked up a pencil in 10 years. And I thought that, if I didn't make the thread, then no one else would've, bystander effect and all. I guess this should serve as a wake up call for me to start, huh?

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:39:03 No. 20447

>>20440 cute sea swirl

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:42:27 No. 20453

Thanks for making this!!

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:42:36 No. 20454

>>20441 nta but I think there's pros and cons for using the same thumbnail. On one hand, it's not creative to reuse the same image. One the other, using the previous image helps anons to recognize the familiarity of the previous /mlp/ thread

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:46:53 No. 20463

drew badge art for someone who forgot to do theirs, hope it's not poor form to post on both /bale/ threads

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:48:39 No. 20471

>>20440 love to see it

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 01:09:20 No. 20481

>>20463 came out nice and nah your all good and tbh it's probably a good idea with the general chaos of thing

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 01:22:37 No. 20493

For this time in need

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 01:24:31 No. 20494

>>20493 thats a super cute twiggles

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 01:49:00 No. 20529

>>20358 I guess you could poke the ones who post to derpi or poner or wherever else they upload and tell them where the emergency threads are, but beyond that, yeah

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 02:49:59 No. 20586

i dont know if i like my art anymore

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 02:53:03 No. 20590

>>20440 >>20586 I like it, maybe experiment with making the muzzles slightly bigger. >>20493 Cutie Sparkle

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:04:12 No. 20602

>>20586 why is that? you draw very good and a lot of people find your art highly appealing. certainly more appealing than my art.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:09:21 No. 20605

>>20586 >>20590 and for the love of god add nostrils more to the point, you lean heavy on cutesy minimalism - which to some degree is needed for ponies - but you'd probably benefit a lot if you take some lessons from more realistic artists with a developed 3D style, e.g. pic related, dimfann, dosh, silfoe, and so on. I'm thinking artists who consider the pony face as a skull with eyeballs, more than a big flat eye painted onto a flat face.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:09:24 No. 20606

>>20586 It’s gorgeous bro don’t worry.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:12:38 No. 20611

ofc there ARE plenty of amazing artists that don't do this, I'm just pointing these out as a contrast to your current style, to be clear. Like the others are saying it's objectively good. but to me personally it doesn't have the spice, and I think that's because the 3D form doesn't really come together

Pen2Pone 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:26:34 No. 20626

>>20317 >>20328 In order to keep things from being too fast and too slow, how about two P2Ps a month, on or around the 1st and 15th? Welcome to the Pen2Pone game, where a written description (the pen) is taken by (You) (the 2) and is crafted into a pony, (the pone). You've got all thread to draw your own take, so don't feel rushed. You'll probably forget at some point. Let your imagination gallop free and try to draw what (You) envision. Think outside the box everyone else is in, think outside the box you're in. Or maybe think inside the box you want to be in. You draw the version of the character you see in your head, nothing anyone else posts should tell you your interpretation is bad. I have no clue what I'm doing so I cant say there are any real rules other than to have fun and be creative, so without further ado, lets go! >The first line wiggles, the next line grooves >This mare makes a dance with the moves of her hooves >So gather around, prepare for a show >This weekend only, then she's back on the go

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 04:04:15 No. 20689

>>20586 If you feel you might be at a point of not really liking what your doing it might be really good to just try something significantly different to your usual solution set. Seems like most usually set out on linearly improving their ability, refining their solution set; could be really useful to get out of that solution set by just looking at things others have done, and taking certain aspects of them and then just making something, or just outright snatching their solution (or as some may call their 'style') and mix and match certain things, or a bunch of different ones to make something you may not even consider to be something within your skill set, when it actually is by just trying something vastly new.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 06:12:39 No. 20851

lil pre bed boop for good measure

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 06:18:05 No. 20858

>>20851 L-lunafren... you don't need nightly bumps here...

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 09:41:42 No. 21068

>>20626 Might not get as many replies, but I'm game for it

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 12:27:04 No. 21157

Bump (same as /mlpol/)

/pgd/chad 04/16/2025 (Wed) 14:51:01 No. 21265

Cleared the canvas at https://magma.com/invite/DXPPI_ZG https://ponerpics.org/images/7219352 png: https://files.catbox.moe/tn6l7d.png psd: https://files.catbox.moe/b9cr6x.psd Previous canvas: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42102724/#42104897

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 19:44:02 No. 21537

Redheart is helping you get back to the normal world.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 20:22:53 No. 21611

>>21537 Based, thank you nurse redheart

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 02:06:25 No. 21975

people seem to slowly be piling into the thread over at /mlpol/ I'm not sure if the trend will continue but just in case anyone is interested who may still be trickling in the thread is here https://mlpol.net/poner/93. I'm not too picky about posting on either board but I will be posting where the people are the most active, and I expect most people are going to do the same. I will make sure this thread is up though as an alternative though, or if there's a sudden spike in traffic here.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 19:45:40 No. 22903

Boopa

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 20:15:13 No. 22947

quick Little work filler

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 20:41:44 No. 22988

>>22947 Cute

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 20:51:19 No. 23001

>>22947 i love them!

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 21:35:53 No. 23096

>>22947

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 00:10:11 No. 23308

>>20626 meet Heavy Stepper, a DJ who plays chilled out, hazy dub and reggae to smokey, dingey clubs in the Maribbean Islands. https://www.nts.live/shows/tuff-shed/episodes/tuff-shed-14th-january-2025

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 00:12:44 No. 23311

Drew a butter

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 01:29:22 No. 23414

>>23311 excellent butters >>23308 based

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 02:34:55 No. 23482

>>20586 that's because you a hoe

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 12:31:53 No. 23850

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 04:34:46 No. 24447

>>20116 I've recently taken to writing bits of stories on my phone before I go to sleep. For me it's a fairly effective sleep aid; idk why. Maybe it keeps my brain from wandering. https://ponepaste.org/10899

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 05:47:08 No. 24473

>>24447 I enjoyed that for a vignette; felt like there was some interesting world-building going on at the edges of the conversation. Was there any particular inspiration or idea behind it?

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 05:57:39 No. 24480

Guys I don't think /mlp/ is comiong back what do I do I spent a decade of my life drawing ponies.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 06:08:13 No. 24485

>>24473 Thanks! I like it when creative works play at a larger world without direct exposition; it's almost like a secondary experience of exploration on the reader's part: the story bigger than the story. >Was there any particular inspiration or idea behind it? A plurality of my dreams take place in malls (no idea why). Why this short specifically? https://mare-of-the-day.com/ rolled Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy, and on that night I decided "fuck it just put these characters in an environment and go from there". >>24480 Draw more ponies?

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 06:18:26 No. 24492

>>24480 make a derpibooru, bluesky, twitter account and get your (You) dopamine there

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 09:40:51 No. 24580

New sketchpage. Slightly more on-model.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 16:48:32 No. 24885

I finally feel ready to study proportions. /watch?v=JNCZwrptZq8

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 02:08:17 No. 25190

>>20116 drew some iceland today she's very proud of her big fat cod >>24480 qt twiggles, I'd say keep calm and pony on >>24580 nice expressions >>24885 based

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 02:26:11 No. 25200

>>25190 now draw her pleasing another mare with her huge marecod

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 02:42:00 No. 25211

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 03:00:44 No. 25227

>>25211 twiggy twiggy twiggy twiggy

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 06:35:30 No. 25314

just got a drawing tablet and trying to get used to using it

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 09:56:47 No. 25383

Booping a paranoid mare

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 10:47:27 No. 25400

>>25190 Excellent pone. Nice rendering on her mane.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 15:38:51 No. 25527

>>25314 based cute little shit head filler >>25400 thanks!

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 23:12:34 No. 25781

Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 07:55:50 No. 25994

I should stop getting distracted and finish the comic I started a month ago, but there is a mare who keeps showing up in my dreams and I genuinely, truly do not know how to feel about her.

Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 16:41:20 No. 26195

Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 16:25:29 No. 26714

Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 18:42:42 No. 26823

>>26714 cute anon filler

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 05:59:22 No. 27098

Wanted to try drawing completely side on. The ears aren't quite right and I accidentally made her too fat. I also really struggled to make the rear of her mane something I was even vaguely happy with. Colours and cutie mark are just random things that popped into my head.

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 19:03:50 No. 27271

>>27098 not bad anon

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 19:10:03 No. 27273

>>27098 >I accidentally made her too fat I'd say she's a perfectly sized mare

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 19:18:21 No. 27275

>>26195 hehe

Anonymous 04/29/2025 (Tue) 21:01:14 No. 28809

Tried out some of the linked tutorials. It's definitely wonky, but it's a start

Anonymous 05/04/2025 (Sun) 02:19:21 No. 29063

>>28809 I can feel new brain wrinkles forming!

Anonymous 05/04/2025 (Sun) 02:29:00 No. 29064

>>26714 Nice Anon Filly, I like her braids too. >>29063 >new to drawing ponies >already drew the stare It's just that powerful.

/pgd/chad 05/06/2025 (Tue) 03:51:42 No. 29165

Cleared the canvas at https://magma.com/invite/DXPPI_ZG https://ponerpics.org/images/7233810 png: https://files.catbox.moe/2tvhxp.png psd: https://files.catbox.moe/sgwby5.psd Previous canvas: >>21265 Further canvases will be posted on /mlp/. Thank you for hosting!

Anonymous 05/07/2025 (Wed) 21:01:25 No. 29277

>>29063 I have to focus on faces. I'm trying to do all these poses but I can barely make a pony face look like one>>29063

Anonymous 05/12/2025 (Mon) 09:17:32 No. 29481

>>29277

Anonymous 05/12/2025 (Mon) 20:17:59 No. 29507

short mane anonfilly

Anonymous 05/13/2025 (Tue) 07:12:17 No. 29553

>>29507 Anonfilly does not have a bad hairstyle when she smiles

Anonymous 05/13/2025 (Tue) 08:06:57 No. 29555

>>29507 Super cute!

Anonymous 05/17/2025 (Sat) 07:32:34 No. 29700

>>29481

Anonymous 05/17/2025 (Sat) 08:19:09 No. 29701

>>29700 (You) appear to be improving at quite the fast rate, all things considered. Lookin' forward to the next batch of silly ponies you post.

Anonymous 05/17/2025 (Sat) 20:04:12 No. 29718

I need more practice with shading

Anonymous 05/17/2025 (Sat) 21:15:12 No. 29725

>>29701 Thanks. The guides in the OP have been invaluable so far.

Anonymous 05/17/2025 (Sat) 22:19:49 No. 29731

>>29718 The shading on the ponies isn't that bad for the art style, the speakers and the mixing table however...

Anonymous 05/18/2025 (Sun) 21:59:43 No. 29749

>>29700 I can use shitposts to practice. Some of the legs came out wonkier than I would have liked

Anonymous 05/19/2025 (Mon) 00:26:48 No. 29754

>>29749 Last Breath a cute! Marching Order and Empty Harvest look like they'd get in arguments all the time.

Anonymous 05/19/2025 (Mon) 02:42:43 No. 29771

>>29754 Marching Order is constantly 200% MAD

Anonymous 05/24/2025 (Sat) 23:20:47 No. 29881

>>29749 Another page, this time got to use a friend's oc as practice

Anonymous 05/25/2025 (Sun) 08:01:48 No. 29889

>>29881 The mare on the left is pretty and all, but what's going on with her foreleg? It looks just a bit off.

Anonymous 05/25/2025 (Sun) 08:47:25 No. 29890

>>29889 Yeah, I screwed it up. Not as bad as some of the previous ones, but still screwed up. Put it too far from the body, should have been right up close to it without any of the rest of the foreleg showing.

Anonymous 05/27/2025 (Tue) 11:00:13 No. 29949

>>29881 A goof page and an honest attempt at drawing my bozo, who I should decide on a new name for, using the advice I've gotten here.

Anonymous 05/31/2025 (Sat) 04:52:00 No. 29996

>>29949 Wanted to practice different head and mane shapes. The manes especially I need practice with since I've tried keeping them tame so far, but the show wasn't afraid to have really put there manestyles so neither should I

Anonymous 06/01/2025 (Sun) 01:57:31 No. 29999

and dropping this here too

Anonymous 06/01/2025 (Sun) 06:16:51 No. 30002

>>29999 That anon is about to experience an amputation via a blunt object.

Anonymous 06/01/2025 (Sun) 22:24:36 No. 30010

>>29996 Snowponies are tall

Anonymous 06/03/2025 (Tue) 04:46:10 No. 30023

>>30010 And can be taller

Anonymous 06/14/2025 (Sat) 22:37:03 No. 30131

>>30023 Bunch of pons

Anonymous 06/18/2025 (Wed) 13:43:19 No. 30139

>>30131 >>30023 >>30010 i like your drawings, anon. only odd detail i see may be anonstallion's left hind leg bend, but other than that, very nice!

Anonymous 06/19/2025 (Thu) 22:14:03 No. 30156

I need to really drill in consistency. Every other drawing seems to solve one mistake but then have a new mistake in it. >>30139 Thank you

Anonymous 06/22/2025 (Sun) 03:06:32 No. 30170

>>30156 A reworked OC that used to belong to a friend.

Anonymous 06/29/2025 (Sun) 00:58:54 No. 30208

>>30170 I don't like having to try and squeeze in drawing practice during work days

Anonymous 07/04/2025 (Fri) 05:30:05 No. 30228

>>30208 Is she okay?

Anonymous 07/04/2025 (Fri) 06:14:13 No. 30229

>>30228 She walked it off

Anonymous 07/05/2025 (Sat) 18:37:56 No. 30234

>>30228 Yeah, she tanked it the same way Murphy tanked those shotguns in robocop

Anonymous 07/08/2025 (Tue) 06:13:55 No. 30252

With a recent feeling of tiredness of llm chat ai's and their predictability, I have been feeling more and more inclinded to use that energy when the ideas hit, I otherwise would have explored with an AI, to whip out my oldass electric typewriter and start tapping away, putting the scenario in my head onto paper. Yes, it's smut. Horny energy have a history of pushing me far. Also I'm not usually a writefag. Don't judge me.

Anonymous 07/08/2025 (Tue) 22:04:53 No. 30254

>>30252 Honestly impressive if you're serious, I like messing around with old tech. I don't have a typewriter but I've handwritten little mini-fics and other pony stuff in notebooks when I've been bored and away from a screen and it can be pretty enjoyable - feels a bit like when I was a kid and would fill notebooks with shit I made up just to entertain myself. It's a very different feeling from typing something on a computer. Is it a typewriter you've already owned and had sitting around for a long time or is it a used one you bought more recently?

Anonymous 07/09/2025 (Wed) 11:03:54 No. 30255

>>30252 That's pretty sweet. Getting back into the community's motivated me to start writing again, thought at the moment I'm just at short stories to get the rust off. Do you happen to know if that typewriter's font has a name? I'd really like to use it

Anonymous 07/10/2025 (Thu) 03:50:38 No. 30263

>>30254 Fun story, it was at one of the dorms I stayed at during uni. Place had a workshop room in the basement for fixing your bike and stuff. It was in a box there, looking all neglected. I played with it, checked over a few weeks if anyone noved it around, like to see if anyone claimed ownership. A few weeks of nithing, I took it and it's been with me ever since. Now parts, ink band cartridges and stuff is just terribly expensive. I ran out of eraser tape mid-writing. That'll be a week or two of downtime until my ebay order arrives, hoping it fits.

Anonymous 07/10/2025 (Thu) 04:10:29 No. 30264

>>30255 Classic gothic, I guess. Printwheel attached. I think it's just the standard that came with the machine originally. Apparently there are tons of wheels available online still at 20 bucks a pop. Might consider getting more just for the fun of it. >>30254 Also yeah, there's just something special about it. Sort of a middleground between handwriting and being on a computer. If you messed up a few lines ago, that's tough. Get better and get used to the forward momentum of writing. Or something like. I just like machines these days that have one purpose and are really good at it, or at least don't distract with other stuff on the side. In the same vein, I'm pondering getting a system camera, just great for photos and not a jack of all trades device.

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