jump way high

week 87 of . theme was to draw a pony ascending.

I just drew sad-pinkamena, now have some not-so-sad-pinkamena. blame it on the finale displaying her wonderfully in all her brightly-colored glory; sure, she was frustrated with things on the farm, but she wasn't all heartbroken like in Party of One! She was.. a lot more like a continuation of the small Pinkamena we saw that Pinkie existed as before she found her talent, except all grown up. It was really cute.

Anyway, imagine a super mega trampoline launching her up to the heavens. For whatever reason. Probably to visit Dash. Though she looks so happy here, like she's just doing it for fun to get away from everything and feel that high-altitude air in her mane. Who knows. Regardless, I tried out a style of rounder, softer-looking hooves, and I really like it -- I'll probably be practicing that kind of thing with ponies now. Also, is that some unbelievably minimalistic early attempt at shading I see? Maybe.

In other news, I've been thinking lately, and I really feel like I have to start focussing on my own motivation to do art -- I weant to be doing a *lot* more than one complete piece a week, more of a combination of traditional and digital, and a lot more sketchy, fun stuff rather than this weird, low-level attempt at 'a complete, colored piece with a background and etc etc' over and over. I want to work on poses and energy and character this-and-that and considering I just made a tumblr at last (I'll link it when there's more of anything on it) I feel like I should move more of my drawing there, or just on paper, and really work on what I *want* to work on. The point is... this ATG stuff has been a huge help for me, and has caused me to grow and work very much, but I'm thinking pretty soon it may be time to move on from it; it tends to have me in this grip where I just think about it, like some project for school I have to get finished or something, rather than something fun I just wanna get right to and have a good time doing; I feel like at least *taking a break* from it for awhile might be good for me, and see what'll happen. I'm thinking either at week 100, or week 104 (so it's a solid two years) I'll move on, unless any of you ponies out there can convince me otherwise, or help me realize a way I can have more fun with it and keep up my tradition of doing every theme on time. It's still months away, so just something to think about, I guess.