Newbie Artist Training Grounds VI: Day 8

(By st3fi)

The variety you guys have been putting into these pieces has been amazing! Everything from painted pieces, to pencil and paper and even 3D we have a little bit of everything. Variety is the spice of life after all, right?

Evening guys and welcome to day 8! Yesterday's prompt brought in 214 driving spinny ponies bringing our total up to 2072 ponies as we break the 2k mark. You've been troopers so far but we're only just starting so keep it up!

As for today's prompt? Well you've all been doing well drawing full fledged adult ponies but our little fillies and colts are feeling a little left out so tonight we're going to tackle drawing a pony as a filly or colt/drawing a tiny pony. As per usual you can find our submitter link here.

And for today's pics? Find them all after the break!

Friendship is Magic comic #48 and Friends Forever #34 Revealed - Synopsis / Covers

Issuu has revealed the upcoming Friends Forever #34 and Friendship is Magic #48 comics. Unfortunatetly the covers aren't downloadable separately, but we do have the page. Head on down below the break for both of them!

Nightly Discussion #811

Thorax is just adorable and he even has an OC of his own! Even if he can't adjust to being around ponies he'll be right at home among us, right?

Evening guys! Ready to chat?

New EqD Commenting Rules

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Coast to Coast Artist Charity Livestream Next Sunday

An army of artists from around the fandom are going to spend their Sunday entertaining you on August 28th. Their goal is to raise funds for a charity called Coast to Coast Draft Horse Connection, saving draft horses from slaughter.

The artists will all be taking commissions during the event, or you can simply donate directly to their paypal collection box.

For more information, head on over here, or just bookmark the picarto pages below for Sunday at 1:00 PM EST to 1AM the following day.

Group 1 Starring - Ruef Bae, Rosewend, LillyCheese
Group 2 Starring - CSOX, Ardail, SilentWulv 

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Comic: Rogue Diamond 7:33 / Weak and Small 11 / Heads and Tails 50 / Loyalty 39 / Star Mares 2.3.17 / Prolonged Dream 10

Rogue Diamond is back and things are about to get crazy it seems! Everyone better watch out, Spike is on the loose.

Comic updates guys, get it all after the break!

GIANT Drawfriend Stuff #1993

That is a powerful image right there. I wonder if any other changelings will join Thorax in a reformation? I always thought changeling life in ponyland would be heaven with all those lonely ponies out there. 

ART BELOW! 71 Images total today! You are all insane. Or maybe we can blame Thorax.

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Tear Down The Walls by Jowybean

The Times They Are a Changeling - Full Episode BGM/Song

Yesterday's episode was a pretty good Spike episode I thought and it certainly helped that Thorax was just adorable!

As usual, thanks to RainShadow, we have the episode's BGM and song for you guys to listen in on if you'd like!

Find it all after the break!

Livestream Sundays and Drawfriend

Sorry for the late post guys! Thought I had it scheduled but I had it in draft instead. Anyhow, grab our artists after the break.

As always with this event, if you want to partake in the madness make sure to send an email to me at [email protected] with your name, the type of art you'll be doing, a gallery link (optional) a link to your livestream and a banner (also optional). Make sure that your stream follows our content guidelines as laid out under our submit tab and also make sure to that you can be ready to stream at our standard time of 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST on Sunday. Also, if you participated in this week's stream event please send me the art you made so I can include it in next week's Livestream Drawfriend.

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Ponies Lose Out At Hugo Awards

Celestia is feeling a bit down today as word from the Hugo Awards, an award given out to the best fantasy or science fiction works and achievements of the previous year, has revealed that MLP has not only lost in its category but took last place.

Back in April it was announced that MLP was up for a Hugo Award under Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episodes "The Cutie Map 1&2" competing against the likes of Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm, and Jessica Jones. We knew it would be a tough fight, but it's still sad to see it lose, especially taking last place in its category.

You can find the awards breakdown here and the statistics for how the awards were given here.

Thanks to Scientist Dog for sniffing this one out.

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Episode Followup: The Times They Are A Changeling

 This episode in a nutshell. Source.

Hello everyone, Vicodin here. I don't have a scene for you this time around because it's 4 am and my brain is fried. Instead of giving you an entire scene where I try to be funny, we can instead enjoy a followup where I try to be funny! That sounded better in my head. Awesome Spike episode followup after the break. Both the followup and the episode are/were awesome.

PMV: I Swear, I Lived

TheLightLeavesThee nailed it with this one. Lots of great pacing combined with some feels and excellent syncing to the music. Go get it down below!

Teepublic Running Another 14 Dollar All Tee Sale

Yet another weekend sale is going on from the people over at Teepublic, and considering they add what seems like 20+ shirts a week, you might as well check out the new ones. Have your links:

Newest pony shirts
Popular Shirts

Change-cord T-Shirt
The Humble and Penitent Trixie T-Shirt
Sunset Shimmer T-Shirt
Little Pip T-Shirt 

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1 Week Reminder for FillyCon in Philadelphia

FillyCon officially begins on the 26th of this month, and they have a 1 week reminder for anyone over in Philadelphia during the event. If you want in on it, you can register at the door with the guide below or online.

Go get their reminder presser below!

Our Town - Translations Gone Wrong

I think I greatly prefer our English Glimglam. She's pretty incredible.

We have another comically mistranslated song. How will we corrupt other languages this time?! Poor Norway.

Go get it below.

Morning Discussion #593

With a mane as crazy as Pinkie's I'd expect her helmet to be filled with fluff, at least with one that size, Pinkie does know how to break the laws of reality though so she probably found some way of making it work.

Morning guys, ready to chat?