



Also, if your just starting out sketching, not really pony related but I highly recommend the drawing books by Andrew Loomis (they are floating around the internets in pdf form, just google "Save Loomis!" and it should be the first link). Not that you have to read them from front to back, but they are worth flipping through. Especially the idea of sketching figures (including ponies) by starting with the basic shapes, and trying to imagine the shapes and figures in 3d space. Someone recommended these books to me three years ago or so and they are partly what caused me to start to really improve after 6 years of stagnation.

The "Fun with the Pencil" and "Figure Drawing" ones are especially useful to drawing figures in multiple poses, whether realistic, cartoony or pony.





But that's just my two cents. The most important thing is to draw.

No problem, and don't worry *too* much about developing your own unique special style. It will naturally happen on it's own. Just keep looking at different art and thinking/analysing about what you like and dislike about it and expose yourself to a wide variety of experiences. You might discover you like ponies with button noses or you may favor a more equine boxish nose for example. Try to incorporate that into your sketching. And most importantly, just try to draw the art how it appears in your head. If that makes sense. Your art will become unique on it's own, and it will come through both in form, color usage and content.