Audience of Strangers

I'd like to buy a vowel Pat, an "A".

Unless I crank out another drawing for the makeup gallery, this is it, the end of NATG XV! The final prompt had me cranky, it was the mundane 'reward' task pair: graduation and jackpot. But jack Cranky Doodle Donkey brought on the inspiration in the shape of a bag of Cranky Jack Pot.

So that's 15 straight NATG's for me. I liked the 48 hour period between prompts with a two day extension for each, it's often taken that long for me to get an idea and work out the kinks. Hopefully this will also be the case next year, even if it would take two months to go through a full 30 prompt NATG. But the idiom-type prompts really need to be ditched and replaced with actual art prompts. I've sent in a list with suggestions for each of the usual 30 days twice now, but no dice.

Perhaps it was the bag of cherries on the counter, perhaps the cherry ice cream in the freezer, but I came to realize that what we were asked to draw, the impossible 'living of the best life' or a sterile cityscape coated in scarlet paint, that the answer is "that it's all in your head". Or in the Magical Land of Equestria, it's in a changeling pod, as per Kris Overstreet's Changeling Space Program where the bright green chrysalises act like full immersion VR simulators. Those pastel love bug metamorph critters have to have a food source and some ponies got to have sunshine in a bag. But not for long, the future is coming on.

The ponies living it up are Svengallop, Angelwings, John Candy, Twist, Wind Rider and some other pony. The 7th pod might as well be empty.

As for drawing a town and dozens of buckets of red paint, nope. Not doing that. John Candy in pod 3 can take care of that.

Well, I'm back on track. I started this yesterday and the 48 hours between prompts gave me time to fix a few things after work today before breaking out the coloured pencils. Redrew the ears for the umpteenth time, gave the sledgehammer some pushed perspective, rounded out the face, increased the eye size (might not have been an improvement) and added some wrinkles. The 2nd to last prompt drops in a few hours. I hope it's a good one.