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This is a sketch I did while at Babscon last weekend. It was a bit of trick since it was done on two separate pages of my sketch book that I had scan and then line up to make one image. The image shows a casual moment in my Equestria dreamscape.While Applejack is not sure what is going on in Petina's head link some times she's become pretty good friends with Carousel. AJ is always willing to help another earth pony who wants learn more about farming and working with the land. link
One afternoon Rainbow Dash and I flew out to Sweet Apple Acres to pay AJ and the Apple family a visit, when we arrived we found AJ and Carousel engaged in feisty match of Barn Ball. Barn Ball is a casual earth pony game that can be described as being a cross between volleyball, soccer, and hacky sack. The rules for Barn Ball are simple, don't let ball touch the ground and the ball must stay in motion. You can kick the ball with your hoofs, bounce it off your head or bump it with your rump as Carousel is doing.
Grabbing the ball will unicorn magic is a no-no, and while it is technically not illegal it is considered poor form for pegasi to use their wings either to fly to the ball or to use their wings to hit it. A game may have a predetermined playing field and if the ball or a pony steps out of it play halts, or it may have a free-form area where the objective is just to keep the ball in motion for as long as possible.
To be continued.
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The sports game had been going well, The Manehatten Stormflyers and the Las Pegasus Earthbreakers had been duking it out at 32 to 40 in the game of Barn Ball. Barn Ball was at one time a casual earth pony game that he would best be described as being a cross between volleyball, soccer, and hacky sack. The rules for Barn Ball are simple, don't let ball touch the ground and the ball must stay in motion. One could kick the ball with your hoofs, bounce it off your head, bump it with your rump, and of course hit it with your hands (My story has anthro ponies). The more competitive version which was a national past time included a Shot timer like in basket ball.
Score could fluctuate wildly as it was possible to score up to 20 points, in essence it was as much a game about tactics as it was keeping the ball in the air. A team would in essence build up score points but knocking it back and forth between them like in volleyball. Score was accumulated by how many times one could rotate it between their team members on their side of the field. Each team had 15 seconds to bounce it between them and in that time all one team could rack up points for every two times it was past onto another player. At the end of that time 5 points was the maximum one team could get in a rotation before it had to be passed off to the other team or the score would be lost and a penalty of an additional pass would be included for score time.
It was common for the ball to be bucked, hit, head butted or butt bumped over the net often with a second to spare as the opposing team would then either try to knock it back, or continue building the score for that rotation. then when the score reached it's maximum of 20 points the goal would be to try and knock it in a way that caused it to hit the opponents side of the field scoring the accumulated points.
Grabbing the ball will unicorn magic is a an illegal move as the ball was enchanted with a magic detection spell and would glow with the colors of the offending team, and while it is technically not illegal it is considered poor form for pegasi to use their wings either to fly to the ball or to use their wings to hit it, unless it was the aerial version of the sport between two groups of pegasi. The game had a predetermined playing field and if the ball or a pony steps out of it while hitting the ball play halts and the points are split in half and awarded to the other team.
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Oh I been thinking about this game off and on for a sport in my story. Imagine this played in the air several thousand feet by pegasus...
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I know that this is based off of one of your pictures.
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I'm sure Pinkie Pie would enjoy that game, but you know what she'd love more? Β Calvinball.
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Yes Pinkie would love Calvinball.
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Thank you. I have trying to push figure work more recently. Experimenting with more dynamic and varied poses.
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Thanks, glad you are enjoying my work.
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Ow, I think that's going to leave a mark, giving that Applejack is the one hitting the ball.
It would be a very interesting sport, although I would quite suck at it. XD
Love the poses, very dinamic.
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Well I am trying to push my skills at drawing figures, not just ponies, in more dynamic action poses.
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I am now imagining a unicorn variant of the game where using anything BUT magic is frowned on.
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I can see both Twi and Shiny as having been terrors at it while younger.
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Once again, you draw very well and detailed in an amazing way. :3 Only graphite?
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No I also do colored pencil and other medias but I almost always have a pencil on me and I am constantly sketching.
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Yes, it was done using a .5mm mechanical pencil loaded with HB lead.
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Thank you. 
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