Something very nice and simple to stretch your sketching muscles with. If you handed me a doodle on a napkin I'd scan it myself. Digital art, a hand drawn sketch, whatever. Any format you are able to draw in is fine. Overly explicit images will not be posted. If you choose to go a spicy or a bloody direction with a particular theme, please keep it within reason. Be as literal or as open minded as you want. You're free to interpret the theme of the day pretty much however you wish, as long as you work it in there somewhere. You must give me a name, or I can't post your drawing. The body of the e-mail should contain an attachment to your picture, and the name you want to be known by.

Send your submissions to The subject line should include the phrase Artist Training Grounds, as well as the day you are submitting for. For those of you interested, there's some helpful stuff over in the announcement post, like links to all those awesome tutorials. Really cool setting, mountainous drops on all sides. For obvious reasons I'll be writing the actual post a bit beforehand, so if you're a late entry and don't see yourself right away don't worry, I'll get to it. Oh lawds, is I in heaven This golf course is built on top of a restored strip-mine (the kind of mine where they hack off the top of the mountain instead of tunnel through). You will have until midnight the following night to send in your work. Whether or not you take this assignment is up to you, but the more assignments you complete the more practice and exposure you get, so try not to shy away, either. Every night at midnight, PST (that's Pacific Standard Time) I will pop out of the shadows and hand you a new assignment. Starting from right now, it is your job to draw ponies and send them to me. I've never been so excited! Except for the time I went - oh, right. Guess what? It's time to draw ponies! Are you excited? 'Cause I'm excited.

Oh lawds is i in heaven