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This time it's: "Draw a pony trotting // Draw a pony on a scenic walk ". It's like we're back to prompt 2, pony on the move and walking the walk. It's déjà vu all over again. I should draw a pony dragging a cut-out of a walking pony from the previous prompt.

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock is still not specifying a prompt there, but otherwise it's as expected: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well. I use Flickr and Imgur is said to work too. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 8th. The URL pattern is changing each time but since I'm keen to guess, I think that it will be this: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/06/newbie-artist-training-grounds-xv-prompt-5.html .

So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). Last time King Grimlock was at least an hour early taking what had been submitted so far and compiling it into the gallery posted with the next prompt announcement. I missed that deadline. Eventually KG will go back and edit in the late submissions, but it could be a while. The grace period is getting longer, the submitter isn't set to close for prompt 4 until June 25th! That's, like, 16 days past the deadline. I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.

The next pair of prompts is: "Draw a pony on the move // Draw a pony walking the walk". I'm skipping calling this "Day 3" as King Grimlock has labeled it on EqD, that's just confusing. The submitter for the previous prompt is still open and late submission haven't been added to the posted gallery yet, so King Grimlock isn't burning the midnight oil keeping up. The gallery generated by the submitter for the first prompt pair (which is here) is still locked under password, invisible unless you can guess the username and password. Admin admin doesn't work. 8^D

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock forgot to specify a prompt but otherwise it's as expected: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well. I use Flickr and Imgur is said to work too. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 4th. My URL guess was wrong, KG switched to counting prompts, not days. This is the URL KG used and where the art got posted: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/06/newbie-artist-training-grounds-prompt-3.html .

So be sure to get your drawings in before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). I don't know if King Grimlock is up to the task of editing in late submissions, so even though the previous submitter hasn't been closed yet, there might not be a grace period past the deadline. I don't know if there will be any late submission catch-up days this time around.

It's that time of year when Equestria Daily sends out the call for people to assemble their pony swag for photo shoot. Easy for you if you only have like four things. Not so easy if you have like 400 items scattered hither and yon. Some people even have what looks like a pony store in one room. That looks like a lot of work. I just spent a few hours piling mostly plushes on a couch. No way am I going to get everything I own into one picture.

The deadline for sending in your picture(s) is 1st of June at 1:00 AM PST (Pacific Standard Time) and the submit link for sending your swag photo(s) is here: https://poniloader.equestriadaily.com/index.php?task=competition&competition=452

Meanwhile, a 15 prompt Newbie Artist Training Ground is set to begin June 1st with the first prompt to be posted on EqD at 8 PM PST/ The submit link isn't live yet but it should be https://poniloader.equestriadaily.com/index.php?task=competition&competition=453 when it does go live. Each prompt should allow you 48 hours this time so the event will last all month despite there only being 15 prompts.