> "You've come to the finish line! Be loud, be proud! It's the result of your effort throughout the entire month and you deserve this wonderful reward!"
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> Day 27 of NATG! We're so close to finishing NATG this year! How close? I don't know, maybe 10 cm away? Anyway, I decided to draw Rainbow Dash who's about to cross the "finish line" in a sprint (or trot, if you prefer horse language) competition. She looks so adorable and I can tell that she's very excited to cross the finish line and be proud of one of her greatest achievements ever. For me, NATG has got to be one of the greatest accomplishments in my life. It's difficult and stressful as I need to sit in front of my monitor and draw for a whole month, but why would a marathon experience be rewarding if it's not stressful at all? During the event, I learned the basic skills of drawing ponies and slowly advanced to backgrounds and shading, while I also made a lot of new friends and appreciated arts in different forms in their Discord server. Sometimes we can be burnt out as we kept drawing ponies over and over, but nonetheless it is a fun experience and it allows me to express my world of imagination and messages through doodling on a square canvas. Now, we're almost graduating from NATG. Looking back at our drawings for the first day, it definitely shows a huge improvement and I'm sure that we are all proud of our amazing achievements throughout the event. And when we come back next year as NATG alumni, hopefully we'll be able to improve even more and share our drawings with people around us. With that being said, this drawing took me 3 and a half hours to finish and I'm very proud of the result!