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Title: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: xkelpiex on March 27, 2012, 03:00:39 PM

I've been thinking of creating a ponysona, but it's so hard! There are two many things that "define" me, you know? So, I ask you, how did you create your ponysona? What prompted you to pick colours, symbol/cutie mark, and a name?

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: MoongazerThePony on March 27, 2012, 03:02:56 PM

I used my favorite color, green, for her body, she has the same hair color as me, I made her cutie mark a pencil making pixels because I like to draw with pencil and make digital art, and I added glasses, ta-da! Me!  :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: StarSwirl05 on March 27, 2012, 03:11:55 PM

Mine is sort of a combination of Nightmare Moon and Twilight Sparkle, my favorite and 2nd favorite characters in FiM as you can see with my avatar. Of course, I darkened the colors and gave her a different cutie mark.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Taxel on March 27, 2012, 03:48:06 PM

Mine's actually the MLP form of the persona I use in many places online. When I created her originally, I chose colors with special meaning to me so I could tie in a lot without making her cluttered or complex. When my son was born, I added the black bracelet to represent things relating to him.
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When I got into FiM and signed up here, I just combined human Sakura and otter Sakura. Her cutie mark was pretty easy to decide. I'm a photographer and consider myself pretty good at it, and since I've had writer's block (my other big talent) for a few years I went with photography. I chose my favorite camera, my Polaroid camera.
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Her breed took some time to decide on, though. At first I wanted her to be a unicorn, but then I realized a pegasus was perfect as I've wanted wing tattoos since I was 12 or 13 and have wanted wings since I was 5, lol.
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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: aellos on March 27, 2012, 04:04:00 PM

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Like Taxel- mine was a spin off of a persona that I typically use everywhere. (Aellos :D).
On games, and when I draw her, she's got wavy red hair, but not much of a personality outside of the "she's a warrior" on MMOs.

When I went to draw a pony version of her I had to think up a name and cutie mark. For some reason I went and took the aspect of myself that she loves to cook. (I love to cook- I just don't have the energy to do it all the time). She's not quite an image of me, but kinda what I'd like to be really. (I have a seperate pony for who IS me).

Thus, Red Pepper was born. :D And I gave her a slightly flighty personality because...well in public I'm a bit flighty and absent minded. And that kinda lead to her being a pegasus...just 'cause I like pegasi. :D
And somehow she lead to me developing Aellos a bit more:
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I'm still bouncing back and forth for my own depiction of myself in a pony though. My most recent adaptation has a paintbrush cutie mark, but art isn't my career. But I can't quite think of a cute cutie mark for Microbiology. For now I just gave her a stripe of teal in her hair because I want to do that. She's a unicorn because well...she can do finer moter stuff like art and such. And then of course the necklace is an emerald like my engagement ring.

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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Scraleos on March 27, 2012, 04:09:39 PM

My persona, although I never use her, is named Quaver. Because my second name is Crisp and I love singing! (a quaver is a type of note). Then I tried to make a cutie mark around that and my love for going fast, and then I picked some colours! I'll get a pic up if I can find one of her! ;)

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: PandaBerryInSpace on March 27, 2012, 04:13:32 PM

I'm not very creative and, to be honest, I don't usually come up with OC's for series that I'm into. My ponysona, Sprinkles, is just based on my first pony, which was a Boley fakie. I gave her a cupcake cutie mark instead of her original balloons because the balloons were too similar to Pinkie Pie, LOL.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Scraleos on March 27, 2012, 04:25:55 PM

Found her!

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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: sd_dreamcrystal on March 27, 2012, 04:40:23 PM

My ponysona ended up being the first custom pony I did. I started to draw her and do more customs of her that people here started to call her my ponysona XD She has no relation to my persona who is a pink wolf.

Seafoam right now is an unknows in what she can do and such as her symbol is well really it doesn't give off any idea for her XD
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I forgot the symboling on her hooves XD
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Like I said, a lot of people started calling her my sona so she became one XD

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: reanna-mator on March 27, 2012, 08:34:43 PM

Well... my "ponysona" is named Musemallow, inspired by my love of the arts and the fact that I'm overweight. I love earthtones, so she's green and brown. The feather quill and ink well also remark on my love of writing, and the fact that she/I am a unicorn refers to my love of fantasy and magic. :)

I thought of creating a ponysona as making something that's a combination of who you are and who you would like to be.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: tehrin on March 27, 2012, 08:49:33 PM

Mine is Comet Tail Twirl!  I took my two favorite colors and my favorite type of pony! I also really love stars and celestial objects. So, I thought it would make for a neat ponysona!

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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: StarDragon on March 27, 2012, 09:01:49 PM

Oh gosh, tough choice x_x You'd have to ask me when I was four, when I play pretended as the same white flying unicorn. I do remember choosing white as a symbol of encompassing all colors sometime later, maybe 8 or so. I loved rainbows, and prisms, and I knew by then that white light had all the rays of colors, and I liked that idea.

As for being a flying unicorn, I cannot remember how I came to know that- probably Lisa Frank.

But yeah... they were all based on my personal love of colors. As for personality, she's based off myself. :)


EDIT: She is my avatar. She's wearing the Rainbow of Light locket, reference to the G1 pilot episode, my favorite pony animation ever. I went with the idea that this locket is a secret thing to be passed down an ancient lineage in Ponyland. ^_^

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: KtKat on March 27, 2012, 09:26:25 PM

I tell ya, I could make so many ponies based on the different facets of my personality!   But Stellarina is probably the most succinct summary of my self.

First of all, I picked Unicorn since I'm a sort of head-in the clouds intellectual.
Second, deep purple and tealish colors are my favorite hues, so if I'm going to be a bright fancy pony, may as well indulge them to my heart's content!
I went with wavy hair, because I've always wanted wavy hair!  Not too curly, but definitely not straight.   I'm sure its not as awesome as it seems, but hey, its fantasy time!
My mark... well I love to collect things, and I like how physical objects could tell a story.  In a hypothetical pony town, Stellarina would own a secondhand store, only buying items that are magical and/or have a rich history, which she then divines for her own pleasure before selling.  So I tried to conceptualize the hidden treasure concept as a star in a satchel. 



Stella was the name of a Harry Potter fan character of mine, so I felt it plenty fitting for a unicorn.  Especially with the appended -rina to make it cuter and catchier.   So that's what makes Stellarina!

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Koudoawaia on March 27, 2012, 09:30:38 PM

Mine very much stems from my love of and bond with guinea pigs. She's white with a reddish brown mane and tail because my beloved Atomic Fireball was reddish brown with white markings. Cavy's a unicorn so that she can use magic to have the ability to talk with her beloved guinea pig companions all of whom are the guinea pigs I used to have before they passed on. Her eyes are green because mine are green. Her mark is a black guinea pig because I like black and guinea pigs. Her name is Cavy because that is the other species name for guinea pig.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: NoDivision on March 27, 2012, 09:37:39 PM

I like pink... I have a quill pen tattoo... end of story XD

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: lemontwist on March 27, 2012, 09:51:58 PM

Lemon Twist is just some colors that I love and a pegasus, because I think being a pegasus would be the best of all the options. She doesn't have a cutie mark yet because I don't know what would symbolize me the best!

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Salli on March 27, 2012, 11:21:45 PM

It took forever for me to think of mine too! So many personalities to consider. I'm a costume designer and I love art and history. I kind of thought of my pony-self as a cousin to Rarity (a fashion designer) and Rarity's three diamonds inspired me, so I chose 3 cameos and designed kind of an antiquey pattern. I usually paint my ponies ivory, no clue why, but it goes with my studio/workshop nicely. Maybe because it also looks 'aged'. She has goldish/hazel eyes like me and dark brown hair, with a stripe of dark red (my favorite color) in her hair. I ended up naming her Cameo, which is in honor of her cameo cutie mark, but it also kind of references movie 'cameos' (I hope to do costume for film someday). She's an alicorn because I have always felt 'magical'.


Another ponysona-developing quest:
I made a pony for my best friend last year and I painted her pink because she LOVES pink, and I gave her the same light brown hair, but she ended up looking like a sunburned pony-version of my bestie. I also put kind of a swirl of cutie marks on her because of all the things she's good at and loves. I thought it would be cute. I am NOT happy with it. Then I saw the FiM episode where Apple Bloom gets 'cutie pox' which made my dissatisfaction worse.
I have since thought about it and realized that the cutie mark for my friend should be a golden heart maybe with an open book, because her strongest points are that she is such a phenominally great friend to everyone and she is so smart and loves information. (And she wanted to be an Earth pony.)
I intend to steal her pony back and re-paint her, don't tell her.


The amazing artists who customize adoptables here at the Arena have great check lists to help you start. Sometimes taking one question at a time is best. Also, maybe color some blank coloring-book pony templates would help you play with it. Maybe an idea sounds great (like painting a pony pink!) but doesn't work with the hair color or whatnot.
Some of those questions are, if you were a pony:
1) What type of pony would you be? (Earth pony, Unicorn, Pegasus, Alicorn)
2) What color would you be? (Take patterns into account, like appaloosa patterns, stripes, argyle, etc...)
3) What color of hair would you have? (Think about stripes, texture- wavy, straight, dreds, etc...)
4) What would her cutie mark be? (Try to think of what your strongest parsonality trait is, your strongest talent and your main, long-term interest)
5) Other details/ accessories?


Good luck!

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: stopxmotion on March 28, 2012, 01:25:38 AM

I think Flash Frame was born in the cinema..  :satisfied: Film is what I am most passionate about so I decided to go with that when creating my pony.
I don't really have a favorite color. The purples just came to be after a lot of experimenting. I gave her spots/freckles because I think they are cute and I have a lot of freckles. Her bow is also a little bit of myself as I tend to wear bows in my hair. She's just an earthie since I didn't think her "theme" required any special abilities.

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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Shaiyeh on March 28, 2012, 01:55:56 AM

Well... Mine is really simple now. (she used to not be as simple in design)

Here's Neko
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Post Merge: March 28, 2012, 02:00:36 AM

Well... Mine is really simple now. (she used to not be as simple in design)

Here's Neko
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And how did I get there?
Well, from the beginning she was a pegasus with also white gradients on the feathers. Also, she had a pink and a white stripe in her mane.
I changed that tho when I broke up with my ex, as she didn't really feel like... me anymore. light pink was still my fav colour, but I didn't want the wings. I felt like I had gotten closer to myself, and with my feet firm on the ground for the first time in years, so a pegasus fluttering about in the sky... not so much. I neer liked heights anyway.
As for the hair... it looked better with plain brown.
The white gradients on ears, legs and muzzle... I don't know if that's going to be around for long, either.
The cat has always been there. People have always said I'm a bit like a cat, and I really really like cats.
Nowadays neko always has that baby blue bow in her hair, too. I guess kind of to incorporate my love for hair accessories? I often have bows in my hair. not just blue
neko also has my hair colour.
And also, she is shorter than other ponies. Because I'm quite short.
Neko's hairdo is kind of my hairdo.
And (as you can see in the first pic) she has fangs. That's because I have "derp teeth" ( my two upper canines are... well they stick out a tiny bit and are shorter so I keep biting myself with them. David says they're my fangs.)
you can see the "fangs" here. (also, David before he cut his hair)
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And here are Neko and Daf (david's). His was simply - he needs to be taller than the average pony, he wanted to be a unicorn, blue is his fav colour, he drinks huge amounts of tea (like me), his tail ahs some curl to it as his hair naturally does, and his mane is the hairdo he has now. also, he has sideburns. I'm proud - he came up with him himself. And it was almost the exact design I made for Daf way back, which I don't think he's ever seen xD
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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: AnnaPommes on March 28, 2012, 02:03:29 AM

well, emuels color is the color i like the most in real horses color combination.
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also, one white "sock" stands for luck in medieval times, said wikipedia. the white dots are there, because most mammals have sort of spots there for thier "eyebrows", and i love drawing anymals, especially lions. ;)
 the cutie mark is a smiley i used to draw a lot on EVERYTHING! XD aand it glows, because i love glowing things.

i guess, an important thing is, dat you ponysona isn´t overloaded.
for the colors, think about this rule: 2 colors which are close + one contra-accent. for example your personas colors are greenish and bluish, why nod add something reddish as accent? like pink or orange?
accents are important, and even if you just use them in the eyes and maybe some thin streaks, it hold the design together and prevent it from looking too flat. ;)

now to the markings, i think, also here, lesser is more. i set myself the rule: never use more than 3 markings!
there may be a bunch of stuff you like in colors, markings, and so on, but then, create more personas and then look at them, which attributes are your favorites? choose 3 of them and combine again. ;)

for example, my other persona Hedonism:
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i have 2 simple markings. the freckles and the yellowish wings.
for the colors she has white, and two pastell tones, mint and rose. the contra-point is the vibrant yellow. also, i have rose, orange and yellow from the warm side, white as neutral and the mint as cold color. but i have to admit, the rose is a cool tone too. ;)
the "mutations" are just the wings, in this case. but also cloven hooves, a horn and a unicorns tail look great together! just keep these "mutations"/attributes in the number of three.

well, i am by no means an expert and you can do your design any way you want. i just thought of these "max. of 3"-rule as usefull.
Hope this was usefull! XD
 with best regards,
anna


edit:
ahhw,  miss tunefull, your customs look so cute, and the picture of you and david is so great! XD
yay for real-body marks! XD great ide with the "fangs", i should add my eyebrow-birthmark in a further disign too. this makes things personal and unique. ;)

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Sweet Leaf on March 28, 2012, 02:08:56 AM

Mine is pretty much a Ponification of my regular fursona Mint:
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Heres some amazing artwork of my ponyself done by a very talented artist:
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Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Shaiyeh on March 28, 2012, 04:02:39 AM

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ahhw,  miss tunefull, your customs look so cute, and the picture of you and david is so great! XD
yay for real-body marks! XD great ide with the "fangs", i should add my eyebrow-birthmark in a further disign too. this makes things personal and unique. ;)

Naw thanks :D
This pony is *me* so why not incorporate them, like. I may not really like those derp-teeth of mine, but still... they're there, sticking out on top of my lower lip at times (like cat teeth. xD one more cat thing), so yeah.
You should totally do that :)

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Sarah-Bee on March 28, 2012, 04:49:36 AM

Bee's colours are just because I like those colours ;) Her symbol is a bee, hence her name because I love bees but also my nickname is Sarah-Bee as my surname begins with B. The stars and music notes are because I love rock music and the hat is to represent Alice Cooper who's my all time favourite musician :lovey:

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: moonflower on March 28, 2012, 06:40:09 AM

Apart from the name, my OC has completely changed a couple of times as I wasn't totally happy with her. I love her current colour scheme though as it incorporates all my favourite colours! I got inspiration as soon as I saw the Venezuelan Lickety-Split with two-tone hair.

I think the name Moonflower has subconsciously come from my favourite ponies; Posey, Moonstone and Moondancer.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: Lon-san on March 28, 2012, 07:54:54 AM

I hummed and hawed about the design and name of my ponysona since before G4. I wanted to to reprent me but didn't want it to be something that had already been done. But when it's been, what, 23 years, every idea has more or less been used. When FIM came in and resparked my interesst in a big way, I finally just said "whatever" and just went with something that is kind of boring but basicly me with a heavy dose of wishful thinking.

I plan to get a clover tattoo on my shoulder some day, so the CM is two clovers. Just three leaves though. A big deal is made out of four leaf clovers because of their suposed luck and the shamrocks get a lot of love every St. Patrick's Day. The regular three leaf clover isn't as glamourous but that's okay. It's still green, vibrant and growing, popping up in gardens and on lawns (Lons? :D) everywhere. It's pretty resilient too and that's not a bad quality to have.

I went with the name "Clover Patch", which, unfortunately, happens to be the name of not one but two My Little Pony Tales characters back to back. *Face Palm* I remembered Clover but not Patch. Whatever. I have spots on my face but they are actually sun damage rather than freckles. Oh well. Freckles are awsome. The hair is my own and once you've added that much green, why not finish off with a green body too. I REALLY dig the green.Earth pony, not so much because I'm down to earth as because they other two seemed wrong for me.

Title: Re: How did you create your ponysona?
Post by: hyenacub on March 28, 2012, 02:45:19 PM

I don't really have one lol except the username-specific boy in my avatar.  XD  I need to make him.  Otherise...it would probably be something that looked a bit like a little brother to Lightning.