Hi folks!  So sorry for my recent absence from the arena!  As life would have it, I'm not going to be able to start properly collecting as soon as I would like.  (Which is, y'know, three-to-six months ago.)   

Hopefully, I will soon have a steady-enough income that I can both save up to move out of my current living situation, and collect ponies.  But that time is not now.  As it currently stands, I'd like to be at least a little involved in things, but I'm juggling school and art commissions and the like, so I don't know how active I'll be able to be.

Luck and best wishes to all my fellow collectors out there, may your holiday season be bright and full of small equine friends!  <3

Quote from: EmpressOfTheLibrary on October 03, 2016, 04:14:20 AM

Oooooh!!  So, just so I'm clear, the first category requires wholly new art, we can't use the coloring page?  Very excited to enter, this looks like tons of fun!

Yes wholly new art in Div 1, the lineart provided is only for Division 3. But you can enter both divisions!

Thank you!  I'll see if I can find time to enter; I've got midterms coming up.  Really excited to try, though, and to see all the other entries!  Halloween horses are always so pretty!

She is so strange and adorable.  Little pega-giraffe.  Congrats!

Hello and welcome to the Arena! Arts major, eh? Do you do any pony art? There are a lot of talented artists here, you'd be in great company there!

I'd love to see your  childhood fakies! I had mostly Hasbro ponies as a kid, but a handful of fakies found their way into my herd as well and are just as cherished. A lot of people here (including me!) actively collect fakies, even. 

Ah, thank you!  I do, in fact, draw pony art.  (I also have commissions open!  )  I'll work towards posting pics of my herd soon, including the fakies!  Really there's only a few that I know where are at the moment, but hopefully the others will turn up as I go.  Things pop up in the strangest of places sometimes.  They're the Fisher Price ones for the most part, with the pretty glassy eyes and the painted mascara and eyeshadow.  The larger ones have wound up in the toybox, where one of my nephews fell in love with them, but the smaller ones are going to stick around in my herd.

Hello, friends!  I'm a new collector, and you can call me Empress, or Brie if you prefer.  That's my real name anyways.  Ah, I'm not really good at these sorts of posts, so let's get started, huh?

Personal:

I'm 19 years old!  Gonna be twenty in October, and I'm kinda nervous about it.  >///<
 
I live in Oklahoma, in the US!  Don't really wanna say more than that, unless I'm ordering.

Full-time college student at the moment!  Working on getting a seasonal job for the holidays, but we'll see how that goes.  I'm a Studio Arts major, but I might change to Multimedia soon!

Ponies:

Been gathering ponies since I was a little kid, but I only made the decision to start actively collecting recently.

I'm wanting to collect g3 ponies, mostly, but I have quite a few g4s as well!  G1 and g2 are both cool, though, and I'd be collecting them as well, if it wasn't for the fact that they're much more expensive.

I'm not sure why I decided to collect, really.  When I was a little girl, I mostly had fakies because my parents could buy three off-brand toys for the price of one name-brand that way.  As I got older, though, my brother would pick on me for liking 'girl stuff.'  He didn't mean any harm by it, and always thought I'd stand up to him eventually.  Sometimes he forgot I was a little kid, with the way I spoke and acted like an adult most of the time.  Anyways, this meant that my childhood was relatively pony-free, and it was a long time before I could learn to balance my love of feminine things like ponies and makeup, and more masculine things like robots and spaceships.  I think collecting, especially collecting g3s, is sort of a way to make up for lost time and accept myself.

I don't have a lot in my collection so far, really!  Mostly g4s I've received as gifts, and a few of the fakies from my childhood!  There's a few g3 McDonald's toys too, and a g3 Rainbow Dash that my dad saved from a dumpster at the storage unit.  Half of my herd is actually MIA at the moment, so I can't quite tell you about all of them!   <:c