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Creativity => Customs => Topic started by: brighteyes on April 15, 2015, 02:42:06 PM
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Hi All,
My partner for the Fantasy Swap was Rarity91. She had a lot of really awesome things on her list, but what really captured me was the tree spirit/dryads. I wanted to create a pony that look liked it stepped out of a tree so I made bark on the legs using apoxie clay and a dryad saddle mushroom on the back as a saddle and a few on the legs and rump as well. The pony can actually support a Monster High sized jointed doll. I really wanted to make a custom doll to go with it, but I ran out of time :cry:
The bark texturing technique is really simple. I coated the legs, one section at a time, in apoxie clay. Then I obtained a few pieces of nicely textured tree bark and pressed them at varying intervals into the apoxie clay to create the pattern. I then painted them a nice dark brown and dry brushed up the color. It still didn't seem tree like enough- too brown so I looked at real tree bark and noticed that it has a gray color to it, so I made a top dry brush coat of a gray mixed with brown and that did the trick.
Anyway, here is the pony!
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Very nice! Love the texturing. :heart:
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I like the bark legs and the fungus is clever!
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Lovely! Really love the bark texture!!!
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Oh, she is amazing! The tree bark and the mushrooms look great! And that hair blend is gorgeous!
~Jennifer
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She looks like you plucked her right out of the forest! All the sculpting looks so real!
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Very pretty! The wood grain is excellently done!
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Very cool! The bark on her legs is awesome!
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That is SO COOL! Wow, I never thought I would see shelf fungi on a pony! They look amazing, I immediately knew what they were. Also the bark texturing is fantastic.
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The legs are great, what a really neat idea! Pretty pony, nice work!
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Wow! What a beautiful pony! Great job!
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AMAZING!!!! Its sooo clever an soo cool!
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Wow! Wicked work, I must chorus others in that the pony looks like straight out of the forest. Never thought I would see shelf fungi on a pony but boy am I glad I was wrong, they work great! :D
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Oh my gosh! So cool! I just adore her! So creative!
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Well done, you do not see too many brown ponies and yours is very well done.
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This is great, that texture is beautiful and love those little mushrooms and also colors.
Beautiful! :lovey:
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I love it!! Thank you so much :-*:-*:-*
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That is so cool and clever.
Elf
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She is pretty cool looking..
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Wow, she's spectacular! Excellent work! :biggrin:
I am so glad you explained how you achieved the wood texture because my jaw hit the floor, brilliant idea and beautifully executed!
I'm normally a bit squeamish when faced with fungi, but you've captured them so perfectly I can't help but think they're beautiful.
This is the kind of girl I'd love in my customs herd, I bet Rarity91 is pleased to own such a gorgeous girl. ^.^
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Cute custom! :)
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Very cool! I love the painting on the mushrooms and the detail on the legs!