So I got Whoa1234 for my swap partner. Her colours were all along the lines of chocolate brown and dark purples. Being a simple happyface, they were pretty much the opposite to my favourite colours and it
totally threw me for about a month. So I did some stalking and found out how much she loves G1's, eyed up her tastes and found out it seems she's quite traditionalist in her tastes for ponies.
So, after tonnes of consideration I decided against my personal need for extravagance, decided no sculpting and no wings, and went with a basic twice as fancy design with Hasbro-style eyes. Took me another 2 weeks to decide on hair colours. At the last minute I decided to respect her wishes for no neon colours, and therefore no sugarberry (CRY!) and went with a plug-by-plug blend of Moonlight, Blizzard and Deadly Nightshade. (
I did around 6 hours' research into hair blending techniques and ended up falling in love with Coin Operated Customs' "Star" mane blending technique. The Random beauty... <3! : my "mane" inspiration)
oh God the puns!So: the boring bit: She's a grossly baity Tootsie who was bleached and scrubbed, soaked, dried, de-haired etc. Fully airbrushed in a custom colour somewhere in between plum and chocolate brown.
She has a TAF style pattern drawn freehand and painted in citadel paints in pale blue and lilac highlights. At this point I decided I still hadn't captured quite what I was looking for in a spring pony, so in my mind I pictured her, walking through a firest at twilight, new life springing from her feet.
(Anyone seen Princess Mononoke? Think Forest Spirit, without the death!) So to try and represent this, I gave her a fuschia splatter gradient on her hooves, muzzle and a bit of blush. Then I glued tiny spring green diamantes coming from the floor level up her legs with a couple of accents on her body, to represent the 'magic' of spring growth.
I sealed her eyes in a full gloss seal (3 coats) and her body was sealed in an artist's matte sealant. However, much to my annoyance, she ended up super shiny. Stupid sealant. Time to invest in some Mod Podge!!
She was re-haired in nylon hairs from MyLittleCustoms.com which were plugged in and blended at random.After I split her scalp along 6 plugs or so, I made around 4 new holes in between the rows to fill in the gaps. When I forced her lush tail in I totally trashed her paint job, and seeing as I'd binned the remnants of the custom paint blend I had to hide the mess with a glued on tail ribbon! (useless!)
So then I decided to make her look like a forest-nymph type, and gently waved her hair by twisting it, wrapping it round her neck and boiling it, then setting. then I finger-combed it out and put a tiny braid in to pull it back. This way Whoa can style it however she likes when she got her.
OMG I talk too much.!!!!
Anyway,
On to the pics. Which, are totally awful. We had days and days of gloom, rain and more gloom. So The pics were taken on my piano, with a crappy lamp pointed at her. Been watching Lost a lot lately. She totally looks like Kate.
Oh, and I crocheted a little Easter chick which pops out of a little egg on a pretty spring green ribbon. Forgot to photograph it though! FAIL!
Love Ella (Strawberry Meadow) x
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