Bit late posting - first I have work, and then we get rain, rain, rain, thunder and lightning, and more rain. Welcome to MN monsoon season, how may we soak you?
Appropriately enough, the Carousel pony I made Jeapos88 is a Hippocampus-type. She's half fish, so wouldn't mind the weather at all, I think.
These were jeapos88's ideas for the pony:
1.tropical
2.under water
3.purple
4.winter
Since she mentioned wanting a Hippocampus pony, I grabbed the ideas of underwater and winter and kinda swam with them.
Like the photo below says, she started out as a G3 Island Delight - the purple pegasus with the 3D aqua shel for her cutie. I wanted to use a pegasus pony because of the position for the front legs - it's a pose that really speaks of motion to me. So I lopped off her rear legs, and her wings, and made the hole for her pole, stuck a dowel rod in it for a temporary thing, and her rear got a covering of tin foil to make the tail, which is about as far as I got before the first photo check.
Once I had the pose figured out, I got to spend a lot of time sanding some buttons down. There's the one company that makes shaped buttons, and I had a bunch of snowflake ones that I've had forever and hadn't used for anything. It took me awhile to find them. I was originally going to use the largest by her saddle, then do the medium ones and the smallest ones by her tail fin. Sanity prevailed when I realised the largest ones were too big. So I changed it to two medium ones by her saddle, and the smaller ones scattered throughout.
Her fin came from the tail of a garden whirly bird we have at work. I was originally going to mold it for later, but raun out of both time and mold compound. Such is life, I guess. I did have to reshape it, though. She got her back fin before the snowflakes, then on went the scales, and I did my best to get inside the angles of the snow flakes. I had to pause doing the scales to add the saddle, which I came close to forgetting. I wanted it to be like a crashing wave, but am not sure I did the coloring right; dind't want it too close to the body color.
Color wise, I used a dark metallic blue I got by mixing a metallic light blue with non-metallic navy blue. I rather like the tone. The green is from mixing the same light blue metallic with a gold metallic, and the purple was just strait out of the bottle, if I recall right. Had to pause in the clay work to rehair her, so I could cover her neck seam a bit and run the clay up her face, but that didn't turn out too badly.
Gotta admit, it was hard to let this girl go! I'm glad Jeapos88 likes her.
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loginI decided not to give her eyeshadow and lashes; figured it wouldn't look good, and I think she's fine without them.
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