Holly Berry: A Christmas Pony for Kalavista

[NichiTsukinoko]

This was one of the Christmas Presents I sent to Kalavista. Now that she has them, I can post pictures!


(The pictures in this montage were lovingly taken by Kalavista and sent to me. I was in such a hurry to get her sent out that I forgot to take pictures of her after I redid the eyes.)


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She was originally a g4 pony. I can't remember the name.  But all I really did with this was repaint the eyes and the cutie marks and then style the hair.  While normally I would repaint and rehair, this pony just seemed Christmasy enough on it's own that I really didn't have to do much to it to get it to where I wanted it to be.

[kittybethy]

Wow!! I just love her! Nice work!

[Griffin]

That hairstyle is beautiful! I love the touch of pink, and hollies are one of my favourite Christmas decoration motifs despite not being part of the local tradition. I just love the red berries and the spiky leaves.

[nuttertasha]

she is super sweet i love her hair colour fantastic work hun

[Tiella]

I love her little hair twists and hair color, very cute!

[kaoskat]

I love her!!!! Her hair blend is gorgeous and her little holly is so cute!

[lilacamy931]

she is a cutie, that holly is tiny!

[Colorscapesart]

What a thoughtful gift!  I love her symbol, it is very elegant.

[jupiternwndrlnd]

she is so adorable! i love her symbol ^_^

[TwistedRainbow]

i love her hair

[NichiTsukinoko]

Thanks everyone.  I can't really take credit for anything hair related besides the fact that I styled it and recognized it as a winning combination so I let it stay put.  As I said, the stock pony already had what I was looking for as far as hair colors and body color so I just changed the paint on the eyes and cutie mark and then styled the hair.  Sometimes I get lucky that way.

I love holly and while people don't use it in wreaths as much here, because we are surrounded by evergreen trees and fir branches stay nice longer after being cut, I think that it's just such a classic Christmas symbol.  And it looks so unlike any other leafy plant, really.

But I'm glad the whole thing came together like it did when I first imagined it.

[PonyMonsters]

OMG that's so similar to one I made for pickle2411 back in October it's scary! Mine was G1 shy pose, with almost identical symbols, white body, red and green hair and called Hollyberry!!!!!

Well done, she is just gorgeous xx

[NichiTsukinoko]

Really, Ponymonsters? I don't think I saw it, do you have a picture or a link? I love g1 ponies!  When I wanted to do a Christmas pony,  I  originally was going to do candy canes for the symbol, but I thought it would be too much like Peppermint Twist from the show. lol. So I went with Holly instead.  And like I said, holly is so classic! Anyway, send me pictures of the one you did. Let's show the Christmas ponies a little love!


By the way, thank you for resizing the image. How do I do that, anyway?

[ButtercreamDream]

Cute!  I love how you styled her hair!

[Kalavista]

I LOVE her, Nichi!! I just adore the way you do those tiny twists - you have the patience of a saint.