V Pic Heavy: Finally finished! First Custom: Poison Ivy Pony

[StrawberryMeadow]

She is finished! Thanks to sooooo many tips from lovely arena members, and very skilled and kind customisers, my first custom is finished! 
BEHOLD!    Poison Ivy Pony. I quit with you!!!!
http://photobucket.com/StrawberryMeadowsPoisonIvyPonyCustom


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She is flawed. And when I say flawed, I mean very, very, VERY flawed.   Not even including the cracks in 3 places (including straight across the bridge of her mask), the paint is a crazy mish-mash or brushing, airbrushing, sponging and everything in between. Her sculpting has fingerprints in (ugh!) and I broke off 4 of the strings on her corset! Her head wouldn't go on and ended up being glued in for security. Her "moss-covered corset" ended up looking like a green wooly cardi, and her hair looks like she spent all month licking a plug socket. But still...


G3 base, I think it was a Wisteria, or something along those lines.


Rehaired in katsilk saran which was curled 2 different ways using twists and straws. Then her curls were pulled out with my fingers and fluffed up, her ends were feathered and I gave her a little finger back-combing for extra wildness. She has a string of tiny plastic see-through leaves on embroidery wire which is wrapped into her mane, and can be removed/restyled as you wish.


Sculpting of corset, vines and mask in Milliput. Tiny Ivy leaves are Fimo. The tiny flowers on her neck and in her corset are fimo which has been hand painted in acrylics and the lillies have irridescent glitter underneath. She has a pretty green ribbon which is stuck on above her tail. Her corset and base "moss" is fake grass stuff from model railway making. Her base also has some bits of dried twisty stuff I had in my pot pourri and some bendy wires coated in brown glitter I had in a bunch of fake twigs in my fireplace! There are also some little blue sparkly mushrooms made from fimo and a bit of spongy lichen, which is real.


FBR was started off with a sponge, then hand painted, and finished in splattery airbrushing. My mantra was "keep her organic! Does she look organic?" The paints are artist grade acrylics, the green shimmer is a mixing metallic you can add to any colour to make it pearlescent.


She is sealed in matt varnish, triple coated, and glossed on the eyes, mask and anywhere she has green shimmer.


I actually quite like this girl, she has character!


Please let me know what you think, as I am hungry for critique!




El






So re-hairing is done, glue is drying, but I want her hair to be wavy. It's kat silk saran and I don't want it to be a tight perm, just gentle waves. Any tips to do this without ruining her? I don't think I can submerge her in her current state. Updated post: WIP pics below. So the base is covered in moss and stuff, the brown poking up bits are bendy wire with brown glitter so they will wrap around her legs when she's done.
She's had a FBR with about 2196318723569812356layers of all different greens, hand painted, sponged, airbrushed, the works! She's been my learning curve tbh.
I don't know why I sculpted her a mask, but I did. Poison Ivy has no mask ever, so I'm a bit of a fool there but never mind.
She has a corset which is covered in "moss" which is coarse turf (think you can just about see it in the background) from model railway stuff. Her vines and mask and eyelids are sculpted from Milliput, her leaves are fimo.
The vines, mask and corset accents are painted in shimmering green and coated in gloss varnish. The rest of her is triple coated matte glaze.
She is rehaired in katsilk saran in Torch Auburn from mylittlecustoms.com.
She will have leaves in her hair, waves and blush and some minor accents to come.
For my first custom I'm reasonably happy, just a shame she looks like a TMNT in a wooly vest!

[Maniah]

Is the hair of the pony in my avatar too curly? I did straw curls for her with a boil perm and when they were dry, I brushed them out gently then rinsed them with cold water. I separated them gently with a rat tail comb and left them to dry to get the loose curls.
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Edit: Here is a better pic to see the curls.

[StrawberryMeadow]

That looks ideal. did you submerge her for the boil perm?

[jupiternwndrlnd]

when I did Poison Ivy, to get the wavy hair I braided it (in smallish groups) and wet it, then let it dry:

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[Sugarstar]

Do you happen to have those pearl pins that people use to style pony hair in twists? If so, you wet the pony hair a little bit, do the hair twists with the pins, and then wait a day and take the pins out. Those usually give gentle waves.

[Griffin]

I have done a couple with gentle waves like this. I do them the same way as regular boil perms but leave some of the hair near the roots unwrapped. Bigger curlers will also result in looser curls. When the curls are dry, I unwrap them and gently pull the curls or comb them with my fingers if they are too tight for my taste.

(Also, you don't need to submerge a pony in order to curl the hair. You can either hold her upside down and dip the hair in boiling water, or do as I do and hold the pony over a sink while pouring hot water over her hair. Works for ponies with FBRs, too! )

[Maniah]

That looks ideal. did you submerge her for the boil perm?

No, I did not submerge it. I wrapped the hair in napkins, then wrapped the napkins around the straws. I secured the ends with bobby pins, but I had a hard time at the top, so i just used pearl pins and pinned them to her scalp, in her hair line.

When she was all wrapped up, I boiled water in a cup in the microwave, and just dipped each curler into the cup for few moments, then let her dry.

When I rinsed her in cold water, I just got the mane wet. I tried not to get the body wet to much. A bit of water wont hurt though.

[StrawberryMeadow]

when I did Poison Ivy, to get the wavy hair I braided it (in smallish groups) and wet it, then let it dry:

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wow she's beautiful, can I see more of her?

Also thanks everyone for quick replies.
 I'll set it tomorrow morning before work and see how it turns out.

Post Merge: February 26, 2012, 03:29:58 PM

Pics?

[TwistedRainbow]

i did this one
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using one of these and some water
http://www.probeauty-supply.com/images/large/Appliances_Flat-Iron_Conair_ctwvs2559_s2_LRG.jpg
i wet the hair and rubber banded the iron around her hair. i DID NOT turn it on or plug it in. just let it sit for a while and then take it out.

[StrawberryMeadow]

Post Merge: February 26, 2012, 03:36:29 PM

Oh by the way this is my first custom, I'm sorry it's very very flawed, I have a lot to learn!!! Great experience though and I can't wait to get on with more!

[jupiternwndrlnd]

oh wow! lovely green ^_^ she looks great so far! which hair color did you use? I love that deep red!

thank you! *digs around for more Ivy pics*
i based her off of this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/jupiternwndrlnd/customs/ivy.jpg
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[StrawberryMeadow]

Ooooh your ivy looks so delicate and pretty! And the painting detail on the vines and leaves is lovely. Mine looks like a cross between she-hulk and a teenage mutant ninja turtle 

that's Torch Auburn saran I've used. It's absolutely gorgeous and I wish my hair looked like that tbh. It's a little darker than it looks in those pics. http://www.mylittlecustoms.com/Torch_Auburn/p635040_2787936.aspx

[kittybethy]

Looks good so far!

[Colorscapesart]

She looks great!  I think everything is coming together quite well on her!

[jupiternwndrlnd]

oh pssh. its not easy to sculpt all the little things. yours looks great!! no ninja turtles! your little ivy leaves are awesome ^_^ and ivy is sometimes seen with a green, sort of half-mask...i think the mask looks just fine!
beautiful red....i attempt to get my hair that color - lol