Billy the goat (Fantasy & Fairytale contest entry)

[Griffin]

May I present my entry in the Fantasy/Fairytale custom contest at the Finnish pony forum. He actually placed 1st in the advanced category, thanks to all the lovely people who voted for him. ^^

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Inspired by the Norwegian fairytale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". He was made from a Princess Sunbeam who had been sitting in my bait box for years, she had no symbols and mutilated eyes - I thought she was ugly so at some point I had tried to carve her eyes bigger in order to make her look cuter. As you can guess, it didn't help at all... lol.)

I sculpted over the symbol holes and eyes with Apoxie and hacked off the ears to give him new ones, more goatlike. And of course, sculpted him a pair of horns. He got a full body repaint, goatlike eys and a scenery featuring the troll and the three billy goats from the fairytale. I wanted to try a more 'artistic' painting style so I didn't bother to try and make the gradients as smooth as I normally would have. He looks kind of earthy and unpolished anyway because of the hair. His right ear is ragged, too, to add to the wild look. The hair is lambswool for needle felting. I wanted to felt his tail but I don't have a felting needle so I just poked at it with my homemade reroot tool to make it a bit more defined and stiff.   


He's for sale if anyone's interested, I'm running out of shelf space for customs... I'm asking 25€ ($31) + shipping, the price is lower than usual due to some imperfections: one of his horns has a small crack from getting dropped from top shelf several times (ooops...) and the clay behind his ear cracked while rehairing, too. Neither of these faults are noticeable in display, he just won't take any squishing or further dropping on the floor. :'D

Thanks for looking, comments and constructive critique appreciated as usual. ^^

[Bongine]

He is absolutely awesome-looking!
AMAZING WORK, I love what you did with the sculpting and the details!

[lilacamy931]

and a really well deserved medal, he is awesome!

[PurpleTracy]

Congrats on your prize, It's a very original design!!! That hair is perfect  for him

[Saja]

Wow he is amazing! Great job and congrats!!

[LeighAnnApanites]

He has so much personality! I Love him.

[Diamond]

Oh he is cool!

[Ambar]

wow awsome!!! everything is perfect, you are so talented, your paint work and sculp is flawless

[BlackCurtains]

He's adorable in a rustic way. I love the eyes. Congrats on the win!

[Eviecorn]

Oh man, that is the best goat custom I've ever seen.  Great work!

[Griffin]

Thanks, everypony

[Tribble79]

oh I love him, very cute and awesome detail in the symbols!!!

[wiccanpony1]

Why is he for sale when i have no pony funds:( He is wonderful x Best of luck selling him,Im sure he will go fast x

[Jinxxy]

I love goats! The symbol on his NDS is adorable and I like the type of hair you used too. Makes him look kinda like a PP.

[jupiternwndrlnd]

oh my goodness! he is adorable ^_^ awesome work!