On-model rehaired Lyra!

[Rainbowjuice]

Lyra's hair in the show in white and pale BLUE not green though. >.>

Mint green
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Well, my point is, its not QUITE the color you used.

I think it's a pretty good match all things considering.
It would be terribly difficult to find yarn the exact shade short of dyeing it yourself.

I think we can agree this Lyra looks amazing with her wonderfully silky locks

[Starly]

I'm just bothered by little things like that. >.>
Like custom Drama Ponys that are grey. >.>

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[SilkSpun]

Wow!! How great is that!!

Your WIP in the other thread is great, too. Especially for Pinkie and her wild curls this is perfect (Haha, the 80s hair is too cute!) and Sundance and Lyra turned out cavity-inducingly sweet, too.
To me it seems like this is the perfect method to create lush and show-accurate hairstyles for most of the the G4 ponies, is it? I am amazed how shiny combed out yarn can be - never would have thought that!

I can't wait to see a step-by-step tutorial! (However I wonder whether I can find such a kind of yarn over here?)

Thank you! I already put a tutorial up here, actually!

Lyra's hair in the show in white and pale BLUE not green though. >.>

It was the best color in stock I could work with. Lyra's hair is more of a mint blue-green, but the other light blue option in the local yarn store was a darker-than-rainbow-dash true blue, and it would have just looked ridiculous on Lyra. Since I wasn't planning on selling this and it was essentially a personal experiment, I wasn't going to be that picky. If it were for an actual sale or something, I would have ordered this color online, but I didn't want to sit around waiting on shipping times!

[CarnationTwirl]

Looks neat.
I wonder if it's possible to blend together different colours of yarn?

[SilkSpun]

Looks neat.
I wonder if it's possible to blend together different colours of yarn?

It definitely is! You can separate the twisted-together individual strands of yarn and then bunch together different colors to make it really blendy, or just use a different color per plug. You can even get self-striping or any other kind of color-mix yarn and let it do the color blending for you!

[NoDivision]

I'm just bothered by little things like that. >.>
Like custom Drama Ponys that are grey. >.>

You'd better take that grey thing up with Hasbro, then. After all, she was officially released as the "grey pegasus."

Not all customs are going to be 100% accurate to each individual's perception of a character. This is a really cool custom, let's just leave it at that

[flutterwry]

Not all customs are going to be 100% accurate to each individual's perception of a character. This is a really cool custom, let's just leave it at that

You just beat me to it. Thanks for expressing it more politely than I could. :worship:

Thank you! I already put a tutorial up here, actually!

Oh, already days ago - this is great! Thank you so much!

[LunaDehligt]

she looks good

[PhyllieBean]

Not all customs are going to be 100% accurate to each individual's perception of a character. This is a really cool custom, let's just leave it at that

You just beat me to it. Thanks for expressing it more politely than I could. :worship:

Exactly.  Waaaaay more politely!  Lol!  What's that thing every mother teaches their kids?  If you can't say something nice...

[Cool.Breeze]

She looks fantastic!! :O I really like the re-hair job you did on Pinkie, too This makes me want to work on styling hair

[flutterwry]

Exactly.  Waaaaay more politely!  Lol!  What's that thing every mother teaches their kids?  If you can't say something nice...

... Because my little "I have the dumb" streak just kicked in (sorry) - does that mean we agree on this, or was this irony?

However, apart from the fact that no "closer" shade was in stock, I have a slight deuteranomaly* - and seeing a patronizing response just because of a small colour mismatch scares me.

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* my green cones behave a bit weird. I can still see all colours, but I tend to see both numbers on Ishihara colour tests and have difficulties in telling very close shades of red, orange and yellow apart.

[Vertefae]

She looks amazing!

[KarentheUnicorn]

The custom looks fine to me, I don't see the problem with the color that some are seeing.

Lyra's hair in the show in white and pale BLUE not green though. >.>

Mint green
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Well, my point is, its not QUITE the color you used.

If we go by this drawing then all customizers doing show accurate customs have to paint two of her legs a darker color than the other two.

[Rainbowjuice]

The custom looks fine to me, I don't see the problem with the color that some are seeing.

Lyra's hair in the show in white and pale BLUE not green though. >.>

Mint green
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Well, my point is, its not QUITE the color you used.

If we go by this drawing then all customizers doing show accurate customs have to paint two of her legs a darker color than the other two.

That's shading.
Anyway, we're getting off topic.

BACK TO THE CUSTOM ITSELF

[KarentheUnicorn]

That's shading.
Anyway, we're getting off topic.

BACK TO THE CUSTOM ITSELF

LOL! I'm actually defending the custom and customizer; just so you know.

And yes, I know it's shading, my point is if we're going to nitpick this pony because the color of the hair does not exactly match what we see on the TV/monitor then the nit pickers must also nitpick things like 'shading'. Why not nitpick the animators considering the body has shading but the hair has very little, which is not natural. There should be just as much shading in the hair as there is everywhere else and that doesn't happen. So I don't get the critique on the hair since it was as close as the customizer was able to find.

The custom is more realistic in the hair than the animation is, therefor the custom would be more accurate to what you'd actually see if the image of the pony jumped out of the computer monitor into reality.