Dryad's Saddle Pony for Rarity91: Fantasy Swap

[brighteyes]

Hi All,

My partner for the Fantasy Swap was Rarity91.  She had a lot of really awesome things on her list, but what really captured me was the tree spirit/dryads.  I wanted to create a pony that look liked it stepped out of a tree so I made bark on the legs using apoxie clay and a dryad saddle mushroom on the back as a saddle and a few on the legs and rump as well.  The pony can actually support a Monster High sized jointed doll.  I really wanted to make a custom doll to go with it, but I ran out of time 

The bark texturing technique is really simple.  I coated the legs, one section at a time, in apoxie clay.  Then I obtained a few pieces of nicely textured tree bark and pressed them at varying intervals into the apoxie clay to create the pattern.  I then painted them a nice dark brown and dry brushed up the color.  It still didn't seem tree like enough- too brown so I looked at real tree bark and noticed that it has a gray color to it, so I made a top dry brush coat of a gray mixed with brown and that did the trick.

Anyway, here is the pony!

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[archidraca]

Very nice! Love the texturing.

[Roogna]

I like the bark legs and the fungus is clever!

[sunshine29102]

Lovely! Really love the bark texture!!!

[Jennifer2004]

Oh, she is amazing! The tree bark and the mushrooms look great! And that hair blend is gorgeous!

~Jennifer

[aintnobuffalo]

She looks like you plucked her right out of the forest! All the sculpting looks so real!

[RedLynx]

Very pretty!  The wood grain is excellently done!

[dashesndots]

Very cool!  The bark on her legs is awesome!

[SunPony]

That is SO COOL!  Wow, I never thought I would see shelf fungi on a pony!  They look amazing, I immediately knew what they were.  Also the bark texturing is fantastic. 

[Prideth]

The legs are great, what a really neat idea!  Pretty pony, nice work!

[HelloGoodbye]

Wow!  What a beautiful pony!  Great job!

[Saja]

AMAZING!!!! Its sooo clever an soo cool!

[Uninu]

Wow! Wicked work, I must chorus others in that the pony looks like straight out of the forest. Never thought I would see shelf fungi on a pony but boy am I glad I was wrong, they work great!

[kaoskat]

Oh my gosh! So cool! I just adore her! So creative!

[Diamond]

Well done, you do not see too many brown ponies and yours is very well done.