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Hello there! I just wanted to share a bit of a process with updates along the way with you all.
So here’s a bit of background. Long post incoming.
So when I was around 10 years old, I started watching a lot of MLP customizing videos. Ones that involved rerooting, ones that involved clay for hair, ones that involved just painting the existing hair...
...so, being into art and having a lot of extra Mane 6es laying around, I decided to get creative, and my little sister joined in. We didn’t have any nail polish remover with acetone nor any doll hair so we just had to make do with the art stuff we had around. We started with something simple, we wanted a boy pony so we just clumsily used marker to draw over an extra Applejack’s cutie mark (and the blank side), cut her hair and dabbed the hair with brown marker. And then used the same marker to put a line over her eyelashes. Called him “Country Note,” one of Applejack’s cousins.
Later, we turned the extra unicorn Twilight Sparkle we found around the house into “Twinkle Star,” Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor’s ‘lost little sister’ using nothing but acrylic paint, even on her hair. But we just painted around her eyes. Yeah. We were pretty proud of it.
Then we tried to customize yet another pony but this time I tried to pry her head off. It took forever and when I finally did I realized it wasn’t worth it because I noped out of attempting to remove her hair. Then we painted it silver and didn’t even bother to put the head back on. Nothing came of that one so we just have a headless, silver Pinkie Pie laying around somewhere.
Later on we realized Twinkle Star was a bad idea because the unicorn Twilight we used was our only Twilight with bangs. Oops. So we attempted to wash all the paint off and for the most part we were able to rescue her, but she’s still pretty baity even now. If anyone is selling a unicorn Twilight with bangs hit me up.
Anyway, we decided not to try customizing ponies anymore. Flash forward to a year later, I’m 11 and living in a different state, and I start watching customizing videos again. Decided to get creative again, “but not too creative,” I told myself. Took an extra Rainbow Dash, gave her a Mohawk and just colored her completely black so we had a ghost pony. Then we took an extra Pinkie Pie and painted her just like the Twilight from a year before, but this time painted her eyes too, and used marker for her hair instead of paint. We were REALLY proud of this one, and we just called her Cookie.
Here’s Country Note, Cookie, and Ghost pony.
Then we tried to make something else of our third extra Princess Cadance. I had an alicorn Princess OC in elementary school, so I decided to make that. Princess Firegem. I painted the Cadance red and...let’s just say it was a mistake. Just pain. To put it as delicately as possible, it came out looking like Cadance was mauled by a bear. We just hid her at the bottom of a box and agreed to never speak of her again. After that failure we didn’t touch customizing ponies for years.
So now it’s been 5 years since the mauled-Cadance incident, and my mom found her at the bottom of the box when she was visiting. She asked “Is this from when you were defiling your ponies?” Yeah, she never had a great view on customizations so I did a lot of them in secret. Instead of throwing her away I tried to wash all the paint off of bear-mauled Cadance but soon realized she was too far gone. She’s stained and is pretty much just bait. What to do with her now?
So I realized, wait a second. She’s still mostly pink. And an Alicorn. What if I made a custom inspired by one of my favorite anime character designs, Goddess/Ultimate Madoka.
If you know what Goddess Madoka looks like, you probably already realized that’s extremely ambitious, especially considering my previous custom experience.
But I sketched a few design concepts out, so I’m pretty dead-set on this no matter how she turns out in the end, so here I go, and I’m posting this so anyone interested can go on this custom adventure with me.
So here I go. And this time I’m going all-out, rerooting and stuff. As you can see, I already got her head off and took out all of her hair. Younger me should’ve just used hot water, it made the head come off extremely easily. I still only have acetone-free nail polish remover so I got as far with removing her eyes and cutie mark as I could. No matter how hard I try the rest just won’t come off, so I’ll probably buy nail polish remover with acetone soon.
Anyways, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to provide some of my customizing background that also shows how much unknown territory this will be for me. I’ll be updating this thread every time I add something significant.
Thank you for reading, and I hope I can at least halfway pull this off.
So here’s a bit of background. Long post incoming.
So when I was around 10 years old, I started watching a lot of MLP customizing videos. Ones that involved rerooting, ones that involved clay for hair, ones that involved just painting the existing hair...
...so, being into art and having a lot of extra Mane 6es laying around, I decided to get creative, and my little sister joined in. We didn’t have any nail polish remover with acetone nor any doll hair so we just had to make do with the art stuff we had around. We started with something simple, we wanted a boy pony so we just clumsily used marker to draw over an extra Applejack’s cutie mark (and the blank side), cut her hair and dabbed the hair with brown marker. And then used the same marker to put a line over her eyelashes. Called him “Country Note,” one of Applejack’s cousins.
Later, we turned the extra unicorn Twilight Sparkle we found around the house into “Twinkle Star,” Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor’s ‘lost little sister’ using nothing but acrylic paint, even on her hair. But we just painted around her eyes. Yeah. We were pretty proud of it.
Then we tried to customize yet another pony but this time I tried to pry her head off. It took forever and when I finally did I realized it wasn’t worth it because I noped out of attempting to remove her hair. Then we painted it silver and didn’t even bother to put the head back on. Nothing came of that one so we just have a headless, silver Pinkie Pie laying around somewhere.
Later on we realized Twinkle Star was a bad idea because the unicorn Twilight we used was our only Twilight with bangs. Oops. So we attempted to wash all the paint off and for the most part we were able to rescue her, but she’s still pretty baity even now. If anyone is selling a unicorn Twilight with bangs hit me up.
Anyway, we decided not to try customizing ponies anymore. Flash forward to a year later, I’m 11 and living in a different state, and I start watching customizing videos again. Decided to get creative again, “but not too creative,” I told myself. Took an extra Rainbow Dash, gave her a Mohawk and just colored her completely black so we had a ghost pony. Then we took an extra Pinkie Pie and painted her just like the Twilight from a year before, but this time painted her eyes too, and used marker for her hair instead of paint. We were REALLY proud of this one, and we just called her Cookie.
Here’s Country Note, Cookie, and Ghost pony.
Then we tried to make something else of our third extra Princess Cadance. I had an alicorn Princess OC in elementary school, so I decided to make that. Princess Firegem. I painted the Cadance red and...let’s just say it was a mistake. Just pain. To put it as delicately as possible, it came out looking like Cadance was mauled by a bear. We just hid her at the bottom of a box and agreed to never speak of her again. After that failure we didn’t touch customizing ponies for years.
So now it’s been 5 years since the mauled-Cadance incident, and my mom found her at the bottom of the box when she was visiting. She asked “Is this from when you were defiling your ponies?” Yeah, she never had a great view on customizations so I did a lot of them in secret. Instead of throwing her away I tried to wash all the paint off of bear-mauled Cadance but soon realized she was too far gone. She’s stained and is pretty much just bait. What to do with her now?
So I realized, wait a second. She’s still mostly pink. And an Alicorn. What if I made a custom inspired by one of my favorite anime character designs, Goddess/Ultimate Madoka.
If you know what Goddess Madoka looks like, you probably already realized that’s extremely ambitious, especially considering my previous custom experience.
But I sketched a few design concepts out, so I’m pretty dead-set on this no matter how she turns out in the end, so here I go, and I’m posting this so anyone interested can go on this custom adventure with me.
So here I go. And this time I’m going all-out, rerooting and stuff. As you can see, I already got her head off and took out all of her hair. Younger me should’ve just used hot water, it made the head come off extremely easily. I still only have acetone-free nail polish remover so I got as far with removing her eyes and cutie mark as I could. No matter how hard I try the rest just won’t come off, so I’ll probably buy nail polish remover with acetone soon.
Anyways, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to provide some of my customizing background that also shows how much unknown territory this will be for me. I’ll be updating this thread every time I add something significant.
Thank you for reading, and I hope I can at least halfway pull this off.
If you made her when you were only 11 I’m sure Madoka pony is gonna turn out even cuter
