Thing I Made Thursday #22: Stormlight My Little Pony Custom
Hey there!
I know y'all are ALL EXCITED about the bondage pony, and so am I. But we can't forget poor Stormlight, who has been waiting for his turn so patiently.
Stormlight is a weather-caller, but he's pretty young and kind of stinks at it. He reads fantasy webcomics voraciously, sings karaoke, and his favorite holiday is Christmas. He's learning contact juggling, is bad at swearing, and is way tougher than his cute exterior would lead you to believe. To make extra money, he rents himself out for riding. Kinky.
Here's pics! They don't adequately show his shading, which is darker around his eyes and on his ears than it appears here.
He started out as a G3 Breezie in really bad shape, and has been made over with a full-body repaint and new hair in Dollyhair Black Magick, Bobby Blue, and Virgin Snow nylon hair.
Something that ashbet asked prompts me to mention that the only ponies marketed as boys, to my knowledge, were the Big Brother ponies from the original '80's line. So I just kind of decide on gender when I'm doing concept work, and Stormlight was always going to be a boy.
The swirly swirl of swirliness on his chest, and his non-display side face markings.
My crowning achievement: his ass. Why? Because the clouds and wind do not look like they are emanating from it. It was actually kind of hard laying it all out so that it flowed naturally, but didn't look like it was flowing out of his ass. I did not want to make a farting pony. Not accidentally, anyway.
Pardon the ugly bobby pin. I had to get his hair out of the way to show off his non-display-side markings.
If you look under the hair just below the neck line, you can barely see the marks made by the previous owner trying to carve off the extra factory glue that had run out of his neck (ew) with a craft knife. There's a couple other places you can just barely see it, too, if you are holding him and looking for such things. Shiny spots, or sanded-down drips, or digs where I had to really work to get his head off. He was all glued up and it was nasty. So he has a few scars, not that you'd really notice. It's one of my favorite parts, fixing up damaged ponies and making them pretty again.
His hair is very flippy and short. His tail doesn't quite touch the ground. I tried him with longer hair, but it didn't look right at all. This is a good look for him.
This is a crap picture but it made me laugh, because it is so Mysterious Blurry Myspace Pic.
Signed and marked with his name and "birthday."
I started him as a silly exercise in self-indulgence (whatever keeps you going). I wanted to make a pony for one of my characters who is the sort of person who would very much appreciate this sort of thing. It came out . . . not quite right. But he is still adorable, and this is a credible rendition of what H would come up with for a "ponysona" for himself, if he were to do such a thing. All he really lacks is lightning, which I wasn't able to figure out. Next time, then. This one, I will sell. It's not like H would mind. He rents himself out for hack, so the idea going home with a lovely stranger is hardly offensive.
I love the little windy blaze on his nose, and his silver guyliner.
I am thinking about adding a necklace -- totally removable, of course. He needs a little something, I think.
I really like him. I realize I say that about every pony I make, so it's probably repetitive, but I do like them all. They all make me happy! I like things that make me happy!
Anyway, I also wanted to thank efamar and her mum, who brought me a box full of bait ponies rescued from a yard sale a couple weeks ago. I understand a little girl came out and gave them a Death Glare as they left, and while I do think this is hilarious I loved my own ponies dearly, so I understand.
I wish I could assure her that her candy-colored comrades are destined for a fabulous future as divas, rock stars, superheroes, queens, princesses, fairies, angels, demons, pirates, lovers, and fighters. I make them braver and fiercer, I take their flaws and paint right over them with pretty colors and designs . . . or incorporate them into the story. It is the very best of fates for a pony that has been played with so much that nobody loves it anymore, or for a pony that has been outgrown and no longer has a place or person. Or, in the case of these yard-sale ponies, ponies that were probably parted with reluctantly.
Sure, they'll have to be shorn, beheaded, scraped out, stripped, and stabbed with sharp things, but she doesn't need to know that. It's a magical transformation, and at no point do I stick half of a pair of scissors where the tail used to go and make their buttholes larger. Nooope.
Anyway! Stormlight will go up for auction on Monday, lasting for a week. That's been working, I have hopes it will continue to work. Y'all have been lovely and supportive and altogether unexpectedly generous and I want to thank you for that.
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I know y'all are ALL EXCITED about the bondage pony, and so am I. But we can't forget poor Stormlight, who has been waiting for his turn so patiently.
Stormlight is a weather-caller, but he's pretty young and kind of stinks at it. He reads fantasy webcomics voraciously, sings karaoke, and his favorite holiday is Christmas. He's learning contact juggling, is bad at swearing, and is way tougher than his cute exterior would lead you to believe. To make extra money, he rents himself out for riding. Kinky.
Here's pics! They don't adequately show his shading, which is darker around his eyes and on his ears than it appears here.
He started out as a G3 Breezie in really bad shape, and has been made over with a full-body repaint and new hair in Dollyhair Black Magick, Bobby Blue, and Virgin Snow nylon hair.
Something that ashbet asked prompts me to mention that the only ponies marketed as boys, to my knowledge, were the Big Brother ponies from the original '80's line. So I just kind of decide on gender when I'm doing concept work, and Stormlight was always going to be a boy.
The swirly swirl of swirliness on his chest, and his non-display side face markings.
My crowning achievement: his ass. Why? Because the clouds and wind do not look like they are emanating from it. It was actually kind of hard laying it all out so that it flowed naturally, but didn't look like it was flowing out of his ass. I did not want to make a farting pony. Not accidentally, anyway.
Pardon the ugly bobby pin. I had to get his hair out of the way to show off his non-display-side markings.
If you look under the hair just below the neck line, you can barely see the marks made by the previous owner trying to carve off the extra factory glue that had run out of his neck (ew) with a craft knife. There's a couple other places you can just barely see it, too, if you are holding him and looking for such things. Shiny spots, or sanded-down drips, or digs where I had to really work to get his head off. He was all glued up and it was nasty. So he has a few scars, not that you'd really notice. It's one of my favorite parts, fixing up damaged ponies and making them pretty again.
His hair is very flippy and short. His tail doesn't quite touch the ground. I tried him with longer hair, but it didn't look right at all. This is a good look for him.
This is a crap picture but it made me laugh, because it is so Mysterious Blurry Myspace Pic.
Signed and marked with his name and "birthday."
I started him as a silly exercise in self-indulgence (whatever keeps you going). I wanted to make a pony for one of my characters who is the sort of person who would very much appreciate this sort of thing. It came out . . . not quite right. But he is still adorable, and this is a credible rendition of what H would come up with for a "ponysona" for himself, if he were to do such a thing. All he really lacks is lightning, which I wasn't able to figure out. Next time, then. This one, I will sell. It's not like H would mind. He rents himself out for hack, so the idea going home with a lovely stranger is hardly offensive.
I love the little windy blaze on his nose, and his silver guyliner.
I am thinking about adding a necklace -- totally removable, of course. He needs a little something, I think.
I really like him. I realize I say that about every pony I make, so it's probably repetitive, but I do like them all. They all make me happy! I like things that make me happy!
Anyway, I also wanted to thank efamar and her mum, who brought me a box full of bait ponies rescued from a yard sale a couple weeks ago. I understand a little girl came out and gave them a Death Glare as they left, and while I do think this is hilarious I loved my own ponies dearly, so I understand.
I wish I could assure her that her candy-colored comrades are destined for a fabulous future as divas, rock stars, superheroes, queens, princesses, fairies, angels, demons, pirates, lovers, and fighters. I make them braver and fiercer, I take their flaws and paint right over them with pretty colors and designs . . . or incorporate them into the story. It is the very best of fates for a pony that has been played with so much that nobody loves it anymore, or for a pony that has been outgrown and no longer has a place or person. Or, in the case of these yard-sale ponies, ponies that were probably parted with reluctantly.
Sure, they'll have to be shorn, beheaded, scraped out, stripped, and stabbed with sharp things, but she doesn't need to know that. It's a magical transformation, and at no point do I stick half of a pair of scissors where the tail used to go and make their buttholes larger. Nooope.
Anyway! Stormlight will go up for auction on Monday, lasting for a week. That's been working, I have hopes it will continue to work. Y'all have been lovely and supportive and altogether unexpectedly generous and I want to thank you for that.
X-posted from Dreamwidth. Comment count: