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it took me multiple weeks to start working on a pony town skin <- real <- i made SIXTEEN other ones before the one i wanted
so now you're gonna look at them :D
behold!
i bring you:
disheveled TCO & rehabilitated TCO
it was a long journey to get here
and every freaking detail has some personal lore about it-
so if you want to see some progress shots ive chronicled them below X3
ok so 💕✨\o_🎉
the original plan was to:
0. go for a cho post-Showdown and pre-Box
1. use my existing spacescug colors (so i wouldn't get overwhelmed and stop) to create interesting gradients with the black,
2. dress them in.......... WHATEVER seemed cool at the time,
and
3. have fun.
SO! i did. ~
(fun facts: the spacescug is one of the 16 skins i crafted while anxiety-ing over ava/m (sometimes ill use it to SNEAK AROUND and admire people (pls say hi lol <3 )))
features. i went with the fluffiest hair i could find, a starry mask for privacy, a comfy sweater, and my two pride and joys: firetail and transparency-skirt.
see look look it's supposed to be showing the legs on the other side of the fabric :D :D :D !!! and, if you look close, it's discreetly distracting from the big shackle i added to the left hind leg.
(if you look REALLY close, you'll see i drew some grass in the "hole" of the head. this is why im so excited about this i went ALL IN ;v;;;;)
(transparency-skirt ruled as a concept, but in the end it didn't make it any further through my TCOs)
okay so then i spot this character.
i instantly fell in love with the way they did their head (never before seen by me), and was inspired to refine my own work a little,,, so i would fit in more with them when we hung out.
i tore the sleeves off of the cozy sweater, added a Rocket-Brand™-lookin collar, and retired transparency-skirt.
i enjoyed this version so much i didn't change it until fall rolled around....
in which, while re-doing my whole catalog of fav skins to match the new ground color, i changed like 7 entire pixels of the design which i am not going to waste your scroll bar with. <3
now it's getting real.
one day, i needed a break from a thing and decided to dev some more accessories. i had an idea to strap down the wings with one of the feather outline colors and a Waist item, and that quickly spiraled into changing several many, many, more things.
speed round! extra features include:
firetail upgrade! ++shiny
+detail on right hind leg: scars? a tracking device maybe?
aforementioned wing restraint
right cozy sleeve ripped further to install the
Rocket™ wristband: that can't be good
hair accents match accessories and each other better
Back Mane changed for ++disheveled points
Ear accessory added for ++disheveled points
Ear type changed for more fluff back there
and as you can see i bit the bullet and tried to make an homage to my new friend's head style, and i found that these closed eyes (left) look like frowny cho-eyes. :3
AND THAT WAS AWESOME.
i felt great. stylish, even. i sat there with an extra 10% deduction to needless social anxiety in my new threads.
and i thought, huh. i've made this little guy suffer, mentally and physically, for fifteen outfits now.
what changes if they escape The Situation? and heal?
i pondered this for a while, but i didn't get the boost to act on it until i met this MVP.
they taught everyone on that day cool and funny pony-making tricks! and they're sweet.
from them i was inspired yet again ☝
and this time, i mixed in EVERYTHING. slowly untying the ropes, healing the scars, repairing the hair. the glasses trick that TDL taught me to get the more expressive eyes. the colors and patterning i learned from making a troodon skin (another of the 16) to re-dye the hair and add a new layer of striped pattern to the clothes. yellow with the red so it nods to TDL AND represents more fire. thE SLEEVES ripped ALL THE WAY OFF!!! YEAAAH SHUCK THAT ANGST
I MADE THE MARKS BASED ON HOW YOUR CURSOR INVERTS IN WORD
WHAT IF INSTEAD OF RETURNING TO GREYS THEY START DRESSING IN LITTLE EXPLOSIONS OF COLOR
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and
that's it.
except for ofcourse the :V s
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SO THAT'S THE STORY OF THIS
WOW, haha, thank you for coming on this journey with me.
if you know more about pony town than me i am so taking suggestions- i am still learning and having a great time doing it!
TOODLES 💕
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