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GVH dinogang as ponies

Recently I played Goodbye Volcano High and I realized that colorful queer dinosaurs translate well into colorful ponies. So... I give you this

Below is every character seperately and additional comments on their designs.

Fang was the first I redesigned. For their slim body and 'da snoot' I decided to go with 'a tall mlp unicorn' body type, kind of what Fleur de Lis and Sassy Saddles have, only instead of a horn I gave Fang wings. I enlarged the wings a bit since dino-Fang's wings are... large and added a gradient similar to what Cadence has on her wings. 

The whole 'goth clothing' had to be toned down a bit since ponies don't normally wear too many clothes. I left their choker and moved the spiky headpiece to their tail. I also wanted Fang's hooves to stand out a little bit and I remembered that in one of MLP's season 2 episodes, Twilight gets her hooves painted. It's weird we don't get to see it in the show more often, but I decided to do that with Fang.

Their cutie mark was inspired by one of Worm Drama logo variants that we are given during one of the minigames - it's a dino skull embraced in flames like a meteor. There're a few ways to interpret this cutie mark. Maybe Fang's talent is in their band. Maybe it's something related to it or to music in general. Maybe it's a cruel joke from life itself and Fang's cutie mark is the very same asteroid that's going to kill everyone. Could add to the existential crisis Fang goes through in GVH.

I know that Trish is black coded in the game, so I thought about how I could show it in my pony redesign. The first two thoughts were 'zebras' and 'Pinkie Pie'. A lot of fans headcanon Pinkie as black coded thanks to her hair, and with Trish I decided it could help me adapt her hair to MLP FiM style. Also, many suggest that Zecora and zebras in general are the closest thing MLP has to black characters. That and the fact that Trish had these stripe-like markings on her face led me to the idea of adding a bit of zebra to her design. She's... not one, she's a unicorn, but she definitely has zebras as her close relatives. Maybe one of her grandparents is one...

Her cutie mark is Mango ^_^ I headcanon that she received them both during the last summer break and that was the start of her taking entomology as her career path.

Reed... was my first stumble. No 'zebra' bs this time, this won't do. I tried to make him a regular earth pony at first - didn't turn out how I wanted it. The tail would always come out the wrong way, so I took a step back and thought... maybe, for such a diverse cast of characters, I could look elsewhere? I looked at what other pony-like creatures MLP had and stopped on kirin. 

Reed is part-kirin, how much exactly is unknown, I lean towards 50/50. From his kirin parent he got the tail shape, the back scales, the snout uhm... thingy, and hooves. From his earth pony parent he got his colors (kirins are usually greenish or brownish as they are very close to nature), his short mane, coat markings on his muzzle and ears, and his lack of horn, which all kirins have. It is unknown if he's capable of turning into a nirik as he's VERY chill, and you'll probably never see him get mad. It's also unknown if he'll ever get his cutie mark. Kirins don't get one, so him being blank flank as a senior is either another kirin thing or a very depressing sign...

Also, don't ask me about the stripes on his legs, he looked naked without them. Maybe he applies them every day, like make-up, maybe it's tattooed, maybe a secret third thing.

Naomi is pretty plain in terms of the cast we have so far. She's probably the only one with a design that wouldn't be a pain to animate. Though it fits her character - she's shy, a face in the crowd, a good student, a person who doesn't exactly scream 'main character vibes'. I left her snout spot and her collar and bow tie as a way to make her design stand out a little bit, but overall she looks like somepony you could see in the actual MLP series. 

When thinking of Naomi's cutie mark, I thought of what her actual talent might be. She's apparently good with electronics... and organizing... oh, and suing!... and wants to be a physician... That's many things that she's good at, but what can be stated as her true calling? For that I thought maybe her talent isn't any of these things, maybe her true talent is that she's good at learning new things. Her two colored pens (which I took inspiration from her concept art sheet) are supposed to represent exactly that - she's passionate about learning and thus good at many things that she's learned.

Naser was my second stumble. His headpiece (whatever this thing pterosaurs have is called) isn't easy to adapt into hair. I knew from the start that I would have to go with something similar to Doctor Whooves's or Wonderbolts' mane, but MAN finding balance between pony hairstyle and Naser's head shape was tough. 

For the body type I chose 'tall male pony body type', like Zephyr Breeze's or Flim and Flam's. Also, though pegasi don't usually have their hooves exposed like some earth ponies or unicorns do, I figured it could work for pega-Naser as an alternative to his orange fingertips. And of course, we keep the iconic shirt.

The wings... from the concept art I learned that his wing is atrophied, thus I made one of them way smaller and impossible to fly with. Both Naser's wings had scars on them, and I tried to translate it into his pony form to my and the show's art style best ability. 

Naser doesn't have a cutie mark YET! He's still got some time... He'll find something... definitely.

Rosa was a breath of fresh air. The most difficult part with her was to decide how to place different colored streaks in her hair and how to get her tail through her skirt (MLP doesn't like having tail holes in their pony dresses, so I had to break the rules a little and do what GVH did - make holes in clothes). I made her a bit chubbier than your typical pony, tho it's hard to tell with my art style. Also, really wanted to keep her head shape as in the game and for that I left her top spikes. Just think of them as hair accessories.

Rosa's cutie mark is the flower we see on her dress in the game, and her talent is gardening. Pretty obvious.

Stella's too a bit chubbier than your average pony and her muzzle is shaped a bit differently, closer to her stego-form. The biggest act of creativity with her was in deciding on what her tail should look like. I really wanted to make it similar to her dino tail, but with all the double spikes this would be difficult. Ponies' tail style often mirrors their mane style, so here's what I did: I took her little hair buns on her head and placed similar ones in pairs along her tail in place of the spikes. Added some ribbons for color diversity. Whether that design would work in real life is a mystery to me, but hey, would Crysalis's hair holes work? If MLP can make strange unrealistic design choices, so can I!

Stella's cutie mark did the heavy lifting in giving pony-Stella back all the colors she had in her clothes. The rainbow band ties together three tarot cards. Could be a metaphor for something? Is Stella's talent bringing people together? Or is it just fortune reading? ;)

And finally, we have Sage. TBH, as soon as I came up with kirin Reed, I wanted to experiment with mlp creatures a bit more. The primary goal was to make them all into ponies, sure. But why stop at primary three (four) races? Stella and Sage always struck me as the most colorful of the dinogang. And what better way to make one of them a pony than to make them into the most colorful pony race there is - a reformed changeling?

Sage is a changeling that experiments with his pony/changeling appearance. For some reason, I thought that Sage being a GNC character and having an interesting take on his gender connects well with changelings and their origin as gender-neutral creatures who, after being reformed, adapted gender norms into their society. What would it mean for a creature whose whole shtick is shapeshifting to transition?

In his design I mixed some pony and changeling elements. Unlike Reed and Trish, in Sage's case this mix is purely his choice as a 100% changeling. He can look however he wants, he doesn't own anyone 'normal'. He even decided on what cutie mark he would get if he could have one, and it's, of course, a fork with pink ribbon - symbolizing his talent for cooking.

Why did I do it? I dunno, I always liked turning random things into ponies, it's fun

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The Ink Demonth

Day 8: Line

⚠️ CW: Suicide / Hanging

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Putting lives on the line

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Old friends

Some more Axolotl! I did this yesterday for the BOB release :] I wont be posting spoilers for the BOB, nor will I be drawing spoilers for the time being (just so I don't spoil for anyone!)

I should practice poetry LOL VERRYYY RUSTY

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she can do no wrong in my eyes‼️

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made this into a cross stitch pattern !~

check out my xstitch patterns here

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Ruins

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