Is it madness?

So last time we saw N, he was all white except for the green mane and tail. I wanted to sort of represent his outfit in his paint scheme though, so I didn't want to just have a white coat.

INCOMING

At first I wanted to try and do tovero markings to represent the black undershirt he has, but I didn't really like how it turned out. And I wasn't 100% happy with the white. Then I decided that maybe I could be a little more flexable, and then I was inspired to paint him as a buckskin. He has tan pants, so it is in the colour scheme, and then I could do some of the other black markings without him looking like a cow.



Still needs a lot of work, but he's coming along. I think I'm going to lighten the tan.

I have no idea how much sense I'm making as I should have gone to bed a few hours ago I have no idea what I'm doing

I'm not dead though!


Tonight at dinner I was drawing my next pony, which is Loki. I then proceeded to tell Scottie that my pony was totally canon (with the exception of the pony-ness of the horse) because Loki turned into a horse and saved Asgard this one time and that it had something to do with apples. And also that Loki gender-swapped to a mare and made Sleipnir for Odin.

Scottie was like "Why do you say these things out loud now I have these things in my heeeead", to which I giggled maniacally and said:


He said I was a good minion of Loki. ehehehe


I'm so glad he puts up with my nonsense.

In other news, there's been stuff going on and I haven't been able to sculpt as of late. I hope to change that soon!

My newest sculpt I've finally started! I think that the main colour is going to be white, and I only have a little in that colour. I decided that I would just use plain Super Sculpey and plan on painting over it, so no really interesting clay colour this time. I've discovered that I prefer working with Premo over Super Sculpey though! Good to know. n_n'

Here's the concept sketch, the rolled out balls of clay, the rods for the legs, the body and head armature! Rochelle is visiting. :3


Can anyone guess who this pony is supposed to be? xD

daughterjudy should get this easy hehe. xD Of course, subtley isn't my thing either.

In non sculpting news, Scottie and I went on a little nature walk today. Scottie was being awesome and using his newfound foraging knowledge. I took the ferret with me for a walk, and now he's all tuckered out. He was SO EXCITED. He was having so much fun romping around in the bush. lol

Almost finished painting the pony! It's late though so she's not finished, and I should wait on pictures, but I wanted to post a quick update. :3

So I'm just about dead on my feet, like I was dead on my feet yesterday, but that doesn't stop me from trying to do all the things!

I started to paint the Lala pony tonight. I put a coat of black over the mane and tail since the clays didn't match, though after baking it wasn't actually that different. Then I started to add in the pink striping. I haven't gotten enough done to warrent a picture though.

I also drew out my concept for my next pony! I have to figure out what I want to use for the leg armatures though because this pony is going to be larger than the others, because it's supposed to represent a tall boy. :3

Now time for sleeps.

I continued on with the pony sculpt today! I made a new mane armature to go with my new idea. I reclaimed the clay off the old mane, then I started sculpting my new idea. Once I ran out of the Sculpey III I opened my new block of black Premo. It's a nicer shade of black, darker and shinier. Erm, oops! I guess I'm glad that I was planning on painting anyway, I just hadn't thought I'd need to paint over the black clay. Oh well!

I'm planning on sculpting a hairtie on, so it looks like she has a little ponytail. That's why the hair is styled the way it is.



The mane is now attached to the body (it's partially attached with some pins that are in the head/neck too). The tail isn't attached yet but that will be pretty easy to do. I should be able to get those things done tomorrow, and then I'll finish the bake! Then I will start the paint. :3

I probably would have gotten a bit further but we did laundry and that always seems to take up so much of a day. I'm also really down right now. Scottie has been wonderful today though, so I'm doing better than yesterday.

Dear brain,
Thank you for all the inspiration at 2 am. It was helpful! But... 2 am? Really. At least it's the weekend.

No pictures right now as I really have to get to sleep, but I just wanted to make a quick post. I decided how I wanted to sculpt and texture the tail. I think I like it, I will reserve judgement for when I wake up tomorrow. lol It will probably need tweaking and of course attaching, but that might be just about done now. :3

I'm also got very inspired for how I want to do the mane. I'm going to have to pull the clay off the current armature though to do it and make a new one. I'll probably save that armature for a different pony since I do like it, I just decided it doesn't really work for what I want on this particular pony. xD

While bulking out the tail armature I managed to cut myself on foil. I am talented you guys. lol I just remembered that because I was putting on hand lotion. xP

Now off to bed~

Tonight I did a little more tweaking on the pony sculpt, added the mane groove and tail hole, then got her all ready to bake. She's currently out of the oven and cooling, everything seems to have gone well! Tomorrow I can start the mane and tail. :3



I also continued on with the N pendents! Still not finished yet though. xD This isn't going as quickly as I'd originally planned. lol I was going to put a dusting of blue glitter on the blue ring of the larger pendent. It went on pretty solid though... so I ended up putting a pretty solid layer of glitter over the whole ring. It looks rather pretty, but erm that took a bit to embed all that glitter. Oops! I think it looks prettier in person. n_n'

I didn't get quite as far on my sculpt as I would have liked, but I finished getting the ears sculpted, then attached them to the head. It took quite a bit of fiddling to get them to the way that I wanted, but I rather like them. The ears are meant to be extra pointy for her character. hehe

Then I did a little more refining on the head, then sculpted the face! I'm really liking how she's coming along. Tomorrow I'm going to do a couple more minor things to her face. :3
I also worked a bit on leg placement, but the pieces aren't put together yet. I should be able to get that finished tomorrow as attaching the parts together is really all I have left to do (and sculpting the shoulders, neck, and hindquarters of course; but those need the parts to be put together first.)

I've pretty much decided that I'm going to do sculpted hair on this pony because I don't have the doll hair available and I'd rather finish the pony sooner rather than later. It doesn't mean future ponies won't have real hair though, but I think it's a good idea to at least try it this way to see if I like sculpted hair for them. Maybe it will be awesome. xD



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I also continued working on my book today! I still have a lot of things that I want to say (including all my lost work, blarg), but I did at least 1500 words today. I also got inspired for another scene early on in the book which is exciting. :3
Scottie and I got into a lengthly discussion of what types of plotbunnies are in the elite plotbunny strike force populating my brain. hehe This stemmed from me changing my status to PLOTBUNNIES: MOBILIZE because I was finally writing out some plotbunnies that have been kicking around in my brain for a few days. If I'm writing something that I just got inspiration for, I tend to have my status as PLOTBUNNY INVASION. I realise this is slightly random, but I want to make sure I remember what he said because it was cute. x3

My Howleen came in the mail today, from the trade I'd talked about about a week ago? She was supposed to come in on the 5th, but she took a meandering route up here. Normally once packages hit WA they come straight up to Anchorage (since we're the biggest city in AK, stuff tends to come here first). Now sometimes it can take a week to move from WA to AK because they're put on a cargo ship... which then waits until it is full. But This time it went quickly from WA to AK! The package went to Ketchikan though first, which made me rather confused. lol But she's finally here with me! I have plaaaans. :3 I have a sister Howleen with defective face paint, so I'm going to switch the clothes from her onto my new Howleen (she's nude) and leave her stock. Then I'm going to make the defective Howleen into a custom! This is something that I've wanted to do since I first saw people's custom Howleens. xD

Last night and tonight I did some more sculpting on the new pony! I've got all of the legs sculpted now, they just need some tweaking. Then I need to sculpt on ears and attach the legs. I'm getting really close to finished! Now I have to start thinking about if I'm going to do sculpted hair or real hair, or maybe wool? If I do dolly hair, I'll have to wait until I can pick up some.