PonyPal123

^{She sound great and looks good her colours work really well together, unique design and her personality is good to}

^{Good Job}  

Maybe you could give her more backstory?

Well I would love more of a backstory, but maybe you could put a fancy hat, or maybe a type of fancy dress? Hope this helped!    

Well when she was just discovering her talent her dad wasn't to approving and thought that she could do something better with her time but after a while seeing how happy it made her he was fine with it although her mum was always teaching her to express herself and Radiance did that by designing clothes but she would sometimes get upset at herself for not being able to draw what she had pictured in her head so that is when she met her unicorn friend (no name yet) and they started designing clothes together.

Ok everypony so I am making another OC and I have got most of her details worked out except her cutie mark

so here are a couple details about her:

Name: Radience (still not 100% happy with this name so if you have any other name ideas please tell me )

Gender: Female

Race: Pegasus

Talent: She is a model and a little bit of a designer although she doesn't quite have the ability to sew so she gives her designs to her friend (haven't come up with a name for her yet but she is going to be a unicorn) and together they have there own little business.

Personality: She is a happy and fun pony she hates being alone and she has a fear of the dark, she loves flying and she spend quite a bit of time in the clouds whenever she has free time and she is quite a perfectionist.

So there she is and any ideas please let me know and also if you can think of any names for her friend unicorn I would love to her them 

Hey great job i really like Amy Flower and Wild Charms there colours work really nice together and they have great mane styles 

Maybe instead of getting him to go through brain surgery you can make it so that early in his life but after an emotional incident he decided to not form close relationships and not to get emotional about things so he built walls around himself to protect him from ever being hurt again

I like his ability to only perform spells that he has seen done before. It's unique

OK everypony so I have an OC named Sugarplum and I have her design worked out in my head

(being drawn now) I have her personality and backstory everything except a cutie mark and that

is where I need your help  Here is some basic info about her:

Gender: Female

Race: Earth Pony

Likes: Anything to do with cooking and baking, animals (she has two cats) she loves jokes and pranks

and caring for other ponies.

She has two sisters Honey Bun and Peppermint Cream and they all run a coffee shop (somewhere in equestria) anyway she loves being able to cook for ponies and she is also very giving and not always the bravest pony.

I was originally going to make her cutie mark a chefs hat but I don't really like that idea anymore

it just seemed a bit boring but I also don't want anything over the top like for example 3 cupcakes shaped as cats with streamers and a soda just something simple will do but not to simple.

So any suggestions will be greatly appreciated

Maybe umm Blue Tech, Hard Drive or Sound Wave

Just a thought

Maybe his backstory could be that his father was the captain of the royal guard before Shining Armour and that got him into the royal guard but he doesn't always follow orders and is quite laidback about things and is also very brave

Just an idea

its linked in the description of part 1.

Thanks I found it & thanks again for all your help!

Alright! 

Well, for the first one you mentioned, it started out as a sketch, and I was completely new to Inkscape, too. I used this tutorial to guide me along: http://www.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Vector-a-Sketch-Ponyscape-Edition-Part-1-435306885 (That's part one)

 

For the one of Amber in her gala dress, I found someone else's vector and asked them permission to edit it. After they said yes, I just switched the colours and pretty much copy-pasted the braided mane from my previous vector.

I'm not really sure what to say other than that. Inkscape just takes a bit of getting used to!

Wow thank you so much for your help   i have been looking everywhere for a way to turn a sketch into a vector

and that link helps me out a lot and yeah inkscape does take a bit of getting used to 

BTW  where can i find part two to that link

Thanx

She is great   if i was a pony i would love to be her friend there is nothing that i would change about her.

Good Job

PonyPal,

 

I don't mind your idea at all.  Develop her a bit more and see what happens, I say.  You may find, as you're defining more and more about her, that you learn some things you didn't know about her yourself, initially.  Lots of good characters end up shaping themselves, in that way.  Good luck!  

 

 

Your Dude

Notice the originality? if you are going to make an Alicorn OC, try and make it as unique and as much your own idea as you possibly can. and try to avoid Mary-Sue mechanics wherever possible, for every strength, give them a weakness.   Personally, I'd avoid making direct relations to show-characters, as those tend to be very over-used and share a lot of characteristics. If you are determined to make one like that though, at least try to give it a creative twist on the others

Thank you both for your advice i will try what each of you said and see where it gets me

Hey i saw your OC's and i think that they have good cutie marks and good colours and good manes

if i was to change anything i would make the colours a bit less bold but other than that they are great  

Also i agree @Gold3 that you should name your ponies Ultra Dash, Super Dash and Dolphin Dash :grin2:

Which of my drawings are you talking about? I did them all differently lol

Well there are two drawing that i really like   first is the one of Amber Dust writing her name with a quill and the second is the one of Amber Dust in her gala dress.

Firstly i'd liked to say that if you wanted to change anything about Amber's colour scheme maybe you could tone down her coat just a tad 

but seriously i think she looks great just the way she is. I can see that you have put a lot of effort into her because she is one of the best OC's i have ever seen

Also i was just wondering if you could help me out with something, i have some hand drawn pictures of my OC's and i have inkscape as well but what i really 

want is to make pictures of my OC's like the one you have of Amber Dust, so maybe if you could give me some advice on how you made her i would really appreciate it 

Ok so I am making another OC  and she is a filly she doesn't have her cutie mark yet and she is lost

and unsure of what her talent is so I don't want her name to be to obvious but I am going to make her a dancer

She has a long high up ponytail and a side fringe that covers half of one of her eyes, she is a Pegasus and I am not certain on her colours yet but I am thinking of maybe a light tan colour for her coat and then maybe a burgundy colour for her mane.

She is quite a tom-boy and she loves her wings which will benefit her as a dancer. She is really good at fitting in and she is great with friends.

Hope that's enough info so feel free to post any ideas

I have my own Alicorn OC and I'm always willing to dole out my two cents. Alicorn OCs are very hard to create well as they are potent ways to get one's ideas into the setting of Equestria, yet it's proven many times to be too much temptation for newer writers to make their characters Mary Sues. You have to find a balance and unfortunately, there's no guide to that.

 

I think the best piece of advice I can give you is keep in mind that your Alicorn is part of a set. Make her fit in, not outshine. As there's not a lot of concrete information about Alicorns, it can be pretty hard sometimes. Don't be afraid to let your character evolve and grow as time and new information comes to light. You have a good start so far, just figure out the smaller details and you'll be fine.

Of the four characters currently known as alicorns, two of them are explicitly stated not to have begun life that way.

 

Twilight obviously was originally a unicorn, but in the extended canon (written by I think Amy Keating Rogers?), Cadance was originally a pegasus, and became an alicorn courtesy of Celestia sharing the Matrix of Princessship with her.

 

Cadance was also an abandoned orphan.

 

This means that Cadance would most likely not have an alicorn sibling, if indeed any siblings at all.

 

I'm okay with not following that extended canon, of course, but the implication is still that every character who is now an alicorn had to become that way, including Celestia and Luna, and you need to have a reason for this one too.

Thank you both for your comments, it really helps me a lot and has given me some new ideas as to what I can do with my character

Ok so I know the does and don'ts for an alicorn but I had an a watching MLP and that was making a sister for Princess Cadence.

I was thinking of making a little younger that Twilight Sparkle and she was going to have a purple mane and a blue or cream body and I was going to name her Purple Nova Purple because its means belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler and Nova because it means a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes brighter in the process.

Her cutie mark is not certain yet but I was thinking of a simple star with a cloud/ fog mist thing behind it

She is very funny and loves adventures,she is good at both flying and magic but not overly good on the magic part so that's why she studies to get better.

I haven't come up with all the details yet but I wanted to know what you guys think before I go further

and I you have any tips on what I should and shouldn't do then feel free to tell me but please try not to go overboard if you don't like my idea

I couldn't agree more, a description of your chracters physical appearance helps with making names.

Ok well I don't have a picture of her but has a side fringe half covering one of her eyes and a high up long wavy pony tail. I am not certain with her colour but I am thing for her body maybe a light tan and for her mane a burgundy sort of colour with a lavender streak.

We can name it based on her Cutie mark, might we take a look?

Ok well I haven't decided yet but it will be one of these

Hope this helps

Ok so I have a female OC that I am working on she doesn't have a name and I don't have a good enough picture her but I will describe her as best as I can and any help will be greatly appreciated

Gender: Female

Race: Pegasus

Cutie Mark: 3 Paw Prints or a Paw Print with a Feather

Colours: not sure

What she does for a living: She cares greatly for animals of all sorts and is an excellent animal tracker.

Personality: She is quite a cool pony like rainbow dash, brave and not afraid of a challenge although when it comes to helping her animal friends she is very caring. She loves flying and exploring and has hopes to one day open an animal shelter for all the injured or abandoned animals she finds where she helps them recuperate she also is studying medicine.

Also this is for another pony but I need help thinking of a name for a young tomboy like pegasus filly who is going to be a dancer but she doesn't have her cutie mark yet (sort of like a cutie mark crusader) and I don't want her name to be something obvious like ballerina but something that is cute.

So yeah any help will be appreciated

Hey there  I just wanted to say that I love your OC's. I had a look at Amber Dust, Plum Pudding and Storm Jumper and was wondering if you could tell me how you made the HD pictures of Amber Dust I have made some OC's of my own and I have inkscape but the best picture I can come up with isn't that good  I was also wondering how you got that page where you have your OC's profile and everything I can't work out how to get that  I have no idea what to do so if you could help I would greatly appreciate it

So you are just needing random talent suggestions? Or specific ones?

Just random talent suggestions

Ok so for a story i am doing i have decided to create some background ponies that will be mentioned 

quite a few times and i have some names and designs worked out but i would like each of them to have a 

special talent for example:

Pinkie Pie-Party Planner

Rarity-Fashion Designer

Apple Jack-Apple Farmer

Flutter Shy-Takes Care of Animals

So any ideas will help

Paige Storytail, Paige Telltail, just simply Paige, Paige Fictitious, Paige Fiction, Paige Binder, Paige Turner, the possibilities are endless. Paige Spellwrite could be good seeing as she is a unicorn, plus the irony of "page" spelled wrong as well as "spell right," it also fits with Ink and Quill being editors.

Wow thank you so much for your help  i think i'm going to go with Paige Turner 

 Here are some options:

Cat, Dog, Rabbit, Bird, Guinea Pig, Chinchilla, Turtle, Squirrel,

Flying Squirrel, Fox, Arctic Fox, Mongoose, Mouse, Butterfly, Lamb, Iguana or Monkey

Hope i helped