WanderingPony

Hello again everypony! i hope the year has started off with a bang for everyone so far, and as i had such a wonderful reaction and helpful contributions when i asked for people's OC's to be possible background ponies in my upcoming webcomic Equestria's Dawn, i thought i'd put out another call - this time, i need your help in designing some ponies! One particular arc of the story features our favourite bothersome pesky parasprites (no more spoilers), and within the township they're terrorizing, dwell a large family of ponies. Now we have the Apple family, and the Pie family and the Orange family. But i need YOUR help designing the Bee family. Now the Bee family is a large family of ponies all based on our lovely honey-making buzzing little stripey friends, mostly to assist in raising awareness of how drastic the situation has become globally for bees in general - without bees to spread pollen and create honey, our environment is in danger. without bees, we can just about kiss the plant goodbye. personally, i adore bees, because all they want to do is their jobs - getting stung is usually a result of either mishandling or accidental intrusion of their personal space - it's more a defense mechanism for them; after all - if you were as small as them, wouldn't you want to protect yourself from being sat or stood on? So in this endeavour, i have decided that the Bee family, who are all bee keepers themselves, will play a generous role in Equestria's Dawn - I've had some ideas for a few of the family members, but as with the background ponies, i'm in need of assistance to design much of the family. Here are some characters i already have established, but not designed further than very rough sketches: QUEENIE BEE - head of the Bee family, she's the literal matriarch as all the other ponies in the family are her children. she's a very mature, stately and grand pony who carries herself with dignity and with grace, respected by all the townsfolk as something of the town mayor, though she doesn't personally hold the title. Queenie has a gentle heart but is firm and steadfast in her beliefs. HONEY BEE - Queenie's eldest daughter, about the same age as the main characters (late teens); she is a sweet and kind pony, but strongly defensive of her home and younger siblings, and fiercely loyal to her mother. BUMBLE BEE - Queenie's eldest son, Honey's younger brother. He means well but is often very clutzy - however when it comes to defending his family, he's a reliable and studious pony who's never afraid to stand up for himself and his siblings. BEESWAX - the grandfather figure of the family, Queenie's aging father and retired head of the family. He's often laughed at by other ponies for his silly ways and outlandish stories, but he pays them no heed (usually because he can't actually hear anything...). Mostly deaf, always smiling away obliviously. ------ I know there are almost 20,000 different species of bees, but as the Bee family is mostly made of up young/average ponies and fillies and colts, i'm really only planning on having up to about 7-8 main, named family members, and maybe up to 15 or so others as fillers. They'd all follow similar, bee-related colour schemes (yellow/orange and black/brown), in varying different tones and coat designs. Which is, my friends, you come in. If you'd like to design a member of the Bee family (be it Queenie, Honey, Bumble, Beeswax or any of the others ((you can even base them off other types of bees like the carpenter bee or the stingless bee)), ) please be my guest and show me the end result! Likewise with the background ponies that so many of you have generously allowed me to use already, if you do design a Bee, you will be given full credit at the end of any chapter where they may appear in. Thank you for reading, and i hope to hear from everypony soon! have a lovely Australia Day! peace to all, -Wandering

i did these a while ago to sell as prints to kids at my town's local markets - ...and i'm pleased to say, even without having finished the Twilight Sparkle print, these ones i did finish sold like hot cakes ^^ i was also offering facepainting and temporary tattoo art as well that day, and i can't believe how many discord's i drew on children's arms, shoulders, and faces! X'D i guess next time i'll have to make one or two Discord prints to sell as well as the finished Twilight one~! peace to all, -Wandering

hey Gamer_KM, thanks but your link takes me to a 404 not found page o-o is there a different link?

ooh what an excellent idea! i'll definitely go have a look

!!! thank you so very much Shadow Beam!

(...for want of a better place to post this, i suppose here will do since i couldn't figure out where else to!) That's right everypony, I am in need of some help; when it comes to designing background characters, there's only so many I can name and design before they start to look a little too alike. SO. Here is my question – if anyone, absolutely ANYONE, would like to have their personal OC/up to three of their OC's appear just as random background ponies, I would be so so glad for the assistance and lending of your characters. All credit will be given to you, the designer and owner of the OC, at the end of any chapter where your pony may appear, and, like many of the background ponies we see in our beloved MLP FIM, it's more than likely that the background ponies will have minor roles within the webcomic, just as, for example, Bon Bon, Derpy, Lyra, Rose Luck, Flitter, Berry Punch, etc, appear with minor roles/are identifiable within the stories and episodes of My Little Pony. IF, and only IF, you would like to donate your OC for any sort of background role for my upcoming webcomic, it would be so very greatly appreciated. On that note, here is some criteria of what I'd need from you if you do decide you'd like your OC to appear in the webcomic: 1 – the OC's name 2 – the OC's basic design (cutiemark, any definitive features, etc). 3 – a very basic background for the OC, outlining their personality without too much detail. (there'll probably not be many that go as in depth as, say, Special Agent Sweetie Drops...) 4 – the OC's colour scheme – if you can provide a reference image of them, that'd be even better. I'm only making this a very brief list, as there is possibility for the story to be altered/change and develop along the way, although the main storyline is now just about completely set and ready to go. If your OC does make an appearance, please be aware that, in the confines of the setting of the story, their design might vary slightly from your original one, if only to fit into the environment and to not look out of place. Equestria's Dawn is set at the time of Discord's reign of chaos of the ponies of Equestria, so it's going to be a more medieval/ye olde times sort of environment. Think Skyrim, almost. That's the sort of architecture look I'll be going for, at the very least. So, if you'd like to have your OC participate in what I hope to be a successful webcomic, please drop me a personal message with your expression on interest and your OC's details, as listed above Just remember, this is open to everyone and anyone, so don't be shy! I need all the help I can get, and I'd love to hear from everypony! If you've got any other questions, please feel free to drop me a message I can't wait to hear from everypony, Happy New Year to all, - Wandering Pony

ok so there's some more stuff i'd like to share; let's start with an OC who was supposed to be a part of my webcomic, but due to inconsistency and indecision in names/designs, etc and also due to personal dramas (horraaaay), he was changed completely and dropped out of the main 6 characters for the story. originally there was meant to be 3 colts and 3 mares making up the main 6, but it soon became apparent a) mares are easier to design/write for, b ) best friends can turn out to be complete jerks, and c), well, i suck at drawing male ponies :/ so instead here's just a concept of a pony who, sadly, was scrapped before he ever got a permanent design/name - the closest i ever got to a final name was Raindancer, he was supposedly the "Fluttershy" character of the group, however, once again, for more or less simple personal reasons, he was removed and replaced with a different female pegasus. next up, i kinda fell head over heels for Daring Do after seeing season 4's Daring Don't, and so here's a sketch up design for a possible comic that i'll almost certainly never actually get around to writing/going anywhere further with, but was just playing around with because, hey, who DOESN'T love Indianna Jo-I MEAN UM, Daring Do working with our favourite RD? ooooooohhh suspense~!! what's a post of mine without a celestia sketch? this time, featuring the one and only Discord! (mostly just did this for fun/practice sketching discord, since i'd never attempted him before. turns out, i can only make him look like a snake/thing XD ) next cab off the rank, my mum was watching me draw ponies one day and wanted me to design her a pony for the heck of it. she's one hell of a mum and i love her to pieces, so her name is Lotsa Love. also featuring my sibling, who's name is a passed-down translation of thor/taranis the god of thunder, so they're Thunder Shock. then there's my oc, Star Bryte ^^ my mums cool ok. oh, i suppose i should cap this off with a bit of an explanation of how more stuff about the concept, characters, designs, and story in general has changed throughout the last few years of my working on this webcomic; the idea came back in late 2012 when i'd first been introduced to MLP by two friends, and of course, like any aspiring fan artist, i wanted to draw all our pony characters together - such formed the idea of Tales of Equestria, in which six ponies (the ponysonas of my two friends as main characters), travelled throughout equestria to gather the original forms of the Elements of Harmony to put a stop to Discord's chaotic reign. Now whilst the core story concept has remained more or less unchanged, because of a falling out between one of these friends and myself, his character was removed from the story. the other friend has stayed my friend, for which i'm enternally grateful, but his character was moved to a back-ground position, and whilst the pony will still make an appearance/play a part, he is no longer one of the pivotal characters. so here's a look at what the main cast USED to look like, with all final designs more or less settled on by mid 2014 (last year): from left to right, we have Raindancer (in his rough final design), Candell Light, Silver Dare, (above: ) Notts Windspeed, (sitting: ) Willowmena Pigh, and Chamomile Brew. sadly, the only pony to remain a main character in the story was Chamomile, who, whilst her design has radically changed, is still more or less the same as when i first began to design her. peace to all, happy new year to everypony if i'm not around when it comes, - Wandering

i had an idea for an anthro!celestia at one point...it never really went anywhere, but here's the sketch - luna and celestia's struggle and nightmare moon's becoming was one of my favourite parts of the opening episodes of season 4...so naturally.... another sketch, another celestia ;A; XD and last but not least for today, there's the DeadFall project. a short story i wrote back in 2013 about a pony who wakens to find themselves in a Limbo-like world of shadows and silhouettes, and once again, the project didn't go much further than the initial concepts and ideas. i've decided that once i've finished my current MLP work and actually created the webcomic i'm designing, i'd like to try to revive DeadFall, but with Twilight Sparkle instead of a random pony. so here's the original cover design - versus the newly designed cover with Twilight that i may (someday) do something more productive with... anyhoo - thanks for joining me here, stay tuned for tomorrows art dump! peace and a very merry christmas to all, -Wandering ps- bah humbug.

she's so pretty

people often complain so much about the rain...but i love it. i'm definitely a winter person c: duuurrr its funny coz my mums name is sarah hurrhurr i really like Luna's original design...but her more commonly used design is also just as pretty... look out, noodle legs coming through! choochoo! okay so i'm a sucker for twilight as well...and twilight helping an introverted and emotionally guarded character like MoonDancer was just...yeah ok i'm a real sucker for these two and i easily relate to MoonDancer, so here we go... peace to all, -WP

So i'm usually known by a different name; Mercy Antebellum. here's a few bits and pieces (most of these are actually older works, but still)... whooooa okay that's really big...i'll have to look into downsizing a whole bunch of these so i'll only post another two...anyway this is Sliepnir, Grea test of the Changelings. well, my take on him in the mlp universe, anyway... here's one that's a much better size...i've always had a soft spot for young!Celestia, and the idea of her meeting philomena was just a really cute idea okay? this ones nothing flashy, just a sketch/wip piece i thought i'd share. woops...here's another huge one i'll have to work on resizing at some point ^^" anyway...once again, young!celestia - this one does have more of a story to go with it; whilst listening to the song "Winter" by Tori Amos, it brought about the inspiration of a small story about Celestia wanting to refuse her royal duties and in defiance of her father and his gruelling ways of trying to teach his daughters the ways of royalty, Celestia releases the imprisoned Windigo's from beneath her father's castle, bringing about a terrible blizzard that she becomes lost in. She is eventually found by her father and the castle guards, although none of them know why the windigo's didn't devour her for the anger in her heart. Celestia learns to fear and respect the Windigo's for their power, and for allowing her to live, as they sensed the anger in her heart was not true hatred. also, one of the OC's i designed waaaaaay back when i first really got into trying to create my own characters; this is Chamomile Brew; she's always just sorta stuck with me throughout my mlp journey, and i've always had a use for her as a character wherever. she's also one of the 'mane 6' primary characters in my soon-to-be webcomic, which still has yet to even have a working title =_=" however, though her design may change and vary a bit, she's still the same old Chammie i've always had tucked away for good use ^^ so yes...that's a couple of pieces that don't look as terrible as some of the others ^^" let me know if you're interested in seeing any more of my art, or if you're interested in comissioning me in the future ^^ peace to all, -WanderingPony

omigosh everyone's so nice holy hotsauce ;A; thank you everyone for your kind welcomes!!

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Pinkie Pie How did you find MLP Forums?: um...google???? How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: an old friend sat me down back in 2012 telling me that, no no, mlp is actually really great and awesome and amazing and got me to watch the first two episodes...and then left me with a harddrive full of seasons one and two to go through. by the end i was convinced. hello everyone! um...introductions, huh? okay then. I'm WanderingPony from down under Australia, and my personal OC is a unicorn named Star Bryte. I'm a fanfiction artist and writer, and am planning out what i hope to be (eventually), a My Little Pony webcomic focussing on ancient Equestria, during Discords' reign of chaos and the discovery of the Elements of Harmony. if anyone's curious about helping me out with background ponies/other characters/creatures/monsters/etc that could possibly be a part of what i'm aiming to make into a relatively long story, please, feel free to drop me a line! what else about me...? i'm 20 years old, i love me some anime, and books are just about the best thing in the world. i live with a tonne of animals, my horses are my pride and joy. i like to drink tea. um...food is good? i'm running out of things to say... (help) uh..i think i might consider starting up taking commissions; once again, i'll make a post in the commissions section thing and/or you could drop me a line if you wanted, eithers fine. i think that's about it about me, really. soooo yeah okay peace out everypony... -WP