Rikifive

~ Sorry for a long status update, but I don't think it deserves to have its own thread  ~

I finally got into redesigning my OC.  

... Oh many things were changed, so let's start from the beginning...

At first it was meant to be a joke (was just doing science). I was randomly recoloring bases and giving them poorly drawn mane and tail. I didn't really think of making one for serious UNTIL I accidentally ended up having a pink pone, that I kind of liked and that you may recognize. I started polishing what I had and gave her name... Happy Flow.

I still have early poor images, but let's skip these. 

She looked like this:

Pretty much everything was rather random and that was bothering me. She felt kind of rushed, so I always had redesigning her in mind.

In my opinion the colors were too bright and mane/tail designs weren't really something I felt good with.

For a long time I had no idea what exactly would I like. Thankfully, through the years I was bumping into some inspiration, which now led me to something I feel good with... I think.  

First it was @VengefulStrudel's gift he made for me:

It's simply amazing.  Right from the beginning you can tell the difference - that the colors he picked aren't too bright, compared to what I came up with. It looks more like pastel colors ~ soft and nice. I liked that approach and that started building the idea in my mind.

During the recent MLPF Pony World Cup matches, I was randomly drawing some banners, because I apparently had nothing better to do.  *ahem* I wanted to give these banners a somewhat normal looking logo for that event, so I started toying around in image editing software. As soon as I noticed this in the tool options:  - I knew what I'll try to do. In the end I came up with that silly logo-thing you may recognize.  

To be honest I liked the look of it, so that gave me an inspiration for a pony design I thought I'll like too. 

So the general idea I wanted to try was: pastel colors + stars and of course more or less stick to what I had so far - pink pegasus pone with mostly yellow mane/tail.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I did science and came up with a mix based on these characteristics.  I also had to change her name to something more accurate, though I assume it will be nothing original... 

Well, here she is, her name is Pastel Star.

Oh I hope that name wasn't taken yet and that she doesn't look too similar to existing ponies/OC's, because that probably would be awkward. 

Welp, that's at least the first approach. Will I have to change anything? The future will tell.