Darkwhip

probably Trixie and Spitfire, they are cool or Luna.

When I'm designing a character (pony or not), one of the first things I do is sketch out tons of different hairstyles for them. Just a basic round shape for their head with the hairstyle sketched over it. I try different combinations and styles from hairstyles I find online. I usually search for real life and anime ones, and of course pony ones if the character's an MLP OC. You can derive hairstyles from people you know too, yourself included.

 

One thing to keep in mind is the personality of your character too - for example, if you're looking for a hairstyle for an elegant, graceful character, a mohawk wouldn't really fit. I give calm characters straighter or 'smoother' hair, while energetic ones get rougher and 'spikier' hair. (Compare Fluttershy to Rainbow Dash, for instance.)

 

Drawing the hair from different angles is also really useful, it will help you know whether or not your hairstyle makes sense in 3D space. (ie does it still look right when viewed from behind or an angle, or does it look off?)

 

You can use the same process for tails too.

 

As for colors, I pick a color that is either close to the coat's on the color wheel (analogous color) or a color that is opposite on the color wheel (complimentary color). I usually make either the hair or the eyes a complimentary, and the other an analogous. That makes your character's hair/eyes 'pop' more.

Keep the value of the color in mind too, you usually don't want to make a character too dark or too bright, that makes it more difficult to do shading or lighting over them later on.

 

Anyway, that's how I go about drawing hair and choosing colors, I hope that was useful to you.

Thanks, that part about hair being tied to personality was a key tip, and makes a whole lotta sense now, but what if it's a character who's calm and say lazier as opposed to a more active but tidy character?

I recommend watching this if you are having trouble with color selection

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alx-H_Rmpvw

*Knowledge Acquired* I had no idea what to do before, thanks for the guidance Mr Ando.

Hey everybuggy, Lately i've been finding myself drawing ponies with my sister, though most of the times we do show characters, sometimes we like to do ponysona's or create OC's, in these cases coming up with mane/tail styles and colors is kind of hard, for picking color you can just use your favorite one, and for mane style we can derive from show characters, ad the ever-popular Rainbow Dash manecut.

With that in mind, I ask, how you come up with mane/tail styles for your OC's? Sometimes you canderive from your own haircut but it's not that simple for males.

Here is a pic of an unfinished drawing where i went with Doctor Whooves style and found myself in creative block to come up with something new, please ignore the wing, as i said it's a Work-in-progress.

No ponification really? i'd get hit with the elements with the sole purpose of getting ponified.

Unicorn Twilight, definitely, seeing her with wings is like a punch.

Hello everybuggy, so i've been looking all over the internet for a place to buy trixie posing like this:

http://kp-shadowsquirrel.deviantart.com/art/Trixie-Pose-1-257557272

The artist himself sent a link but it's 404'ing now, any other places where i may find this? bonus points if it can ship to Brazil.

From MLP? unicorn magic, even if i had to grow a horn, it'd be a minor price to pay to be a wizard, worst case scenario i make a mask for wizardry and hide it wth an illusion spell normally, plus the possible clop implementations why not alicorn then? because with alicorn i'd be OP, unicorn i can still be humble.

Something more ridiculous and more on par with myself is 12th level of intellect by Brainiac and the anti-life equation.

daily rainbow dash presents dosage to stop myself from falling into the pit of endless obliviousness to the rest of my day.

Just throwing this out there, but if he finds the crystal heart, feeds on it and ascends to king levels, and then help overthrow chryssie for the good of changeling kind.

Twilight: "I Love PoE fanfics";

Applejack: "I need to buck";

Rarity: "That's too many gems, dear"

Spike: Gives twilight a book with a sock in it, twilight reads the title and gives him back, Spike opens the book and grabs the sock, "Master gave me a sock, Spike is a free dragon!";

Fluttershy: her friends come visit her at her shack, she opens the door, looking very hurt, bandages and scratches everywhere, bite marks, behind her, Angel bunny in a murder gaze as she says "hmm... I feel down some stairs today";

Rainbow dash: "I Clop Rarity nstead of working"(run out of ideas here);

Love changelngs, finally they'll get their own episode

As a 21 year old teenager i have no problem answering questions or bringing it up in a concersation, I just try to keep it off the table in more casual situations, and since i don't have any physical items of the fandom as of yet i don't go displaying them in public, honestly i'd just buy a changeling plushie and have it by my bad to feed on my procrastination and let me work better.

At class yesterday with artificial intelligence and discussion on theturing test, there is a fanfiction called friendship is optimal where a certain company creates an actual general AI to serve as a gamemaster for their game Equestria Online, her guidelines are ponies and friendship, this AI is nicknamed CelestAI.

I join this train, for I am too, single.

Right now my priorities are on getting a job though, then mares.

Unicorn, because magic, and although ponies might be born with certain power, we could train to become an archmage, it'd be my ultimate dream, then i'd have a castle in the background with lightning, thundering behind, a golem construct playing a hard Slayer solo, me with a nice green and dark blue cape and a fedora, because fedoras are very stylish... god i went far in that thought, geez.

The choice is hard between changeling and unicorn, since both have magic the latter boosts that with flight shapeshifting and emotion-diet, since the changeling canon is unrevealed of this moment it's a risky choice but it would pay off as you'd be able to both fly and magic, and hopefully with enough training be able to actually become strong in whichever i choose.

Plus i always play the mage in RPGs, I'd make a terrible infiltrator changeling , but it'd be so cool

About how people would react if it turned out i was a real changeling using a notebook in the hive, the reaction of the stream people and the first contact situation.

Mage, because the wizard is undeterred.

Plus you get elemental manipulation and at some points you can create golems conjure daemons, or supplies, dispel and cast curses, transform, it's just so much, over just being dextrous or swift and strong

An intriguing conundrum, allow me to give a try:

• For purple smart, a classic metal, because she's my waifu and this is something i would love for her to hear, Scorpions and Bon jovi would be good candidates;
• For our favorite orange apple farmer, i'm not a fan of country, but just to appease her into accepting my partnership with Twilight, Eric Clapton and Robert Johnson;
• For Rarity, The White, It's a hard choice, but something psychodelic, like Pink Floyd and The Animals;
• For the meek yellow flyer, something calm to set her animals in a happy mood and send good vibes, Kenny G and Stevie Wonder;
• For the crass prismatic pegasus, something she could listen while making her tricks, to boost her performance, Imagine Dragons and Disturbed;
• For the Pink Party Pony Pinkamena Pie, here nicknamed 5 Pi, another hard choice, something she could put on her parties and everyone have fun, The Beetles and Bee gees, definitely if not a bit of creedence;

Kinda hard to say, currently i'm in IT, programming, but it just doesn't feel right with me to work with schedules and the demand for work.

Maybe strating my own youtube channel and getting a living out of it, living out of playing games.

As a rapper canine from ages past would say:

"I know! I gotta believe!"
 

In everything, the hope for tomorrow, the promise of others, my own success, my chances of actually getting to Equestria as a pony...

The End in MGS3 at ultra hard was an amazing battle, to date i'm yet to see such great mechanics in a boss fight, come to think about it, i don't think i've ever seen a sniper duel in another game, plus the easter eggs and the fact that you could skip the fight entirely by not playing for two days.

Usain Bolt dubbing a pegasus challenging rainbow dash for the title of fastest flyer in Equestria would be pretty fitting.

I am a fan of foxes as well, and owls of course, I found them to be just the right amount of cute and menacing in a creature, and like owls they also simbolize a mental trait, while with owls is wisdom as with all the teacher hats, a fox is often associated with cunning and clever solution.

Plus I got a huge boner for fox girls, chizuru-san

What about Octavia practicing her instrument in the hall, then Vinyl comes down with a bedhead? its a nice inversion of the way fans see the two.