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OtakuSquirrel — Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle WIP
Published: 2011-12-17 04:45:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 2297; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 309
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Just so you all don't think that I'm just being a slacker and not doing anything... Here's a nice little sample of what I'm cooking up for the new year.
Now if only I could find me a piece of chicken!!!
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These are coming along great! I hope you find that little "chicken" soon! XD
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I hope so too... They're selling chicken in Australia and in Mexico from what I hear... so it should be too much longer. I hope.
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Will Applebloom get a magnetic bow?
And LOL, Scootaloo sets are popping up everywhere where I live (in Australia). I expect for her to turn up in America in the New Year at least 
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Gaaaaaaaa!!! Okay, Scoot is down under, and I heard she was seen over in Mexico also... it can't be long now!
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Thanks! I'm watching your Derpy auction. I hope it does well!
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Nice! you're on form. Especially after all those projects that dont involve sculpting heh
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Yeah, it can be a bit difficult getting back into the sculpting after doing other stuff for a couple weeks...
I did do a recent sculpt that I haven't posted pictures of... it was part of a holiday pony swap. I'm dying to post the pics, but until I know that the recipient has actually gotten their pony, I can't post pictures!!! It's driving me a bit crazy!!!
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Haha is that considered common etiquette for commissions/swaps, or was it a specific request?
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Well, the ponies being swapped are all customs... when we signed up for this, we filled in a form with a whole bunch of questions, and then it's done as a round-robin as to who makes a pony for who. So I get the answers given by the person I was making the pony for-- to figure out what I wanted to make... but that person isn't the one who made my pony that I'm getting. Anyway, everything is supposed to be a surprise until they get their pony. It's the first swap that I've actually done... so I'm not sure what to expect.
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haha cool sounds like fun. Do they have to approve the quality of your work before they let you sign up?? haha. Hope you get something badass, post it when you get it!
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Sort of. This swap was a newbie swap... so no prior experience was really necessary. To participate in the "real" holiday swap, you needed to have something like 5 newbie swaps under your belt, or a portfolio of super awesome ponies... and because I'm a lazy bugger, I opted to just join the newbies.
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THEY LOOK AWESOME!!! Sweetie Belle's hair sure is coming along!
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Yeah, Sweetie's hair is a lot more fun to sculpt than Apple Bloom's is... (Sorry AB fans! The curly bits are just so much fun!)
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To do Sweetie Belle's did you just take little points and swirl them around?
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Yup... but I have to do it a bunch because they come out too thick, too thin, too this, too that... so it's a lot of swirling around little clay worms and twirling them up on themselves like centipedes.
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Do you find yourself carving them a bit with the exacto from time to time too?
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For the moment I'm trying to focus on getting the basic shapes about right, and then getting it baked... once I have that done, I'm very much going to be doing the fine tuning with my trusty x-acto knife-- both by carving and helping fill-in/shape spots that need more material.
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Oh, you bake and THEN you carve?
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and bake and carve and fill in low spots and bake again and repeat.....
I usually bake a sculpt about a dozen times-- refining and adding to my work each time. I think my lowest number of bakes for any of my sculpts was seven times.
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Wow, you work freaking hard!
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LOL! I take my ponies seriously! There's a reason my sculpts take me as long as they do and are a good as they are.
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I wish I had your patience as well as devotion!
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LOL! Well, a lot of this developed from having a fairly bad summer at work (being transferred out of my normal area and several bad interactions with coworkers...) So this is how I channeled all that bad energy into something positive.
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Yeah, I didn't have ANY work last summer so I guess all my artwork makes up for it. Hopefully I can get an internship next summer for experience and some pay, but I hope I still have some time for art...
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There's always time for art! Not always time for sleep though... which doesn't work well when you have to be at work at 8AM the next day... But hey, why not!
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How late do you stay up?
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Depends on when I'm supposed to be at work-- because I work for a parks department, most of my shifts are based off of sunset... to some degree. During the summer, I got off work anywhere between 1030 and 1130PM... so I was usually up until 4AM working on ponies. These days I'm off work around 630 on most days, so midnight or 1AM tops. Unless I have the next day off, in which case it's until my eyes go derpy and I can't work any more.
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Yeah, I put a lot of time into them. I enjoy it, and the hobby seems to be paying for itself, so I'm good with it.
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So cute! Is Apple Bloom going to have a detachable bow?
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I haven't really decided about that yet. It makes sense because it would be a paint to mold her bow and mane together... So I guess I have to figure out how to attach them (not sure if the magnet will work in this case...)
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Hmmmm... So the metal-in-mane trick won't work here?
If it's a case where you think most people will want to attach the two at all times, you could just go for a hole in the mane and a peg on the bow and have people glue it in once it was painted. I'm a fan of rectangular pegs, since then they have to line up evenly.
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Unless the bow has enough room to hide the magnet, the metal in her mane trick wont work the best... although it would be pretty awesome if it did because then AJ and AB could swap accessories!
But yeah, if I can't get the magnet trick to work, I think most people will want the bow attached-- It's not like she takes it off very much. Once I get the sculpt closer to finished, it should hopefully be a bit more obvious as to how to best attach it.
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Oh man... she'd be totally adorable in an AJ hat. Hopefully the size of the pieces will allow for that.
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Well, if it turns out that attaching her bow with a magnet wont work, I can always put metal in her mane for the hat anyway!
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A Sweetie Belle. My life needs a Sweetie Belle @ A @
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Yup. I can't wait to finish her so I can get a photo of her with Rarity.
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LOL! Which is the mush and which is the crusty bits?
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Sweetie must be the rich filling, and Rarity the crisp-cut crust C: And their marshmallow-ness is the whipped cream on top *shot*
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Mmmmmmm... Marshmallows...
I don't actually have marshmallows in the house... I do have some cream puffs... they're not quite the same, but I think it's time for dessert!!!
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Enjoy your sweets! : D
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