Definitely Serious Pony Inuyasha Ask Blog It's an AU, so canon is mutable
Blog will be on temporary hiatus for the next few months.
Look for my return some time in May 2026.
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OKAY! THIS BLOG CAN OFFICIALLY COME OFF HIATUS NOW!!
I need to go back over the inbox again to see who still needs answering, but if you have anything pressing, now is the perfect time to submit new asks!
Terra:*obliviously ringing her bike bell again while obliviously on fire while not hurt due to her half phoenix nature she isn't aware of* (mod: lets see how koga will react to a similar sound of kagome's bike bell too in comparison to inuyasha :3)
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I didn't end up doing anything too special or unique with Terra this time because we've kind of done this gag already before, but I wanted to do a little bit more with Koga before he goes back on the shelf for a while. I DID really like the way the fire effects turned out though!
Ayame was fun! But much like Sesshomaru, she took a LOT of fiddling to get a color palette I was happy with (there ended up being about seven different iterations of her in the end). It was a really tough choice between the coral pink scales that match the accents on her armor, or jade green scales that match her necklace, but ultimately the coral won out because it gave her some really good visual contrast with her eyes, necklace, and with Koga himself.
This took me basically all weekend to put together, but I really wanted to get one last answer out before the upcoming radio silence. Treat this as my hiatus announcement and a small parting gift before I go quiet for a few months. It's not bad news though! I started taking night classes to prepare to take the Principles and Practices of Engineering (PE) exam to get my professional engineering license. The course is very intensive, and will consume most of my evenings and weekends for the next 3-4 months. I intend to take my licensure exam in April, then take a celebratory vacation with some friends, so...
You might not hear from me until May.
I will leave you with this thing that I tinkered with a few weekends ago!
I recreated my Pony Inuyasha model in Inkscape just to see how it felt, and while some of the process was easier (shadows and eyes, for instance) the rest was nightmarish! SO! It was a fun experiment but I will definitely NOT be migrating my artistic process to Inkscape for ponies!
(perhaps a question for the mod) How do you distinguish "Youkai" ponies from regular ones? Do you have lore reasons? Just winging it with what feels right?
(Sorry for the long hiatus. One of these days I will learn how to make short answers again lol)
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Daisy Daedals first! She's a real cutie pie! I loved making all the curls in her hair! (Bless you, Splunge for having a pinned ref for her and making this easy)
Next! Behold! My Kōgas!
He's such a smug little stinky man. Little jerkface. He's great. I just wish his color scheme wasn't so... eurgh... I did my best though.
OKAY LORE TIME!
So basically the way Kōga said it, each Kirin is attuned with a nature spirit. To this end, all of the demons/yōkai from Inuyasha canon are Kirin. The Kirins of Nippone (as I am tentatively calling their island because I am great at puns shuddup) don't necessarily work exactly the same as the ones of Kirin Grove in Equestria, so I don't have to worry about stepping on toes or hooves or whatever. The Kirin's yōkai is what gives them their magic, and empowers their Nirik form, and some older/more powerful Kirins can transform into their yōkai (like Sesshōmaru).
(Oh also y'all gotta see the wolf and dog I drew for this comic because I largely obscured them and that's a shame. They're great.)
Alright, my post-cut rant is getting long enough! I'm going to sign it off with a shameless plug of my main blog art (which takes a non-zero amount of responsibility for why it took me so long to get back to making art for this blog whoops). Anyway! Look at my art!
💬 1 🔁 8 ❤️ 12 · My character, Dal Mei, from Crystal Chronicles.
I sketched him a while ago and wanted to give the sketch the full color t
I said I would post this one separately and I meant it ^^
This was the original orientation of the drawing and the sketch, and I flipped it for the ask. You may also see this one floating about on bluesky or deviantart because I posted it on some of my other socials first with a different signature in the corner.
She took me about 6 hours total to draw from sketch to finish. I'd like to get to draw more things like this in Inkscape so feel free to give me as many excuses as possible to do so! I'm also really enjoying using Inkscape to draw cutie marks, so if you need a custom high-res transparent PNG of your character's cutie mark, hmu!
Void pulse: do you like sweet treats? Like chocolate
Inuyasha: Imm mim mif muffy mumf!
@a-spoonful-o-generosity: Seems he likes the peanut butter taffy...
Silver Spoon: Don't talk with your mouth full, dear.
Inuyasha: Imum im mu muum muim?
Silver Spoon: It's not the same. You're eating, while I'm multitasking!
@askvoidpulse, I owe you pony art after Halloween! I just ran out of time to draw more ponies I'm so sorry! I will draw your horf soon I promise!
I've had this vision in my head since the beginning of October, it just took me a while to get there! I should have been asking everypony to send me art of their characters in costume for ages! Waah! Why can't there be more time in the day for me to do all of the things I want to do all the time forever??
Here's that art I owed you! Thank you for your patience and for your ask! Nightmare Night was a bit hectic for me and I just ran out of time to give everything the kind of polish I wanted to.
Anyway, I love Void's spiky emo bangs, and I busted out a fresh new wing shape just for you!
Inuyasha: Okay. I'll admit... as far as pony holidays go... this is a pretty cool party.
@a-spoonful-o-generosity: Told ya it would be!
I wish I could have done more for Nightmare Night but this has got to be it for me for real!
It's not yet midnight where I'm at (though it's close) so hopefully I can tag @ask-shutter-ghost and still slide in a last-minute entry for the pony costume contest? Not sure if Inuyasha's costume counts as scary or not XD
He's dressed as a Komainu, the Japanese version of the lion-dog. The Japanese take on these originally Chinese sculptures is cute. In China they're strictly intended to be lions (though westerners still refer to them as lion-dogs or foo-dogs or several other variations there of). When the lion statues and carvings made their way to Japan, they were dubbed by the locals to be dogs, and referred to as komainu. They come in pairs, and guard Buddhist temples and shrines against evil. Whether the mouth is open or shut can have specific symbology, but accounts contradict each other on what which shape means besides that the open mouth shape is the "Ah" shape and the closed mouth shape is the "Un" shape.
I figured Inuyasha would struggle a bit with coming up with something scary to dress up as, because he's obviously so tough and fearless that nothing ever scares him ever. So he'd go with something that's more a) venerated and b) dog-themed lol.
Void pulse: do you like sweet treats? Like chocolate
Inuyasha: Imm mim mif muffy mumf!
@a-spoonful-o-generosity: Seems he likes the peanut butter taffy...
Silver Spoon: Don't talk with your mouth full, dear.
Inuyasha: Imum im mu muum muim?
Silver Spoon: It's not the same. You're eating, while I'm multitasking!
@askvoidpulse, I owe you pony art after Halloween! I just ran out of time to draw more ponies I'm so sorry! I will draw your horf soon I promise!
I've had this vision in my head since the beginning of October, it just took me a while to get there! I should have been asking everypony to send me art of their characters in costume for ages! Waah! Why can't there be more time in the day for me to do all of the things I want to do all the time forever??
Well thousand years ago, give or take, Princess Luna let herself fall into darkness and became Nightmare Moon. Very serious issue, eternal night, Elements of Harmony bla bla bla, that my people turned into a holiday.
Now foals dress up so Nightmare Moon won't recognize them and gobble them up. They collect candy from neighbors and offer a piece in tribute to appease the restless wandering, hangry spirit of Nightmare Moon.
Adults dress up too. I'm going as @forgivemeomycyns's Serial Designation V; a killer robot with a sweet side. My wife, @diamond-tiara-4-serving-spoon is going as Cyn herself and Cyn is going to be Diamond. It will be so much fun. I'm really excited for the first time in years! Lady Veronica is a friend and she gave me her blessing.
You should come along and join the festivities, Mr. Inuyasha.
I would be more than happy to be helping you with your costume.
I haven't had enough time to work on this as I would like (had a couple weekends consumed, and work projects eating my time to draw). I still have more to draw too! But Nightmare Night isn't over until midnight tomorrow so I have time!! Anyway, thanks @a-spoonful-o-generosity for humoring my desire to make this stubborn horse get dressed up and have fun.
Sorry I had to trim the length of the text just slightly but I was running out of space for speech bubbles XD
Spoony made me add several new poses to my collection! Also I don't know much about Murder Drones, but it was fun to draw her dressed up as Serial Designation V!
I also spent a whole weekend drawing Nightmare Moon, which was a delight! I learned how to make clipping masks and blur objects/layers in Inkscape. My power grows day by day. Soon I will be unstoppable!
But yeah, I'll upload that one by itself later XD
I should probably also upload the other Inkscape art I said I would upload too... maybe I'll get to it in November, lol.
Anyway here is my WIP image of Nightmare Moon when I was just drawing the object shapes and not giving them their final colors yet. The method to my madness always involves making the evil clown version of the character first.
That's all I got for tonight! And tomorrow is the night to look forward to!
Do you have Nightmare Night where you are, or when? And if so, have you thought about a costume for the occasion, Mr. Inuyasha?
@a-spoonful-o-generosity: Do you have Nightmare Night where you are, or when?
Silver Spoon: And if so, have you thought about a costume for the occasion, Mr. Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Nightmare Night? Is that an Equestria thing?
Inuyasha: Do you pick one night of the year to have nightmares or something? Don’t you have a princess for that?
Inuyasha: Why would I get dressed up to have nightmares? Not that I ever have nightmares or anything.
Sorry this one is a bit on the lazy side. I wanted to put my actual art spoons into drawing Spoony's costume (which is coming I promise) I just lost a couple weekends to being busy (and then uuuuh accidentally picked up Blue Prince and boy do I love a puzzle game!)
@drakowulf I told ya I'd draw it!
(We were chatting earlier about Drako's theoretical reaction to the one accidentally steamy frame of the last answer and having a good giggle and I just couldn't help myself)
Sir, please calm down. I'm not asking for much. I only just got here because there was a report of an angry Kirin within the Mercenary circles. I'm begging you, please relax.
(Dialogue in image alt text. High-res transparent PNGs and excessive yapping below the cut!)
First off! Copper Strikes!
I made many more of him than were strictly necessary, but I had a different plan for the way this ask was going to go initially. So WHOOPS! Bonus PNGs for you! I honestly started this ask just with the concept of the visual gag of Inuyasha licking his hoof to put out his mane flames. As you can see... it got away from me a bit!
OKAY! So first of all I'm so sorry this took so goshdarn long. @drakowulf can attest I have in fact been working on it a very long time and not just slacking off! I got this wild hair in me to do these scenes in a stylized way using Inkscape and OOOOOH my gosh I am so glad I did! They turned out SOOOO good imo! I'm back fully in the saddle of my former capability of doing lineless vector art (I also did a few cutie marks with it for fun).
Each of the flashback scenes are actually recreations of specific scenes from the show! I tried to be faithful to the composition while giving it the color and simplicity of the pony style, but also giving it a dose of my own personal style.
The first is obviously from Episode 7 "Showdown! Inuyasha vs. Sesshomaru!"
The second is actually from the third movie "Swords of an Honorable Ruler"
And the third is from Episode 182 of The Final Act "True Heir"
I will say in the case of Pony Inuyasha's retelling of events, he's taking much more of the credit than is strictly his to take. Ultimately it was Sesshōmaru who broke Tenseiga on Tessaiga after realizing Inuyasha truly was the rightful wielder of Tessaga.
I am so very proud of these little scene re-draws that I will definitely post them separately uwu
Before I sign off for the night, though I wanna show you guys some little process pics for the Inkscape art, just because I think you'll get a kick out of it. Before I add the final colors to the characters, they look like evil clown versions of themselves.
Anon: So, is Sesshōmaru missing a leg or did you break his horn? Or maybe both?
Inuyasha: I see my brother’s reputation for getting his flank handed to him precedes him.
Inuyasha: Oh, and by the way… It was both.
Inuyasha: First the leg. Then the horn.
Inuyasha: But he wouldn’t know anything about that… would you, Drako.
“Sesshōmaru”: Ugh! How did you know?
Inuyasha: Pff. Please. You think I couldn’t smell the difference between my own horrible brother and a bug?
Drako: *transforming in the background*
Inuyasha: Well that’s different. What happened to you?
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PLEASE let this version work! I tried answering the ask, but my gifs were too powerful and I messed it all up and panic-deleted the post. Thankfully it was anon, and I had a screenshot! Anyway! Thank you, Nony Pony, for giving me a great excuse to add drama!
Sorry for the long wait, too! I had to migrate to a new laptop and ended up having to re-install the OS a couple times. It's been kind of a nightmare to the point where I'm backing up everything I make on my network drive before shutting the laptop down for the night because I just don't know if it will wake up again. Also I'm learning how to do animation in CSP! It's a lot less intuitive than it was in Photoshop or Flash, but I am using an old version of CSP so it might be easier in later versions.
Anyway! Here's the fancy gem boy! I love Drako's new look so much!
Also please appreciate my very funny Sesshōmaru faces.
Oh! Also I got the frames for the changeling transformation animation from Inside-Our-Mind on Deviantart, which was a huge help!
SO YEAH! Thank you for your patience. I really hope the gifs work in this version or I will be SAD!
Most of these characters were ones I had already drawn before, so I'm just going to upload new ones and ones with interesting poses and/or expressions ^^
Send me a message if you want a particular PNG. I'm just limited on how many images I can stick in this post and it's already so long!
Honestly I've been waiting for an opportunity to draw Stellar for a while. I love her design! Such a pretty pony. Very G2 toy line in style.
This one gave me a chuckle! Terra always has such good Pinkie energy. The toonforce is strong with this one.
Love his sassy vibe and swooshy hair! I hope I got the cloak okay. I didn't want to cover too much of him and obscure his body.
Okay maybe that wasn't a very unobtrusive offering of an ice pack, but it WAS funny.
Not to toot my own horn, but I honestly feel like I knocked this design out of the park. What do y'all think?
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