might colour this one if i have time but i just really love greyscale - it’s actually what i primarily work with for my design/photography/illustration work outside of this tiny pony blog :-)
*these sketches dont reflect my notes that much since i wasnt thinking that hard about it and wanted to just do some very basic designs which i will then elaborate on (very excited to do)
**also im not totally set on these cutiemarks some of them are just placeholders cause i didnt want to draw them blank / use the originals (although twilights looks the same lol)
***all notes will be expanded upon if/when i eventually do full character profiles for all of them. so all of this is basically drafts
twilight
tallest (well same height as AJ) of the group, slim more horselike build similar to luna/cadence
skinny braids/locs, cut into blunt layers, i like that this keeps the blunt straight hair look but its a bit more interesting (also cause this is how i imagine her hair as a person)
applejack
strong, tall build
cropped hair, like shes hacked at it herself / or done by a family member.
i really cant imagine her caring enough about her hair to have it long or get proper haircuts cause she’s just so practical. unsure about tail, sort of just tied it a bit, could maybe be braided or kept short aswell..?
didnt draw her hat cause i cba but i dont feel like this is something you could remove from her design as shes so attached to it which i think is really sweet)
pinkie pie
shorter, rounder
gave her beads throughout her hair, i like the idea she would maybe have a few braids spread throughout her hair with little beads/other trinkets/decorations cause i love her big curly hair but i think she’d like some accessories and maybe would braid strands of her hair while she’s thinking as she’s such a hyperactive character
rainbowdash
short, athletic
windswept hair, a bit like a short wispy mullet
similar to applejack in that i cant really imagine she would want long hair due to practicality however she definitely does care about her looks so i think a short but still identifiably Cool haircut would make sense for her
rarity
tall, thin build
didnt really change anything tbh except her cm, it kind of reminds me of like medieval royal court symbols, more ornamental than the original but basically the same lol
also made her hair look a bit more like actual hair/ less artificial looking, so it falls more naturally but is definitely styled. also i like the idea that she’d do it differently every day cause she cares about things like that - especially since they dont really wear clothes i imagine she would like to look different every day
fluttershy
cant decide if they should be tall or short… regardless of height they would be a bit lanky and awkward proportionally, but not super thin since they have a practical job and i imagine would look after themself pretty well but maybe just naturally be a bit of slimmer build
made their hair a little shorter cause i have transgender headcanons that i dont feel like getting into here but will expand on later………
was thinking about how her mature alicorn self would look, cause her g4 * hairstyle doesn’t really make sense with the celestial flowing style celestia and luna have - but i wanted her hair to still look magic so i went for something flowing and magic looking like it defies gravity but still has that kind of straight clumpy hair (with the fringe) that twi has in the show cause i feel like its kind of integral to her design. and extended the cutie mark out to cover more of her flank like celestia and lunas.
i used white hair because i thought that could be another change that happens with maturing which would have been a pretty cool homage to the original g1 twilight. and i just always thought her colour scheme was a bit clunky. however that said i feel like this is too far from her g4 design which wasnt originally what i wanted to do as i reaaaaaallly like twilight and i didnt want to change her too much…….but sometimes u forget what youre doing lol.
*note this design is meant to be basically her g4 self but with a different palette and CM. however it looks pretty different to the show cause of the hair as explained above - since i really didnt like her “final” design at the end of mlp fim
also im just learning how to use photoshop…this is the first thing ive done so…
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