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Published: 2011-10-16 18:34:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 25918; Favourites: 484; Downloads: 320
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So... yeah... There are a few reasons I'm posting this. 1) to help out the members in so that they can always post the best characters they can, and 2) because the amount of Mary Sues that exist in the MLP FIM community is getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of hand.Now to be fair, there was a tutorial like this that I saw a while back, but I haven't been able to find it since. So I decided to make my own :3
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how dare you take away her horn and WINGS THATS IT RAINBOW TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Honestly she become a little bit too normal now...perhaps make her into a unicorn and give her a cm,which is realted to plants/fashion,could be even more better?
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It's here to help, not force you.
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This is mean........ but this might help. But the wings are cute. I liked the wings.........
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Ha- Equestria may not be perfect, but this guide certainly is!! XD
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Hate it when people get the colors of their pony all wrong >.<... looks so wierd. And actually like 90% of OCs have a shitty color to them
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Yeah this really helps. But the hard thing for me to do is decide what to make her or what quite markto give her whatdo you think?
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First Always start with a little idea of the pony, doesn't have to be too complicated. Like this tutorial says, life isn't "Happily Ever After" so Always make it interesting, not only in a happy way. Now you've got the idea of who she is, make the design depending on a character. A farm lover? What about the colors blue, green, yellow and orange? A fashionista? What about pink, purple and red? Now you've gotten the design, again, make the cutie mark depending on the character. If you're pony creates clothes, what about diffrent colored patterns as cutiemark?
Hope this helps you, if doesn't, could you tell me about your OC? Maybe i could help you.
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Yeah it does but I still don't know want too call her or want her back story shpukd be.
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Hmm... it sounds stupid, but do you want to be your OC born from a special ship? As example, my OC Crystal Bitter is daughter of Nightmare Moon, but my OC Angela isn't born of a special ship, just a random idea. So, special ship? (If you want to have one And if you want to have a special ship, just tell me what your 2 favorite ponies are and i could help you with character, design and cutie mark!
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Mm will my Co is just an idea i came up with is not a special ship,hmmm sure. Mm. How about pinkie pie and princess Luna?
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I will send you a note
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Okay sounds good.
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Note has been send ~
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cool i have reseved them.
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I did everything but the cutie mark...
No talent so fuck it XD
Never got hate for it
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I remember when I first became a fan of mlp......ALICORNS WERE ALL MY PONY OCS
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That's nothing.
All my oc's were daughters of the princesses and they were having dragon wings and black and red coat and mane, and a horn
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MY first oc was an alicorn that just Lyra with wings.
And she controlled the stars.
I really try not to cry when I see my crappy art of her
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I created MY first OC when I was a 11 year old, a very young Pegasister first joining the fandom and I only made her until seeing a few episode being my 11 year old self. Mine was a Fluttershy re-color with a blue mane and white coat and matching blue eyes and was Fluttershy's sister. She hid her horn from Rainbow Dash with her mane when she raced her but Dash thought she saw something poking out of her mane and she did the same wing her wings with Rarity she somehow kinda noticed the wings and at Fluttershy's cottage they find out her secret and Fluttershy sees she all of a sudden has a horn now...
...Then I realize how stupid it was as soon as I was done drawing her and killed my OC by crumbling her up and throwing her in the trashcan.
I'm so glad younger me realized it after I was done drawing her.
I feel ya. it's okay. My art of her wasn't great either.
Crabby art is crabby.
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I killed my first OC ever when I was 11 as soon as I finished drawing her. She had Fluttershy's mane but it was blue with blue eyes and a white coat like Rarity's. Worse of all, she was Fluttershy's sister. Older sister actually. She hid her horn when flying with Rainbow Dash and her wings with Rarity but both of them kinda noticed. Then at Fluttershy's cottage they find out and Fluttershy grows a horn. Then I realized how dumb I was being since I was 11 and barely saw a few episodes joining the fandom. I then crumbled the paper as soon as I finished drawing my OC.
Even worse is that she was a blank flank still looking for her talent and Diamond Tiara and Sliver Spoon were impressed and treated the Cutie Mark Crusaders nicely after she gave a speech about talents.
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It's making me go crazy even REMEMBERING her.
GIVE ANOTHER PILLOW TO HIDE UNDER BEFORE SHE RISES FROM THE DEAD (BEING A ALICORN AND ALL!)
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*Waits for people to rage at me for the adding of 2 scars, a scarf, and one side of the cutiemark raping around my pony sona's leg.
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I don't see what's so wrong with the scarf part. That's perfectly normal. XD
BUT DAT CUTIE MARK, IT's POSSIBLE FOR A IMAGE ON THE SIDE OF A LEG TO RAPE A PONY's LEG?! ASDFK
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OH MY GOD
JFC THAT TYPO
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I NEVER REALIZED THAT TYPO!
OH MY GOD... I'M GOING TO DESTORY THE INTERNET AND THE WORLD FOR THIS!
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THE WORLD IS AT STAKE BECAUSE OF MY TYPO BECAUSE I WAS IN A HURRY AND WAS TYPING KINDA FAST WHEN I FIRST TYPED THAT TYPO! SAVE YOURSELVES! HIDE YO FILLIES AND COLTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE!
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WHY WOULD THE CUTIE MARK RAPE HER LEFT LEG?!
NUUUU
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But her left leg didn't say yes
abomination
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rape around her leg
rape around her leg
RAPE AROUND HER LEG XD
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Ah yes, the fandom purist/theocrat view on making an OC. I believe TVTropes covers this on their Fan Dumb page. Lemme go get that.
"A fan who expects everyone to adhere to Word of God to the exact letter (even in media where canon is kept ambiguous)."
That sounds annoying, doesn't it? Guess what? That's exactly what you're doing here.
What you're implying is that OCs have to fit perfectly into the MLP universe and cannot try to be different, or they suck and you have to change them in order to recieve approval. Which, to be bluntly honest, is stupid. Being forced to follow a set of rules in order to make a "good" OC takes all of the fun out of making it. It makes it feel stilted, forced, and just not fun. And aren't you supposed to have fun with making ANY character, fandom-based OC or not? Isn't that the entire fucking drive behind making an OC? To have fun with them? I'd rather have an overpowered holier-than-thou Mary Sue than a character that I tried too hard to make look good according to these stilted, fandom-purist views.
Stop being a tit and let people have fun with making OCs.
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Holy shit this sums up what I wanted to say.
Thank you.
A lot of my OCS are royal, due to their parents. Apparently their bad ocs.
I Have two alicorn inbred ocs, and apparently their fucking stupid.
I honestly rage everytime I see a 'GOOD OC TUTORIAL'
Now, as I begin, let's talk about my first OC
Odly enough, she is the daughter of Queen Chrysalis and an OC I created not to long ago called 'Evergreen'
her name is Chrissie, and she is a Pegasus changeling hybrid.
She has one green eye and one red eye , and is married to Doctor Whooves.
She is indeed immortal due to her parents. Because she is half changeling, she has many foals at a time. Thus, she has nine foals.
As much as a Mary-sue she is, I love her to death. But apparently she had to be fucking normal.
People have no right to judge an OC.
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Actually, I due have a right to judge an OC. And I've noticed a pattern: (and yes, I know, I'm a bit late to write a rebuttal to this, but I want to stop the circlejerk here) Everyone who whines over 'good pony oc' tutorials have a terrible sense of color theory, character development, and character DESIGN. Both of you have this in common--in short, you both make terrible OCs. And sure, keep whining how I "have no right to judge an OC" because GUESS WHAT? You can't smear shit on a wall and expect people to be like "That's amazing!" because multiple people are going to point out that it looks disgusting and smells terrible and you should go away because you're sick; the internet is no exception to this.
So, let me point this out really quick. Both you and were on this page because you're, in short, people that bitch about being told they suck because they do, in fact, suck. You're the kind of person I hope never, ever goes into the entertainment business as a writer, author, producer, storyboarder, concept artist, animator, or character designer. You guys have both FAILED to create a character that could stand on its own without canon characters, or be fleshed out enough to not be just an extension of your fantasy to be Doctor Who (as, for all you know, Time Turner or whatever he's called now could be the most cold-hearted pony in all of Equestria,) or even simply, oh, I don't know--LOOKING APPEALING. The only ones I saw in your gallery that looked decent were ones directly based on some shipping, which seem to be the only thing that restricts your mind from creating borderline eldritch abominations. Even then, they seem to be 50/50 on decency; some look horrifying, others look lazy, and a few could be a decent character, if they weren't leaning on characters that are not yours.
You both also show no hint of being able to draw, wanting to learn to draw, being able to write, or wanting to learn to write, so I can't fathom why you're here.
TL;DR: You guys suck at this and you're a poster child of the reason people hate MLP fans.
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you are doing nothing but making yourself look like a complete and utter asshole, you know that?
do you know what "different taste" is?
everyone has different taste. there are certain colors that i might think look good together that you don't (hot pink and lime green, for example), and there are certain character design aspects that i think look good that you think look awful. you shouldn't say every single one of a person's designs are lazy at best, complete and utter shit at worst, before considering this.
yes, my oc designs are sub-par. i've seen much better. BUT, at the same time, i've seen way WORSE. you're lumping me in with oc designers who are FAR worse than me, because my designs aren't oh-so-absolutely-perfect like you want all of them to be. they're somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, actually- if you really think the things on my account are completely shitty, you're gonna want to look further, because OH BOY, IT GETS WORSE.
not everyone is going to have designs that fit up to your super-high standards; in fact you might want to lower your standards some, because for every good pony oc, there is a turd. in fact, there may be two turds for every good one. who the fuck knows, there are a lot of bad ocs out there. i've seen more truly bad ocs and ocs that will only look good to some people than ocs that i think will look good to everyone; springboarding off of that, there is NO way any mlp oc EVER will look good to EVERYONE. keep this in mind.
oh yeah, and you also missed the ENTIRE POINT of my original comment! 
(btw you MIGHT want to look at my main account. the adopt account is where i'm working with different self-imposed challenges and experimenting with design, so i've DEFINITELY crapped out a few turds on this account. there are some designs on this account even i can admit are pretty damn bad, like the recolor experiment which i completely regret.)
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Didn't read, too many errors. But anyways, my point was that you're complaining about tutorials that try to help people like you who cannot design properly. People don't like poor character design, and you will never, ever change their standards. The only way you can beat them is becoming better at design. You complain that people think that OCs have to fit in with the universe, but what's the point of making a fan character if they're going to break the rules? And also, for that matter, are you really complaining that people critique you? You put your art on the internet, that's what's going to happen.
But seriously, please read more into capitalization.
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I don't think you looked at the date of my comment.
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Yes, I did. You didn't read the whole thing; I don't blame you. It's the first 2-3 sentences.
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My ponysona isn't even my ponysona any more.
I've changed.
I've actually fucking changed,
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