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#30157 Posted on 2016-04-12 19:59:02


edit; I have bolded something below that some people need to reread I guess.. Don't waste your time or my time if you are on my blacklist. ;P

While I take short breaks from commissions here and there, I like to doodle little pixel tags.. So, I figured I'd hold a little "giveaway" sort of thing.

Just post a ref(or multiple) to your character(s) and give me some pose/background ideas. I really like making horses interact with backgrounds, so that's a bonus if you can give me some ideas for that :D You can suggest other animals in the backgrounds as well if you like. I'm not the best at a lot of animals, but with small pixels, I can certainly try certain animals.

Keep in mind I'm not choosing everyone's ideas.
Black listed people's ideas/characters wont even be considered.

I hold the right to not choose anyone's designs/ideas at all. So don't get crotchety with me ;P


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#30172 Posted on 2016-04-12 20:34:15

Zion and Hebron
Isreal landscape plateau with palm trees below, rugged terrain, wide cloudless blue sky. Poses, one turning about face towards the direction of the other and the other heading forward. Both as if returning from or heading to battle. Optional add ons, Israeli amour for Hebron, and Hebrew accents for Zion.

Anasazi
Settings African Savannah towards dusk. Surroundings include knee length savannah grass, tall graceful thorn acacia trees scattered about, and mountains in the far distance. Half sitting slash laying, Anasazi lies before a roughly hewn tribal table on which a feast is laid. The feast includes grapes and fine wine and other specialties, all served on primitive wooden china. Anasazi if very reclusive and hostile in nature. He may be seen wearing his hyena teeth necklace and tattered cape.


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#30175 Posted on 2016-04-12 20:36:33

Hmm I'm thinking maybe something that has to do with space??? I like that idea or maybe something like unnatural or put of this world??? A horse floating in an astronaut suit in space to me would be pretty cool...

Ref: this pion you have blessed me with And this one or Thumper

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#30178 Posted on 2016-04-12 20:40:32

So very kind of you :3
I do know Paulo needs some art...
Maybe something school ponyish? Lunging maybe? In a pen...?
I am so bad at coming up with these kind of things lol

Sierra could use a little more loving, maybe climbing a steep rocky mountain during the noon or something like?

X'D
Again, super kind of you ♥

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#30203 Posted on 2016-04-12 21:32:23

Tabby is a witch, most keen on planting "evil" plants. A little scene of her tending to/nosing one of her little plant friends would be cute!

Vhes is a demon gal who likes to play in poison and lava, and frequently dwells in caves that she fills with a pink mist. Maybe her lounging on a rock or something in the middle of a colorful cesspool, a leg dangling down, some fog? :P

Teilt is another who needs love...he's actually a sort of shifter between horse and sword (have you ever played Neir?). I don't expect a sword but maybe something of him in a canyon/field, bucking at and kicking some sort of shadowy monster/ghost thing would look lovely.


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#30219 Posted on 2016-04-12 22:06:33

Ref:: Banshee
Pose:: Rearing
Mood:: Playful, curious, awestruck
Background:: Small clearing in a forest. Dark with faint sunlight breaking through. Late afternoon or early evening. Lots of Lunar Moths on trees, fluttering in the clearing, around the horse, landing on the nose.
Other:: If the moths could have a glow around them, that'd be cool. If you don't want to do a glow around all of them, then just the one on the nose?


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#30236 Posted on 2016-04-12 23:08:34

Castaway Curiously nosing a starfish in a tide pool eheh

Wizard Dude in a grassy field looking toward a tornado/storm brewing, wind whipping hair and long grass. Gloomy, maybe some rain or lightning in some of the clouds.
Instead of a draft could be a reg horse, Lith would also fit in with that :3

Aoife climbing over or snuggling with Saoirse, could go without a background or be in a field, by a fence, under a shady tree.....something lol

A TERRIFIED HORSE BEING CHASED BY A CHICKEN
I just think this would be amazing xD you could shove Cast on it


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#30245 Posted on 2016-04-12 23:37:27

Jack
His name is Jack O' Lantern, so it would be cool to incorporate that. Halloween is a far ways away, but I was thinking Jack in a pumpkin patch a night, with a full moon. The pumpkins would be glowing and the vines would be tangled around his legs. Jack would be rearing trying to get away from these creepy pumpkins. Bats and a scarecrow would fit right in. He definitely needs a cool background, because he himself is a rather plain looking horse.


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#30306 Posted on 2016-04-13 07:38:20

Dorian is kind of a foresty-wizard type, kind of like Radagast from the Hobbit lol. His crow, Gildan, transforms into different shadowy figures. He lives deep in the woods, with a lot of mossy trees and the like. It'd be interesting to see a... first encounter of Dorian with Gildan. Like, what made them so close. I don't know :'D

And of course, there's always lil bb Seirios. He roams the skies at night/looks up from the ground, trying to search for messages from his siblings since he "fell" - he's a fallen star. He has made friends with many birds, so I think a really awesome idea would be him sitting, lounging in a tree at night, sleeping, with a bunch of different types of birds sleeping on the branches around him :o


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#30341 Posted on 2016-04-13 09:52:15

Helix hardly ever ventures out into the day, so background set in a midnight wood would suit her very nicely.

Because of her shape shifting abilities, Helix tends to change her breed a lot. However her cloaked rider, Obsidian Black, secretly knows that she prefers her Arabian form to the others. And honestly, as do I. x)

Hm. As for a pose...since Helix is so hot-headed and (pray for Obsidian) naughty, perhaps she could be standing with her held tilted scarily, or a close up of whatever pose you think screams 'I'm about to gallop after lost spirits' would look 'uber cool! :D


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#31249 Posted on 2016-04-15 18:25:37

Theres some interesting ideas here! I'll most likely get to some of these on the weekend (when I have spare time from birthday stuff and commissions :3 )


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#31250 Posted on 2016-04-15 18:28:24

any that have real names


Something spooky maybe with bats and with a red moon(any character really I just love the idea of a scary background)
Or anything really fantasy is my favorite theme


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#31260 Posted on 2016-04-15 19:21:05

Some of these ideas are really neat! I'm not nearly creative enough for any of that type of idea giving, I was thinking somethign with Splash Splashing in water, but then I figured Forevermore's Catalyst would look cooler since he's a water elemental thingy.

OH NO WAIT. Real Life Dorks. So my boys have gotten in the bad habit of reaching through the fence. This counts as interacting with the background xD
Gwaine sticks his whole head through our five wire with a pipe top fence and picks out the grass from the flowerbed, which nice and all he's helping weed, but not good at all. (also they accidentally got some of the day lilies and pulled them out of the ground, didn't eat them, but a portion of them are missing now)
Brooke, the pony, nibbles through the hog wire and LEANS on the five wire.
Opie does all of the above, but he goes above and beyond. in the old pen, where the hogwire+babrwire&t-Post fence is sagging and the oats on the edge of the hay field are very tall he likes to shuffle as close as he can and stretch his neck over the fence to grab the tops of the oats.

Look forward to seeing what you do end of doing though!


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#31275 Posted on 2016-04-15 20:15:22

Aspen
Dorber

Well uh..these two are twins. Aspen being female and Dorber being male.I think it would look cute if the art depicted that they were in an indoor arena and were put in matching outfits that they didn't like and were trying to get them off.

Renaissance

Welp. Her name is Renaissance so I think it would be need if she was in either a castle setting with royal tack or armor OR if she was being ridden by a knight into battle of something.

Anchor Man

He's obviously an ocean themed horse so I think it would be neat if he was in a boat/beach/ocean setting with a cute little sailor outfit on or maybe being like tangled up in a fishing net with fish flopping all around him.

Calypso
Axel

These two are a lovely drafty couple so I think it would be cool if they were pulling a buggy or a cart or something together on a country road with the harnesses and blinds and everything.

Sorry for all the suggestions xD. Just wanted to offer plenty of options and I may still add more yet. xD


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#32215 Posted on 2016-04-19 07:16:29

I would love a tag with my Aethon I have zero things for him and I have had him for 2 or so years now D: I was thinking of a background of him in like the Underworld or next to the Gates of Tartarus or maybe him on a cliff with snow and ice around him. I really am not picky what so ever. Also I doesn't matter if he has armor or not. If you didn't want to go those routes you could do one of him and Rain in like a pasture or something :) this is an awesome idea!


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