Mod talking here, this update here is important to me because I do honestly get bothered by the fact that a few people still don’t consider Diane an original character. Yes I know she started off as just one of the clones from the episode “Too Many Pinkie Pies” and technically that means I’m just taking a character from the show and expanding on her which from a first glance is not much different from how somebody expands on Twilight on a Twilight blog, but it is. Diane has grown a lot since that first post, I’ve worked very hard at making sure she has developed her own personality, and in my mind she has.
I have often commissioned people to draw Diane in the past, and usually the first comments from other people are just “Hey look! It’s nerdy Pinkie Pie!”, which honestly kind of hurts. There was even one occasion when somebody drew some fanart using Diane’s design thinking she was just Pinkie with a different outfit and hairstyle. On top of that on the rare occasion where I visit derpibooru Diane is just labeled as “Diane” putting her with the rest of the depictions of “Pinkamenia Diane Pie” as opposed to “OC: Diane”.
This was the main reason why the color change happened, though there is an in-universe explanation which will be revealed in an upcoming storyline. Diane might see herself as just another copy but that’s no reason for everybody else to think the same.
Okay, I’ve picked the artists I’ve wanted for this guest artist run. Special thanks to all of you who volunteered (Both those who got chosen and who didn’t).
Now here’s the guest artists who shall be participating:
Congratulations to the artists who got chosen. I will contact you with the details of your guest posts soon. To those who didn’t get chosen, perhaps you’ll get lucky next time.
Updates shall resume in November. See ya then.
Finally managed to get this done. Diane in poll winning option of burlesque Pinkie’s outfit, along with Spotlight accompanying her on piano (though to be honest Diane would probably reject that outfit in canon cause she has a strong hatred towards purple because of Twilight).
Once again I want to thank you for all the support over the years. I have some great stuff lined up for this blog in the future, that I’m sure you’ll be interested in. Till then keep on smiling.
The Last Pinkie Clone (that we know of) sprited. I included classic colors and her current colors. I preferred the classic one since it has a reference so it was easier to sprite. But the new one shown still looks good when they do it. So here’s hoping she’ll get that reference too. I hope you like it @theclonethatgotaway
GASP! Diane has been pixelized!
Now we’re one step closer to making the video game adaptation (Just kidding, it aint gonna happen…. Maybe.)
But seriously, thanks Giftoberfest. This is really cool.
As you may have known I an currently in college and I’m busy with my assignments for classes, which means I unfortunately don’t have as much time as I previously had to finish updates.
Now I know what some of you are thinking, “Oh no! Not another Hiatus!”
Well not necessarily. With the blog being over three years old (going on four) and recently hitting 3,000 followers I think now is the perfect opportunity to do this so without further ado I am proud to announce the very first…
That’s right folks I’m doing a guest artist run! This way the blog can still keep doing updates without worrying about overworking myself. I just finished writing a smaller mini-chapter (though it will still count as part of the current chapter) that will be used for this guest run. There are a few updates in the mini-chapter which are not written yet but that’s because those updates are Q-and-A posts that I need asks for (after some upcoming story events) before I can write them.
The total of updates in this run will be around 14 (and around 17 comic pages). Also I have already pretty much finished writing the script for the chapter after this one so during this guest artist run I can get a head start on drawing that chapter whenever I have free time.
Now of course for this guest artist run I am going to need volunteer artists from the many followers of this blog.
So here are a few notes and rules for those who want to try out for being a guest artist:
1. Unfortunately you won’t get paid for participating in the guest artist run. I’m sorry, I really do wish I could pay people but that’s unfortunately not in the cards right now. This is overall meant to be something that people can do for fun if they wish, but if they don’t want to for any reason that is perfectly fine.
2. You need to know how to draw ponies (obviously).
3. You need to know how to draw backgrounds (not all of the guest posts will be background heavy but I’m still having this as a requirement because knowing how to draw backgrounds is important either way).
4. You need to be able to finish an update by a certain due date (little extensions are fine if needed or if something comes up, but nothing over a week after the said due date).
5. Updates can be drawn as either comic pages or separate frames for the files.
7. Be sure to tell me what your specialities are when it comes to drawing, I would like to pick an update that is best suited for your talents.
8. Please tell me if you are willing to draw more than one guest update (saying yes or no will not guarantee or loose you a spot, but it would be handy to know).
9. Let me know the best way to contact you (whether it be Tumblr, email, or Skype).
10. Do not share any WIP images or story info early to anyone. After the updates go public, go nuts.
Submissions for guest artists will be taken until October 29th 2016. Afterwords I will look through them and soon afterwords make an announcement on which artists are excepted for to be part of the guest artist run.
If you have any more questions feel free to send a message on my mod or art blog.
