Derpy, Ditsy Doo, Dr Whooves assistant

I guess the title doesn't make a lot of sense if you're not a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan. But you don't have to be for this post, I promise. It's just that I got my first introduction to needle felting on a MLP:FIM site and was determined to at least try to make a pony.












And what pony better to try than the wall-eyed, clumsy, but absolutely adorable Derpy.

I loved how she turned out and how much I learned on this little model, first one with "seperate parts" (ie wings), a wire armature inside (ok, a non-pipecleaner wire armature) and non-felted or at least very softly felted "hair"










I wish I had progression photos of how I made here, but if you're interrested at all have a look at the wonderful tutorial on Deviant Art by the-pink-dragon for how to make/use armatures (for a pony) with needle felting.

The hair I sortof made up as I went along, including my first hand blend - as you can see her mane is not entirely evenly coloured. Now I have proper blending brushes (will do a later post on this), but I honestly think I'll need to get into dyes as well at some point.