Sig: Elyssia | DJoron is the Best
Sig: Elyssia | DJoron is the Best
True, but I've nothing against dark-coat/light-maned OCs (as seen here) as long as you only have a few. Of all the canon ponies, only two have coats darker than their mane (Big Mac, P. Luna), so it's not impossible, just uncommon.
What I mean is that not very many people seem to pick colors for their OC's coat/mane/tail/eyes/CM that mesh well together, or they pick too many (or too few) colors. Just in a color sense--not mentioning all the self-indulgent general design bullshit that a number of people seem to revel in (although to be fair, that's a smaller amount of people than the amount of people with a poor color sense).
It is. It's not something you'll see a lot of, I'm sure, but it's totally possible that you'll see it sooner or later.
Not...really. What colors you like is subjective. What colors work together...not so much. It's still subjective but it's not 100% subjective. When it comes to pony OCs, the colors you choose should work together visually well (or not, if you're trying to draw attention to something, whether because it's weird, it adds flavor, or it hints at something unusual, i.e. they're half-gryphon or something). Like in your case, Black Bolt has red eyes because he's 'corrupted', I believe? The red eyes pointedly don't mesh with the rest of his scheme because of that corruption, I would imagine. As much as I would like to crusade against black and red being the 'evil' colors, using red eyes to indicate corruption/evil has been well-established and works.
The other thing when it comes to colors is your OC's personality. Flashy or outgoing ponies will have colors outside of their eyes that grab your attention (Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie). More core-focused, internal characters have their attention-grabbing colors balanced between eyes/coat/mane (AJ, Twilight), while subtle or introverted ponies only have one odd color that doesn't immediately mesh with their color scheme--their eye color (Rarity, Flutters).
Last edited by Bluesparkks; 2013-01-30 at 06:59 PM.
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And now it's time to go to an arbitrary as fuck eye exam, despite me having absolutely perfect vision all of my life and no problems whatsoever with my eyesight.
Sig: Elyssia | DJoron is the Best
And no raid for me. Oh well, can't expect to go everytime