Pinwheel's Website: Starlight Valley

Why should you be a Panelist?
I love art, to say the least. Drawing and creavity has always been a inspiration to me. I admire and look up to people that are artists as well. Drawing and web graphics are a great love of mine. This also translates into customizing. To bring a pony back from being tossed into the trash, to something any MLP collector would admire, really amazes me. To see it have a beautiful new mane in place something that was once tangled and cut, brings happiness to me.

To see thru something and know it could be something much better, if only given the chance, makes me feel like I have a piece of treasure in my hand, instead of a old forgotten pony. Customizing is about second chances and making your ideas come to life. It takes a artist to see thru something and to look at the world in a different light than a normal person. The power of creavity is very special. No true customizer can make a old pony into something beautiful, unless they already see things from that way in the beginning.

I often look at things thru a different light. I see the world a little differently. You can't change things, if you always look at things for what they look like in that current moment in time. I look at things and judge how they were changed. Even if a custom isn't perfect, I still see all the difference that a customizer made in that pony. I see that customizer's power of creavity. It's this reason, I think I would make a good addition to the panel.

Moonhunter

Wolfchick and I worked on the design of this pony together. However, I did the actually customizing. I painted his body with glitter and arylic paint. His wings are made of blue cut foam. I used 3D pain for the veins. His symbol is probably the most eleborate I have ever done. Despite what many people have thought, his symbol is hand painted. I adore his wings. I wish I still had him to admire. He currently resides with Wolfchick.

Sandcastle

His symbols are some of the most complicated I have ever done. It took me about 2 hours to do each side and he is totally hand painted. This does not count for the sea shell on top of his head. He is also the father of Sandcastles and Shovels ^^

Baby Twilight

Baby Twilight is from Baby Moondancer. I dyed her body with Rite Dye. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get the paint to be smooth on this one. It was the dye bath for her. She turned out very well too. I rehaired her with white doll hair. Her purple streak is from a Sparkler's tail. Her symbols are done in purple glitter and her eyes are painted with purple acrylic paint.

Newborn Sweet Tooth

Newborn Sweet Tooth is a exact copy of her mother, a feat I am very proud of ^ ^

Baby Locket

I rehaired her with white doll hair, cotton candy hair, MM windy orange, and Sparkler purple. All of those ponies, will eventually become customs in the future. I dyed her body with pink dye. Her keys symbol and eyes are painted with acrylic paint. I will just tell use this, keys are very hard to paint >_<

Baby Sparkler

Baby Sparkler came from a Baby Glory that was yellowed. Her symbols are done in glitter. Her blue streak was rehaired with hair from a Baby Tic Tac Toe's tail. She is one of my favorites and is virtually flawless.

Baby Tornado

Baby Tornado started out life as a Baby Drummer with a copped mane. I rehaired him with white and blue pony hair. I used acrylic paint to paint his tornado symbol. Though painting all those little lines wasn't easy ^ ^ I used UK Tornado as a guide. His head still moves too!

Daddy Nightlight

Daddy Nightlight was made from a Salty with nasty, frizzed hair. He was repainted and rehaired. I used cherries jubilee, quaterback, yum yum, and medley colored hair for his tail and mane. Those are colors are soooooo hard to find -_- His mane took longer than usual to rehair because of the amount of hair, he needed unfortunately. Over 100 plugs! His symbol was a pain to paint. Never use light paint over a dark surface, if you can help it.

Grey Dust

I love Dapple Greys. They are among my favorite real life pony colors, pintos and paints are the only colors that second out dapple greys. His base paint color is a medium grey. This follows by darker grey points on his hoofs and muzzle. Finally, he has white and various shades of grey, spots. He was entirely rehaired with white doll hair from the craft store, an extremely close match to real MLP hair.

The Sailor Senshi

This was one of the biggest undertaking of customizing, I have ever done. Lots of rehairing, painting, and dyeing when into this little group. They are one of my crowning achievements ^^ And when they say Usagi's hair style is hard to do, believe them!