Some Derpy love

I managed to get home a little earlier than I anticipated today, so here are the Derpy pix.

One thing I realized: it's difficult to make something INTENTIONALLY asymmetric. Her eyes are supposed to be crossed and kind of uneven, and that's hard to do, after always otherwise trying to get things as even as possible.



You find yourself (Well, *I* find myself) wanting to pose this pony in comical ways. Like getting tangled up in the lights I have on the mantel:



Here's her cutie mark - it's supposed to be bubbles. (The pony in the cartoon has seven, but I could not fit seven in that small a space). Why bubbles? Personally, I wonder if it's a wee tiny hat-tip to another show that Lauren Faust (the developer of this show) worked on: the Powerpuff Girls. One of those girls - the sort of ditzy one - was called Bubbles. Alternatively, because she seems to be in packing and delivery (at least, the only time we saw her "employed" in the cartoon she dropped something out of a flying delivery truck), so maybe they represent bubble wrap. Or maybe they're just a random "butt symbol" (As Faust apparently referred to the cutie marks as in an interview).



Here she is with Fluttershy. I like to think that of all the "Mane Six" ponies, Fluttershy would be the most likely to be patient and understanding of Derpy's oddness.



These were made off the exact same pattern, within a couple weeks of each other, even using the same brand of yarn, yet they are subtly different - Fluttershy's nose is more rounded and upturned, and Derpy's head is smaller, and she's a bit smaller overall.

It was actually tougher to do Derpy's hair - and it's not perfect, but it's as good as I can make it. Fluttershy's hair is just long - all one length - with sort of a Veronica Lake lock that comes in front of one ear. Derpy's hair is more raggedy, and she has kind of a short tufty forelock that I've represented here as bangs.

Oh and:

I don't have any purple muffins, maybe some Danishes would do?



(Food is from Re-Ment. I really want to look around now and see if I can find one of those little eraser toys - or a larger toy food - of a muffin for Derpy. Because the Re-Ment food, as cute as it is, is too small. Failing finding one, I could probably alter a cupcake pattern I have to make a muffin.)