Tawa

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Best app ever.

Man, I absolutely love the design they used for the buffalo! They're like... big brown balls of fluff with tiny feet.

Will definitely have to draw some buffaloes in the near future!

... I like horses. A lot.

Aw hells yeah. *brohoof* It's gonna be fuuuuuun~ And will probably involve me drawing sassy Rarity.

You're a bigger pony dork than me! *paps*

Widdle Warity is the sassiest pony!

Enjoy dorking about with more bronies, bb!

Yup, that's my fan adventure, Iaska.

I've mirrored it on Tumblr before the last time mspachan went down so it's an update behind... Currently working on the next update right now!

Sweet, thanks!

I'll keep the electric guitar rather low-tech and stick with the early models like the Gibson ES125. They're more like electric acoustic guitars with hollow bodies and only the basic knobs so you don't always need an amp to get a nice sound.

And after reading up on the Talonopolis and Rockwington descriptions, I've decided that it being from Rockwington would be most appropriate. Probably had to pay a lot of fine diamonds for it! I'm sure Ziggy would have had a few jam sessions with the griffins before traveling across the desert again.

Alrighty, updated his character sheet! It's pretty much complete now. I just need some final word on if the electric guitar and Ziggy bolt is acceptable. If not, I can easily change it.

Thanks for the comments everyone, I'm having a lot of fun creating this guy!

[ Creature Related Character ]

Name: Ziggy DiamondDust

Gender: Male

Age: Adult

Species: Diamond Dog

Eye Color: Red, left pupil is larger than the right

Physique & Colors: Muscular for a diamond dog, long thick Moderate azure fur with a Dark azure face. Has a diamond stud earring in his right ear. Wears a large black leather collar studded with diamonds and a black jacket with a red and blue bolt on it

Residence: Under Roughrider Ridge

Occupation: Shining Rock Star ( actually a Gem Trader for a day job )

Likes:

Rocking Out- Obviously!

Loud Music- Because how else would you be able to hear it?

Shiny Objects- Especially those that he can wear.

Screaming Fans- What use is rocking without an audience?

Traveling- He calls it "touring"

Dislikes:

Classical Music- Where is the passion? The guitars? The drums? The VOLUME??

Pulling Carts- Why should a rock star like himself pull carts around?

Mornings- The morning sun is a very annoying when when most of your life is spent underground!

Chocolate- He's allergic to it! Bleh!

Character Summary:

Personality

He's rough and rowdy with a loud booming voice that's great for hawking gems but never for normal conversation. Don't count on Ziggy to understand the meaning of a library voice or even indoor voice. A big show off with his music, loves the stage, and being under the spot light. Ziggy's somewhat gullible, believing anything positive said about him even in sarcasm as fact and easily duped in bartering his gems. It's probably why he's rarely stocked with the high quality gems. He's doting to whoever appears to take a liking to him, especially as a fan of his music but doesn't show much care or concern for those who aren't. He believes himself to be too busy and important to spent much idle chatter when the topic isn't about music or himself.

Occupation and Hobby

In order to be more than just a rocker that would sleep all day and jam all night long, Ziggy actually has a day job. Every couple of days, he pulls a cart full of diamonds and gems dug up by the other diamond dogs and trades them with neighboring towns for an assortment of goods. He accepts just about anything from fresh baked goods to interesting trinkets. Diamond dogs aren't exactly picky about what they get from the surface when living underground. Ziggy in particular just wants to be done with trading all the gems in his cart to hopefully get a lighter load and spent his free time with his much loved hobby of playing guitar and singing. He does have a soft spot for trading gems for musical instruments and fashionable collars though and will go into full bartering mode for them.

Ziggy's true passion is rocking. His guitar's never far from his hand, be it hanging on the side of his cart or swung around his back. A rock emergency could happen at any time and he's certainly not going to be empty handed when that happens! When the time is right, or when no one's going to nag him for not doing his job, Ziggy likes to take out his guitar and start jamming as loud as he can. There no need for a mic with the natural volume of his voice for better or worse. Luckily his singing isn't just shouts and growls but more about diamonds and love instead. If there's not much in his cart, Ziggy will sometimes empty it and flip it over to use as a small impromptu stage for spur of the moment concerts. Someday, he'd love to form a real band and go touring in Fillydelphia and Talonopolis.

Extra

Ziggy owns a red/orange sunburst early archtop electric guitar similar to the Gibson ES-125 model that was made in Rockwington.

Image refs

WiP sketch of Ziggy DiamondDust about to rock your face off!

I don't know a pony pun for Cleveland. :C

For a weird eyeless noodly monstrosity, he's kinda adorable.

It's the magic of the MLP art style! Everything is instantly adorable.

Nice!

The Diamond Dog design is really great!

OOooo the diamond dog design is simply GORGEOUS, I love the reference.

Thanks! Drew this guy on a whim at 4 am and just went wild! Can't have a diamond dog without a David Bowie reference! I hope to develop him further so I can RP with Ziggy DiamondDust here. Gotta give this dog a sweet guitar so he can jam like a real rock star!

Here's where you can find all my MLP related art in one place! I don't have much to say about it introduction-wise though.

If anyone's wondering... all of my drawings are done in Paint Tool Sai with minor touch ups in Photoshop.

Horsaroni from the webcomic Homestuck drawn in the old MLP style. He's a noodley eyeless alien pony. Also best friend. I draw him a lot actually.

Horsaroni and Maplehoof from the webcomic Homestuck drawn in the new FiM style. Less noodle, more dreadlocks!

I just wanted to draw their cutie marks. It turned into a big background drawing.

Diamond dog OC design, Ziggy DiamondDust. Obviously based off David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona.

Hello! Welcome to the forums!

Ahh, the original Spyro games were good. I haven't touched any of the newer games but I'm horribly frightened of them... It's usually never a good thing when another developer takes over a franchise. *laments Crash Bandicoot*

Just gotta figure out where they'd be in relation to the map we've got here. Maybe underneath Roughrider Ridge unless they named the location in A Dog and a Pony Show?

Hehe, I've never even seen screenshots of the original cartoon but when I saw the first episode of FiM, was hooked! Even though the second episode made me go "huh?" I love Lauren Faust's humor that she brought into the show from Power Puff Girls and Foster's. Those were two of my favorite shows too.

But yeah, welcome! Bring on the male OC ponies!

Thanks for the awesome greeting everyone! Can't wait to get settled in and have some fun times here!

Tawa, I just gotta say I love your diamond dog character you've got displayed in your gallery. XD

Thanks! I'll have to later ask if diamond dogs are acceptable creatures to RP as here.

Heya everyone!

I'm Tawa and well uh, I draw stuff. And sometimes RP every now and then. This place seems pretty cool and friendly and I can't wait to see it grow even more!

Eyup.

You can find my art right here if you're curious what things I doodle- http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tawawawa/