Showing posts with label WIP. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2026

My DIY Custom made☯️ 如意 Ruyi Wizarding World Wand [Harry Potter - Taoist] Pt 1

 This is the W.I.P. parts for the making of my custom designed & custom made Wand from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter with Taoist Wizardry.

 

 

Made with Armature wire & Super Sculpy. 


 

The General theme of this custom made DIY wand whcih I hand sculpted using armature wire & Supersculpy was to resemble my sketches of my wand I scripted in to my D.R. Shifting Script at my Hogwarts D.R. (Desired Reality)  if you are familiar with "Reality Shifting". 

The design blends concepts from Chinese Taoism and also some vague ideas from "Fantastic Beasts" which is a spinoff of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter franchise.  

Whenever I  get around to scanning my sketches, I will. I just didn't get to it yet since I started a M.A.P. W.I.P. (animation project). 

This involved a lot of painting, patience for the layers of paint to set, and also the use of antiquing medium, metallics, and layering of pigments with glazing medium and even mother-of-pearl.  

It's based on a fusion of a Rúyì  如意, and NO THAT DOES NOT ACTUALLY TRANSLATE to "Scepter". It translates to "As You Wish" or "As You Will", and has a massive meaning. The Monkey King, Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang was ACTUALLY a Ruyi Jing Gu Bang which he could WILL to to become something else, and transform, just by willing it with his mind, thoughts, desires, and feelings. 

 A Ruyi usually resembles the shapes & swirls of the Lingzhi mushroom (reishi mushroom) which tends to have heavenly cloud swirls on it, naturally. This motif is also found in various other designs such as ancient Chinese locks, jade pendants, and various other design motifs. 

Gifting someone a Ruyi speaks volumes o meaning which it DOES NOT express in Western Languages, so it's easier to just smile & nod at the ignorant foreigner and just say "it's a scepter" even tho' IT'S NOT!  Why, because it would take a long time to explain it, the meanings, the words, the customs, the culture. 

It Taoism it has a VERY CLEAR magical meaning, and the power of WILL over matter.  

If you want to find other examples of Ruyi, you can run a search in Etsy and see what shows up, because it's a lot of interesting stuff at any given time. Highly creative artisans 7 collectors have various Ruyi, including Sun Wukong's Jing Gu Bang.

 So, anyways, you COULD say that mine is #Fanfiction or #HarryPotterFanFiction of sorts but it's for my Reality Shifting D.R. Basically, it's when you move you consciousness to another reality, which you can script & design, and you just live their for as long as you want until you come back to your body here in the C.R. (Current reality). Also known as "Localle 3" in "Gateway Process" Tapes by Robert Monroe/Monroe Institute. 

I'll blog some more on this later, when I have time. 

No, I haven't published my Hogwarts D.R. Script. But, I did post some stuff in My Pinterest of various A.I. images of characters from my D.R. including "The Cathay Arboretum", and "The Advanced Arts Department" [known as the A.A.D.] (stuff I scripted into Hogwarts because life without art, even at Hogwarts, is boring otherwise), various vacations we went to such as Christmas Break in Vienna and Spring Break in Mallorca Spain. My Ravenclaw D.R. takes place in the 1990s like the books, and I also scripted my real British Grandmother into the story as a magical sorceress in a fairy glen Cottage near Manchester England. 

Most of the characters r people from my C.R. including people I grew up with, went to middle school, high school, college with, or former coworkers & friends of mine, including my friend, David Biedny, who died in January 2024.

Other stuff at my Hogwarts/Ravenclaw D.R. [Pinterest]: 

Beverages, Terry Boot, Mandy Brockelhurst, N Lisa Turpin (background book characters), Hogwarts Aesthetic, My Private bedroom in the Top Turret of the Ravenclaw Tower, Ravenclaw Uniform & Fashion, Ravenclaw House Decor, Magical Yachts, 90s Muggle Trends, Dragon totem, Owls. 

Also, "Reality Shifting" is quite different from "Lucid Dreaming" and/or "Lucid Dreams" but they're related, and so is OBEs (Out-of-Body Experiences) and "Astral Travel".  You CAN actually use a Lucid Dream as a platform to SHIFT to your D.R. And it's somewhat similar to "Dream Incubation" but it's not a generic dream. In a Lucid Dream YOU CAN TEST to see if you're dreaming, and the checks will prove you're dreaming, and within the dream, and you can take over. But, when you SHIFT to another reality, you can run a reality check and they will all pass. BECAUSE IT'S REAL. You're MIND either made it, or it's an actual reality of molecules that you relocated your consciousness to. There's various views & beliefs as to which thing is happening, but I've found they're all valid. There's also waking methods & sleeping methods. These can also closely resemble "Hypnotic Induction". If you're "wooshing there", this to me suggests Hypnotic Induction, but if you have a SINKING and DEEP FEELING that's Shifting. But, other experiences are more similar to OBEs, Gateway Process, and Astral Travel because there's the vibratory state, tingles, etc. A Common place people shift to is a "Waiting Room" which you can design yourself, and they hang out there, eat delicious foods, watch TV, plan things, and so on.

I've shifted several times to other realities, and was even stuck there, but I'd eventually will myself back. I just didn't know you could script this until recently, so it's an ongoing thing with me.  I've mini-shifted to Hogwarts several times, in fact, I can't remember them all. Glad I wrote them down! I tend to get way to excited, and fuck it up! I've also done Lucid Dreaming several times as well, and I've screwed up 1 of those pretty bad, also. Shifting is EXHAUSTING when you do it, I just tend to go to THE WRONG LOCATIONS for some reason, and I get stuck there. I also have an issue with "Dreamwalkers" whom invade & hack into my dreams, like the film "Inception". Sometimes they're good, other times' they're bad, and then there's neutral or morally gray ones. They can also mess me up. 

 

That's about it for now, but I'll update this project content when I get around to it. I need to shoot more footage & photos of the finished wand.  

 

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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Finished Custom My Little Pony

Finally, I have here, the finished Decorate Your Own Blank My Little Pony. Here you can see a progression of the Pony. It took longer than it should've due to a number of factors, including money, employment issues, and an insensitive spouse issue as well, as well as working space issues, and humidity issues, among other things.... as well as illness.

I'd originally intended for my Pony to be similar to my own character, however, when I dyed her hair with grape Kool-Aid it came out burgundy!

I also has some paint trials & errors... not all paints are created equal... so, I had to start over... Once I did the box (yes I decorated the box as well) I felt a more BOHO/Bohemian flavor to the project, which has some Tribal Fusion elements to it... It's VERY typically me. 

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find links detailing the entire process in my other blog entries.

Here goes the progress:

The Blank Pony:


Blank My Little Pony 001 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



Blank My Little Pony 002 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



Blank My Little Pony Outside 002 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



Blank My Little Pony Outside 003 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



Blank My Little Pony Outside 001 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


The Pony having been Kool-Aid dipped:


Blank My Little Pony Grape KoolAid Hair by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


The Box in Progress:


WIP My Little Pony blank box design Front So far by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



WIP My Little Pony blank box design Left Side by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



WIP My Little Pony blank box design Left Side 02 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



WIP My Little Pony blank box design Right Side 01 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART



WIP My Little Pony blank box design Right Side 02 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


And, finally, we have the finished version:



BlackUniGryphon Custom My Little Pony 001 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


Custom Pony 004 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


BlackUniGryphon Custom My Little Pony 003 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


BlackUniGryphon Custom My Little Pony 006 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART


BlackUniGryphon Custom My Little Pony 005 by ~BlackUniGryphon on deviantART




How I made this:

* Blog entry #1: Unboxing & Kool-Aid dipping
* Blog Entry #2: Trials & errors and Decorating the Box W.I.P.
* Blog Entry #3: The Painting W.I.P., Finishing Up, and Bindi
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Monday, August 12, 2013

WIP Trials & Errors: My Little Pony Decorate Your Own Blank Pony

W.I.P. Trials & Errors: 
My Little Pony Decorate Your Own Blank Pony

So, in my first blog entry, I wrote about my unboxing of my blank My Little Pony that  purchased from Hasbro's website, the Grape Kool-aid hair dying, and that's pretty much it...







Protecting the hair with curlers, masking tape, plastic zipper bags, and staples.
Close-up of the main from the back of the "scalp" after separating it into 2 sections.
 Better close-up.



Now, I gotta remove the head for a while... This is the back of the head again.
The head from the side, after removing it from the body.
Here's the body & the head separated.












However, I've been working on this, (weather permitting) for nearly a month now. I'm up in New England (Greater Boston) so we are prone to the local humidity, which is especially vicious in the summer...

Unfortunately, my first paint I chose, hoping to match with the burgundy hair, went disastrously wrong! 


The paint & the colors REALLY won't show in the photo!
 Disaster!
You can find more disastrous ml paint jobs HERE.  
D-: }

If your pony paint job looks bad like this: START OVER! 
Like I did! ;)
 Usually, when you're painting a figure especially a white one, you need to add a darker color if you want to use metalic paints, or if you want to use a light metalic color, you can use a base color similar to your metalic color first...

however, this paint was just awful! after the 8th coat I was REALLY troubled because it still looked like a 1st coat of paint, would show up on the photos because the camera couldn't see the neon colors, and was very low in pigments. It also kept being gloppy, or would rub off.

So, I had no choice but to grab the paint remover (ethyl acetate like nail polish remover) and remove it all!Despite how easily it rubbed off when working with it, the paint removal took almost an hour because it was so thick & gloppy!







Finally, I started a test paint with a different purple paint, that was glossy. Much better result and only required about 3 coats! THAT'S what I'm looking for!


MUCH BETTER!


This was my test paint coat #1 with a light purple that was the glossy paint.












 You will need masking fluid for the eyes.







 You must apply the masking fluid to the eyes, which you can remove later to reveal the blank white eyes, so you can add the details, like eyeballs.
 Be careful when using this, it's latex (which I'm technically allergic to... mildly) but, it can DESTROY your paint brushes. So, get "Goo Gone", or a paint thinner, to help you remove it from the brush bristles immediately!



 This was just my 1st coat, so you can still see the white through it. I had to paint 1 side, and let it dry AND SET for a few hours before I could paint the other side.
 If you want to have a somewhat good, or better, project, then you must learn to be patient. 

 pay attention to the paint on the brush. If it's gloppy, sloppy, clumpy, or leaves streaks, just take a moment to WASH THE BRUSH OFF, and start over. It WON'T KILL YOU! 

 Be sure your paint isn't too tacky, too wet, too dry, but JUST the right consistency!

Also, learn how to use your fingers to squeeze off the excess water. You don't want the water you just used to rinse it off to water-down the paint that you need to work with. 

 Rushing will make an ugly project. Be patient. 

 But, also, LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. Just like me. I had to START ALL OVER. BUT, it was WORTH IT! See?




 THE BOX:

Let's face it, the box is so plain & white, and BLANK, that it is JUST SCREAMING to be decorated!

 From the get-go, I've been wanting to do a simple paisley design, but also include my logo. 


So, that's exactly what I did!

But, also I wanted to make this a simple process, because... let's face it! Other than the typical My Little pony customized ponies, they're pretty much all the vintage ponies that are usually all beat up, and have the hair redone... I want to STICK with the hair it already has, and this is a specifically brand named product made by Hasbro JUST for being decorated... so, it could be done by the serious professional artist/craftsman/artisan doll-maker/toymaker/customizer, or let's face it: KIDS!


When I first started doing my research, I was noticing that what started by adults years ago (usually by my generation that grew up with the original ponies in the 80s) has naturally caught onto kids...
Well, of course! Duh! It's toys! It's ponies! And, people like doing crafts, regardless of age...

 However, I was dumbfounded that so many kids were entirely clueless as to what they were doing... I found countless videos of so-called "tutorials" of children video recording themselves "customizing" a pony, but it turned out that they'd NEVER done it before, had NO TRAINING in art, let alone anything decent in even crafts, or painting... also didn't cite any sources (but they're kids, and most likely don't know what that means, let alone how, nor that that ought to) and would openly admit "I have never done this before", "I don't know what exactly I'm doing", "This is my first try", or "I don;t know why, but I read that I should do this somewhere.". 

*face-palm*

 My heart really goes out to you kids. I realize you're very innocent, and really don't know much about it, and also don't have any sort of mentor figure. And, I'm sure that some of the stuff published by adults, might at times be a bit above the level you can understand yet... so, don't beat yourself up. 

 But, I'm sure deep down inside, you'd rather do something much nicer that you won't regret sometimes, and toss out as junk, when your hormones start to influence your mind later on... 

 So, I must emphasize that it might behoove you to start taking a basic painting class, and learn how to really use paintbrushes. Learn about paint consistently, brush strokes, blending, etc. Just this simple basic stuff will make your projects that much better once you have the better fundamentals of how to use paints. I've helped so many kids since I was a kid, and even adults when I was still a kid, so I get it.

But, that is my point. I'm doing this very simple, as an example for especially children, young people, and those new to this (since I know that My Little pony is so popular).

Markers:

For starters, I'm using my vintage Professional graphic art markers. They can blend, and they can be used to blend colors TOGETHER in gradients or shades, and even in highlights. Now, these are incredibly expensive markers! They are worth EVERY penny, but they won't be a good choice for a child.

But, you can use regular markers, colored pencils, paints, pastels, mixed media, etc.

If you a a kid reading this, I would urge you to take some real design & painting classes, learn blending, layout, negative space, French curves, inking, professional comic book art or pro manga art, or Gongbi Chinese painting. It's all basic fundamentals, but if you are new to this, just experiment with your regular markers, pencils, etc.

 Now, I also am doing a mixed media. That means I'm using multiple tools for coloring. After these markers dry, I will go over with some "highlighting" using either colored pencils, or pastels.

But, like I said, I'm keeping it VERY simple.

A shot of my vintage Pantone TRIA makers. I got mine in 1999 at the art college I went to (Art Institute of Philadelphia).

These were manufactured in England, and they blend fantastically! You can let them dry, and ad more color, or blend them with other colors. They also look different when wet than dry.

 These are called TRIA PANTONE by Latraset
(in case you wanted to know).

These markers last so long, and if you can find someone selling an old vintage set, you will be surprised at how well they keep. You know the phrase:
They don't make them like they used to!"

There are newer ones of them for sale as well.

Either way, they will cost a lot of money.

But, you needn't be a pro to decorate this stuff.



Like I was saying, I wanted a basic paisley design, like mehndi. I figure most kids these days know what mehndi are, and have most likely done those. If you haven't look up both paisley & mehndi in your favorite search engine, like Yahoo or Google, and really research some examples.

Now, I must admit, I'm rather out of practice with sketching lately, so to me my logo isn't my best, obviously... I've done several variations on my logo... but, like I was saying, I wanted it to be simple anyway. So, I did. This is what you would call a silhouette. But, I also did this to show how easy it was to use DESIGN to incorporate the paisley designs with my logo, the pony logo, etc. I also have my signature on it. You can see I used simple lotus blossoms, dots, teardrops, chilly peppers, and colors.

It's not very hard at all. Just simple.

I started to draw my basic shapes or designs on first using a 3H graphite pencil. You can buy those very cheaply in art art supply store. It's a VERY light led.


The 2nd design I made on a blank side of the box incorporates hearts, loutus blossoms, paisley, rain drops motif, and a peppermint candy design.

Very very simple! See?

Anybody can do this.

you just need to be patient, don't rush, and ENJOY YOURSELF in the profess!













Here is my 3rd side of the box DESIGN I made.

You will notice that it's a paisley that looks like a ponytail!

But, I made the shapes & designs of it to resemble that of a rooster tail (tail feathers).

You can see a solar motif with clouds & a rainbow, and more lotus blossoms, raindrops, and dots.

Even tho' I'm using a more professional grade of art tools, doesn't mean that you can't do this with regular stuff.

If you want to decorate your box, it's entirely up to you how to do that. Also, keep in mind that there is a stamped number on the back of the box.

This is all the work I have done on mine so far.








If you would like to follow the progress of this work please see my Google+ profile's gallery here.

I am also on Deviant Art.

 I have a fanpage on FaceBook, and you can follow me on Twitter.

And, I will be uploading some videos about this project on my YouTube channel.


If you have any legitimate questions about art, you can write them here on the blog, or address them to me on Deviant Art.

If you're just a troll-brony, obviously you're just gonna do whatever... so, whatever... comment, boast, gripe, criticize, whatever... If you're a jerk, whatever... I don't care... I wrote this to help artists, newbies, and kids...
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