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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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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Finishing Up My Little Pony Decorate Your Own Blank Pony

I first started this earlier this year, then the sudden summer heat happened, Mercury Retrograde, and then job issues. New job, and a string of fortunately inconvenient out of control, needlessly unnecessary obstacles constantly popping up 1 after another. Never ending!

I also have some dings, and imperfections because of the insensitivity of my spouse.


SO, once I found a paint in a color I liked as the base coat, I had to paint several coats. My first try went badly, so I started over here. You can see the disaster in my previous blog entry about this process.

I had to be incredibly patient, because of the summer New England humidity, which made the process longer than usual.



As you can tell the head was also removed, and the hair was wrapped up.

Here's her head after several coats of paint, and masking fluid on the eyes.



Once that was totally set, I could move onto adding the metallic paint coats.

Here's just the first or second coat.



After starting to paint metallic coats on the body:




Once the body was fully painted with metallic, and the paint was set, I painted my "Black UniGryphon" logo on it. I also used markers. And glitter paints as well.

 Under the logo, you can see that I painted a more reddish purple gradient to make the logo stand out more.










Doing some accents on the feet. I saw a few different pony painters do different things. So, I thought I'd try my own.

Here's the feet:




After several base coats of mat yellow, I can paint it over in metallic gold paint coats.







The head after more metallic paint coats:



Adding metallic gold accents to the head, and adding a bindi. The bindi was a vintage piece of jewelry from the 1980s made with 1/2 of a black pearl, and silver. I do not understand how it broke, but I did wear it every day. It was a necklace pendant.

As for the eyelids, I was trying to experiment with purples, but you couldn't tell, so I went with a turquoise with a hint of green in it.



After I took off the masking fluid from the eyes, I painted in the eyes with mat black paint in several coats, and I also used 3 different black markers.








After all kinds of mixed media, like markers, paints, glitter paints, and mother of pearl, and also glaze, and many other accents, etc. It's time to put her head on... of course, after waiting a loooooooong, time for the layers of paints, inks, and glaze dries.

I based the eye designs on some ponies from the 2000s, which would have stars or hearts on the eyes. So, on a whim, I went with hearts. 


Glazed the body in several layers also, added the heart to one of the forelegs.

I used a vintage professional graphic art marker to do the heart by TRI pantone.



I added some rhinestones to the accents on her breast. That was so much friggin' trouble to do! And, glazing over it took forever to dry!



Stay tuned for the final results.


I will be adding the final photos and final results here on this blog, and also on my DeviantART Gallery.

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