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I think that depends a lot of the person. Personally, I usually have first in mind what will its personality going to be, then I start to imagine how the pony (or whatever species) will look like: long hair, short hair, type of eyes, etc.
 
Sometimes I’m not even sure of all the options, so I start doing rough sketches with approximately what I have in mind until I’m satisfied. If the character will have a backstory, usually goes before of the developing of the character design. And the colors is the last thing that I do, to have overall a better pespective.
 
And sometimes I’m maybe drawing and I create a random pony all of sudden, so the personality, backstory, etc., will go after it.
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@ice1517  
Funnily enough, the three OCs i’be posted about (Midnight Dew, Bittergreen And Sweetleaf) all started out differently.
 
For Midnight Dew i had in mind the concept of an oneiromancer unicorn, and the design and the backstory grew from that.
 
For Bittergreen, the name came first. I was playing Morrowind, happened to pick up some bittergreen petals while harvesting alchemy ingredients, and it occurred to me that bittergreen kinda sounded like a pony name. Then i actually designed the character based on that name.
 
For Sweetleaf, i doodled the design first and then decided that she’s Bittergreen’s sister.
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I personally think of their talent first (usually because I need/want a character for a specific purpose), then design/colours and then work on personality and story last.
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Night Cap is the only character in my comics that I own. The rest belong to other players or our GM.
 
In my case, I happened to already have a long stalled piece of fiction to play with, so I just ponified the lead character. A friend then came up with the name. Then a series of horrible dice rolls in our campaign turned him into a useless doofus, and I ran with it.
 
Another friend pointed out that his personality now bears an accidental but eerie resemblance to Rufus, from the Deponia games (which I swear on my life I had never heard of). So now I kinda play it up.
 
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Thanks everyone.
 
Night Cap’s cutie mark is a silver key, a Lovecraft reference that pretty well sums up what the character is about. Before he gained a more defined personality he was mainly based on my experience growing up with a nightmare disorder and narcolepsy (which does not mean falling asleep at random times).
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Looks fine to me. I don’t have a problem with cutie marks standing out a bit. If cutie marks had to match a pony’s color scheme, some ponies would have pretty limited options in life.
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