Turning Point By Sensko Watch

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Entry for the EQD ATG Day 8: a pony as a filly.



Something a bit fancier than usual to to make up for missing yesterday (in my defence, I had eaten a lot and was really sleepy).



While I'll always love making silly references and injokes in my work, I wanted to something a bit more serious for this, namely my headcanon about Sunset Shimmer (feel free to tune out at this point).



I personally imagine that Sunset Shimmer started out as a very bright, but difficult filly, utterly convinced of always being the smartest pony in the room and being right 90% of the time.

The story behind the picture is that Sunset, after sneaking into a certain wing of the Canterlot Archieves, stumbled across a statue of Starswirl, which triggered her cutiemark.

She then turned herself in, telling the perplexed guards that she'd be willing to accept any punishment as long as she would be allowed to study magic at Celestia's school.

The Princess, seeing the potential of the filly and having hopes for her to be the catalyst of the Elements, accepted.



Rambling aside; I am actually kinda proud of this one; I was going for a handdrawn cartoon look with painted background and it more or less turned out how I had envisioned it.

I particularly like the way the bookshelves turned out; defenitely gonna do more painting in the future.

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Published : Aug 23, 2016