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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (c) Hasbro and Studio B

EDIT 2:Such a beautiful song, too.EDIT:I got some really good feedback on this image, both here and on EquestriaDaily, and decided to revisit it and change up a lot of the composition. First off, pulled Trixie forward, so she's larger, stands out more, and separates from the background tree.Secondly, faded that tree and shrank it down to push it back to give a greater sense of depth.Third, moved the sun up to coincide with the composition's flow, and so it didn't look so parallel to Trixie's placement.Fourth, changed the sky color so Trixie doesn't blend into it. I know that the sky wouldn't be that pink with the sun that high, but this phenomenon is most easily explained with this scientific analysis: [link] Lastly, I reworked the resolution so now it is perfect 1680 x 1050 widescreen resolution if you want to make this into a wallpaper. Apparently Sethisto, the guy who runs the EquestriaDaily blog, set the original image as his wallpaper even though it wasn't intended to stretch accordingly for widescreen.____________Another My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic background. I've got a lot of commission work outside of this that I can't show on dA, so nothing quite like doing some quick vector FanArt of a crazy appealing style that people respond quite positively to. Win win win.Time tested on this one. The last step in attempting to mimic a style is to go all out. I did a few one-hour tests today, and this one seemed to work the best because it had the best staging in it. So when I finished it up and set it aside, it originally wasn't too terribly refined, still very rough.Then the EquestriaDaily blog stated today's theme for the artist training grounds (something I've been meaning to throw in to, since I'm quite a newbie when it comes to the actual style of the show). The theme is: have a character raising the sun. So step back Celestia, Trixie's got this one.I took the background draft, and refined it a lot more, adding more stuff to it for the sake of detailing where necessary. I actually spend a good amount of time detailing a background along those hills with buildings and trees, but after a little layering glitch in Flash I found the best composition was the original with absolutely no details there. Guess it was just cluttering up everything.Also, first time I actually drew a character from the MLP canon. I'm usually a background person, but what good is a background if you can't show how it utilizes the characters in it, right?Then again, that means the background guy, who has trained predominately in background, has to actually draw a character. Oh let the hilarity begin.Flash 8Comments appreciated, criticism honored.Character designs by Lauren Faust