Coughs hey a lot of people wanted the princesses and I think I saw one person ask for Trixie So…….

I’m trying to stay awake, had to find somn to do!

gonna put some design notes under the cut n_n

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Celestia was a bit of a challenge bc I didn’t want to give her any crazy patters or anything; I’ve always imagined her as just one of those real nice looking white horses lol. I gave her swan wings to kinda match that aesthetic, and I used the soft yellow of her magic for accents so it wouldn’t take away too much from her otherwise pure-white body. I was kinda thinking of “Okami” when I drew her feathering/mane/tail, hence the swirly style.

Luna I wanted to do basically the eact opposite of Celestia, and cover her in markings. I went for a “backwards dapple” sort of thing (dappling is pigment loss, but her dappleing is black so lol). I based her wings around ravens. I like to imagine her feathering is all flowy and ethreal looking like her mane/tail… Speaking of, I have no idea how her hair works so you can use your imagination I guess lmao

Cadence I based entirely around lovebirds… for obvious reasons. She’s the only alicorn we know was originally a pegasus so I decided to give her more feathery features like my other pegasi designs. I was originally going to have her face marking be a deep pink, but decided on pale yellow instead as the pink clashed too much with her mane I think.

I didn’t have many ideas for Trixie until I realised that the hair of horses with spot patters will take the colour of their spots over the regular colour, and I thought that would be pretty cool to line up with her striped hair.

Her cutie mark changes and eye colour swap are a result of a nit-pick I have about magic colour in mlp…. most unicorns have magic colours that match a colour on their cutie marks, and I love that, but there are a select few ponies that don’t subscribe to that; Trixie being one of them… so I fixed it :9