This will eventually be done in colour. This is a ponification request made by my friend, Alana. I was a little worried about getting the hair right since it’s a little complicated and looked really volumous in the reference I was using. It ended up being really easy to draw. Aside from that, I was experimenting with more detailed wings again (although I had done any that were mostly folded in yet), since I feel kind of meh about the stock wings. I think they turned out rather pretty. Oh and the cutie mark is a trifecta, representing body, spirit and mind.

One last fun fact: the reference doesn’t look like Luna, but I somehow managed to make her look quite a bit like Luna with my sketch.

Ooo, boy, this was a bit of a doozy of a colouring job (possibly even moreso than my own pony). I had a bit of a time getting good strokes (despite me even being pretty steady with the mouse!) with all various curves in the hair. On top of that, black pupils and eyelashes don’t combo very well with a coat that is of the same black colour. I think I made it work by thinly outlining the pupils and lines with a dark grey. I also tried doing the eye colour closer to the way the show does it, so no gradients today. It looked really off zoomed in, but as part of the composition, I think it looks quite nice.

Second update: just a quick tweak to the cutie mark at Alana’s request. I changed the colours from computer primary colours to the three purple shades from seen in her irises.