This is my third submission for the Artist Training Grounds’ week 27 theme: draw a pony celebrating New Year’s Eve. Everyone talks about how Celestia is such a mother figure to Twi, which is true, but that also makes me a little sad, because Twi happens to have a real mom too. So I decided Twi’s parents need more love since they tend to get forgotten. Because I drew this zoomed way too far in, have some Twi and parents staring at some off screen fireworks.

Doing the layering on the sketch and then on the shading was a huge pain, but definitely worth it. Ran me about 3.5 hours altogether using my 2H-HB-2B trio.