No Contest Creations

This is concept art for the Pony Emblem project.

Well, this was really interesting to do, even though Fluttershy’s outfit is really simple. She’s supposed to be in full heavy leather armour, although without colour, I think I made it look a bit like she’s wearing plate. She’s fully decked out because she doesn’t do any of the fighting herself and just needs to focus on not dying.

I took inspiration from the typical FE design for the wyvern, but tried to make him look a bit sleeker to fit Fluttershy’s style. This was my first time drawing a wyvern of any sort too, but I guess it turned out okay despite and that my second blunder. My second blunder is that I am a moron and detailed him AFTER Fluttershy. That made things a bit tough.

This is concept art for the Pony Emblem project.

This will probably sound a bit like tooting my own horn, but man does mare Scoots look badass with just the addition of a cloak. Anyway, really simple design here. Got another pegasus running ground work too, although flying around probably wouldn’t be very subtle for the FE Thief equivalent anyway. Aside from the cloak, I added a toolbelt and metal toed and heeled horse shoes.

This is concept art for the Pony Emblem project.

My original design for Madmax wasn’t exactly mage like, so this is a possible alternative where I made some adjustments.

Basically, the shoes, tiara, glasses, anklet and hairstyle remained the same.

I shortened the thief coat to make it more of a thief vest, but I also retained the detached sleeves, so I guess it’s more of a short jacket. Then I added a cloak, the style of which is inspirted by Heather from FE10. I tried to keep it as simple as possible that that it was more of a thief cloak. There’s no trimming, although I used something of a ribbon to secure the cloak around her neck. I left the cloak’s clasp as a plain piece of metal. Note that the cloak is not actually see through.

Concept art for the Pony Emblem project.

Dusky is something of an oddball among the cast here. Speedster is actually the Myrmidon equivalent, so yes, Dusky is a pegasus ground fighter. The scarf and hairstyle are the same as her usual design. The headband and sash are Speedster standard issue gear and are there to give that sort of agile fighter feel. The vest is a leather armour that constricts her wings and is the in game reason for her staying grounded. The foreleg shoes are basically metal toed and heeled slippers (Speedsters use horseshoes, the sword equivalent).

Concept art for the Pony Emblem project.

This is the third promoted lord in the set and Applejack happens to fit the role quite nicely. I kept her cowgirl hat and then went for a fairly utilitarian design for the armour. She has a metal breastplate with a chainmail skirt attached to it. I needed to fit at least one piece of lord-like jewelry here, but as Applejack isn’t into the whole frou-frou thing too much, I had to think a bit. I ended up taking the Elements jewel from her Elements of Harmony necklace and placing it at the neckline of her breastplate. Turned out rather good if you ask me. The boots are more or less her work duds (although it’s hard to tell on the hind legs) with metal toes and front plating on the forelegs and metal toes and full metal heels on the hind legs (all the better to buck your face in with).

This is a concept piece for the Pony Emblem project for the promoted form of Madmax.

Truth be told, I’m rather nervous about this design, because Madmax is miles ahead of me as an artist. Mind, so are the artists for the canon characters, so I guess it might be because being part of the fandom makes her seem closer. Anyway, enough rambling.

Luckily a lot of her ponysona’s original design came over, so the shoes, glasses and hair elastics (and therefore, hairstyle) stayed.

The one big thing she requested was described as a “thief coat.” I took a bit of inspiration from FE10’s Volke, as might be noticed by the large collar. The rest I had to adapt to pony form, so a lot of the extra stitches and doodads didn’t really work. I added something to the waist that isn’t actually a belt. In fact, I don’t really know what it is (yay, now I’m thinking like a real JRPG designer!). Um, added some trim to the bottom and made the sleeves detached (partly inspired by the sleeves in her dancing ponysona piece). Also added a jeweled tiara and anklet for some extra “lordliness” feel.

This is a concept piece for the Pony Emblem project for the promoted form of Twilight Sparkle.

She’s supposed to have some level of sun theme to indicate her allegiance to Celestia, but I didn’t want to totally destroy her usual star motif, so I did something of a mix. The edging on the robe is made to be somewhat sunlike and the large necklace has a sun embedded in it.

For her cloak I took some inspiration from her gala dress. I also ported over the star earring, but shrunk is significantly because the large version would look rather ridiculous with this outfit. Oh and super powered Twilight is not complete without her Elements crown (hopefully that fits into the sprite box when we get around to it >.>).