Princess Luna, Alicorn of the Cosmos

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EDIT: Now that I've uploaded the second version of this pic, I changed the title a little.

Edit 2: Added a purple glowy effect.

My first art of the New Year


Some of you may have seen both my original sketch and my WIP for this piece.

Well, I'm glad to say that it's finally finished And I'm really liking how it came out.
...Save for the fact that I need to better learn how lighting and shading works. I didn't really plan on making it all that realistic though, apart from giving her more horse-like proportions.

I made her tail and hooves look closer to that of a "real" unicorn. Unicorns from the myth are actually more closely related to goats, and have long tufted tails and cloven hooves.

Luna is my favorite of the two princesses. Yes, I like Celestia; she's motherly and outgoing as opposed to prissy and self-absorbed and obsessed with fashion and candy and pink.

However, I really feel like Luna is a deeper character. She's fought with her jealousy and bitterness and recovered from being Nightmare Moon for 1000+ years, yet she still has quite a few internal struggles.

....Plus let's face it, I absolutely love stars and space and the color blue.



I'll admit, I sort of abused the fancy special-effects brushes to get all the clouds and stars. However, I planned to do that from the start and I'm glad that Pixlr has so many unique brushes to choose from to really bring out the effects that I was trying to portray in the piece.

I totally drew and detailed that moon though.
/shot




_{I will be working on finishing the alternate version, with her traditional horse-tail and hooves.}

I am finally done with said version, which can be seen here: [link]

Hope you like ^^ Feel free to give feedback and critique.




Princess Luna © My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic © Lauren Faust.