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Moth pony! /)^3^(\
Who wants to ask him a question!?

Uuummm well.... HHmm... I WISH this picture had more of a back story, but honestly it doesn't. I stumbled on a few songs (which I will link later) that have inspired me so far as to not only draw, but scan AND finish this picture in the span of 2 days. Which. NEVER happens.
I am EXTORDINARILY proud of this. I'm just.... GAH! I LOVE IT SO MUCH! However, thanks to one of my newest goal I have yet to achieve, I'm going to have to take critiques and I can't bug people to see it. But with that said, I'll point out the things that I know I've messed up on.
1. The horn, I know that the actual shape is supposed to be just a circle seeing as he's facing towards us. However, I wanted to emphasize on the whole 'magic' element and I'm not entirely sure people would be able to tell that it's a horn. Still, it may bug you anatomy freaks and maybe it was a bad decision but it let me practice a few things.
2. Ponies ARE supposed to be fat! Yes, yes I know. But this is Moth as a pony, it may be difficult to tell seeing as many of you don't know him 'personally' so to say. But he is VERY extrodinarily skinny. Then again I may have just used him because I can't draw fat things ><;
3. Uumm the hooves...? I don't really have that quite figured out.
OKAY! Now done with the bad things about the picture, now for some explanations!!
First off, I did NOT make the emblem for the Lunar Republic. No. I'll link it later and give credit. But also, another, similar wallpaper actually inspired me to add the glow on it and I'll link that too.
Anyway, on here I had to make a lot of difficult decisions. With the original picture, I didn't even ink the picture. In fact. It's still a sketch. Even his cutie mark! In the original design, made by, of course. :iconmoonspirit-twilight: the cutie mark was a moth with it's wings outstretched. Here, they're closed. I could do something cool and have it flutter it's wings sometimes but that's something for later. I chose the one with closed wings because it flowed better with the picture. I actually added fairly bright colors onto it and I wish that showed more then it does but... :shrug: Another thing to the original picture. Were wings. I found the emblem and absolutely ADORED an idea to have him in front of it to make it look as if he has wings. With that, I couldn't add the floor, reflection, and it hid most of the emblem so I had to forfeit that idea.
Anyway, back to the lines. Well. I had planned to try to color it and give it so much detail without lines. It TERRIFIED me. I have only tried it a handful of times before. However, thanks to that picture of Moth on a throne, I have been learning more about tips and tricks. However it turned out okay in the end. But then I got to the mane and tail. I decided to do every strand by hand but it wasn't working for me. Even the light and shade. They didn't turn out alright until I added the light blue into them. Another difficulty was the reflection. All of the tutorials out there have simple pictures where all points touch the reflective surface. I'm still not sure how I got the reflection to work with Moth, but, once again. I tried and tried again until I got this. (also~ Look at it closely, there's a hidden message~)

Throughout this entire piece, I was mostly expiramenting and getting lucky. I was scared to use such bright colors in contrast to such a dark setting, I used so many filters I was scared I would over process the colors. (Giving it a pixalated look and make it pop too much) Not to mention, getting Moth to fit in with the picture /lighting wise/ without actually putting bright bright blue on him.
OVERALL. I STRONGLY believe that this one one of my best pieces so far. I have been working so, so, SO hard to be able to draw ponies and I hope my struggle hasn't been in vain. And this is where I ask all of you who have read this far.
If I were to start an ask blog starring (hahaha stars. You know. Pun. *shot*) this stallion, would you ask him anything? Ha. I might do it anyway. Just advertising~

Anyway, I hope you enjoy as much as I do and notice all the fun things I added inside the picture~
-Inle

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Emblem: [link]
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Texture covering the emblem: [link]
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