Opti Tries His Best

[OptimisticNeighsayer 471]

So I do art sometimes. I don’t have much technique, but I do what I can. Here’s my latest. 

Edited August 27, 2022 by OptimisticNeighsayer
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[Starset Twinkle 431]

I like it! Plus, you included several of my favorite characters XD

Is there a story behind why Starlight (I think that is Starlight, sorry if it's not) is a phoenix or was it just for fun?

[OptimisticNeighsayer 471]

4 hours ago, Starset Twinkle said:

I like it! Plus, you included several of my favorite characters XD

Is there a story behind why Starlight (I think that is Starlight, sorry if it's not) is a phoenix or was it just for fun?

It’s actually based on a prompt of “draw a pony rising from the ashes.” Drawing a pony reborn as a phoenix was the easiest idea in my mind and I thus do kind of have a little story: Twilight and Starlight were teaching Trixie how to do a teleportation spell, and Trixie somehow botched it like this, with a lot of ashes on the floor. (In real life, teleportation would at best require actually killing the person and then reconstructing her to somehow still be alive (unless you can do everything very fast). This lends itself to the phoenix myth.)

Edited August 25, 2022 by OptimisticNeighsayer
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