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Rolling In Beaches Cover

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So this is the cover to my second MLP:FiM fanfic entitled Rolling in Beaches (horrid pun, I know). Again, I did all the vectors myself with some references to screenshots from the show.

I have one original character in this picture and one semi-original. The OC is only in silhouette and is obviously a dragon, and she doesn't appear until halfway through the story. The semi-original one is the hippocampus pinning Spike down, and I named her after one of the G1 sea ponies, Wavedancer. My hippocampus design is, as you can see, a bit different from the classic MLP sea pony design, as they have forelegs and tail fins, which tie them closer to the hippocampi of Greek myth. The color scheme is sort of based on the color changing baby Wavedancer, but, again, it's not exact. I kind of ended up liking my Wavedancer's colors being a lighter reverse of Spike's.

Rarity's mane and tail sucks to do in Illustrator, by the way. I'm not whining about it or anything, but I am complaining. It was horrible. Still, I like to think it came out alright.

I also suck at background stuff, so it was actually a learning experience actually doing a legit background image. I learned a lot of new and useful tools about Illustrator, as well, which should help me out in the future with this kind of thing.

All in all, I loved challenging myself with this pic, and I hope everypony enjoys it.

Click this [link] to see the story.
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205tob's avatar

you made rarity angry! look what you've done!