This took a hell of a lot of work! First the hard thing was stylizing the ponies color / texture. Second a most time consuming thing was creating the background. I kept flipping back and forth between looking at the photo and comparing it to what I was drawing & painting, and translating people to ponies, shading, highlighting, …etc. .This is a joke idea I came up with maybe about a month ago of Salty kissing some mare pony in this classic imagery. The random mare I decided should also have some ocean theme to her so I picked Seashell for the idea.Man the flipping back & forth needed between Corel Painter, Artrage, Photoshop, and Paintstar ….