Artist Tidbit: I remember couple of years ago when I saw an artist made a wicked pick of Cadence with a wicked smile on her face, mostly because of Valentine’s Day, and it made me lol hard. Cadence is one of my favorite characters on MLP FiM, so it was a joy to get to draw her for the first time. I think I did well to get her despite the face she does have a lot of gradients on her from her wings to her mane. Adding along my Changeling O/FC Carapace was fun, giving my headcanon for Carapace is that she only shares her love with other Changelings and that she has a rather unusual unique ability in self-generating love (kind of like how photosynthesis is to plants), which makes her unable to deform back into her old form. I’ll get more into that later on.
I couldn’t recall if Cadence’s magic aura was blue (seeing as how I haven’t watch MLP FiM since the end of Season 5…yeah, I’m that lazy), but seeing some references help me to remember. Doing the aura for both her & Carapace took me longer than I wanted while at the same time changing around Carapace’s colors to match her for my Valourverse variation of her. Despite that this pic was something I’m rather surprise I was able to get done so quickly, so I thought I upload it a week early. Now to get to work on some other sketches.