Gentle Breezes

My first finished digital commission for *PearlyPony. These are the same characters as in the first pastel commission, but obviously, their colors have been changed up a bit, per Melody's request. I like them better this way.

This pose should look familiar, it was one of my original sketches. Now it's all trussied up and filled with my artistic heart and soul. I always do my best on commissions.

I imagine that they're on the top of some private mountain, higher than the clouds, where the mist dusts off the snow in the gentle breezes blowing up from the clouds below, and the sky is the purest blue, even as a stormcloud builds far off in the west, and shades the couple from the sun a bit. The mare reaches forward and snatches a bit of the stallion's mane in her lips, chewing on it absently as she hums a gentle little tune. The wind blows and tugs on their braided manes, and the bits of blue ribbon woven into them. The winged creatures spread their pinions to balance against it. The stallion snorts and lifts his head to snuffle at the mare's forelock. She sighed contentedly, eyes half closed as the wind flits over her and her mate, who are seemingly impervious to the cold and thin air of the high atmosphere. An uninhabitable place to most, it makes for a private place for the winged creatures to spend time with eachother.

They are supposed to be Gypsy-Vanner-ish. I think I did better than I think. Their manes are just a bit thin, but it looks a'right. Naturally, I like the mare best. Her pose and the position of her mane seems so natural to me, and I think I succeeded on the face anatomy better than usual. She looks like I could reach out and touch her.

The stallion... eh, he's alright. Had quite the time trying to get that eye of his to look natural. He passes, but not with flying colors like the mare does. I suppose it's a good thing that the mare is so much more stunningly beautiful than the stallion.

Hey! Wings! *flail*

And no, I don't know how they get about with their manes braided together like that. I don't know how they braid their manes in the first place.

RhYthm and RhYme belong to . I can never remember which one is which. >_>;

Almost forgot: Mare is a palomino. Stally is perlino.