Artist’s description from DA:

FINALLY! After teasing the ever lovin’ hell outta ya’ll with sneak peeks I’ve finally finished the core cast of this little mini-project! When I was posting the sneak peek images for this post many of ya guessed I was working on a new AU or rebooting one or doing a crossover. Long story short? All of those guesses are incorrect I’m afraid! So, what exactly was I doing these for?

WELP. A couple of weeks ago I visited FIMFiction for the first time in years and came across a fanfic called Azure Edge by LeafBlade. I ended up binge-reading the entirety of it and it inspired me to just do some designs for the core cast based on some of the descriptions and my own vision for them. The fanfic is a lot of fun to read by the way, and I highly recommend you give it a read! <: I’d go more into detail of what it’s about but that would be spoiling it, so if you wanna know more just follow the fic link to start readin’. ;3

Now then, some notes on the art itself! If you plan on reading the fic I highly suggest you do THAT first before reading these notes; it gets a tiny bit spoiler-y! Now onward!

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-Mane 6 are the same ones I drew a little while ago but I just tweaked their designs a bit then drew their outfit designs over those drawings. I was gonna draw new art for each but I figured I needed to draw clothes on the base drawings anyway, AND it saved me a lot of time. Work smarter, not harder ;3

-The first image acts as an impromptu height-chart to show the characters’ sizes in relation to each other. Rarity’s about the average height of a mare and Twi’s a bit over the average height of a stallion to give ya’ll a reference point.

-Given how Luna and Celestia are pretty dang huge in the canon show I made them mirror that here. Given they’re naturally born Alicorns, they’re basically literal giants to the little ponies they rule and protect. No other mortal ponies is as big as they are.

-Applejack and Pinkie Pie are the only two I gave two separate outfits: their work clothes and their default clothes. You can see them in their work getup in the extras, which I’ll be linking below.

-All of the dragons have a glow in their eyes that the ponies do not. Even in their disguise this glow, while not as intense, is still there and gives their eyes a more intense feeling. Or at least that’s what I wanted. o3o As a side note, Spike isn’t a dragon, nor is he a dragon in disguise, so he doesn’t have the inner fire in his eyes Twi and Shy do.

-For extra context if you’d like them: AJ is a blacksmith, Pinkie’s an enchantress (who works with AJ), Twi’s a librarian, Fluttershy’s the guardian of her forest (both are dragons in disguise), Rarity and Rainbow are Hunters, Celestia and Luna double as queens and Hunters. Shining and Trixie don’t get any context because we don’t know what they are in the story yet.

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I have a whole bunch of fun workin’ on these! I hope ya’ll give the fic a gander and I hope you like the end result of the art here! ^.