I think I’m just going to use this blog for fan art. Maybe I’ll post more OC stuff after protecting it, but this will do for now. I’m still doing my Pegaseptember challenge this year on a weekly basis, and this week’s prompt is: Sporty!
This is a tribute to the late Rachel Lillis who was well-known for her English dub voice in the original Pokémon series as both Misty and Jessie, but I’ve grown to absolutely adore her performance as Martina from Slayers Next! I recently learned the character was named after a real life tennis player, though they didn’t have similar personalities. Princess Martina of Zoana was however skilled in a magical game of tennis known as brass rackets. I’ve wanted to do a tribute to her since I heard the news of her passing, and since I love drawing horse-like creatures, this creation was born! I based her coat off of her original outfit rather than her tennis one as I thought it could be a fun pinto, almost calico-like pattern.
She probably would make more sense as a regular horse than a unicorn since she has no real magic, but she’s sort of like the Trixie to Lina Inverse’s Twilight Sparkle, so to me a unicorn still made sense (also I needed an excuse for her to have wings in order to fit the pegasus challenge, so magical spectral wings from the enchanted rackets it is!). The magic also looks more like the MLP magic than the Slayers magic because those sparkles are so dang fun to draw!
