#lyraheartstrings

Who trusted Lyra with the keys in the first place?

I’m sure mares don’t have those.... or do they? O-O

Oh look an update. Hi.

Spent long enough on this, gotta move on now.  Backgrounds are hard.  Doing lineless was a ton of extra work I’m not exactly eager to do again, but on the bright side there’s actually a lot of freehanded stuff in here that I’ve never really had a go at before.

All the shading (just the shade, not the light) was done in two layers, but unusually I don’t have fat lineart here to disguise otherwise pretty crappy, uh, form distinction.  Like, that intersection where her left foreleg’s resting on her right--normally I’d rely on the lineart to distinguish between both her forelegs and her chest, but here I had to do it with shading alone.  I’ve never done that before, not really, so since it’s not complete shite I’m gonna call this a success.