Drew this to celebrate finally completing my grail set of G1 Sunshine Ponies! Their color-changing hair and neon color palette call forth memories of resting under the warm sun on a boat.

biblically accurate Celestia by lenori

As promised, here’s the fake screenshot tutorial! This is a method I’ve been fussing with since December of last year, and as you can probably see there’s a lot of room for improvement and streamlining lol. But this is just the method I’m using and am still in the process of changing, so I encourage everyone to experiment with it and find what works best for them.

This was all done in Photoshop and requires basic knowledge of color adjusting, filters, and layer blending modes, but it’s mechanical and simple enough that it can likely be picked up easily or reverse engineered to work in another program like GiMP or Sai.