Under a Desert Sky

Oh goodness. What am I doooing?

I don't even know.

This is what MLP:FiM has done to me. It made me want to draw my best friend and me as ponies. My friend doesn't even like the show (okay, so, actually, that made this even more amusing to me. Hee.)

But here we are. The earth pony would be my friend Nic! I'm tempted to call his pony-self Knick-Knack . Actually I'm more than tempted, considering I've already been calling him that. Hm.
And that means the unicorn is Nikohl-pony. Or just Kohl. That works.

So, yes, dedicated to the friend I have known for 8 years now! Somehow he's managed to put up for me that long, even when I'd do things like make him take me to the book store right before they close because "Omg dude they have that book I've been looking for and I can't wait until tomorrow pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease can we gooo?"

We're in different states now though so we can't do stuff like that anymore. I miss hanging out!

I had a lot of fun with the background. 'Tis meant to be just very stylized and not very correct with perspective and such. (One of these days I'll do a correct not ridiculously stylized background, I swear.) Also tried something different with those thick outlines. I like how it turned out.
And now that I got this out of my system I can go back to drawing the actual in-show ponies without thinking, "Hm, I wonder what color pony Nic would be?"

Sketched on paper. Outlined and colored and all that good stuff in Photoshop Elements 5, as usual.