The Big Announcement:

This is my final work for mlp.

A special thanks goes to Lauren Faust for what, we all know. Six little ponies, each unique in their own way. Not the stereotypes one would expect from a show aimed at little girls, but characters each full of potential. All playful, cute, and silly. They have foils, they have passions. I can’t pin down one reason of the why they and their world appealed so much to me and to so many others. It would have been very easy for My Little Pony to be just another show, just another form of media for certain people to watch and forget about, but now with all that’s happened and all that there’s been, this show has made its cultural impact.

It’s okay to be girly. It’s okay for girls to kick butt. Obvious sentiments yes, but difficult to bring to the cultural norm, yet here we are.

Thanks again Lauren Faust. Through this show I’ve made some of my very best friends. Please, below I invite you the viewers to share your stories of the friends you’ve made with this fandom. How did you find your way in? What friends did you make here?

I will still do mlp in commissions and I will still do patreon work (where you can find this piece at double the size it is here, if you’re a patron), and I may throw a pony in the odd landscape or study here or there, or it could be another fandom entirely, but for the mlp fandom it is time for me to move on. I will no longer focus on ponies. I’ve learned much in my time here and have met some very good friends that I will cherish forever. I am grateful for all my followers and I will aspire to make higher and higher quality work for all of you.

I am moving on because it is my goal to attain professional status, Working for a company as a full time artist, and in the long term, becoming an art director. In order to accomplish this I must push myself to learn the things which I don’t yet know, or which I struggle with. In the past mlp has been a wonderful motivator, but nowadays I feel constrained by it. I have humans to study and improve on, I have perspective to draw, all sorts of clothes to play with, textures to push. There are new subjects for me to embrace and learn, and I have been putting them off for too long.

I am going to improve. Not a little, but a lot.

To say that with confidence, and to see a positive future for myself is a step in a direction that years ago I never thought I would attain.

Thank you all for your support and your kindness.