Basically a companion piece to go with Raising the Sun (https://www.weasyl.com/submission/102536). I actually kept that one open in Photoshop while working on this one to make sure they'd look good together.

Also used the same colors from the sky (Photoshop had even kept the gradient, so I just had to reverse the order the colors were in). I also basically did the hair the same way, and got the image of her cutie mark from the same place.

Moon was done in Photoshop using a tutorial.

Actually completely knocked this one out in a weekend, which made me happy--Celestia's took more like a week and I was pretty much sick of it by the time it was done. Probably helps that it was my second attempt at this sort of piece.

P.S.: Prints of this are REALLY popular of conventions--they practically fly out of the box.