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Atmospark — How Cutie Marks are Made by-nc-nd

Published: 2013-09-02 11:28:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4280; Favourites: 149; Downloads: 41
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Description Ele was a curious little foal, always exploring the world around him, looking for new adventures. During one of his cloud-hops he stumbled and lost his footing, falling further than he ever had before! He was still too young to be able to pull himself out of the fall and was very scared! As he fell past the very last cloud, he looked down at the ground rushing up towards him, when suddenly it was falling away from him, he had been caught! He squeezed his eyes shut and grabbed on to his rescuer tightly, eventually letting go as he felt himself being put down safely on a cloud. He opened his eyes just in time to see a pure white pony and the flash of a bright blue tail flying off to re-join the group of ponies in the distance.



“Stay here, I’ll be back soon to take you home!”



Ele sat there on his cloud, which he’d never visited before, and watched as the group of ponies danced and weaved their way through the sky, gradually gathering more and more clouds together. The weather team! They must be creating a rainstorm! He stared in amazement as the clouds got thicker and darker, just about ready to burst. Just as he thought they couldn’t take any more, there was a flash of white and blue high above the clouds. His head jerked upwards just in time to see his rescuer turn into a steep dive, wings folded back, aiming straight for the dense clouds gathered below. The other ponies milling around quickly retreated as the white pony streaked down through the sky, diving right into the cloud below, causing a huge bang and a blinding flash of white light.



Ele was stunned, that was soo cool!! He looked around everywhere for that white pony, almost falling off his cloud as he skidded around scanning the sky, but caught himself just in time. Maybe his wings were stronger than he thought!



The white pony returned to Ele as she had promised and he climbed up on her back as she prepared to fly him home. As she prepared to take to the sky, Ele excitedly jumped off her back.



“I can do it too! See!”



He jumped and flapped his wings as hard as he could, getting a few metres into the air before closing his eyes, stretching out his legs, folding back his wings and diving headfirst at the cloud beneath him. As he shot out the other side the cloud rumbled above him. He opened his eyes and looked back over his shoulder and was astonished to see a needle-thin bolt of lightning chasing him!!



He swerved, breaking the line and the lightning disappeared back into the cloud, making a loud bang as it did so. With his heart racing, Ele zipped back to the white pony, fuelled by adrenaline and excitement he happily bounced in front of her.



“Didya see! I did it!! I made it go bang!! I flew through it and it followed me and ITWASSOCOOL!!”



He was so excited that he hardly noticed the tingly sensation near his back legs, not until the white pony pointed to his hindquarters. He quickly snapped his head around, and where he was used to seeing nothing but blue fuzz, there was a shiny new mark! What was it? He couldn’t see! He had to see it! Had to know what it was!

He jumped up, running quickly in a circle, trying to look at it, getting faster and faster, and using his wings as well! He had to see it! He could only do this for so long, he was really dizzy! Then he remembered, there’s a mirror at home!

He took off, speeding amongst the clouds as fast as his wings would take him, heading back towards home. He rushed inside, found the mirror and grinned like a maniac as his eyes looked upon the dark grey cloud and lightning bolts that now adorned his flanks. His cutie mark! He’d finally earned it! He’d always known it would represent his talent, but he didn’t know it could be something he loved so much!! He needed to show everyone! Everyone needed to see this! To see what he could do!

He danced around for so long that the excitement was eventually replaced by sleepiness and he found himself yawning uncontrollably. He finally gave up fighting it, crawled into his fluffy cloud bed and curled up into a warm, tight little ball, excited for tomorrow when he’d be able to show his friends!



His smile stayed on his face all night.



So this is a vector! So happy to finally get this one done! This was meant to be my 1000 watcher special upload, but instead it's my 1037th watcher special, because I'm lazy


This entire vector is pretty much original and non traced, except for Electroshock being very loosely based on my Rainbow Dash vector from a very long time ago, and the background, which is by ~SilverVectors , check credits below for a link.

This is the most original vector I've ever made, and as such it took me the longest amount of time I've ever put into a vector and I am very very proud of it

This is a wallpaper, feel free to use it as such, no need to ask me! The download link on the right is 1920x1080, check below for more sizes!


Credits:

Background: Starry Night by ~SilverVectors

Help and Support: *SilverRainclouds , *Kired25 , ~ReducedOspreyStudio and various other #MLP-VectorClub admins!



Vector Stuff:

Number of Nodes:
6393
Time Taken: Hours and hours
Program: Ponyscape
SVG Download: sta.sh/0pr2yhgvsmj
Other Sizes: 1366x768 , 3840x2160

And as always..




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Comments: 8

star-fireMLP [2014-01-11 02:29:25 +0000 UTC]

i love the pic but no time to read right now so... maybe later

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Aqulia [2013-11-27 04:59:52 +0000 UTC]

its awesome but inside through the cloud you can see the bolt the bolt isn't inside the cloud it forms around the cloud their for it may strike. but it's still super duper awesome

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TomFraggle [2013-11-27 02:50:49 +0000 UTC]

Epic drawing.

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StarSchock [2013-11-07 20:50:48 +0000 UTC]

incrible

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GUILLE832 [2013-09-06 10:34:34 +0000 UTC]

Great pic! The story is quite good too. I like the details of light caused by the lighting

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Akernis [2013-09-05 21:55:26 +0000 UTC]

Very nice.


I like the atmosphere of the piece, you really get the sense that he is fast, the small bolt of lightning behind him draws the eye and I like the way it illuminates the cloud from within.


The story is well-written, interesting and vividly depicting, you really managed to capture that young excitement of a young colt doing something he loves and earning his cutie mark on the process  

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Commander-Sparkle [2013-09-02 19:41:20 +0000 UTC]

Final version turned out awesome! Looks like you got all that shading figured out

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DewlShock [2013-09-02 15:41:29 +0000 UTC]

Great CM story. It really gives the vector more impact. Having that lightning bolt streak through the storm cloud was a brilliant idea and you made it look so freaking cool!

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