Let the river lull me...

*Wins an adorable babu and thinks up some backstory
*Draws up a few pics of said babu and gets an idea to draw her like this
*Work butt off to experiment on body placement in water and rippling effects in river
*Become George Lucas and go nuts with effects...

This is an adorable pastel pony pegasus character that my sweet girlfriend helped me win in an auction from the amazing . For the longest time I couldn't think of a proper name for her until the name "Cassandra" popped in my head last night.

Cassandra Ventusra is a Pegasus with a gift of immortality. For over 300 years she explored the world her wings could carry her across. She fears only the dark and stormy weather and losing anyone close to her. Such as a friend or two. Or maybe a lover.
Over the years Cassandra always battled her emotions towards male and female alike but always settled upon females. She's terrified of getting too close with anyone as she fears that her immortal life would not let her last long with a lover she finds. Over the years she left many lovers she had behind, broken hearted and passed on. She barely speaks and does so only to someone she trusts. She's very emotionless but has feelings like everyone else. Some may see her immortal life as a gift, but she sees it as a curse. Her 19 year old figure never changes and she seeks the open world trying to figure out her past and find out what her purpose is on Mobius.

I had way too much fun experimenting with forest tree lighting and water effects. It's not perfect but I consider it a good effort. The pebbles were tedious to the point where I had most of them multiply and repeated. You can barely notice it, but yeah, it's there.
Had to look up some character in water images to get the effect that I wanted to try. I think it's a good effort and I'm off to a good start with Cassandra. ^^

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Cassandra Ventusra the Pegasus is owned by me.
Original character design/Adopted from