Daring Do And The Temple Of Undine ~ Commission

An enormous commission for , and my first ever EPIC scale background. Wow!

Daring Do and her human companion have gone in search of the fabled Temple of Undine, hoping to uncover forgotten treasures of an age long since past. Abandoned by ponies millennia ago, the temple has fallen into myth. All who have gone in search of it have never returned, leading to haunting stories and terrifying tales, spoken of only in whispers in dark corners.
The legends tell of a beautiful mare, appearing one moment and vanishing like a ghost the next, clad in shimmering robes like wet scales. Her siren song calls out from the depths, seductive, sweet and terrible, drawing the unwary and weak-willed. The stories claim she is a water spirit of ancient times, the last of the Undine, a soulless creature from the primordial past. Alone in the dark, forgotten... and hungry. But those are nothing but old pony tales.
Yet, as Daring Do and her companion draw closer to the temple, she could swear she could hear a faint song echoing somewhere in the deep...

Wow, this picture took a long time to finish, but I am extremely proud of the finished product so it was totally worth it! This is the first time anyone has commissioned an EPIC scale background, and so I wanted to really give it my all. It took a lot of hard work and an awful lot of layer work (well over 100 layers on the background alone), but it all came together nicely in the end.
I really hope you all like it!

A big thank you to for being so patient with me during the making of this piece, and for bringing me an idea that really let me cut loose with the creative visuals. It was an absolute pleasure to work on!

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