Bitter Memories

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As poetic a song choice as the one you linked was, I immediately thought of "Daylight's end". As I stare into her eyes, watching her tears fall to scarred earth, I know in my heart that it's the perfect match - at least in my opinion. The image - even without the music - elicits such a visceral reaction, a reminder, that which gives life can easily extinguish it. The difference between Luna and Celestia is a simple one. The bigger they are, the harder they fall...and when she did, all of Equestria burned with her. Somewhat ironic isn't it? Nightmare Moon was the one that wanted eternal night, but it was Celestia that gave it to them with a blanket of ash.

As far as the piece of art is concerned, from a critical perspective, center stage is very powerful and very highly detailed, but as you move from the center, the background (especially back left) very swiftly becomes almost oversimplified and what should be a darker background to contrast the bright foreground, remains quite bright. Honestly, I feel that the mountains in the back left should be edged in black, not golden-orange; that the fire should be lighting the clouds of ash, not the mountains themselves. Furthermore, as a personal preference, I would've drawn the stone at Solar Flare's hooves as being blackened. However, all of the above are merely little things that are frankly nitpicking on my part and not something that significantly detract from the picture as a whole.