Btw I Dont Know If You Knew This But I Made An Art Cover Piece For The Recently Released HS Fan Album

btw i dont know if you knew this but i made an art cover piece for the recently released HS fan album Fondly Regard Illustration! this one ^u^

which was then turned by the incredibly talented yuuDii into this amazing track, Measured Vengeance

little fun fact/story behind the piece also bc i assume some of you might recognize that its an edit of this Lord Demoness fanart i made last year, which i actually made because of the album!

so that piece wasn't my original submission for a cover art, but instead a second attempt kinda at the same concept, the original piece (which i made back in early 2024 and never posted anywhere before) was this one:

i drew this before the Lord Megido fanart which is how i thought of the concept initially, as sort of a follow up to an older drawing of Damara wearing only the Cairo Overcoat, but building up more on the idea of her overtaking LE, and adding now hints of her having dealt also with Scratch and HIC. i loved the idea, just didnt like how this composition came out for multiple reasons (LE skull being too small, not fitting properly in the canvas, her expression not fully convincing me, the way i drew her hair looking a little off (this was before i started drawing hers and her pre Scratch self's hair kinda differently), and just not finding the composition that interesting in general) yet i submitted the piece anyway trying to ignore all of that. months later tho it inspired me to redraw the concept, but improving on all of that, also considering i'd not have to worry on it being 1:1 canvas measurements. cue the Lord 'Mara fanart:

which is funnily enough still nowadays one of my favorite drawings of Damara i've made. also i kept the same headcanon timeline of her kicking some of the HS villains' ass and then taking over the Felt Mansion for some other Damara drawings. i nicknamed that version of Damara as Lord Megido:

so yea eventually i asked if it'd be ok to use an edited version of that fanart as the cover art instead since i liked more how that one came out, it was ok, so i did ^u^

also this was actually the fourth idea i had for a piece for the album, after considering drawing Damara in her Sailor Moon cosplay, a Dampor piece and something Psycholonials related, yet ultimately decided sweet precious Demoness doesn't have nearly enough fan music, so i settled on this one ^u^

so yea that's how Equestria was made, thanks for listening. go listen to the Fondly Regard Illustration album bc its full of fire pieces, both visual art pieces as well as musical art pieces (also a friend of mine also made a piece for one of the tracks, Connection to be more specific), and have the nice day ^u^