Silver and Split

Contest Prize for of her characters Silver (the unicorn) and Split (the kitten).

Ok, so many of you may recognize this image from before when I did the lineart a while back (here's the original lineart: [link]), well... I kinda redid it xD Same pose for Silver (but better and more accurate, like the horn was ridged in the lineart, but here I made it unridged) and I changed Split's pose, and the bg.

Yes, HUGE kitten is huge in comparison to the unicorn, but if I drew her any smaller it would have been even harder to get details in D: So no comments on the size please >.>; I also know they kinda both run together since they're both gray, but I tried separating them, though it might be easier to see in full view than in a thumbnail. The bg where I used watercolor in the sky also messed up a little, not too big, but I still would have liked it to come out smoother lol.
Scanner totally drowned out the color in this...

Other than that, I love how this came out It's one of the best horses (well... unicorn xD) I've ever drawn c:
Those dapples sure were time consuming though. As well as the grass.

Ok, so here was the intro I drew to:

Silver was absolutely certain he had a problem.

His coat had the glorious dappling of sunlight through foliage. His mane and tail streamed behind him when he galloped in cascades of starlight. His unridged horn scraped the sky in a spire of pure sterling. His hooves rang like wedding bells as they touched the ground--something, he'd been told, that was quite annoying. But after all, he'd pointed out, they only chimed like that when he was trotting over something hard, like a road. Otherwise, his hooves just tinkled softly like the quiet laughter of faeries.

Silver's problem, he was sure, was his name. The dappled stallion like to wax eloquent when he spoke, and 'Silver' just didn't seem quite the dazzling name to fit his image. He wished to have it changed, but Naming was a serious business, and the unicorn had felt it was best to seek out a sorceress in this matter.

The kitten perched behind his withers, a grey tabby, thought Silver was quite a good name, one with just the right amount of glory to not be tawdry. But as her name was Split, and she was quite proud of it, Silver hardly thought her the expert on names.

-written by *Ameko-Shadowsong

Sorry it's so late, but I hope that this makes up for it, and that it's somewhat like you imagined them to be D:

Silver and Split (c) *Ameko-Shadowsong
The ref photo's are saved on my computer, so I'll look for links later
Art (c) Me