This reminds me of “Come, Little Children”

the biggest problem i have with this is, wheres the trees?! theres literally no trees anywhere!
you call yourself a scenery artist and you forget the trees?! no trees/10.

That! is an art.

@SeraphimDawn  
not so awesome!….
 
hey whatever happened to shattered kingdom? i still have the 2015 bronycon alpha demo….

Wonderful <3

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
Best princess just makes it better!

I wish there was a version without Luna so I could use this as a desktop background. I find backdrops like this really comfy and relaxing.

@iamli3  
I believe that music was meant for Cloudsdale at night time for the scrapped fanmade Equestria Online MMORPG.

@SeraphimDawn  
awesome!

This is beautiful.
 
Even though the moon is the bright point, Luna takes the focus, then her eyeline leads you to the moon and the town, and the lighting is just amazing.
 
Surprised not to see any landmarks aside from City Hall though.

I think I may have pulled this from the public suggestion thread. Glad to see it win since this artist is amazing.
 
@PedantCzepialski  
And this is why Featured Images exist. Clop is fine, but gotta boost those underrated artists and give them the upvotes they deserve.

Absolutely gorgeous!

@Silent Wing  
You’re wrong 🖕🏻

so beautiful

looks like something made in imperium civitas… because of how the town is made

I absolutely love the atmosphere in this, it feels almost melancholic

@Badheart  
Don’t have to know who you are to know how you work. You believe all people care about is money because you have finances on the mind when concerning yourself with luxurious interests. I’ll deduce your favorite pony is Rarity. You’ve been on Derp as a member for probably over a year, so you have at least 6,000 favorites for the average user. At least 4,000 of these involve Rarity in some way. You like Rarity because you associate her with your interests in what you perceive is finer tastes, those of which usually revolve around something being of a higher than normal standing but of higher quality for better enjoyment.
 
How does this all tie in? Because you don’t currently have much when it comes to finer living. How do you get the finer stuff? Money. Why mention debt? Because you made a mistake concerning your finances, and now you feel how debt works. You find it terrible. “Why can’t you just give me the money for what I want and I’ll pay you back when I can?” Except you feel you have less money for what you enjoy now, because you need to pay people, and thus feel your loan was a mistake.
 
I don’t know you, but just by the fact that I can find 4 recent Rarity images with your favorite slapped on there tells me a lot about the person you are.

@Silent Wing  
Foo you don’t even know me.

@Badheart  
That’s because all you care about is money. I have money and I don’t think much about it. I love having good times with my friends.

@Silent Wing  
You forget about debt.
 
All people care about is money.

@Badheart  
See, something that I realized NO game that’s in the medieval times really grasps is that for the most part people didn’t start buying the materials and other such stuff to build houses because the Dark Ages were a time in which currency was yet understood. Trade, of course, was set quite simply, but currency itself was not. You either built your own little shack, or you traded for the materials which you had to find another human that had gathered them. It wasn’t until currency became a thing that it actually became commonplace to buy the materials someone had gathered or made, which was usually a wheat farmer who first sold his wheat so that he could gather enough sheckles to improve the home that he most-likely grew up in.
 
The farmer then gave the millworker money for the wood he had chopped. This money then went back to the wheat farmer in the form that he most-likely sold his wheat to the bread maker who took that wheat and made it into flour so that he could mix it with water and get this dough that he could cook over a fire.
 
And so on and so forth. For the most part, currency didn’t play a part in early city development as defense did. Because really, humans are feeble creatures without their weapons, and the reason we became so intelligent was from our early diets which consisted of mainly meat with foraged plants. We became so intelligent from how we worked together and hunted, gather, and built that we carved places to live on the very earth we feed off of. Currency is nothing but the means of which one can represent themselves for services rendered. You could create a very slow and ineffective society that revolves around everyone helping one another, but you will never get the production values of a society that feeds off of capitalism. Been around since the dawn of cities in it’s basic form, and has done well ever since. Anyone who says it’s not a winning form of economy has no idea why it works, or how an economy works.
 
We built our work from the ground up. If there’s anything we can learn from our ancestors, besides EVERY DAMN THING WE HAVE, it is that sometimes you need to do something for someone else, or yourself, without expecting returns.

@SeraphimDawn  
I’ve tried to build cities in the traditional matter and there was no more money left.
 
Do you know what you get?  
You get the wrong neighborhood.

@iamli3  
Destiny? :P
 
Honestly. Ponyville in this picture reminds me of any little start up towns from the SimCity-esque indie game, Banished.

the colors are soft yet bold , i like , and good landscape details c: ……
 
@SeraphimDawn  
ok how do we keep ending up on the same images like this always when i come on this site?….