Today is all about an art game – the task was to create something with a "rainbow". Instantly I knew: It could only be a unicorn with a rainbow-colored mane and tail and a cheetah rider on top, despite the fact that I have no idea about horse anatomy, let alone unicorns, and have never sketched a unicorn, or even a horse.

However, "rainbow" was exactly my cue, because the sketch took barely two hours, and the coloring was finished in the same amount of time, so the whole piece was finished almost exactly twice as fast as the sexy lionesses of yore.

As I said, I have no idea about drawing horses nore dynamic poses; so I looked up countless pictures of jumping horses from all sorts of perspectives and tried to recreate the unicorn by feel. In fact, the front part was almost there right away; only the back, foreshortened part, needed a few more adjustments. The cheetah rider, on the other hand, was way more difficult for me to create, as he was initially way too large, too anthropomorphic, too feral, too stiff at all. At the end of all the sketching, I ended up with a rather dynamic sketch by my standards. Truly, I love everything about it – the cheetah, which seems to be getting out of the "saddle" and urging the unicorn on; the snorting unicorn; the slightly tilted head position as it turns left.

Coloring was a delight. Honestly, I can't remember approaching a piece so naturally. At no point I was worried something might go wrong. The cheetah started first, then came the shadows on the unicorn, followed by the pink, fluffy clouds, which I wanted in exactly that cel-shaded style – at that point I had a grin on my face. Only the blue sky falls back a little. But with the outlines and the swirls added later on, it fits.

Conclusion: I like it. Is the naked cheetah on a unicorn a bit gay? Sure. Do I know what the subject is supposed to symbolize? No. And yet, the drawing made it in my personal top 3 list. I couldn't have done it better today.