This was originally drawn for the 2023 Newbie Artist Training Grounds.

Day 4: Draw a pony with a secret mission / Draw a pony being sly as a fox.

FiM gave us quite a few examples of ponies being sly, sneaky, or taking part in a stealthy mission: ‘hoodie ninja’ Rainbow Dash from Read It and Weep, Twilight, Pinkie, and Spike sneaking into the Canterlot Archives in It’s About Time, Fluttershy’s dangerous mission outfit from Magic Duel and Sparkle’s Seven, etc. However, the G5 movie made a running gag of how sneaky some of the Mane 5 were, with Zipp being pretty sneaky, and Izzy only being medium sneaky.

Then, in the Tell Your Tale episode, Sneaksy Strikes Again, we were introduced to Izzy’s nighttime street artist alter-ego, Sneaksy, who stalks the streets of Maretime Bay at night and leaves behind colorful and extravagant works of art. I decided to run with that for this prompt, as Sneaksy closes in on her latest street art canvas: an unadorned and otherwise commonplace brick wall. Maximum sneaky! Or, Maximum Sneaksy. =P