Originally the characters were also supposed to be shaded, but the amount of time put into this drawing was already bordering on the edge of sanity, not to mention I also had to split this drawing across three different PSD files due to SAI’s 255 layer limit being hit multiple times.
Edit: I’ve noticed a couple of bugs that ended up in the finalized picture (missing shadow of one of the pillars, missing cutie mark of Cadance and missing green on Chrysalis’ belly), so they are now corrected.