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SniffingSharpieInk [2018-12-02 20:05:46 +0000 UTC]

I don't want to come across as pretentious, I just feel like commenting on this piece. I just discovered your gallery, and I like the surreal style you have brought to many of your works. I think some of my favorites are "A book", "They always watching", "Offer", and "Muzzle of the magician". 
The detail you put into her mane is beautiful. You put a lot of effort into shading and lighting in order to make it look real and I think your efforts payed off. I think that you were mostly playing with lighting when making this drawing. How did you achieve the value change from the light area on the left and upper left of the page to the purple on the right and bottom of the page? At first I thought you shined a colored light on the page and took a photograph of the drawing, but now that I'm looking at it more closely it looks like you used colored pencil or something similar (maybe watercolor? if you used this you have incredible control over your brush, the value change is amazing - no smudges anywhere). Whatever you did, it produced a really cool effect. 
I like how with this drawing you went for a more equine-esque body but still kept a my little pony face. It's interesting - neither good nor bad, just interesting. Usually I see artists go to either end of the extreme - equine bodies and heads with colorful coats or straightforward (television-style) my little ponies. This is cool.
If you want any constructive criticism, I have two things to point out: (1) in terms of perspective, it might be cool to have her horn point a bit more straight-forward. Imagining her standing up in a profile perspective with her current horn, her horn would look like its pointing upwards near a ninety degree angle. (2) Making the hindlegs a bit shorter might be a good move. Imagining her with her current build, once again, in a profile perspective, it might look like her hind legs are pushing up her haunches, sloping far down to her chest. The only way I can tell this is that her hind legs are longer than her forelegs (from the current view). 
The attention to lighting, once again, is fantastic. I like how you added a little, much darker shadow (in contrast to the shading on her coat and mane) in front of her hooves on the floor. In comparison to some of your other works, this one (because of the perspective, but also because of the attention to detail) really looks like the pony is about to jump out at you, like, out of some surreal portal between dimensions. I'm excited to see where you go with your art. Awesome stuff.
   

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DevField [2018-11-26 10:42:23 +0000 UTC]

Very nice.

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