my only complaint is that rarity’s hair clashes with her skin

love the fluttershy!

Cute expressions! Rarity’s is my favorite.

Bronies Gonna Brone.

As for criticism -
 
Rarity’s hair kinda clashes with her skin color. It’s a nice design, and there’s no problem with her being black, but perhaps the hair should be lighter, or her skin? The piercing above the lip is a nice touch, though.
 
No complaints on Pinkie.
 
I can’t put my finger on it, but something’s off with Applejack’s nose to me. Lovely color in her eyes, though.
 
Rainbow Dash, I’m having trouble seeing. I don’t know how to say it other than that I don’t see her as someone with a bunch of piercings. But that’s just me.
 
I don’t really like the half shaved look on Flutters. I guess that it does correlate with her pony look, but I still don’t think it works. As with Rarity, perhaps you should lighten Flutter’s hair too? The problem isn’t the skin, it’s just making the hair look better with the skin.
 
Twilight appears to be Indian - I think that ethnicity really works with her. But her face shape doesn’t really work here. I get that you don’t want all of them to be “feminine shaped” as shown by your comments, and that’s okay, but perhaps make her face a little smaller, round it a bit?
 
I love your art style, and after all the shit pulled in the comment section, well, you deserve some honest opinions.

@Background Pony #5471
 
Hey, Miss Artist. A word of advice.
 
If Deserter ever posts on your art? Ignore him. His opinions don’t reflect the site’s as a whole, and as you can see by the comments, he has bit of a history for pulling crap like this. Please don’t let this incident think badly of us: as you can see, the mods crack down on this type of behavior.

@The Frowning Pony  
Yo site yo rules.  
I still think you doin the artist a disservice.

@Lord Niggertron  
Listen, you wanna be an asshole, be it elsewhere. Turns out being an asshole is kind of not a thing we allow here.
 
And fucking drop the insults. I don’t care if they’re “how you talk” or whatever. Rules are rules, and you aren’t above them.

@Lord Niggertron  
Buddy, fuck you. Your criticism was “it’s shit”, some racist expletives and an photo of a seal.
 
You want to give criticism to artists, you best start talking like a person and not a retarded caricature.

@onepinksheep  
Now hold up. Is we no longer allowed to post criticisms of art if they seem offensive? How is artists supposed to get better if all they ever see is “good job”?  
Don’t get Niggertron wrong: he made a name for hisself outta bein an asshole. Nasty as I be tho, I ain’t half as bad as a real-life art critic.
 
If the artist were to see this and look at all the This comment has been deleted by a moderator comments, she gon assume that the downvotes is cuz bronies is racist, and not because the color composition need work or the stylistic choices is questionable.
 
tl;dr sterilizing this comment section ain’t do nobody any good.

I don’t quite get the half-shaved head look people put on Rare or Shy. And sometimes, Dash.
 
I mean, if it’s trying to emulate the pony more, I get that, but it never ceases to look odd on a human.

Really happy to see the mods cracking down more on racism.
 
REALLY happy to see more of the Mane 6 humanized as something other than Barbie dolls with “perfect” chalk complections.
 
There’s more than one kind of beauty in this world and it’s just damned sad how much of it people miss out on by being narrow-minded bigots.

@Deserter  
And now that’s your fifth ban for the same damn reason. Change your attitude, because we certainly aren’t going to change moderation policy for you.

@Deserter  
He said he was the lenient one.  
He told you to shut up.  
Your “critique” and the entire “discussion” surrounding it was, to put it lightly, bullshit.
 
And I’m going to introduce you to what “mod power abuse” is, first hand.

@onepinksheep  
Oh yeah, sure, abuse your mod powers, that’s fine by me.  
You could of deleted the discussion, not the critique itself, you know?

@Deserter  
Maybe not overtly, but the tone sure as hell wasn’t friendly. I’d rather delete it than leave it around to potentially stir up further trouble. Just be glad I’m leaving it at that.

@onepinksheep  
Hey! I didn’t write anything offensive on my first comment, what the hell?

“Criticism is not a free-pass to be a fucking asshole.”  
^ This. Very much this. I can understand not liking a particular art style – we all have our preferences – but it’s no excuse to go start flinging out insults because of it. If you ever feel the urge to insult an artist for their art, then pass on. Don’t comment. Don’t do anything. Just go.
 
I’m going to go clean this thread now. I’m a lot more lenient than most, so this will be your last and only warning. You better fucking hope I’m the only one you have to deal with because I doubt the others would be as kind.

Criticism? I think you mean being big babies. Half of you are attempting to pass off childish, whiny comments about how your ponies don’t look like your headcanons as criticism and it’s quite sad. That large critique post I would’ve let slide if it weren’t for the little “0/10 go back to art-kindergarten” at the end. Criticism is not a free-pass to be a fucking asshole.

My bf and I head canon rarity as a bit darker and more longer luxious hair, and same with fluttershy, not as reddish and with longer hair and AJ as darker like a nice deep tan, but really lovely and nice!

I personally don’t agree with all of these, seeing as I have some of my own personal headcanon looks for each of them, but it’s such a relief to see some other versions of the mane six other than a bunch of skinny white girls. This fandom needs a lot more diversity in it’s humanizations. Good job artist! You’re awesome for this!

Also I’m a girl and I’ve attended art/design schools for most of my life. Get your weak shit out of here