Applejack

Drawing without outlines is a rare thing for me to see and I find it tends to be hard to pull off well.

For the shading, some of your previous pieces did it a bit better, namely this one: http://www.canterlot.com/gallery/image/6572-luna-dreamscape-galaxy-mane/

Look around the eyes, the highlights and shadows are a bit much, especially with the smoothing style. I can see what you're going for though and I say keep going at it. Have you tried practicing shading from real life objects? Such as doing still life? I know that sounds rather boring for some, but it can be a big help in learning how light illuminates things from various angles, etc.

You can definitely use some work (I wish I could give you some better pointers, while I did art (mostly 3D) back in the day, it's not my forte.) You're not bad though, and it looks like you have an idea of what you want to do, you just lack the skills to fully realize it. Looking through your art, there's clear improvement as well as experimentation like this piece here. Keep going with it.

Drawing without outlines is a rare thing for me to see and I find it tends to be hard to pull off well.

 

For the shading, some of your previous pieces did it a bit better, namely this one: http://www.canterlot.com/gallery/image/6572-luna-dreamscape-galaxy-mane/

 

Look around the eyes, the highlights and shadows are a bit much, especially with the smoothing style. I can see what you're going for though and I say keep going at it. Have you tried practicing shading from real life objects? Such as doing still life? I know that sounds rather boring for some, but it can be a big help in learning how light illuminates things from various angles, etc.

 

You can definitely use some work (I wish I could give you some better pointers, while I did art (mostly 3D) back in the day, it's not my forte.) You're not bad though, and it looks like you have an idea of what you want to do, you just lack the skills to fully realize it. Looking through your art, there's clear improvement as well as experimentation like this piece here. Keep going with it.

I thank you for taking the time to write all this up! ^.^ Its rare that I get comments.

I was kinda tired while drawing this, and really annoyed as well, so I didnt put as much effort into this drawing as I probably should have. I just finished a drawing of Trixie before reading this, but it should be a little bit better. It was my first time ever using multiply layers, and I was getting a little frustrated with how it was working out, since it wasnt working out too well.....

Thanks for the feedback! ^.^ You made my day!