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This is quite nice! If you want the falling petals to be more prominent in the composition, you might want to make them a bit bigger and have them come in front of Applejack's mane. All in all, I like this piece, especially AJ's expression.

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I love this so much. Applejack looks like she just got done tellin' one of the trees how pretty they look.

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I wouldn't call it a wash. I like it very much. However, after reading your description of it, and going back and looking at it again, focusing on the blossoms and the petals, I'd suggest, if drawing it again, to have the falling petals not just be scattered, but instead make a spray of them, that makes it obvious that they're being blown on the wind in the same way AJ's mane is ... or perhaps just a tiny swirl of lines indicating the wind that's blowing them. Something to indicate movement.

Thanks everypony! Tiny swirl lines might have done the trick. I redid the blowing petals 3 times before I ran out of time. Part of the problem was that the whole thing needed to be made out of vectors, no raster segments allowed. I did make a spray brush to randomly paint dots in places where I was going to place the petals though.