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Dessa

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  1. You've got a knack for manes. Those little intricate curves and lines tend to trip most folks up when it comes to pixels, but you seem to get the picture.

    The 2 things I notice here

    1. Fluttershy has no wings.

    2. Dashie's wings are a bit busy. You might try working more with the contours and less with the inner lines here, or using suggestive lines. Some great examples of way to handle fidgety little details WITHIN a contour can be found in the pokemon games. I learned a TON by studying those sprites.

  2. I know we have a couple good pixel artists here who may be able to give good advice or critique. Dessa is one I know of for sure.

    And it looks like the basic technique is there. I can see where some deliberate choices were made to keep the lines clean, like sticking to 1:1 and 2:1 angles on the horn. Cleanliness is the strong point on these. Where they could improve, I'd say, is the general shape of the pony itself, which people havebeen pointing out. The limbs seem a touch thick, and the nose seems a bit too round and downturned. Find a good side reference and compare.

    Twi's forelocks look pretty good. The tail's overall shape is good, but its color streak curves differently from the tail, which makes it appear flatter than it could.

    The chest up front might stand to have some more volume, and as much as a straight line looks good on the pixel level, the belly beneath should have some curve. I find on organic forms, straight lines are TOO clean.

    The horn, to me, is the thing that seems most off. Perhaps if you use a 2:1 line on the underside and a 1:1 on the top side (essentially, flipping it on the diagonal axis), it would seem more right. As it is now, it pokes a bit too FORWARD when it should be poking more UPWARD.

    The Cutie Mark is nice and representational, as it should be. I agree with the choice of making it bigger in proportion here. The difficulty here is that Twi's colors don't quite contrast enough to make all of the details clear. Contrast is very important in pixel art. Try cheating the colors a bit. Experiment with pulling some saturation from the pink star, or giving it more. Brightness might do the trick too. Remember that pixels are about playing impressions upon the eye, not about strict adherence to color or form. As long as the colors are close enough, peoples' brains will tend to push them toward the familiar. Recognizable is as good as accurate in many cases.

    Finally, her lower eyelashes. Given the potency of pure black as a color, those 3 dots tend to pull toward each other and look more like one long diagonal rather than 3 seperate forms. Eyelashes tend to give me trouble too, but usually there's a solution. you might try spacing the lashes a bit more (which may not be accurate to twilight's FORM but gives a better IMPRESSION), or you might try adding some midtone (between black and lavender) dots between the eyelashes and the eye to pull that line toward the eye. The simplest solution would be to just give her 2 eyelashes instead of 3, but I think 3 should be possible with enough tinkering.

  3. I really like Scoot's mane!

    TO me, it looks like Sweetie Belle has come up with another crackpot idea, and Apple Bloom is shrugging and looking up like "Oy vey!" Scootaloo looks similarly hesitant, but being more adventurous than AB, has to consider it.

    Whatever it is, they should do it, because Sweetie Belle is best CMC.

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