Commission: Palace Discord (PRINTS AVAILABLE)

Well I critiqued you a bit on AIM so I guess I ought'a put it here too as well as a few things I didn't mention....

I'll start by saying that the background work is really nice and from what I can tell, show accurate. MLP has a very minimal style to it but you did nicely with it, I think.

That said, moving on to the troubles with the unicorns here...
I mentioned over AIM that Leftie had a really long body, and I wish you would of shortened it more then you did in the sketching phase. After looking at it longer, I think the problem is that Leftie's haunches are misplaced. I was wondering why Rightie's legs are placed beneath the armor but Leftie's are sticking out from under them, and I checked this reference image ( [link] ), where their haunches are beneath their armor in a position that hides their flanks. After seeing that, I think the problem with Leftie is that his legs need to be moved under the armor. If they were there, his body would also not appear so long. His left hind leg (The obscured leg) seems out of place as well, and looks like it should be set higher up. The lengths of portions of it appear to be different from the one on the right.

Rightie isn't entirely without issue either, though I hadn't mentioned him over AIM because Leftie looked a fair bit off-er.
There are three main issues with Rightie- in his pose, Rightie appears to be putting weight on his back legs, which, as I know he's -actually- jumping, makes him look more as if he's standing on air. His forelimbs are also positioned quite high up on his body, giving him the appearance of having 'arms'. I know sometimes in the show there are points where the ponies move their forelimbs in ways that are not unlike arms (Rainbow Dash and Pinkie do this the most, I believe), but there are also several instances in the show where the ponies rear up onto their hind limbs and they have proper quadruped forelimb placement. Last thing about Rightie is while you did a very good job mimicking the style of MLP for the faces of the other two, but Rightie's face looks very 'you'- as in, it resembles and follows trends seen in your work rather then that in MLP. For instance, the spacing of the eyes, the positioning and shape of the snout (which conflicts with Leftie's snout shape and suggests a much larger snout more commonly seen in your work), nostril placement, and mouth shape.

I think Q/Discord looks very spot on from what I've seen him. The face is especially good.

I really love the lighting you did as well with the beams, it looks very nice.