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AssasinMonkey In reply to juharvey9 [2014-03-05 23:01:16 +0000 UTC]

It feels a lot like you're taking this piece personally and with all respect to you, it seems almost like an entitled statement at times. Your first and final sentence made it look that way primarily. Why would I have to look at other anthro art to get an idea what anthro is?

I look at the definition of it as in anthropomorphising. Which is basically giving human traits to something that is not explicitly human. Which is exactly this. She has traits of humans but isn't one.
There is no reason why I shouldn't be able to just make things like this and in that regard your statements feel extremely subjective almost to the point of bashing.

There is no 1 (better) way of making art and I take that to heart. Exploring and experimenting in all kinds of ways. If I have an idea and want to make I feel like I can just make it and see how it looks like. At that point opinions can be made of course and that's nice to have as it gives me an idea of what others see and think. But I do value it when it's put in a more reasonable way.

I'll go through your paragraphs a bit. Too much detail seems like you mean too much human traits emphasized? In terms of shading and brushwork, only her face is detailed far, especially compared the the rest of her (rough strokes in the hooves)
The horn is there, subjective I can understand it feels small. But the comparison to the show doesn't seem in place. The show should not have to define the size or shape of horns or anything. Making the horn bigger, smaller or even leaving it out entirely should all be possibilities one can choose, an artist can choose.

There's nothing objectively that states she should have hands. Which is already shown by the fact I gave her hooves. Now if you feel she should have hands that's your personal take and opinion on it. so it can be entirely different per person.

Having developed an upright stance does not require anything. In essence you can keep that separate from any hooves requirement. The show has ponies stand up too, although I guess not permanently. But just the fact they can stand up at all should already give enough reason as to why there could be somepony who tries to always stand. Since it's entirely possible (which just about everything is in art) why not?
The entire thing about her breasts includes that. Having breasts does not imply she needs hooves or one or the other. They could move on her forehead in a different universe for all we know.

Perhaps it looks like "forcing" pony on human or human on pony, I guess that's a personal take on it. To me it looks interesting enough to warrant a try.

You seem to state a lot of things as facts which essentially a lot of it is not to the point where it appears as a "bash" of some sort. Your other critique, although showing similarities, did not appear as such. This is how it reads and seems to be written. Perhaps your intention was not to, but that's how it's perceived. Much as I believe most of what you've written is how you as an individual perceived the Rarity I created and it would be nice if one could also put it as such.

Unfortunately because of the way you've written this critique I've been balancing on clicking unfair or fair. In nature it goes into unfair, only considering to click fair so it's shared with the public. Taking that in consideration I've decided this was not objective or even subjectively but reasonably put to warrant that. On that note I've decided to go with unfair because it's not objective (enough)

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nekomaster1000 In reply to unassuminguser [2014-02-07 19:13:52 +0000 UTC]

Indeed ^>^

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