Your opinion- facial hair on OCs

[BlueBrony 388]

What is your opinion on facial hair for OCs? Does your OC have facial hair? If so, what style (full beard, goatee, mustache)?

 

My OC doesn't have facial hair per se, but he does have a different colored muzzle to represent facial hair. It just looks more natural to me than having actual facial hair.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

*I* have a good deal of facial hair, but my OCs do not.  If I ever get around to really doing the whole ponysona thing, they won't have facial hair either.  *Shrugs.*

[Carl Poppa 464]

My characters don't, but I see nothing wrong with it.  I thought about giving mine a goatee, but didn't.  Honestly, characters on the show have facial hair, so I just consider it to be another potential design choice.

[Dreambiscuit 8,066]

It's just like a human being having facial hair; it's just a personal sense of style. Facial hair on a pony is cool too because it's very cartoony. No real pony would have a beard or mustache so it's fun to toonify them with it, like putting clothes or glasses on an animal. In general, whatever works, go ahead with. 

Edited May 2, 2016 by Dreambiscuit

[Kimi Vulpine 219]

It depends. Some look good, some look bad.

It has been done in the show and it looks awesome there, so why not OCs?

[95% Chance 78]

Shamelessly plugging my own OC here because why not.

I find that facial hair as just one way to make an OC that little bit more unique.

(Though it can be a pain to make in Illustrator however.)

 

 

[Gestum 2,493]

In most cases it looks like crap so I wouldn't recommend it unless you are really good at drawing.

[Vlazamal 338]

Facial hair is like a Japanese blowfish. It can be done well, like sunburst, but it's easy to mess up. I don't need to provide an example of bad facial hair OCs, they're likely already ingrained in your head.

Edited September 30, 2016 by Vlazamal