general What is your opinion on (fanmade) humanized MLP designs? (Not meaning EG!)

[lylth 47]

I've seen a lot of humanized MLP designs floating around especially on Youtube and Instagram, what are yalls personal thoughts on these designs? Do you prefer ponies/canon over these artworks, or do you enjoy both?

[Nightfall Gloam 18,267]

I like fan made, humanized MLP stuff from time to time. I've even drawn a humanized pic of the pony on my profile picture, but do want to redraw it assuming I ever get around to improving on my drawings.

Not sure how much it counts in my case since some of my favourite humanizations still have elements of Equestria Girls (typically clothing and such) in them. I don't really prefer one over the other though, pony and humanized pony fan art both have their place.

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,268]

It could go either way for me.  

 

What do you think @RafaStaryStory?  

[RafaStaryStory 3,529]

1 hour ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

What do you think @RafaStaryStory?  

I prefer the official designs, first because they are the most iconic for me, second, they don't try to deviate too much from the Pony designs, they try to be as similar as possible to the original pony versions. But I like fanmade human designs too, but it depends on how these designs are conceptualized, a lot of them like to deviate too much from the original pony designs and that's fine, but I prefer something more simple, more accurate to the ponies, designs that don't try to be too "special", but rather something more "casual", it's hard to understand what I really mean by that, but I think these arts can show a perfect of example of it, I feel that Fluttershy specially constantly has fanmade human designs that follow the pattern I like ~☆ Artist names with links below the images.

     

                                                              mauroz                                                                       bonnybel                                                     kigidere                                                       ebina 

     

                                 himo                                                  emia wang                                            dollymochi                                                                                     lamidien

Edited yesterday at 04:35 AM by RafaStaryStory

[SharpWit 2,733]

It depends. Generally I don't care. Some designs are better than others. There were some weird arguments at some point that I won't go into, but I think some people got more defensive than usual for any criticism in this category, because as persons they made the designs a lot more personal?

At the end of the day, I'm happy to see people making art.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,854]

I’ve honestly never been a huge fan of turning cartoon animals/characters (think SpongeBob for a non-pony example) into full humans. I feel like it kinda strips away some of the uniqueness those characters and their designs had. Obviously I have no problem with folks making their own human designs, but it just isn’t my thing. 

[Xada 441]

Outside of like one exception, i am not a fan at all. I think it defeats the point.