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

[lylth 62]

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 11,398]

It could go either way for me.  

 

What do you think @RafaStaryStory?  

[RafaStaryStory 3,675]

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 March 25 by RafaStaryStory

[SharpWit 2,745]

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 5,872]

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 454]

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

[lylth 62]

On 2025-03-24 at 11:01 PM, Nightfall Gloam said:

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.

That's true! I feel like humanized fanart tends to come from people more outside the general fandom.

I personally like the Bishoujo MLP statues, though!

On 2025-03-24 at 11:22 PM, ZiggWheelsManning said:

It could go either way for me.  

 

What do you think @RafaStaryStory?  

Makes sense

On 2025-03-25 at 12:33 AM, RafaStaryStory said:

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

Oooh I really like these designs! I understand what you mean by more causal, it definitely adds to the charm instead of trying to add so much detail that it kind of takes the shine away from the canon designs!

10 hours ago, Iforgotmybrain said:

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. 

I don't like the human Spongebob designs either XD I asked for opinion on human designs because in FNAF (my, well, "parent" fandom, aka my first one i was into as a child) has a ton of humanization designs, sometimes those artists outnumber canon design ones!! 

8 hours ago, Xada said:

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

That is true

[Fluttershutter 2,579]

A lot of them are really good. A few aren't but mostly fan art is great. I like the Equestria Girls designs mostly but I don't think the designs for Celestia and Luna look really good. Probably some others I'm not remembering.

[OverTheStars 233]

I like seeing everyone's unique ideas of what each character would be like as a human, but I wouldn't say I'm an avid fan of human designs. I especially like when people incorporate headcanons or elements of the pony's personalities into the designs (AJ being muscular/tanned from working on her farm, Twi having eyebags from studying late, Rarity always having a sewing kit or makeup bag for fashion emergencies, etc.).

[Night Sky 275]

Humanization are fine to look at, as novelties. I'm not gonna be an unpleasant ogre about it. But I feel the same way about humanizing the Ponies generally as I feel about Equestria Girls, why? To me it just defeats the whole point. They're ponies. But that's just me, and I enjoy looking at the artwork.