to think that someone actually paid money for this

BlackLicorice said:
to think that someone actually paid money for this

I noticed that this has gotten a lot of downvotes, why do you dislike it? (I'm the artist)

RaysOfSunshine said:
I noticed that this has gotten a lot of downvotes, why do you dislike it? (I'm the artist)

Well! ...

... it's hard to say. Also, I accidentally pressed "comment" right away there, and this might take long and I don't know how long e621 lets you edit posts for, so I'll put my actual critique in a new comment.

So!

I'm not an artist, and I haven't critiqued a lot of artists, and I've found that people who have practice with those sorts of things have a *lot* of insights that I can't come close to noticing on my own. What I'm going to say is mostly long-shot guesses that might be arbitrarily far from being actually correct.

This picture seems to be... inconsistent about its level of description? If that makes sense. Like, take those teeth. On the one hand, they're just a row of vaguely-rectangley arcs, on the other hand, they're shaded. I see plenty of realistic teeth on e621 and I like them, and I see plenty of teeth so toony that they're literally just a white arc, and I like those, too. And I like a lot of teeth that are somewhere in between. But this guy's teeth just don't make sense to me. They remind me of baleen.

The floating eyebrows also kinda don't really sit well with me. Although it might just be that I don't see that style very often.

Anatomy-wise, well, this is again something that someone who actually draws might actually be able to say something meaningful about. All that I can say is that for whatever reason, this doesn't look like a pony to me, it looks somehow dog-like. I think maybe the hind leg connects to the body wrong? As in, it should keep thickening toward the body, so there's room for... *checks google for anatomy*... the lateral femoral fascia?

I wish I could help you more, because I think I *could* like your work, but right now I don't and I'm having a hell of a time trying to put into words why. But there's probably plenty of places where you could ask for advice from people who actually do know how art works, so maybe you could try somewhere like thta.