Overall

Vision Vision

Originality Originality

Technique Technique

Impact Impact

Vision - Your description told me of your vision: To want the viewer to entranced by Rarity's eyes. Rarity is my favorite character so I'm obviously biased in this category.________Originality - I've been told that I critique too harshly on this point. This thing about this is that what I say is true: there is very little originality in art. Be it in videogames, Television, Cinema, Painting or Dance: every single artist (conscious or not) draws ideas from another. Every single artist I have ever known does this, of course, including me.A full frontal facial portrait with emphasis on the eyes isn't original no matter how I look at it. Don't take it personally, because it is true. You also see often paired with female cartoon characters a psychedelic kinda background (that or hella grungy or bubbly)That being said, you don't often see it with a look of pastels. Often, you see pictures that I described with an acrylic or spray(with stencils) paint. The use of a pastel kind of texture is original enough to me to warrant 4/5 stars (which is still VERY good)__________Technique - Technique used is very good. Very clean, very clear, with a very nice pastel-like texture. I wouldn't give it 5/5 because:Ears + Mane - In my opinion, ears are one of the hardest parts to draw on a MLP pony because it is coupled with the mane: both usually get drawn together and significantly effects how the other looks.The left ear (her right) LOOKS as though it is cut off (even though it is actually behind her mane) because her mane doesn't have the correct starting position: From this view, you would actually see a starting point come out from the middle of her head, a few mm to the left of her horn. The color of the inside of her curl is way too similar to the outside of her mane so you actually can't see where it (the inside) starts. Here is a picture so you can see what I am talking aboutThe red is where her hairline is in this painting. The green is where it SHOULD be.Also, the right (her left) ear pit looks weird, iunno how to explain.Lower lip : I honestly don't think she needs the lower lip you painted, but no points taken away there.Shoulders : They look human-ish, and I think that takes away from the painting. Not because they look human, but because it doesn't look human enough. They are WAY too narrow. Either broaden the shoulders a little next time, or make them MLP pony shoulders.Your take on her eyes is pretty good, although they absolutely humungous (no points subtracted, that's your own style.)A score of 4.5/5 stars is VERY good still.______Impact - Maybe it's the background, maybe it's because of your style, but I don't feel much impact from your painting. Her eyes just don't enthrall me like you wanted.Since I can't explain WHY the impact was weak to me, I will give it 3.5/5.________My total score: 9/10 Excellent. This piece had an excellent Vision, was more Original than many full-frontal facial portraits that I've seen despite still unoriginal, was very well done in the Technique department, but lacked the Impact that you desired.While this won't go into my favorites, I think that this was a very very good piece and can tell how much effort and love you put into it.