Humanizations are a wonderful answer for when you don't want to draw the pony form. Thank you.

Something I want to note in particular about this picture - her legs are overly long, but it actually fits very, very well. Just look at those huge legs on her pony form. So it is no mistake.

I see you experimented with the leg positions, based on all the warping and the not-fully-erased leg ghosts. This position works better. And the position ghosts make me think of illusion magic, which fits Chrysalis only too well. And I actually like that stylistic difference between the highly detailed background (which is freaking awesome, I must say) and the different detail levels on the foreground and Chrysalis herself. Makes it feel like its own art style, which is very nice.