Equestria Girls By WizardWannabe Watch

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Started this ages ago, was supposed to just be a sketch. Then I kept halfway cleaning it up and putting it off and am having a hell of an art block but wanted to finish this before the damn movie comes out so here it is: Equestria Girls as they should be. Or, at least, an attempt at it. Tried to sort of keep it on style but I've never been much good at that.

I know not everyone will agree with my choices here but whatever.

And I totally acknowledge how ridiculous that design for Pinkie would be to animate in Flash.

Dash is shortest cause it's funny, and her personality makes me think of a bullet, with thick strong legs for running.

AJ is uninspired, but gave her a bit of weight, cause Granny once mentioned her appetite, plus she has muscle under there too.

Fluttershy... kinda based on her awkward gangly phase, perfect for high school.

Twilight. Look, I get why everyone draws her in a school uniform, and as a teenager in high school, makes even more sense. But... I don't like it. Maybe cause here in the UK most schools have uniforms, and no one I know liked wearing them, including me. So, I wanted her to wear something else. And I thought this sweater thing had a Velma kind of vibe. Kept the school skirt and shoes though, cause the uniform does make sense, from a design standpoint, student that she is.

Rarity. I am terrible at fashion. So I had to resort to ripping off an outfit I found on google. Even though she's a teen here, I imagine she'd dress older, dress nicer than her parents tacky clothing. Wanted something that had looked like the diligent character she becomes/is.

Pinkie dresses like a five year old who has been allowed to dress herself. Braces, cause why not. Chunky, cause doing everything she does in a body that shouldn't be able to (even more than breaking physics) is better. Plus, diversifies the silhouettes.

None of these are perfect. But I definitely think these are better than what we got.



Regardless, the character design in the film coming out is awful, in the same way that other cartoons for pre/teenage girls are. Identical stick thin bodies, completely ignoring good character design. I get that identical rigs in Flash saves time, and with ponies it's easier to get away with. But EQG is a film, Hasbro should have put in the effort, and besides, with human characters it's much more noticeable.

Until we see it, we cannot truly comment on the writing, hell, maybe it'll be good! Maybe it will subvert the high school cliches and stereotypes everyone assumed thanks to the trailer. We don't know yet. But we can judge the character design, that won't change now.

Seriously, what is it about cartoons for teenage girls, that forces the people involved to create such vapid designs? Cartoons are more than just entertainment sometimes. They can have an impact. And having 5/6 characters, all stick thin, is not a good idea. Ugh. I just get the feeling these decisions are made by suited old men who don't have a creative bone in their body. The only thing marketed to pre/teen girls sells because it's all they get, and the suits use that as evidence to make more of only that (not even going into the input from other forms of media).

Meanwhile the artists at DHX are forced to draw the characters like that despite all of them being able to design way better.

But then, the designs probably came from Hasbro's toy designers, who evidently, don't put in as much effort as the transformers department. I suspect the girls department isn't as well funded. So, one mold for all characters, filters down to the character design, everything sucks grumpycat.jpeg.



Ok, that's the rant I've been holding in since EQG was announced.

I'm gonna disappear again until I can chip away this block on my back and I can draw again.

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Published : Jun 5, 2013