#great leap g4ward

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Fair Weather is a perfectly pretty pony with a classic palette. But dear lord her cutie mark—well, its execution—is awful. It'd be one thing if she were an early design, but she was released alongside Bunches-o'-Fun, whose mark is an intricate bouquet. I gave it a good brush-up; I'm not certain if it's perfect, but it's certainly a lot better.

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I wanted to draw Minty for a long time by pledus_artist

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These are grand! Always nice to see a green redesign, there was a tragic lack of green Ponies in G4 overall.

idk what prompted me to draw these horses since i haven't drawn them in like six years

i like designing them more distinct from eachother, i also wanted to add the early concepts of these characters and i'll put the explanations for them under a cut for whoever's curious

twilight: based on the g1 twilight but i decided to change her eye color to amber since i thought it looked more interesting! there's a lot of things i changed from what we know from the beta mane six bc i didn't want the group to be overwhelmed by either pink or purple since that's what a lot of the original coat colors had rarity: based on sparkler who had a couple green and blue versions (but i ended up freestyling a lot of this so she's the most removed from the original here) fluttershy: based on posey, also removed the wings since posey was an earth pony, added a couple freckles since i thought it looked cute pinkie pie: based on surprise, added wings since she's a pegasus rainbow dash: based on firefly, her colors i kept largely the same as well applejack: changed to her g3 version since she's the most unchanged anyway and it would've been boring to keep her the exact same, also changed the cutiemark to a bunch of green apples since the g3 cutiemark was more elaborate and would've looked a bit out of place compared to the others (and a red apple would've gotten lost in the red coat)

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runkpori

cherries jubilee

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SO PRETTY

❄️ Minty 🍭

so excited for my first G4 Minty!!

I spent a good 40 minutes on her alone because that frizz would not die down! Sure, it doesn’t look that bad in the photos, but reboot G4 quality is… something else

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spookberry

According to A Very Minty Christmas i think their ship name should be PinkyMint but the spelling feels so wrong

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MINTAAAAAYYYYY

MINTY!!!!!!!!!!

😣😣💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

I Love her so much!!! She’s my childhood!!!💕💕

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needsmoarg4

Kinda wanted to draw a babe tonight, so here's Desert Blossom, a G3 pony with no real backstory other than loving the sun and being covered in delightful glitter.

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Unfortunately, I missed Annual Explosion Day this year due to streaming, but it looks like our two fireworks masterminds are already plotting next year.

Or a coup. They're pretty similar things.

(PS: Look! It's the two extremes of cutie mark design.)