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To download, click the download button to the top-right of the screen. There will be a zip file which contains varying sizes of this image.
Note: *The 150x150 image is simply a scaled up version of the 75x75 version as working that large of a scale for a portrait is a pain in the ass for me.
not quite a fan of the shading... the shadows cast make her facial dimensions seem very wedge-like near the muzzle, and flat under the eye. It also makes the neck look rather blocky.
I had to make the nose more wedge-like if I ever want to make sense of ponies in three dimensions. As for the blockiness, it's either that, no shading, using lots of colors or I could supposedly take a route with plenty of dithering but I don't even wanna imagine how that would turn out.
Well, honestly I think you could pull it off using the colors you currently have. It's not color count that's hurting things here, it's the physical shapes of the shading clusters. I just think they could be defined better; they give a 3-dimensional feeling alright, but the problem is that they give the wrong feeling for a pony's face.