May I request w/o panties version? Just link, no need to post it there.

@OneAmongOthers  
I expect the eyes to be at the front of the head, I tried moving the eye back, though. You may have a point with panties, I didn’t know how to bend the texture yet.
 
Thanks for the comments!

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X.x that uncanny valley

Well, as a lot of people said before, the panties still look less like she’s wearing them and more like they were pasted on her ass.

@Background Pony #6B9B  
It was the only horse photo that I found here. I put it in Gimp and copied the texture with clone tool. Then I kept adding details for a long time.

this is weird photoshop, i identify the photo it was used for this fiasco

“untooned”
 
not
 
“detooned”
 
get on my level

idk If i would want to be in the same room. This must be what its like for a pony to see a human in irl form because im scared by it.

@Background Pony #BE39  
Oh so you use Photoshop? Please visit this art thread I just made: link
 
Thank you for the advice, I always try to follow advices. I don’t give this image much time nowadays but I will get there one day. I already moved the eye around and honestly fail to see the “baby face” effect that you mention. If you can then please send me your edit.

I really like how you’ve done her hair! The panties do seem flat, but some simple shading should put them at the same depth as your character.
 
If I could only suggest one change, it would be to move the eye further back from the nose- a the straight line made using the axis of the horn should point straight out from her eye.
 
You’ve scaled the eye smaller for your style (which is fine) but rather than centre it where it would have been originally, it’s been moved forwards towards the nose and gives a very “baby-human” uncanny appearance for me. I did a quick & dirty edit in photoshop, and the eye moved backwards gives her a more “adult” facial configuration.

I see what you did there.

@5hyflutter  
I agree with you and vectors, for the most part. There are some, what I would call “properly shaded” vectors around, but they are difficult to come by because they take so much more effort to make.
 
Consider the following that I made  

 
And a lot of people a lot better than me willing to put in the time…  
All made in inkscape
 
So really all it comes down to is the amount of effort put in to make it look more realistic with more details. I agree with you because show style vectors are easier to make and animate than something with more details. I guess thats why I commented on this image to begin with, because I appreciate the more complicated stuff even if its not “aesthetically nice”… if that makes any sense.

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@OneAmongOthers
 
Very good point about her lip colour. Will most certainly be worked on.
 
The design of panties you present is reasonable but it would probably look bad if Rarity had only a nearly-vertical strip of material on her plot. I like it a lot how it looks now. I’ll start from transforming the strips. I don’t completely understand why you agree that panties look artificial. There is blur, over-colour and shading on it, similar sharpness to body layer, some transformation too. I might transform them more to look less 2D.
 
I am happy that you approve of my imagining of Rarity. Please keep throwing in any further feedback you might have about it. Needn’t be explained in such detail.
 
 
@tiwake
 
It’s funny since while everyone complains about drawings being realistic, I am completely put off by most vectors. They look like stickers for children.
 
I wish some artists would finally acknowledge the photorealistic style. Caboni’s Fluttershy is obviously a better creation than Rarity here, but it does not convey such life-like impression.
 
@PinkiePieSwear
 
Sexy AND beautiful! Thanks.

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@Background Pony #B1C2
 
Every once in a while I see a ‘realistic’ pony pop up on derpibooru, and most of the time it looks kind of horrifying. This is my first time to comment on such a thing.
 
Its not really fair to compare the shading I did with what you do cause I pretty much exclusivly work with vectors. How you try to fix shading will be quite different between vectors and rasters. I only mentioned it because when trying to ‘get it right’ I have been through various amounts of dirty looking shading effects. I guess the only thing that pops into mind is ‘make the shading softer’, its been a bit over a year when I made my chrysalis so memories of making her are fuzzy.

I can definitely see how the bottom part of the panties could be seen as “glued on”.
 
Other than that, excellent job! Definitely a pretty pony!
 
Pretty sexy <3

@tiwake  
Thank you kindly, tiwake. This is a superb and useful feedback.
 
I’ll try to widen the horn at the base and make it look more solid and consistent with the rest.
 
I’ll try to make shading less dirty and more sharp all the same. How did you eventually handle the problem in your case?
 
I’ll add dock borders more above and reduce brown spot above it.
 
May I ask where else you saw “super realistic” pony?
 
 
@Background Pony #BE8B
 
Thank you also. I’m glad that you can appreciate the picture even if lips put you off. Would be strange without lips, though.
 
The sketch by Stradivarius was more a profile view, I deliberately made her turn her face towards the viewer. The eye is intended to be put in more perpendicular perspective to the nose rather than be set on the side. It’s more visible in the other version where she’s looking to the right, embarrassed.

Keep in mind, I grew up on a dairy farm (raricow… lol) so I am using my own experience with farm animals as a reference for the following.
 
The hair “grain” on the butt looks smooth and goes the right direction, the ears, eyes and nose look pretty good too. The horn looks like a bunch of snowmen stacked together… Normally a horn is the thickest at the very base of it, where it attaches to the skull, yours looks like it is pretty frail and not necessarily ‘as one’ with the skull. A spiral or two down the length of the horn with a more normal taper would help in that regard.
 
Shading on the neck makes it look a bit dirty, same with her front right leg/hoof. All I can say here is that shading is difficult, having done some shading a bit myself, without it tending to look ‘dirty’. Now that I’m looking at it slightly more, I think its the same problem with the lips. Shading is hard because the way the eye preceives things IRL is such that the eye dynamically sets the amout of light to be processed by the brain. Trying to recreate this on a 2D screen is rather difficult :3
 
I think the only other thing is the brown spot around the poo-hole should include part of the tail dock, up against the base of it, and not above.
 
I hope this does not sound too harsh, only what I see when ‘super realistic’ is thrown around.

It feels like her muzzle is turned more towards the camera than the rest of her face (i.e at that angle you would see a bit of her left eye and her right eye would be a bit further back on the head). Alternatively, you could move the right nostril forward and make it more of a profile view.
 
As OneAmongOthers mentioned, you might want to do some more editing work on the panties to make it seem less ‘pasted on’.
 
I’ll admit I don’t find the particular style as ‘pretty’ as you probably intended (I find horses with defined lips surprisingly unsettling), but it is interesting.

@OneAmongOthers  
Thank you for the comment.