Review—
Prompt relevance: high
Style: pencil sketch
Background: none
Story potential: low
Result: needs work

It’s Thorax, in Crystal Hoof form, or a preliminary sketch of him. The proportions and hairstyle look right, the shaded areas look correct, but the image is unfinished, there are still guide lines visible. This just looks like it just needed more time to be completed.

I had no idea this was Thorax until just now, when I read the above comment. He only looked like that for a small part of one episode, so I forgot. For some reason I kept thinking this was Pom from Them's Fightin Herds...

I feel bad this didn't get any stories based on it, but maybe everyone else had trouble recognizing the character as I did. or they really dislike Thorax

>>Haze
I recognized the character because I obsessively watch any episode with good Cadance content over and over and but nothing immediately sprung to mind upon seeing it. Thorax canonically achieves actualization and acceptance pretty quickly, so I couldn't quite get a grip on why he would pine for this form; and the period that he wore the form was so short that I couldn't think of an in-episode moment to slot in between scenes. Still, nice use of an underused character moment, artist!

Man, can we do a TFH round? That would be great.

All y'all in here jawing about Thorax, and here I was looking at a Crystal Empire-themed title and a picture of a talking ovine, and thinking that this was sharp and subtle commentary on the Empire's known history of racism and sapient slavery [1].

... i should probably go back to sleep. ◑..◐;;

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[1] Cf. Ballad of the Crystal Empire: "They had a petting zoo with tiny ewes."

>>horizon
Those "petting zoo" workers are well-compensated free agents! A sufficiently adorable tiny sheep can write her own ticket in this world!

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND PONIES' RAVENOUS DEMAND FOR SOFT AND FLUFFY ANIMALS TO PET~

(Art) Genre: Lamb

(Art) Thoughts: While I like the expression and pose (not to mention the reference to Thorax's cover ID), I have to ask why this looks more like a lamb than a pony. I can't quite get my brain around it.

Still, this gave us >>Skywriter's comment, so I think we're good here.

(Art Tier): Medium

I’m not canon-savvy enough to grok this, so I won’t cry “Bah!”. This is a preliminary sketch and finishing it would have helped ewe to ram it through a little better. Low-mid tier.