I love the Fluttershy up there.

Correct. You neglected the necessity of cleaning various bits from time to time.

@Background Pony  
I dunno. So long as they still have the same personality and behavioral traits it doesn’t matter much what they look like.

Lurker Pony
 
My issue is that I don’t think it’s important to make them any more realistic than the show does (appropriate amount of horse and anthro, balanced).
 
That goes for horse dicks too!
 
This is just a bit too close to bestiality for my tastes.

Background Pony  
If you don’t think the guide is necessary, then just don’t use it…?
 
I mean the artist that drew this said this in its description, “everybody has their own way of drawing their ponies and that’s okay!”
 
Thank you for the concern nonetheless.

You don’t fuck around, CL, that’s what I like about ya.

That’s all well and good.  
But making ponies too “lifelike” has its own set of drawbacks; there’s a tendency for them to start looking like dogs in terms of the barrel/leg shape compared to the head size. This makes them look too much like talking pets which is more disturbing/depraved in a rule 34 context.
 
The show’s style anthro’d them in a unique way to avoid this look; the leg shapes flare and are thicker than they need to be, the torso and thighs are “fatter” which make them more humanoid (both of these changes make it possible to make them cartoon-bipedal at times without it looking impossible).
 
So do the genetalia need to be so accurate? And I’m pretty sure they don’t go into heat (based on observed family units).
 
Although crotchtit advise is sound, they are quadrupeds, and it would be weird otherwise.

cough I may have… given her the ‘look up references’ advice when she was having issues with flutterpenis coloring.

I used to ride, so I got plenty of views of horse genitals while doing circles in the show ring, toweling down my horse, etc. It’s jarring to me when they don’t have horse genitals, like I’m seeing them after they’ve been mutilated.

The more you know~

The first time I saw a cartoolion´s draw with anatomically correct pony genitalia, I thought “this can be real, soon or later this shit will fade away”.
 
Now I’m a little more enlightened about the marvelous capacity of adaptation of the human mind.

@JohnSamer
 
Nothing to be perturbed about there, Mr Samer; equine bits are quite the glorious site to behold.

i am disturbed by the fact i already knew what horse genitalia looks like before the pony fandom.

This has been a pubic service announcement from CartoonLion.

Gotta have a bit unusual mindset to do these things nicely. I wonder what kind of person CL is..

Such neat handwriting.

“let’s look close at the nether regions”
 
Well, if you insist.

I like to imagine CartoonLion looking at pictures of horse vaginas while sketching pony porn on her tablet.

If I met CartoonLion I would give her the most ackward “Thank you for teaching me how to draw horse vaginas” hug ever.

Thanks CartoonLion…this should be helpful when I start drawing…IF I start drawing.
 
Also
 
CHESTICLES

Eh, I don’t care much right now (since I’m not drawing this stuff yet) but this was rather funny and pretty educational.