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He probably just over-simplifies the legs. Personally, I find pony legs pretty hard to draw too, so I can understand him a bit, I guess seeing how I can only draw cartoonishly. (Though, my art’s probably worse. lol)
 
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You’re a tumor. j/k
 
I like both images.
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No, see, the thing is, I like his style too. It’s cute.
 
What I take issue with is people defending obvious anatomical issues as “style”, when it’s clearly a lack of understanding of how things work, or minimising the fact that he’s ignoring official character sheets and either substituting his own designs or pulling up the first thing he finds on a google image search.
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@Beau Skunky  
It’s like somebody drew heaven and then someone tried to copy it and ended up drawing a tumor.
 
The bottom image is what this should have looked like and not mutated teletubbies wearing gold.
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Plot twist!
 
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Call me a “heretic” too then. :P  
Or maybe I’m just a “hipster brony.” lulz
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I like Fosgitt’s art style
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Comments like these make it hard for me to be neutral on the subject…
 
I thought we were discussing the uncanny similarities of these pics, rather then whether Fosgitt is a “good/bad” artist?
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I’m not sure you can get more personal than attacking somebody’s art. But I often forget common sense isn’t very common anymore. Anyway, I’ve said my bit. I’ll just let the mob go on without me.
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Maybe I am, but regardless I do see some take it too far. I actually saw somebody say they wanted him dead before somewherea year or so back…  
People saying he doesn’t care about the series & his work, and such is basically kinda attacking him personally is all I’m saying. They can’t read his mind, so it’s just baseless judgements. Some comments below are even being rather passive-aggressive, and such.
 
Regardless, I admit I am a li’l disapointed in him by the above image incident, and I don’t consider him perfect by any means, but I think some are blowing this out of proportion a li’l, or just trying to paint him as the worst pony artist ever for any reason they can find whether their critique has a point, or not. (Which is kinda getting old seeing people on BOTH sides fighting over him.)
 
I dunno, I guess it is a li’l disheartening seeing almost nothing, but ire for a pony artist I actually like. Maybe I have a li’l bias too, but at least I can admit he’s not perfect, and is human, and I’m at least trying to be somewhat neutral, rather then jump on the circlejerk bandwagon.
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This would be awesome
 
But Fosgitt drew it.
 
No mutant potato cats for me.
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@Mason Mouse  
“These are all personal attacks.”
 
…no. No they’re not. Threats of violence or harassing them about their identity is a personal attack. Saying somebody is a lazy or shit artist is not a personal attack. I say this as an artist myself.
 
You need to go outside more.
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I don’t see what the big deal is.
 
It’s just armour guys
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The google result that everyone is saying was Fosgitt’s reference is hosted on an MLP image gallery site that doesn’t credit Equestria-Prevails, doesn’t link to the original, and doesn’t specify that it is fanart. The image itself is close enough to the show style that it could be confused for official designs, and the page has thumbnails showing show screencaps all over the place. I can see how a mistake could have been made.
 
The problem is that IDW - and by extension their artists - have official model sheets to work from. They shouldn’t be resorting to google to find that imagery, they should be using the resources supplied to them.
 
What’s clear is that Fosgitt just finds the first thing on google that looks right and uses that instead. He could have tweaked the official designs for the armour to make them work better (as apparently they are a bit naff), but he didn’t.
 
This is a consistent issue with Fosgitt. He doesn’t care enough to pay attention to the material he’s meant to be working from. He completely ignored the models for the Griffons in previous issues and inserted a bunch of poorly drawn substitutes. The script writer for that comic stopped soliciting for MLP comics after that fiasco and seems much happier working on Littlest Pet Shop for some reason.
 
In short, he’s lazy.
 
Furthermore, he can’t draw legs.
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@DiddyJakal  
“He’s a **** artist, honestly.”  
“Well, you’d honestly think he’d consider it worth it to take just a minute to check and make sure the art he’s ripping off…”  
“…like a good artist would do.”  
“i’m ****** that he was lazy and didn’t care…”
 
These are all personal attacks.
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@Beau Skunky  
“but saying he doesn’t care, and attacking him personally”
 
  1. I’ve seen no evidence of the contrary.
     
  2. I’ve seen no evidence of any personal attacks.
     
    I think you’re taking this whole ordeal way too personally. Just sayin :/
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Yeah, I think it’s kinda unfair to judge him when we don’t really know him. I mean I’m a li’l disapointed in him over this bit too, but it always feels like people are going out of their way to make Fosgitt look bad, just ‘cause many people here dislike his art style.
 
Criticising his art is one thing, but saying he doesn’t care, and attacking him personally when we don’t have all the facts is another.
 
I mean I still see people bitch that he does “bipedal poses,” even though he apparently listened to fan critique and cut down on them. He must care a li’l bit, at least…
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You’re making assumptions about both his motivations and reasoning. Obviously so was I but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. All we really know at this point is there is armor on the ponies that he draws for a company with that company’s permission and the artist that it appears to be like is perfectly fine with this. So really there’s no controversy, is there?
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Because it’s Fosgitt, and some already want to lynch him just for not drawing exactly like the show style, or every other comic artist…  
Seriously, his haters and critics are never going to let this go.
 
@Spinny  
It’d be hard to research if the site he found it on has no mention, or anything of the original artist. Not everyone is an expert hacker who can trace back the orgins of everything they find online.  
As for why he didn’t design armor himself, it’s likely they wanted him to make the “Guardians of Harmony” armor more accurate to the show designs of armor, so he was probably Googling references for pony armor.  
After all, his critics are always complaining about how “show-innacurate” his art is, maybe he wanted to please people like you.
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Yes, a “nice nod”.
 
When Gameloft uses yet another image from a fanartist for their game, we also call that a “nice nod”.
 
I’m not pissed that he copied a fanartist’s design, i’m pissed that he was lazy and didn’t care enough to not check if what he was copying was official or not, and that he’ll not care about this now.
 
These guys are professionals, this is their job. I don’t know of any place where this sort of thing would be acceptable.
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So a professional pony artist gives a nice nod to the fandom and people want to lynch him? This is why we can’t have nice things.
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The google result that everyone is saying was Fosgitt’s reference is hosted on an MLP image gallery site that doesn’t credit Equestria-Prevails, doesn’t link to the original, and doesn’t specify that it is fanart. The image itself is close enough to the show style that it could be confused for official designs, and the page has thumbnails showing show screencaps all over the place. I can see how a mistake could have been made.
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well, on a side note, I hope they keep using your armor designs in the comics :p  
They look nice.
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To be serious for a sec, derivative work is just a wibbly legal area anyways which is why I’ve never taken commissions etc. (Can fan artists even own derivative work?)
 
Anyways, time to draw Twilight in armour
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“let’s get him disgraced and fired over this drama, boys, even though we aren’t copyright-holders”
 
I’ve yet to see that kind of implication, let alone idea, in this thread or even on sites like ED and 4chan. Furthermore, if he was to get fired over this plagiarism (I mean that’s what it is, there’s no getting around it) it would at least be understandable, rather than getting fired over some bogus reason like “his art is terrible” or “lack of research and care” or whatever it is this week. (However correct they may be)  
I’m happy though that Equestria-Prevails is perfectly fine with this and will not be pursuing a lawsuit, that’s a very wise move on his part, otherwise there would just be a lot shitposting and drama that wouldn’t really benefit anybody. To perfectly honest, I’d like there to be less drama in this fanbase.