Hey everyone! I'm working on a little project involving all the different official pony art styles, and I've come across a bit of a problem: there are a lot.
Some of them are so similar that I wonder if they should even count as a separate art style. Like, is the G2 box art different enough from the G2 comics to be considered different? What about the g3 box art and the early g3 specials? All the different styles used in G1? Should the g3 pixel art video games count?!
Here's my list so far. What do people think? Any art styles that I'm forgetting or that should be combined into one?
And what are people's favourites? I've recently become fond of the g4 manga style, it's just so cute!
Early G1 box art
Mid G1 box art (similar to early box art but a bit smoother and more refined)
Later G1 box art (Family Friends, Hair-Do ponies, etc.)
Early G1 commercials (and colouring books?) (Like
thisOther early G1 commercials [Like
this)
G1 specials (Midnight Castle and Katrina)
G1 Friends
G1 Tales
G1 Retro Vectors
G1 UK comics
G1 Italian Comics
G2
G2 but with smooth shading? (Friendship Gardens cover and some merch)
G3 box art and later specials
G3 early specials
G3 flash games??
G3.5
G4
Wonky early g4 vectors
G4 Movie
Pony Life/G4.5
G4 comics (difficult because there are so many artists)
G4 manga
G4 Tomodachi wa Mahou
Pointy G4
G5 3D
G5 2D
G5 Tell Your Tale
G5 Intro with the Mane 6
and an honourable mention to:
Every single art style they went through in G5 concept art