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No. 102241
>>102203
I love giving concrit!
Starting at the top: your head pattern looks really good overall, although you might try shortening to snout a bit. At least from this angle, it seems slightly too protrude-y. You might also want to make the eyes smaller, but that's stylistic mostly.
Your body is almost perfect in my opinion. I think you could stand to taper the legs a bit more instead of having them be mostly the same thickness all the way. Especially the back legs, they need to start out a little skinnier and get a little fatter at the hoof. It also KINDA looks like you made the pattern so they'd angle themselves forward, although the picture makes it hard to tell. You might want to straighten them out a little so she can stand better (if I'm wrong about that, carry on xD)
The wings are PERFECT. I wish I knew how people get them so smooth because mine never are ;_; if you want to be a little adventurous you could try making the second, smaller wing layer separate from the main wings and then sew them together, but I've never tried that so I don't even know how well it works or how hard it is :x
Your butt, at least in the picture, seems a little bit lumpy. This is a pretty common problem, and usually the fix for it is to play around with making the butt-gusset longer and the shape of the butt itself flatter.
The tail probably needs the most work. If you're not already, ALWAYS snip off the tips of your points and cut down to the seam on the dips (I KNOW there's a cute sewing term for this, but I can't remember it). Also, it kinda looks like you didn't stuff it as full as you can, and you should always do that with tails unless they need to be unstuffed to work (like Rarity's)
Also: not quite related to the plushie itself, but a good tip for selling anything online, get a good backdrop! There's nothing WRONG with a sheet or something like that, but it's not the best by a long shot. Color is great and makes things far more eye-catching (the gray on gray in your Derpy pictures kind of blends together), and if it's smooth even better, because wrinkles and stuff can be pretty distracting. I just stand my plushies up on a stool and take pictures against my living room wall (which is lavender), and I've actually found a really great improvement in who looks at them, on both dA and ebay. So as small as it might seem, the backdrop really does make a huge difference. Also, always take pictures with natural light, it helps get sharper pictures and shows the colors more accurately :>
Werp, hopefully that helped. Your Derpy is pretty great, actually looking at the pattern critically, but your pictures kind of take away from that. I figure your camera isn't too great, but try to play around with it and see what happens, sometimes it turns out you just have the settings horribly wrong or something XD
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