Quoting my brother, faces and manes are tough to translate from the 2D ponies, into his medium (sculpting). Manes because the show's tendency to simply flip a design 180 degrees, making an "other side" very hard to come up with. (resulting in both fudging something more reasonable, and well, frankly guessing)
I wish you luck my friend! The joys of my last doodles have taught me, sometimes you need to just try and say "fuck this, I can do it THIS way" and make it your own!
Whatever the result, please share. I am always curious to see other's work here (or on DA too)
Hehe, it's hard. When I finish, or quit (what come first) I will share here.