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Published: 2007-12-29 22:01:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 11103; Favourites: 312; Downloads: 355
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Deep in the stillness
I can hear you speak
You're still an inspiration
Can it be
Forever love
And you are watching over me from up above
~To Where You Are - Josh Groban
This is a secret santa gift for Phantom (~garagebutterfly ) on NSHC-studio.net. It's a 1280X800 wallpaper.
It's a play on her name, as there's a "phantom" horse in the image if you look for it. The painting kind of evolved as I worked on it, and ended up portraying the bittersweet feeling of sensing the presence of a loved one who has died. Josh Groban sings a song that fits this theme perfectly; "To Where You Are".
This is an accomplishment for me as the entire thing (besides the text) is painted with my Wacom in Photoshop, including the background. No photomanipulation whatsoever. A reference was used for the pose of the horse, but the lighting in the reference was way off so I had to improvise and paint it myself. I was pleasantly surprised how well it turned out.
Anyway, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas, Phantom!
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Comments: 81
duude, this is awesome 
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Thanks! I'm glad you could see the Phantom. It's kind of subtle.
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Very beautiful...the 'ghost' horse goes in quite well too!
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Ohhhhhhh Nova, I LOVE it. It is so beautiful and I'm so lucky that I had this done for me! <3 Merry Christmas and happy new year to you too! :hugs:
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You're very welcome, Phantom! I'm thrilled that you like it!
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That's amazing. The panthom horse is really well done and the palomino looks so real and friendly.
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Thanks!
I was actually going for a white horse, but she came out kinda palomino looking, eh? Ah, well. I'm glad you like it!
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Wow, that's amazing. I always look at those pictures with the hidden animals in awe, and yours is no different
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Thanks!
I'm the same way, that's why I wanted to give it a go as well. It was a fun challenge!
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Oh wow this is so pretty. I SEE THE PHANTOM HORSE! I love how you put it in there c; your digital paintings are so amazing *0*
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oh i just realised that one of the mountains is a horse lol
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this is so cool! awsome job! the textures are great, phototshop?
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Yupyup! With a Wacom 4x5" tablet.
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Ohh wow this is just absolutely amazing. The way you did the phantom horse is so creative and spectacular. You always blow me away.
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Wow Nova, that must have been really difficult to paint with the strange lighting and colours and such. Beautiful job, I love this, it's totally unique.
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Oh, wow, amazingly done. At first glance I thought this was a photo-manipulation, absolutely stunning.
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Oh my the mane and tail look so real...*touches*
Very nice job <3
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absolutly stunning.. very very creative picture. And Yes.. I saw the 2 horses.. love the concept and the detail of the palomino body/hair and the background
Sorry for the bad english, it is late already but I really wanted to comment this piece of art
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wow... thats incredible... i love how you used objected that you painted in the picture to create the phantom horse. ^.^ thats just so creative and mind blowing! ^.^
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