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Published: 2007-10-24 20:56:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 28997; Favourites: 1035; Downloads: 0
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*faceplants*And thus my semi-kind-of triumphant return to DA (and Adobe) after having my baby. I swear, I don't do anything in Adobe for a month and my brain begins to rot.
Total time: Too much.
I don't know how long it took me... I just know that it took a long time to find the right stocks (hours), and then took.. I don't know. Somewhere between 6-8 solid hours of manipulating/painting to slap it all together.The manes, tails, horn, butterfly and bird were painted, along with the sky beyond the mountains. Every bit of this was touched in some way (and I do mean every last pixel), though it doesn't look like it for the most part. Which, I suppose, is the point of it in the end, huh?
This picture was done for ~Wintermagie for capturing my 10,000th pageview. I know, I'm over 15k now, but.. but.. I was busy! Having a baby is hard work.
These two are from a story she's writing, based, from what I understood, around a palo pegasus and a black unicorn who are love-bound, but nothing that will ever truly work out in the end. The white butterfly and pink bird were requested to be in there as well; the butterfly is connected to the palomino, and the bird to the unicorn. The quote is hers too - all compliments to the beautiful words goes to her, of course!
CLOSEUPS: [link]
Credits!
#resurgere - Mountians
~Haiku-Stock - Palomino (both pics blended together): [link] [link]
*solarka-stock - Palomino wings: [link]
~ArrsistableStock - Waterfall: [link]
~Bladewing-Stock - Grassy cliff: [link]
~nachtswolf-stock Foreground water: [link]
~Snowyowl88-Stock Unicorn: [link]
Personal stock & brushes.
Please FULLVIEW!
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Beautiful 
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Aw, well thanks sweets. 
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lol, well, I looked at those stock photos and was shocked at how you took a full waterfall and made it look so small, and the horse bending over like that looks just like it's flying once you put wings on it.
Great job on this once again
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-dies-
It's so pretty and I'm quite jealous. xD
I love the facial expressions I'm getting from the horses. It's just so....well it just pulls on your heartstrings. xD
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Aw, I'm really glad to hear that! I manip's their ears, and played a lot with the angle of the palominos head to get it to stretch out enough towards the black, along with highlighting and shadowing their features to draw the eye more. I'm really happy it paid off, if even just for you.
Thank you.
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And then I remember that I will never make anything as good as this. My favourite part = the amazing unicorn tail.
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I highly doubt you're an old fart like me, so I have every belief that you'll make whatever you want to make one day. Maybe even sooner than you think - you have talent!
(The uni tail was one of my fav parts too
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The background is incredible on its own (love the Niagara Falls you put in there, hehe) but then the pegasus and unicorn are so beautiful as well! I really like the wings and the manes and tails... stunning, stunning.
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hehe! My mom and dad took the pic of Niagara, actually. I love how you clued in on what waterfall that was, miss Nia.
(Thank you sweetie!)
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Heehee, I can recognize it anywhere. xD
You're welcome, I really think it's fabulous!
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That... is wow. That's all I can say.
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hehe, thanks sweetie.
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Amazing
but then again, I never expected anything different from you
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See, the pressure's on even more now for the goddess pic! And I'm still working on it.. but see, I have this perfectionism hangup, and I want to stab the stupid picture repeatedly and then eat it so I don't have to look at it again, but at the same time I keep getting drawn back....
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Lol, that perfectionism thing can be your greatest blessing, or biggest bite in the ass.
I wish I had time to do some manips. I still have one in progress that I'm making for you, but I just haven't had any time to work on it with summer job applications, and school work and midterms. Hopefully I'll get some down time and get it finished to my satisfaction before Christmas, lol.
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HOLY CRAP.
I am risking much trouble by being on here during class, but this is worth it.
BEAUTIFUL <3333
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Oh no, I hope you didn't get in trouble...
...but hehe, thank you!
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I didn't
You're very welcome
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In the words of Ron Weasley; "Bloody Hell!!!"
Heck on earth!!! HOW???
Gahh you know what.. im just gonna stare a while...................................
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Well, first I had an idea.. and then I started looking for stock pics... Next came the swearing, after that the growling, shortly after came the livid threats...
And eventually this came out.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
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lmao! I like that... consitutes how most of my images start so I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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LOL, it's pretty much standard on how all my works go.
Thanks again!
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wow that is breathtaking. it HARDLY looks like a manip! it looks more like amazingly wonderful digital art! lol. the additions/alterations are just perfect. i think though the only thing i personally "don't like" [that isn't the right phrase really cause it isn't that i don't like it lol XD i love this <3] is that the closest wing had to cover up so much of the palomino's body! she/he looks BEAUTIFUL, but it is a shame most of its body is covered up 
not to mention the background(s) is just...stunning. absolutely flawless. the color is fantastic the scene is fantastic. this is amazing o.o
instant fav <3
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Aww... You know, I really, really appreciate the time you took to not only look over the image, but to type out such a lovely, well thought out comment to go along with it. It means a lot to me, and shows a lot about your character.
The palomino I spent a lot of time on, but you wouldn't ever know it after I stuck the wings on. 
Again, thank you babes for the lovely comment.
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aww! you are very very welcome lovely <3!
the picture was just so amazing. and like i said i couldn't stop staring at it! haha ^_^
but yeah the one leg i noticed was the front one [obviously it is the only one i have seen haha!] but yeah i went to the stock out of curiosity and i must say the way you moved things looks so natural! i meant to comment about that but i think i was running somewhere XD. but yeah i noticed that and was like holy crap it doesn't even look like it wasn't supposed to be that way!
i have always love your work, but i think this might just very well be your best!
as for the palomino, maybe just for us curious onlookers as well as you putting so much time into him/her you could post just the pally as a detail shot? unless the wings are merged on? if not you should! be like "see i really DID change the picture all around!"
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Well thank you very much once again! 
Moving the bodyparts around on horses is a lot of fun, just because you can create poses that are unique to what everyone else has. I'm usually just too lazy to do it.
And by request, here's a shot of the palo without wings, showing all four altered legs. I figured I might as well do closeups of the rest of the image as well.
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you're welcome
and i know! that also helps in making that little "something different" from one manip to the next you know. like yeah she DID put some time into that instead of just slapping a horse in a background lol.
and YAY! [runs off to go see it]
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You kick ass.
Like srsly.
P.S. It's not fair.
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I kick ass?! No wonder my foot has been hurting lately.
Thanks babes!
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Omg, I friekin' love this!!
AMAZING job!!
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Oh man, this is absolutely stunning.
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Beau-tiful! That's really AMAZING considering your absence
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hehe, thanks much hun!
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Wow.
That's so amazing. I'm actually awe-struck.
I must say, my favorite thing about this picture is the wings on the pali. Lyk, homgz. The blending is amazing, the detail is amazing, and you really do need to share the talent!
Amazing work, Arris. <3
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hehe, thank you sweets. The horn was one of my favorite parts; that and the unicorns tail. I've never drawn a traditional uni tail before, and that was the second horn I've ever done. Maybe I'll do an image pack of horns for stock.. *Scratches head*
Ah! Anyway, thanks much for the fantastic comment and the support. It means a bunch to me.
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Oh, I know! The horns and the tails are SUPER fun to do, hmm? If you make an image pack, I'll end up being lazy and using yours. xD But it'd be kickass.
And don't worry about it! I'm a comment whore, and I always love to get good ones myself, so yanno... spread the love!
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SUPER fun to do.
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Bahaha! Yess. Sounds like a plan. I'm totally not going to complain ether way- ether I get a kick-ass picture, or I get kick-ass brushes to play with. It's a win-win situation!
Bahaha, for my reference, I used a gazelle body (or a springbok or an impala... or something), and they're hard to find! xD I'm too spoiled! Horses are easy to find.
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O_O
[stares]
That's just beautiful. The first thing that caught my attention were the gorgeous wings, you blended them perfectly. I love how you put SO much effort into your pictures, they're entirely yours, not just a few images blended together. Wow.
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That means a lot - thank you.
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Did I ever tell you how much I hate you?
This is just too stunning.
I don't think anyone has mention how well the wings blend.
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oh holy cow.. *faints* *revives* What a way to come back to us! just.. *faints again*
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*fans* Thank you!
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Gah.. I'm not surprised.. but still absolutely gorgeous!
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