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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190561; Favourites: 5188; Downloads: 0
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Hah! Such a great title, right?
Ok, gosh. This was a commission done for Maeris , who, might I say, was absolutely superb with all her patience. Kudos to you, darling.
She wanted a horse, canter pirouette in a puddle of gasoline and ringed by fire, as if the horse started it. But, then she gave me artistic freedom and this is what happened.
This was my very first time ever working with fire. Holy cow! I used gobs and gobs of layers of it and eventually it began to click into place. I tried a regular mane, and nah, scrapped it. Did a fire tail, and nah, scrapped it, but that one was Joshs call. I drove that man nuts asking him to come look at it and tell me what he thought, what looked wrong, etc. By the end of tonight he'd sit on the couch and stare at me without moving. LOL.
Sorry Josh.
Aaah, lets see. Obviously, the mane and tail were replaced. I lifted and curved the neck and brought the head in. Replaced the ears, opened the jaw and painted in some teeth, painted over the eye. I tilted the horse back, too, and altered/drew up/in the forelegs as well to add some dramatics, and give an overall pissed feeling, since that's what Maeris wanted.
And lots of other stuff, but I'll let you guys look if you want and try to figure it out.
Special thanks to devils-horizon and Sylvanestra , because I annoyed the crap out of them too with demands for opinions and critiques along the way. Thank you too, to devils-horizon for the playlist that got me through this picture!
Time: 40+hours
Tools: Wacom Intuos3 + Adobe CS2
Active Layers: 71 - 40 alone make up the fire.
Closeups: arrsistable.deviantart.com/art…
Elemental Horse series:
Water: Elemental: Water arrsistable.deviantart.com/art…
Earth: The Earth Goddess arrsistable.deviantart.com/art…
Credits:
RikkDarkMoon - rikkdarkmoon.deviantart.com/ar… rikkdarkmoon.deviantart.com/ar… rikkdarkmoon.deviantart.com/ar… rikkdarkmoon.deviantart.com/ar…
VivaStock - vivastock.deviantart.com/art/F…
Mithgariel-stock - mithgariel-stock.deviantart.co…
jozut - jozut.deviantart.com/art/Sea-o… jozut.deviantart.com/art/Sea-o… jozut.deviantart.com/art/Sea-o…
narghaash-stock - narghaash-stock.deviantart.com…
jack-the-pumkin-king - jack-the-pumkin-king.deviantar…
Stickfishies-Stock - stickfishies-stock.deviantart.…
AthenaStock - athenastock.deviantart.com/art…
night-fate-stock - night-fate-stock.deviantart.co…
Roslend - roslend.deviantart.com/art/Tel… NOT STOCK, used with full permission. Thanks hun!
absurdus - absurdus.deviantart.com/art/13…
little-stock - little-stock.deviantart.com/ar…
SXC , C/O Costi : www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view…
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Comments: 1141
I did not, thank you for showing me!
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you're welcome!
i was looking around, and i noticed that deviation. thought i should let you know. c:
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I know it's not what you were going for but it sort of reminds me of a realistic Rapidash 
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Haha! I've heard that before actually. I'd never heard of Rapidash until after someone commented on the image... and I'd like to say I'm well versed in Pokemon now, but that's a blatant lie, I have no idea what it's about. xD (..It WAS Pokemon, right? Rofl)
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This artwork is being stolen and sold for prints![link]
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Words can't really express how well done that is.
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Just to let you know, I found this image on this site: [link] as a wallpaper and wanted to let you know just in case you didn't know it was there.
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omg =O looks so realistic
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I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL "UNLIKELY UNIO"!!!!!! WELL DONE, MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!! I GIVE THIS 1,000,000 STARS!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU ENTERED THIS IN A CONTEST AND I WOULD HAVE MY SAY ABOUT WHO WOULD WIN, I WOULD DEFINETLY CHOOSE THIS PICTURE!!!!!!!!!
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You've been featured: Best Equine Photomanipulations on deviantART.
Beautiful work!
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I found your image here on www.tutsnow.com 's "40 Smashing Digital Manipulation Inspirations ". Not sure if you knew
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I have something to say! This is one of the best works of photomanipulated horses in fire. Due to the fact that you gave so much definition to it. Lighting on the horse is (to me) perfect. Since you manipulated a lot of body parts of the horse (which is very difficult) gives it a much more artistic feel. It's a very real looking picture. I thought I shit my pants when I seen this (sorry for the language but its true.) Thank god I didn't. The overall feel of the picture is amazing. I can't see one flaw (but thats just me.) Great job. I love your art work! Not to mention this one!
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OH.....MY.....GOSh!!!!!! that is fricken awesome!!!!
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I love this picture!!!! Love it so much it is on my favs!!!! Amazing work
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4000 something favs! whoo! congrats!
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I know I commented on this ages ago, but I thought I should just point out that looking at it.. it's kinda calming. It's making me feel better after a really terrible few days.
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this piece is absolutely amazing! I have been trying to do something like this with a black horse in full gallop...not having much luck 
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Wow AWESOME work ! I can only hope one day I get to create an impressive piece myself. Well at least I've learned some photoshop and finaly made made my very first animated gif. Was hoping I could post it not much to see at 50 x 50 But looks awesome at 1200 x 1200 might just post a finnished screen shot.
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ARRSISTABLE!!!!!!! SOMEONE HAS STOLEN UR WORK!!! HERES THE LINK!
they were telling people they made the pictre on Horseland.com!
[link]
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Most definitely am not. 
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Yes, unfortunately. I asked them to remove it, and if they don't I'm reporting them.
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O.O
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I'm speechless.
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