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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190611; Favourites: 5187; 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
Wow, this is incredible. The fire mane is awesome. Your talent is amazing. Love it.
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Thank you so much! 
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AMAZING !!!! LOVE IT
GREAT WORK!!!
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It makes me think of what the old ghost rider's horse SHOULD have looked like
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Aww I love you for that. 
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Out of all the DDs today, yours was the one that completely caught my eye. I love how the horse seems to radiate untamed power. This picture is very beautiful. Great job!
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Seriously -- thank you. I'm sorry I'm slow in replying to comments, but yours is one of those that just made me say "aww" out loud.
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You are very welcome. It is a very nice piece.
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This is awesome! I love it when people mix horses with fire like this. It came out great!
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i thought it was a person
lol
but i really like the flames in it
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This is great! I cant even noticed the modifiations you did to iit, then again thats the idea rightt? xD
wondeful pic 
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LOL, that's definitely the idea and definitely something I love hearing!
Thank you!
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Glad my comment appeases you ^^
Your very welcome!
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wowww lovely artwork!!!
definetely favourite
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Now that there is a fine piece of work.
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Nice work, loving the mane.
What was the playlist, by the way?
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LOL, I love the randomness to that question.
A whole lot of everything. Sum41, a few pieces from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, Evanscence, Mat Kearney, Mad at Gravity, Kidney Thieves, Joe Budden, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Korn, Creed...
I'm not picky, obviously.
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Thanks for the faves, you are welcome in my gallery.
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Dude, this picture is wicked!!
There's a scene in "Ghost Rider" where the two ghost riders are riding into the desert side-by-side, and one of the ghost riders is riding a horse. The horse has flames rising out of its nose, eyes, mane and tail and it's one of my favorite movie scenes. So yeah, I LOVE this picture!
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Thank you so much!
That's awesome, thanks so much for sharing that! I've actually never seen the Ghost Rider movie.. I tried to when wrapping Christmas presents on Christmas eve, but I was too preoccupied to pay attention.
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Cool. I love the flames that are coming off of its tail and mane
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whoa! forgot I commented on that drawing. you're welcome then!
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whoa...awsome job dude 
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I hope you draw something too, whatever it is that you'd like.
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your very welcome ^^ 
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