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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190613; 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
Surely, and keep up the fine work!
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interesting composition and nice detail, the fire circle looks a bit strange to me, looks like u just cloned the fire around but other than that it is awesome ^.^love the colors and all
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hımmm thanks you number one very
ankara evden eve nakliyat -
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Ankara Nakliyat
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Featured in my Apr 26th 2008 journal . Great work.
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Thank you so much! Awwh
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awesome XD the like his tail and the ground he stands on
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Thank you so much!
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amazing 
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It was, but looking back on it it seems like it wasn't enough. 
Thank you hun!
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Wow....just WOW...this is amazing.
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Thats a beautiful picture! Great job and awesome work!!!!Heehee I lurve the pony!
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I love it! I love how the horse's main and tail is on fire too, not just the ground. You painted the fire really well.
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Thank you so much! That's such a lovely comment.
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WOAH AWESOME! I have a creature that is a black fresian with fire for his mane and tail and fire rising form his hooves and red eyes <3
He's cool! <3
He is called the Lava Stallion. <3
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^___^ <3 I love my Lava Stallion too ^_^ He's so cool.
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Now that is an AMAZING manipulations!
It looks so real!
I've never seen a manipulation using fire looking this good (because let's face it, fire is HARD to manipulate)
I LOVE it!
You deserve this DD!
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That is just absolutely stunning! LOVE the fire, you can tell how much effort you put into this picture! The background as well is amazing, adding to the picture, not taking away from it. You get an awesome feeling of power and rage, as well as dangerous beauty. I just love this picture =] Well done!!! 
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you are most welcome!
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Just fantastic amounts of detail! I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into this piece. The fire was done perfectly, and not too over the top. I love the ring of fire around the horse and the sky. Well, really I love everything about this! I'm sure ~Maeris loved it!
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Thank you!
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WOW what a powerful, original piece! I'm honored to have my stock used in this amazing art, thank you!
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Thank you for offering it out! Every time we've chatted you've always been such a doll.
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Awww 
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