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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190626; 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…
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Comments: 1141
Wow, thats amazing it looks awesome ^_^
The manipulation of fire, the horses stance - it's all stunning.
Must of taken a lot of effort to complete but you've achieved greatly
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Oh tons of effort, but I love it. 
Thank you so much!
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wow, this is brilliant!
honestly the best manip. ive seen!
well done!
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Aw, thank you so very much!
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You have a lot of comments!
Here's another one:
That's really really good! Very good job! It looks so cool!! ^_^
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thats insane.
wonderful concept.
reminds me of rapidash from pokemen.
except this is ten trazillion times cooler
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haha, I've heard that a lot!
Thank you!
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this is CRAZY! very very nice! i would put this up in my room lol...good job.
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No one else would probably notice this, but I've been around horses almost as long as I've been round. This is also my only critique. The forlegs are much too short for a beast that size. You've got shetland pony front legs on a percheron sized beast.
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First off, thank you for the critique - I believe it's meant to be one.
The horse isn't percheron sized in the slightest. Percherons have larger chests, thicker barrels, wider necks and heavier heads, not to mention the obvious size difference in hind quarters.
If you look at the original horse, linked above, but here as well for your ease: [link] you can see that the legs are the same length in here as in the original. If anything, there' a touch longer, since bending them the way I did created gaps that needed filling. I didn't over run the legs but just a smidgen at the bottom of where the pieces connected.
Again, thank you for taking the time to look, even if we do have differing opinions.
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Wow, this is amazing! The anatomy is fantastic and I love how you did the fire, especially on the tail and coming out of the nostrils
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Thank you so much! I was afraid the nostril fire wouldn't be visible since it blends with the leg fire.
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Oh, no, it stands out just fine, if you ask me! Beautiful work
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ur welcome! i luv the horse! :3
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Excellent work! It looks spectacular and causes my jealousy to strike up a bit.
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Oh don't be, seriously! Your artwork is gorgeous.
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Bah... It's not bad.... But yours is wonderful.
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Too kind is impossible unless it puts your own well being in jeopardy. And I'm just fine, just fine indeed.
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What a sweet comment, thank you so much!
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The Fire Lord rising from the depths of hell to unleash death and chaos on our world!
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You're soooo welcome sweetie!
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Grate photo! All the gallery is nice but this is the best!
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Man...I wonder what a picture would look like if you drew this as a Balrog instead of a horse...
(Just for the record, Gothmog is SUPPOSED to be a BALROG, NOT an ORC!!)
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LOL, I have no idea what Gothmog or Balrog is, so you're safe from any assumptions on my part.
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They're from Lord of the Rings. Sorry for being a nerd.
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