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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190706; 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
Oh wow, over 1,000 favourites already? This completely deserves it. By far my favourite piece by you, it is truly a masterpiece xD
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PS... how long does it take for you to search for all that stock? I'm often put off making anything this elaborate simply because searching for hours upon hours for resources just doesn't appeal to my lazy self xD
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LOL, thank you honey.
Searching for stock takes forever. This one took a long time, and mainly because I couldn't find what I was looking for. First it was the horse, which is why I ended up going from stock to photography and having to get permission and con the girl into sending me the full-size pic, and then it was the stupid rock. I wanted it to be a cliff, but I couldn't find anything that would work. So, yeah. It took a long ass time to go through several different stock sites.
But I'm stubborn by nature, so that probably helps.
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you should try doing on of these with a unicorn, i read a story about them once. in this story the unicorn was made of fire, i got an extremely vivid picture from it, and i think you would be a great artist for it. just note back or something if you're interested in the idea, i'll look around for the story
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Man, that sounds highly entertaining. I'd probably note you, save for the fact that I have some commissions to do. :S
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This is one of the BEST photomanips I've ever seen I wish my sis and my horse could do that
I love the flames to there perfect!
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I wish they could too!
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looks like
but is magnifc
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This is the most amazing piece I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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wow, I*ve gotta tell you this is effing gorgeous.
I love it SOO much. awsome job, on every little detail.
Maeris must be PLEASED. 
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Thanks so much honey! 
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Wow - ohwowohwowohwow. This completely deserves the attention it's been getting. Congratulations!
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Prepare to become a legend.
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This is just great I really love it !
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out of the fire's lips came an outstanding creature!!!
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ahaha..inspired by ur art defntly..
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np, how did you do it??
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WOW, I love how you did this... I think I remember her talking to me about this concept when we were instant-messaging each other. :0 Guess she decided she couldn't do it herself?
Beautiful piece, I ADORE the mane and hooves.
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Her who? ~Maeris ? If so, then yeah, she said she had problems getting it how she wanted so she commissioned me to do it.
(thank you!)
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Yush, Maeris. x) Lucky you, get commissioned! hehe
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i dont know you but WWWOOOOWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't know you either, but thank you!
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that is the coolest thing ive seen in a long time.great job!!!!
Wow!
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Aw, what a fantastic comment! Thank you!
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