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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190776; 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
XD lol You're very welcome! 8D 
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OMFG, Arrsistable... you are, like, a photomanipulation GODDESS! Seriously. This image is so amazingly awesome; my jaw literally dropped when I first saw it... WOW.
I absolutely love how you did the fire... it all looks incredibly realistic. Amazing work! Definitely one of my favorites from you... if not my MOST favorite.
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Aww babes, seriously, I appreciate that.
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The first word that came into my mind when I saw the title was 'Avatar'.
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mientras ningun animal aya sido lastimado durante la foto devo decir que es muy buena
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Beautiful, I wish I could make flames.
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You can! Believe me, if I can, you can.
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I've tried, I just can't get the effect to work
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The Fire effect is awesome and so is the Horse XD!!!
Althought, I had to look at the picture for a bit to see that the horse is breathing fire from flared nostrils -because- its blended with the fire on the legs OR he is not breathing fire from his nose at all, but has it so close to the flames on his legs to where it looks like he is releasing the flames.
Just dishing out feed back and all ^^ Lovely image, really!
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Oh I know, it blends in badass, but there's nothing to be done for it without completely altering the legs again. So, blend it is.
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I looked at all of the "WIP" that you displayed, the Horse is just amaizing - how long did it take you to draw, ink, and color the Bay?
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absolutly amazing!!! i LOVE IT!!!! awesomenesssssssssss!!!!!
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WOW your anatomy and muscle definition skills are sublime <3 seriously this took my breath away, your attention to detail your realism its all so perfect for me <3
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Thank you so much! I tried really hard to keep with the sense of muscles and curves to the horse.
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Well done indeed! I believe in fantasy, a steed such as that is referred to as a "Nightmare".
Congrats!
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INCREDIBLE!! magnifisently done! Great job!!
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Wow, you did an amazing job on that fire. And the rest looks like a photo! 
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LOL, believe me, it was hard not to get lost, especially since I didn't rename anything outside of two group names.
Thank you!
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but seriously, that's awesome!
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Someone else said it was Rapidash too, but I'm still lost.
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lol Arrsistable, if you're lost, just put in "Rapidash" in a google search, or even search for it here, on DeviantArt... basically, Rapidash is a Pokemon; a horse with a flaming mane/tail. ^_^
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Supurb.
How did you do those flames on the horse?
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Pictures of fire set to 'lighten', some with a 'linear dodge' over that as well, if I remember correctly. Lots of warping and rotating and erasing to blend.
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Wow 
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