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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190558; Favourites: 5188; 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
gaaahk this must be the only fire manipulation i've seen for a VERY long time that is so well done-fabulous job!
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Incredible !!!
Great, great job
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Thank you so much!
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This pictures amazing! its dark and menacing yet beautiful at the same time
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This is really amaaaazing! A bit too amazing for some people though ... I think you should look at this [link] He may have removed it already as I have notified him/her.
Have a nice day!
PP
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I saw this on the website listed below.
I looked you up by the watermark.
[link]
Just thought you should know.
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Amazing work!
If you don't mind my asking, do you play on a game called Howrse as eminentpage? If not, I've seen someone make a banner with this... so, if your not registered on the game, I figured you'd want to know about it. But, if you are, sorry for butting in like such. [link]
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this is lovely! *places package that says "Love It!" on it on her door step*
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this is a really cool picture, i like how the horse is IN the flames
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I love fire, I love horses...thanks for putting them together!
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I love it *-* Great job, I love the fire effect n.n
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-drools-
Wow. Your fire...
just wow.
-keeps drooling-
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10/10, five stars, whatever, its good, and I'm awestruck... somewhat speechless, and that doesn't happen often
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very good job. I never succeeded in handling fire in PS
You did great !
Especially the tail is great
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that is so incredible, it's simply left me speechless, very nice job!
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Oh awsome! I'm sure it would look just as amazing as the other three!
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Wow! your work is quite impressive! I can see why someone took it and used it as a banner. . . but something tells me you didn't want people stealing your work and using it on sites. And something also tells me that the girl who did it, didn't ask to use it.
Look at it this way, you got a new viewer, your work is so good it is stolen!
I figured you would want to know. Here is the site:
[link]
I don't think the friend who made the site realized people could read your name on it or something...
Sorry to have to tell you it though, if you didn't give her permission to use your artwork.
I do really like your stuff though!
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Ooooh no I definitely did not give her permission. That picture was made for someone who spent RL$ on it, and I never allow them to be used by anyone except the person who commissioned it.
Thank you for reporting it to me!!
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This isn't her first time doing something like this, I am sad it didn't get through to her the first time. . .
But I am glad you at least know now.
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Some people are thick and ignorant.
Thanks for being who you are, though, and nothing like her.
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Holy craziness! Wicked awesome work.
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Are you going to make an air one? Cause I love all the others you have!
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Great fire ! And beautiful horse ! Nice !
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