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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190574; 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
Sorry babe; but some idiot from the idiots unite group has butchered your image here >> [link]
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Just to let you know, someone on an RP site is using this picture for their character. I don't know if you gave the person permission or not but I thought I'd just let you know. Heres the link: [link]
If it was used without your permission, I'm sure you'd like to know about it.
Its an awesome picture, by the way.
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this is beyond beautiful. you truly have a gift and the patience to use it!
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This Piece has been featured here [link]
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You've been a victim of art theft: [link]
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This has been ripped again baby doll! 
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(I know that I have already left you multiple messages regarding this same subject on the unfortunate theft of your beautiful piece "The Fire Lord", but I have found yet another user of that website who has stolen it)
Hello,
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but I would like to inform you that your beautiful piece of art has been stolen and uploaded here at this [link] where it is being claimed as that person's own, and is being offered as a free wallpaper for anyone to download and use as they please from that website.
In fact, it appears that there are A LOT of users on that site who have stolen artwork from artists here on DA (my own, included), and I as well as a bunch of others are doing our best to inform all of the artists who we recognize stolen artwork from on that site (if you would like, check out my latest Journal Entry on my DA page for more information, including information on how to have your artwork removed from that site).
I thought that you would like to know.
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(I know I already sent you a message regarding this subject, but I found yet another user on that website who has stolen your beautiful "The Fire Lord" image)
Hello,
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but I would like to inform you that your beautiful piece of art has been stolen and uploaded here at this [link] where it is being claimed as that person's own, and is being offered as a free wallpaper for anyone to download and use as they please from that website.
In fact, it appears that there are A LOT of users on that site who have stolen artwork from artists here on DA (my own, included), and I as well as a bunch of others are doing our best to inform all of the artists who we recognize stolen artwork from on that site (if you would like, check out my latest Journal Entry on my DA page for more information, including information on how to have your artwork removed from that site).
I thought that you would like to know.
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Hello,
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but I would like to inform you that your beautiful piece of art has been stolen and uploaded here at this [link] where it is being claimed as that person's own, and is being offered as a free wallpaper for anyone to download and use as they please from that website. It appears that your artist signature, as well as your deviantART page URL has been removed from the image, as well.
In fact, it appears that there are A LOT of users on that site who have stolen artwork from artists here on DA (my own, included), and I as well as a bunch of others are doing our best to inform all of the artists who we recognize stolen artwork from on that site (if you would like, check out my latest Journal Entry on my DA page for more information, including information on how to have your artwork removed from that site).
I thought that you would like to know.
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I'm sorry but I just found this piece stolen here: [link] . I thought I'd bring this to your attention. There is a lot of stolen art floating around that site. I'll let you know if I find anything else of yours. D=
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I just...
Wow.
I can't stop looking at this! I must have spent 30 minutes staring at every detail before I started writing this comment. You can't even recognize the horse! The blending of the forelegs, head, and neck all look real. I can't find a single flaw. I am always amazed at your work. The expression in the face is definitely, well, pissed <33.
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Just wondering, are you aware of this?
[link]
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Wow. This is amazing! I love it, it's great! I can see how it would take so long to make, but ya know, patience is the key. 
Anyways. Great work, I love it!
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So I'm definitely working on a manip based on this... it isn't going to be NEARLY as effing awesome as this is, but I'm gonna try my darndest. I wonder how you spell that... xD
Dunno if I've already commented on this, but yeah, AWESOME!!!!
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LOL, I'm not sure if you have yet or not, but I really appreciate it. 
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Wonderful! I wish that I could do sttuff like this! X3
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Oh my goodness!!! *Strugles to breathe* this is aweaome!!!!!!!!! You are awesome!!!
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Wow.. This is, like, such a wonderful piece! If I didn't read the description, I'd say this is the "Lightbringer", Lucian from Anne Bishop's Pillar of the Worlds series!
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Wow It reminds me of a nightmare from DnD 3,5 MM It is rally awsome
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gorgeous creation - so believable
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He 
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Wow!
I'm really getting inspired from this one.
It's so beautiful. And it is reminding me that I have to practise a little with fire
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Amazing job. 
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wow this is amazing!
the fire looks incredible
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Hey,
I found your picture on the blog. Here's an address for him:
[link]
Ps. Sorry for the language ... I am from Poland.
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Buetiful horse ^^
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Oh thank you so much for telling me!
I cannot speak polish, unfortunately, and I don't know how to get the picture taken down because of it.
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Its AMAZING ..
but i have seen it on PonyBox a virtual horse sight, i asked a close friend of yours and she told me to tell you that it was stolen and then sold on this sight.
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#1, thank you for taking the time to let me know.
#2, who did you talk to?
#3, could I have information on how to find the image? IE, URL, where at on the site, who took it, etc.
I appreciate it so much!
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This is in a very special posting in my journal and the final of my 144 deviations features.
Thank you for the inspiration.
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