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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190597; 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
O my god , this is amazing! I really don't know what to say, I think there aren't words for this , djeezes!
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wowww 8D this image is so captivating! you've really caught the sheer energy of that feisty, untamable side of the equine spirit. The hot colors of the horse and flames against the cool, mysterious background and that beautiful sky is just stunning. Love it! ^^
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I'm so glad you think so,thank you babes!
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ohh, he's beautiful! i love the mane and tail!
He looks soo nice, really majestic
great job, again
xxx
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This is wonderful! I love how the horse's head looks almost like metal. I love the warm and cool contrasts as well as the shade you picked for the horse's body. Wonderful! I aspire to things like this.
--teki
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Thank you so much, really. That is a fantastic comment to receive, and it makes an otherwise bad day better.
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Glad that I could help in any way possible. I know how you feel.. comments do a great job of keeping me going too.
--teki
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C'est tres belle, mon amis!
Very Beautiful.
I hope u merged/flattened the final when u put this up that's alot of layers but fire usually takes alot anyway (& smoke/mist effects too) in realistic renderings and saved a back-up copy. U should totally do a series of the other elements as horses as well.
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I am doing a series of elemental horses actually
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B E A UTIFUL! its BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! i love it! im new and im gotta do it to a favorit!!
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Wow. I don't know what else to say... "WOW" kind of sums it up...
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You are most welcome.
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LOL, thank you so much.
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Hey darling, this is amazing!!!! How did you do all of that with Photoshop?!?!?!?!
I use photoshop too, but I don't even get anywhere near this one!!!
Great job! If I asked you to make me something, would you please?
Don't worry if you don't want to or can't be bothered, I just thought I'd ask!!
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Well, I swore a lot, shook my fist at my computer screen, ate junk food, threated Photoshop, and pampered my wacom.
Thanks for liking it!
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I love it. I love it I love it I love it. I like the color scheme. The fire is absolutely spectacular. I like the highlights it casts on the horse and how fire is coming out of the horse's nose. It looks so cool! The mane looks great, especially toward the back, and I love the burning tail.
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Aww thanks so much honey!
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