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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190600; 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
I don't really like horses all too much but this has entranced me.... the tail and mane.........the shadowing.......how lifelike it is
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Thank you so much! That's a fantastic compliment, to hear one of my manips are lifelike.
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WOW! You really never cease to amaze me!
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Aw thanks honey. It's been a while.. hope everything is alright on your end.
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everything's been going okay, this year has been stressful though, how are you doing??
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this is one of the most amazing drawings ever, how did u draw the fire it looks so real?
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They're images of fire that I manipulated into shape. 
Thanks much for looking and liking.
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cool i will check that out, thx.
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You're welcome!
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This is the most amazing thing I have seen! It is stunning.
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makes me cry how great you are and how sucky i am can i order a graphic?? plz it is ergent and important
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I take paid commissions only. :S
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Haha. Every day I sit and try to thing of synonyms for fantastic when I go on deviantart.
I have a lot now.
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It looks like Rapadash!
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That is the most fantastic horse I have ever seen!
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Oh how sweet of you, thank you!
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I want your background *growl*
*goes to manipulate one /EXACTLY/ like this*
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ok so i know you only made this because another person requested... but i seriously think you should do a series of these fire pics. an idea you say? sure i got one! 
hehe ok ill stop now
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LOL, thank you so much for the idea! I think fire will be coming more in my pics from here on out - it was a ton of fun to work with.
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Wow! Truly amazing.
You have too much talent
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No way - it's not talent, it's just stubbornness.
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Oh really?
You'd think I'd be much better than I am then..if it's just stubbornness.
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Haha I have to laugh because the amazingness of it stunned me! So good. I get how you just used layers and patience but where'd you get all the fire from?
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