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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190605; 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
amazing. im envious. the fire is amazing ;]
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The flaming mane is just so beautiful, and looks so real. Very nice job.
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Thanks babes! Don't tell anyone, but the flaming mane was a half accident. 
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Very nice. Like the texture and the combination of the colors. Cheers!
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I love the texture of its color, the tone itself and the masterpeice. Great one. Cheers!
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This deviation has been featured in my journal. Please let me know if you would like it removed. Find it here--> [link]
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Aww thank you so very much! 
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God like. I love sort of evil, demonic, firey things liek this (in not a satanist haha, but i am a bit of a pyromanic.
Easy favourited.
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LOL, I love how you defended yourself.
Thanks much honey!
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Absoloutely stunning! But could we expect anything else? *grins* Beautiful work darlin!
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You're way too nice to me. 
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Thanks for using our fire images.
Rikk .............
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Thank you for providing them!
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Rock On. Good job.
Glade you use our fire. Cool.
Rikk DarkMoon
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Oh it's gorgeous stock - thank you!
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That's incredible!
Mind if I ask a question? Well, here it is anyway: Do you hand make the fire, or use stock? (and how do you do it O_O)
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Thank you!
I used fire stock to do it all. 
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I'll be sure to check that out! Thanks!
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That is really beautiful, and so impressive.
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Thank you so much honey.
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that is so amazing.I am going to use it for a layout..on a website.I won't take your name off though!(I wouldn't know how to do that anyway! 
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Oh no - please do not use it for a layout on a website, or anywhere else. This was a paid commission, not a free one, and any outside use infringes on my copyright.
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OMG! That is AMAZING! I wish I was that skilled! [ is jealous] XD
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It's not skills! It's stubbornness.
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Lol, I wish I was as stubborn as you then
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Completely exquisite!!! I can't say enough good things about this pic, I want it, I love you for creating it, it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen and OMG I LOVE YOU!!! *breathes* okay, sorry you had to see that. I CAN'T HELP IT!! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!
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You are such a sweetheart, thank you so much!
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A burning white Stallion. Sensational, sensational.
Deserves a wow lol
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Actually, it's not white.. but close enough. 
Thank you.
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