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The Fire Lord
Published: 2008-04-24 02:12:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 190975; 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…
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Comments: 1141
WOW, its beautiful.
And very inspiring
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Thank you for the lovely comment!
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WOW!! this is amazing!!!!! i love fire stuff!!
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Hi 
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Aww thank you so very much!
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Just a fabulous piece of work! This is exactly how I imagined the fire elemental character "Sunspark" in my first novel (The Door into Fire, 1979). 
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Really! I had no idea that it would affect someone as such. After recieving this message I checked around a little more, and your books sound fabulous. 
What an honor, thank you.
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this is absolutely gorgous!
I am so impressed, I admit I looked through all the WIPs and stock, LOL
I think I'm gonna need lessons from you- this is incredible!
The fire is very very very well done- impossibly realistic, and I love what you've done with the horse. The tail has to be my favourite- it looks so real and touchable.
awesome piece- very awe inspiring
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Aww thank you so so much for that fantastic comment! I always like going through the stock pictures when I find a pic I enjoy, and if they have WIPs posted I really get into looking at them too. 
Thank you so much again, it means a lot to me.
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God damn arrsis!
that is freaking gorgeous!
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fantastic scene and such a beautifully dark image. very well done, and congrats on the DD
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Thank you so much sweetheart!
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LOL, I agree! Well, with the flames part. 
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awesome image. about 8 ppl passed behind me at the PC and the general reaction was 'WOW' and these are 'everything is shit' offshore guys.
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LOL, thank you so much for telling me that. That's awesome.
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amazing pic and progression is nice too
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Thank you doubly then!
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umm . . . holy hell woman.
Freakin amazing.
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umm . . . I miss you!
(and thank you!)
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Man... I loved this image... Congratulations on the DD!
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Thank you babes!
(I'm slow, I know. 
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fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
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That is spectacular! You really have made a beautiful, fantastical image, and so well drawn. Congratulations on the Daily Dev.
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Thank you so much, seriously. That was a very lovely comment!
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that's so beautiful!
I love the flames, they look so real!
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lol xD
your welcome
by the way, could you sett up a tutorial on how to photo manipulate?
it would be awesome if you could
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There's so many different things that can/are done with photomanipulating. I did do a tutorial on the Fire Lord, how I did the fire and some other stuff; it's up in my gallery.
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