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---Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
Till they're before your eyes
You'll come back when they call you
No need to say goodbye
- "The Call" by Regina Spektor
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EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize the fullview size had been changed.
Just so I have something to show for my disgusting procrastination, this can be my second entry for Larfsalot's Relationship Contest
The Story:
Basically then, this is just one of my human characters translated into horse form. He's from a different world, but his love from Earth calls to him, so he goes back. It doesn't matter that they're seperated by entire worlds, because love can conquer something as trivial as distance, right?
-totally killed the romanticism by the rapid fire delivery-
The Idea:
I thought I had this completely planned out. I had the horse ready, the background ready, and three hours of work behind me. But as soon as I had both on the same canvas, it just fell apart. This happened TWICE. But then I started sifting through Resurgere's stock packs to make me feel better and couldn't help but download all the Cosmos which then resulted in this. This, an entire day spent photoshopping. Just to say, if the image had worked with the first background then I wouldn've spent maybe three hours on the entire picture.
Problems:
I hated how this picture was so complete without me having done anything to the background. It was just too amazing, perfect without needing me to fiddle with it. But I refused to submit it - and then, a few hours after I sent it to a friend for crit, I got the idea to put an aurora in ^^
The technical parts of this picture were actually easy - the horse, the wave. But the whole idea came very very slowly. And knowing how much colour was too much colour - there were times I went overboard
/rant. I had to get that out of my system. Original 1419 x 887 image. Sorry about the (C), but I'm too paranoid
Horse: [link]
Horse's Mane: - moved accounts and deleted all her stock?
Background: [link]
Dragon Print: Personal brush pack
Everything else drawn by me.
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Only may display this. This image is NOT STOCK. If I see it anywhere else but dA I will kick your ass. Don't make me regret that my copyrights aren't BIG and BRIGHT
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Comments: 17
KerrigorRose [2010-05-09 09:50:51 +0000 UTC]
that song is one of my faves .. great picture too ^^
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Athemia In reply to KerrigorRose [2010-05-09 13:11:59 +0000 UTC]
it's lovely, isn't it? she has a great voice.
thanks!
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Athemia In reply to mistyofmyheart [2009-08-21 07:00:55 +0000 UTC]
people fav without commenting, I do it too and thanks for the
<3
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Erazen [2009-04-03 10:37:33 +0000 UTC]
Wow... such a celestial effect. The way you merged completely different images is fantastic, quite fanciful, and the lighting is spectacular. In fact, even though I always have issues when people use photoshop to combine images of completely different scaling and detail, you have pulled it off such that there is no qualms.
Love the aurora too, although it may have needed more work blending in. The monochromatic colours you used, though, compensates much for that.
Love it.
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Athemia In reply to Erazen [2009-04-11 23:23:28 +0000 UTC]
The aurora I know right. I take obvious shortcuts. But thanks
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falarae [2009-03-29 08:49:24 +0000 UTC]
Wow...I like it a lot! Especially the bright light around the hooves. The colour scheme is beautiful Only one thing bothers me, and that's the way that the aurora is always vertical and parallel...but anyway, great work! And good luck with the competition
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Athemia In reply to falarae [2009-04-01 03:54:17 +0000 UTC]
lol... because its a gradient, i didn't actually colour it... I'll probably end up posting an edited picture up later, because my friend's picking at it
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whimzi [2009-03-29 04:04:17 +0000 UTC]
Looks great!!
Thanks for entering and for following my rules so well!
Good luck in the contest
=larfsalot
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