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Published: 2009-05-07 18:08:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1367; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 33
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This is my Mother's Day present for my mom!
A year (or even two) back she asked me to draw her her guide Neska, a black arabian stallion with a four pointed star. I originally was going to paint this traditionally with acrylics, but I never got around to it. Yesterday, with the impending Mother's Day deadline on my mind, I decided to use this as another try at painting realistically, proving for perhaps the tenth time that the only thing I can paint decently is horses. 
I'm actually very pleased that I waited so long to paint this, because I really don't think I could of done Neska justice a year ago. Now that I'm all trained up and know about underpainting (which I LOVE), it seems my art's gonna get heaps better from here on out.
I'm very, very happy with this, so I'd be happy if nobody critiqued this and just let me have my little victory over realism. I know what's off with it. 
If dA puts this in anthro like it does most of my art I'm gonna be pissed-! I don't draw anthro stuff!!! Can't they pay attention to their own gallery definitions?!
Neska belongs to himself & my mom.
Art by me. Do NOT copy, trace, alter, reuse or redistribute!
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Gourgeous. I love arabs and you captured it pefectly.
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I'm sure your mum will adore this ^^ I LOVE ths star on his forehead!! Very nice ^^
Your mum's so lucky to have a guide AND such a talented daughter!!
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Aww thanks! 
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He's a beauty!
I'm not quite sure what underpainting is though... could you explain?
I've also noticed the anthro-thing, and as far as I can figure out, if you combine 'fantasy' with 'animal' you get anthro in dA's book :S That's why instead of fantasy, I use 'original character'
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Of course I can
Ahhh I'll remember that! dA is just plain weird, isn't it?
Thankies!
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Ahh, yes, I use that... sorta
And yup, dA certainly is! It's just that my brain is weird enough that after I made sure it wasn't I that filled in the wrong category, but just dA changing it, it connected fantasy and animal into anthro
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Yeah that's the technical name. I heard it from one of the 2nd years and a professor. They kept telling me to do the shading first and whatnot and put the colour under and I just sort of figured it out on my own.
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I basically do it the other way around still (usually)... do flats, then on a different layer do the shading... especially with Reckless, cause black and white definitely need different 'types' of shading
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Yeah, very true
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Woah that mane is gorgeous, so organic and light! Would you care to explain underpainting to me? I'm most intrigued! Your art quality is improving exponentially.
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Yeee okay. Underpainting is easy! First you gotta basically do the stuff in this [link] then yeh duplicate the layer and set the top duplicate to 'multiply' then you go to the bottom one, lock the transparancy and colour away on it. 
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Cheers for that
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You're welcome
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Wow, it looks absolutely amazing. I love the star on her forehead. I don't doubt that your mum will love it <3
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*he
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awwww thats cool. what do u mean by "her guide" tho??
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I mean 'spirit guide' or 'animal totem.'
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yea i know what they are. do u know how to find out which animal isyour totem animal???
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Well, what animals do you feel like you have a connection with, what's your favourite? If you ever pretended to be a certain animal as a kid, than that's probably your guide. I've always had a fascination with wolves (since looong before dA or Balto) and when I was a kid I used to pretend to be a wolf. Later, I had an imaginary friend who was one and I later learned he was my guide. You can also have more than one guide, but most people have a primary one who sticks with them for most of their life. My guide, Wolf (who has never told me his real name) is an arctic wolf but I also have a horse guide and a cheetah. My mom has Neska, but she also has a turtle, a cougar and an owl.
Most of the artists on dA are either wolf, dog, coyote, fox, cat, big cat or horse totem people primarily.
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ok that's what i figured... i once tried asking my guide b4 i went to sleep and that night i had a dream and in it a saw a cheetah turn around an look at me and i kept hearing the word totem all echo-like lol.. they used to b my fav animal but now i dont really have one... i like tigers and lions a lot and horses, seals, & parrots.... (n btw wen i was a kid i pretended to b every animal in the world lmao)
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Well it sounds like you might be a cheetah, if it was your favourite animal before.
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yay ima cheetah!! lol n how were u aware if him???
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N'awh, pretty! You are good at realistic horses
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lol I know, the only thing I can paint
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OMG! 
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Thanks!
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