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Published: 2012-10-31 08:46:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1266; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 38
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This is the quad, made up of the four different versions of d r e a m b r i n g e r I couldn't choose from! This is meant to be viewed one by one, not as a whole - I just didn't want to spam my watchers' messages or my gallery with 4 different images.

If you'd only like to view this image by itself, here's the single (that's also more updated XD):


Woo, another one finished! About 3/4 of this was made during join.mes.

Fairly overdue kiriban for ~16Jasmine16 of her character Stella

I'm really happy with this one... last time I was truly happy with a manip was back in 2010, so it's an awesome feeling. I am so happy with myself for a ton of stuff here:
- removed white stockings - I couldn't find a tutorial on dA about how to do this so I just made it up XD,
- turning a horse from practically no muscle structure to one with quite a bit of definition (thanks to *devils-horizon 's way),
- awesome hair - especially the tail! And I was fretting over that earlier, haha. The mane isn't as good as it was when it was shorter (too short), but such is life. XD I've been struggling a ton with HAIR FLOW ISSUES apparently, so I think this is a massive improvement,
- my first reflection - woo!, and
- blending 3 pieces together for the background. How'd I do? (BTW, thanks to ~saftkeks13 for the idea of a "huge-ass" moon )

Not too happy with the ends of the mane or the grounding but eh, they're not that bad.

Info:
Layers: 33 visible + 106 not visible = 139 total layers + all of the layers made through actions (about 7 x 3 + 2 = 23) + the quad flattened images (4 + 1 = 5) = ~ 157
Time taken: About 12 hours over a little over 2 days.
WIPs: None this time since I pretty much just join.me'd the whole way through. XD

Stock:
Horse: [link] by *fillyrox ( )
Background: [link] by ~greenleaf-stock ( )
Sky: [link] by ~Nalia-Te-Agashoine ( )
Moon: [link] by ~AMOY-si ( )
Star Brushes: [link] by ~Faeth-design ( )
Action: High Pass Sharpen in Finishing Touches Action Set by `night-fate ( )

Actions, left to right:
1) My own
2) Action 8, Pretty Blue, of [link] by ~lustdrunk ( )
3) Action 3 ([link] )by =rocked-out
4) Lux (hard), from the TRA2 set by Totally Rad ([link] )

And thanks very much for the tutorial used as well:
[link] by ~Peace-of-Art /*kayceeus
[link] by =Printed-Shadows - this tutorial filled in all the gaps in my knowledge about hair painting... it's magical.
[link] by *ladynaevia

And thank you so much to everyone who stopped into my join.me and especially to those who stayed around to chat and/or give advice!

Let me know which version you like the best.

As usual, ALL comments, critiques, and s appreciated!
Thank you so much for viewing, commenting, and/or ing!
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Comments: 8

erraticstudios [2012-11-18 22:49:44 +0000 UTC]


This is so beautiful! I love the turquoise-ish one, especially. :3
May I ask, how did you add the muscle definition to the horse? You've done an amazing job with that!

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letrainfalldown In reply to erraticstudios [2012-11-19 00:12:29 +0000 UTC]

Awww, thank you so much! It means a lot!

I spent like... an hour scribbling black and white on soft light (each on its own separate layer) over the horse to accentuate what was originally there and then I used a reference to add what I couldn't see.... just kinda BSed the scribbling, haha. XD Then I took the smudge tool and smudged it all in. Then I duplicated the black and white layers, hid the originals, merged the duplicates and smudged that together too. Andddd lowered the opacity (still on soft light). Tada

It's loosely based on *devils-horizon 's way of doing it as well as what *Kennelwood and *xxCHARLiE showed me before.

It took like an hour to do. I think more.

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erraticstudios In reply to letrainfalldown [2012-11-19 00:39:57 +0000 UTC]


Ah, I see! Thanks so much!

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letrainfalldown In reply to erraticstudios [2012-11-19 01:09:54 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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MartinSilvertant [2012-11-04 00:18:11 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic work on the horse in particular. I like the turquoise one the most.

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letrainfalldown In reply to MartinSilvertant [2012-11-04 04:07:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Befera [2012-10-31 21:43:30 +0000 UTC]

the one on the far right is my favorite awesome work!

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letrainfalldown In reply to Befera [2012-10-31 21:50:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
Yeah, I really like that one a lot, too... It's so hard to decide, though XD So I just put them all up.

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