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I strongly recommend you view the quad - it has this and 3 other EPIC versions you really HAVE to see!

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
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 ( )

And thanks very much for the tutorials 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!

edit;;
11/04/12 - Finally added the missing brindle markings. Also changed text, added more tutorials, darkened stockings, made the overlay color a little more teal-ish, and... I think that's about it. XD

Not going to redo the quad images since I'm lazy and my computer is being slow. XD So you can still view the original there.

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

Description
I strongly recommend you view the quad - it has this and 3 other EPIC versions you really HAVE to see!

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
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 ( )

And thanks very much for the tutorials 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!

edit;;
11/04/12 - Finally added the missing brindle markings. Also changed text, added more tutorials, darkened stockings, made the overlay color a little more teal-ish, and... I think that's about it. XD

Not going to redo the quad images since I'm lazy and my computer is being slow. XD So you can still view the original there.

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