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Published: 2010-01-29 19:29:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 5250; Favourites: 156; Downloads: 84
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FINALLY.Made for an equine contest [link] after I finished reading a short story about a mermaid and her water horse named Karn. I had an idea of what Karn and his fellow sea pony friends looked like, but I could never FIND a picture of a hippocampus that looked like the Karn in MY HEAD
So I made one 
This is my Seafarer. He's gold instead of blue like Karn, but methinks I captured what I wanted to capture anyways ^-^
Lemme know whatcha think of my baby boy
I'd be really excited to know 
Thank you my lufferly stock peoples. With out you, my brainchild wouldn't have existed O.o -->
Horse: [link]
Rock: [link]
BG: [link]
Scales: [link]
Crest and Tail painted par moi
Again, in case you missed it the first time, check out the pony contest here: [link]
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Thank you kindly! I actually tried updating it to my more current version here, but unfortunately my computer crashed and died:
BUT I'M TRYING AGAIN! That's what this image will be :3
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Whatcha "UGH"ing about? You're pretty good at arting too
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LOL nooooooooooooooooooo, nowhere near your talented booty! <3
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You're closer than you think dalh, seems to me like you're only a couple clues away from figuring out how to make your pics next level
Take this guy for example:
All in all a good piece - you identified where the shadows and highlights are supposed to be, but you don't know how to create the illusion of form 100% quite yet. The problem you have is you've drawn all your highlights and shadows separate from each other, with maybe only one midtone in between. For example, if you were asked to draw a red ball, seems like your brain would fight you really hard to draw something like this:
www.clipartguide.com/_small/13β¦
When you should be drawing something like this:
www.clipartkid.com/images/31/rβ¦
This challenge is one you faced on your wolfie's legs; the highlight, shadow and midtone are all in the right place but need to be blended more smoothly to get the illusion you were looking for.Β
Another thing I noticed is your color pallette is too small. When working with your wolf's red fur, for example, you have a bright red, a medium red, and blackish red. Try adding a couple more colors - like a darkish purpley-red to help merge your shadow red to your chosen medium red, and a light orangey-red to help merge your highlight and medium red together. I find working with a range of five different shades and hues to visually describe a single color in a painting gives the image the most realism with the least work.Β
Pointilism illustrates that last concept best because it best demonstrates the variety of colors that went into describing a single color;Β www.jetiiiart.com/images/stuckβ¦
Even though there are greens, purples, and pastel blue smeared all over the tops of those mountains, we know the top parts are supposed to be snow - a substance that is usually pure white. A less blotchy example of using multitudes of colors to describe one color would be this image:Β www.williampowell-artist.com/Pβ¦
Even though you have turquoise, purple, pastel blue, and some aqua to describe the snow, the viewer still sees it as "white". Β
Anyways, sorry if the critique was unwanted 
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That is certainly helpful advice. It is just hard for someone like me who's color blind. So i constantly have to guess which is the right color. Most the time if it's way too hard for my mind to grab i end up only using 2/3 shades of that color. Reds, oranges, browns, creams, pinks, blues and greens are my hardest color to pick out as they either look white, highlighter hued or all the same color regardless the shade ;A;.Β
And yea ahah that red wolf was an ooolllllllld manip i Β did starting off doing wolves
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I have tried to learn the proper ways to shade. Or at least i think i have learned the proper ways ahha.Β
This has been helpful for me though so do not think that it wasntΒ ahah.Β
and t-thank you. I just feel that im not cause not many people commission me or reply to my submissions so i feel that im not up to the task like others.
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LOL, well being color blind is definitely a setback when choosing colors
But yes, you've improved your shading - its definitely not so harsh and blended a lot more naturally. What you've done is muted your highlights and shadows a little too much though. Again though, that's a super quick fix and no need of giant leaps of intuition to figure out. All you got to do is select your wolves and play with the CONTRAST AND BRIGHTNESS bar in photoshop. Wiggle the slider around and I'm pretty sure you'll see what I mean. Your black wolves might need a little more help salvaging their highlights though - all you need for that is the dodge tool set to highlights though and you should be in the clear.
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I absolutely LOVE this....especially the eye!
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Thank you! And yeah I love my pony's eyes too! I'mma going to have to redo this though - not especially fond of the way I so poorly blended the horse into the BG. I cringe a little now, but I was excited to show ya'll the pony so I didn't try to correct it much
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Well then, i certainly succeeded in my original goal 
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absolutely amazing! all of your equine concept manips are ammmaaazing. you have quite a talent, looking forward to your future work!
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So I've got this stupid grin plastered all over my face now. I hope your happy
Thanks again for saying so! I'mma excited that your excited
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This looks amazing. I would never have thought to try doing something like this, and I really like how you've merged the scale texture to the horse and made the fins beleivable. I also like the painterly look of the background.
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Thank you so much! The scale merging wasn't originally planned, lol. It started to develop when I accidently set the layer to overlay and I could see some of the horse coming through the scales. I liked the look so I edited it that way
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You're welcome.
Ah, yes... Photoshop is a great place for little accidents and experiments that turn out to be quite useful. LOL
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OMG it's a Hippocampus!!! *squeels* OMG thats amazing!
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Thankies! I was noticing there weren't nearly enough hippocampus manips out on DA and decided to try fixing that a bit
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wonderfully done, love the effects of texture and the awesome colours
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Thank you for the comment! I personally think that the darned tail could have been shaded a bit better, butcha, I like where the scales meet the white of the pony and the gold vs. white ^-^
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no prob...no matter how good I've gotten I always find things wrong with my own work...just means that you've set yourself high standards and won't accept anything but your best...It's a good thing at least
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Much agreed ^-^ Enables you to grow as an artist, I'm sure of it
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yep, and there's always room for improvement!
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wowowowowowowowowowow!!!!!!!!! Bonita!!!!! (beautiful!!) I
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xD That's kewl to know my art can inspire that kind of reaction
Glad you like it
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yep!! your welcome!!
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Hippocampus!!! <3 Great job, amazing blending.
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Ya, we don't get to see 'em too often do we? Glad you likith
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HOW
I will never know
THE RESULT
I will see it, and I'M SHOCKED
FANTASTIC job!
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Thank you very much ^-^
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Oooooh, I LOVE the way you did the scales! ^-^ And the mane thingie is pretty cool, for sure.
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Yea no, I like the scales too
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I bet it took a lot of work but it definitely looks smooth and makes sense. And it's so SHINY! *is entranced*
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lol, yes
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Makes perfect sen...WOW SPARKLY SHINY YAY!
/ADHD
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You're very welcome! It's absolutely breathtaking. A lot of hard work put into it
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wow! your style are wonderful β₯ such talent!!!
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lol, thank you very much for the compliment ^-^
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