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Published: 2011-05-28 16:00:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2697; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 0
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Description
"The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."
-The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
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My entry to 's Nature Horses Contest [link]
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I must say, I absolultely love this. It is much inspired by the Owl City CD Ocean Eyes and Sharon Creech's The Wanderer (one of my favorite childhood books) and lastly, by the ocean and arabians themselves. I love the ocean- so it's quite appropriate that I live in "The Ocean State", isn't it? Arabians are just so gorgeous and expressive, by far my favorite horse breed.
This is one of my characters by the way, in the same storyline as Arealorn. Her name, as one may assumes from the title, is Oceanic.
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Process:
Clone out halter Crop horse Smudge/paint mane and tail Add seaweed to mane and tail Paint the horse's eye Paint the scales onto horse Paint gills onto horse Resize background and alter color slightly Add horse to background, resize and recolor slightly Add splashes Add starfishes Dodge/burn horse a bit Add text and signature--------------------------
Critique
Overall impact/emotions from it? How well does it fit the contest theme of horses interacting with nature? Do the colors all work together? Do the mane and tail look realistic? Does the stock work well together? Does the horse look the right size? How well does it fit the quote? Any other comments?---------------------------
Stock
Horse: ~Jello88 with[link]
Background: *rifka1 with [link]
Starfish: 1. ~ravenarcana with [link]
2. ~foureyestock with [link]
3. myself with [link]
Splash Brushes: ~lizard--queen with [link]
Seaweed Tutorial: ~altered-humanity with [link]
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Comments: 20
my advice would be that maybe you try messing around with the lighting a bit to make it look more like the horse is blended in with the background, a photo filter might also help with this, otherwise lovely work
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alrighty, i sure can try that! i messed with the lighting some already, but more is always good
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awsome haha <333
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wow, you did a great job on this!! the only comment is to smooth out the cut-job on the horse's left side (the side where his head is not). and outline would also be really good(:
keep up the great work!
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i'll try both of those once i get a chance! thanks so much!
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the only things that i can think of as a critique, is that the gills shouldn't be the same colour as the horse's coat; the underside of the gill would be very pink due to the large amount of blood flow, and a complete lack of hair, so it would a colour closer to that of the gums of the horse. it doesn't need to be a huge pink line, but maybe have a thin line of pink in there, to make them look more gill-like. when i first looked at the picture, i though they were scars
other than that, it is a brilliant, unusual and striking piece of artwork
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Thanks so much for the critique! Once I get a chance to edit I can definitley fool around with darkening the legs- and I can try redoing the gills too
Thanks so much!
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your welcome
gills can be funny things, but if you look at the structure of them it makes them easier to draw
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that's so kind of you 
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