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Born of Water.

The first in a series of elemental pictures. :)



This too was a project for a Secret Santa, and this one took longer than the other I think. The mane and tail... Oh gods! I did and redid, redid those and redid it again. I finally just gave up. The twigs weren't bothering me... it was just everything else. I think I was having a bad day. :laughing:

Anyhow, this is it in its (almost) entirety. There's a little more of the pic that I opted to crop out due to the fact that it just wasn't needed.

The little hole/waterfall is actually two pics of the Niagara Falls blended together, and there for no other reason than the fact that I looked at it and just decided to put a watery pitfall in. Same goes for the snake... honestly, did you even notice the snake before reading this? LOL Most people seem to look over it.

Done with CS2 and a Wacom Intuos3.


Elemental Horse Series:

Fire: The Fire Lord [link]
Earth: The Earth Goddess [link]



Credits:
Horse: Copyright to Verena Gremmer.
Castle: =little-stock
Waterpit (two images): ~ArrsistableStock
Water/rock (two images): ~ChristasVengel-stock
Texture & Sky: *night-fate-stock
Sky: ~AthenaStock


PLEASE FULL VIEW!


Click for Closeups -- Please look at them. I swear, it's prettier up close than far away. I nearly loaded just a picture of the head and front half of the body instead of the whole thing. :P

Wallpaper Pack: [link]

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HOLY MOLY! LoL
That is stunning hun ^_^
I SO :+favlove: this like x1,000,000,000,000


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That's awesome, AGAIN!

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Ahah I knew it. You again at work. -dies- Love your work, its sooo... amazing? :+fav:

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The detail you put into everything is just amazing!

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:iconrymbaby:
That is unbelievable. Simply gorgeous. I'm trying desperately to learn to do manes and tails, and I use your pictures (and tutorial) to guide me. I am always stunned by your manes and tails. And the "watery pit" looks tremendously believable. Plus it's just gorgeous horse stock.
:iconarrsistable:
Aww. :smooch:

The most important things to remember is to, firstly, go with the flow of the movement, and to remember that hair travels in clumps, not individually. There'll always be the fly-away strands, but the vast majority is left together. Use lots of layers when doing manes/tails, too, dodge, burn, use a few different colors. I usually pick my highlighting colors from the picture around it; if there's a yellowish/orangish sunset, then let the highlighting colors reflect that. The flow is very important too, though, because if it's moving wrong then the whole pic will look off. I'm sure you knew that, though. :) :heart:

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Woot! We're both doing the elements! How many of them are you doing?

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gorgeous arrsistable hon! :D
really nice :heart:

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:iconrymbaby:
*soaks it all in* Yeah, I can get the movement to look decent, but my hair always looks too clumpy, like dolll hair. Or the strands look too perfect. It's hard to get the natural tangles. Well, practice makes perfect! So I shall keep trying. :)

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