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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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:icondhxjcrd:
~dhxjcrd Dec 25, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
It have a very "fishy" look, if you get what I mean, Amazing!
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:icondarkrose64:
Omg I love this and I love your art and style!
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:iconvanitasgrass:
~VanitasGrass Sep 15, 2012  Student General Artist
Great job!
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:iconmaniplover:
Wow! How did you blend the legs into the water? This is amazing!
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:icondazymae:
~DazyMae Apr 5, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
Wonderful work! I wish i could do that.
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:iconrossettelovejewel:
Mood: Amazed ~RossetteLovejewel Mar 30, 2012  Student Artisan Crafter
make an air elemental horse
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:iconshadowjac:
I like how it looks like a storm is about to happen, and the horse is the cause of it. It add's a mystery to the picture. If you hade critque I would give you great revues!
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:iconhorsesforlife99:
Mood: Love ~horsesforlife99 Jan 11, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Can I use this for a layout on howrse?
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~Kalineh Nov 20, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
This is so beautiful.
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