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Submitted: April 23, 2008
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The Fire Lordby ~arrsistable

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Surreal

Hah! Such a great title, right?

Ok, gosh. This was a commission done for ~Maeris, who, might I say, was absolutely superb with all her patience. Kudos to you, darling.

She wanted a horse, canter pirouette in a puddle of gasoline and ringed by fire, as if the horse started it. But, then she gave me artistic freedom and this is what happened.

This was my very first time ever working with fire. Holy cow! I used gobs and gobs of layers of it and eventually it began to click into place. I tried a regular mane, and nah, scrapped it. Did a fire tail, and nah, scrapped it, but that one was Joshs call. I drove that man nuts asking him to come look at it and tell me what he thought, what looked wrong, etc. By the end of tonight he'd sit on the couch and stare at me without moving. LOL.

Sorry Josh.

Aaah, lets see. Obviously, the mane and tail were replaced. I lifted and curved the neck and brought the head in. Replaced the ears, opened the jaw and painted in some teeth, painted over the eye. I tilted the horse back, too, and altered/drew up/in the forelegs as well to add some dramatics, and give an overall pissed feeling, since that's what ~Maeris wanted.

And lots of other stuff, but I'll let you guys look if you want and try to figure it out.

Special thanks to *devils-horizon and ~Sylvanestra, because I annoyed the crap out of them too with demands for opinions and critiques along the way. Thank you too, to *devils-horizon for the playlist that got me through this picture!

Time: 40+hours
Tools: Wacom Intuos3 + Adobe CS2
Active Layers: 71 - 40 alone make up the fire.

Closeups: [link]

WIP progression:

The Fire Lord - WIP 1
The Fire Lord - WIP 2
The Fire Lord - WIP 3
The Fire Lord - WIP 4
The Fire Lord - WIP 5

Elemental Horse series:
Water: Elemental: Water [link]
Earth: The Earth Goddess [link]

Credits:
~RikkDarkMoon - [link] [link] [link] [link]
~VivaStock - [link]
*Mithgariel-stock - [link]
~jozut - [link] [link] [link]
~narghaash-stock - [link]
~jack-the-pumkin-king - [link]
~Stickfishies-Stock - [link]
~AthenaStock - [link]
=night-fate-stock - [link]
~Roslend - [link] NOT STOCK, used with full permission. Thanks hun!
~absurdus - [link]
~little-stock - [link]
SXC, C/O Costi: [link]

Daily Deviation

Given 2008-04-26

Fire is always risky business in manipulations, but when I see the light of the fire reflecting on the flanks of the horse, that just brings me sweet tears of joy. The Fire Lord by =arrsistable ( Suggested by ~Shadehkins and Featured by `IreneLangholm )

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~Maricales Feb 8, 2013 Student General Artist

This was used on a website as free wallpaper: [link]

=Beholdentolove Dec 4, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I am not sure if this person has your permission, but they are posting this work as theirs on their FB page: [link]

Your signature is removed:

~Weirdestkid Nov 11, 2012 Student General Artist

Hells steed

~Kullis Oct 27, 2012

Fantastic work!

~raize Oct 26, 2012

oooooh! What a hotty!

~dyatori Oct 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

_{I found this on a free wallpaper website, a site called FlashScreen: [link]}

~arrsistable Oct 9, 2012

Have you ever just wished the person responsible was in front of you? Just so you can give them your best angry face and shake a fist at them?

Grr. :shakefish: