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"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
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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?
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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]
Image size
2700x1700px 3.69 MB
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It' s fantastic