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April 29th, 2013 6:10:45pm
5 Posts 		I'm working on this and would like some WIP-critique. Anything is helpful, be harsh :P

http://i.imgur.com/ygr4M62.jpg

Clearly haven't started on mane and tail yet. Those are my weak points and I tend to put it off haha. If anyone has any tips to painting let me in on it~ :)

 


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Midnight Velvet Friesians
April 29th, 2013 10:30:22pm
123 Posts 		Looks good so far. I don't paint my mane and tails. I like the natural pic myself.

 

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awd ○ Paint Horses
April 30th, 2013 2:12:07pm
55 Posts 		Ana, I am not the best at manes and tails, but I am working on it! From what I have learned so far, I take colors from the mane using the eye dropper. I paint the base color, highlights, lowlights, and midtones each on a seperate layer. That way I can duplicate each layer individually and mess around with opacity, motion blur, Gaussian blur, etc. I also make sure to try and follow the horse's actual tail's shape. For the last manip I did, I left most of the original tail in the image and then painted over it. That way I could fade my painting a bit and show the actual tail through what I had painted. At least for that image and the settings I had, it worked for me. For now I just use trial and error. If something doesn't work I delete the layer and start again (which is why I do each 'color' on a different layer). I hope this helps you. If you have other questions just let me know, and I can try to help! :)

 

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Midnight Velvet Friesians
April 30th, 2013 10:42:33pm
123 Posts 		Well thats awd, I like how you do that. Maybe I should try myself just for fun.

 

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bunny• • • {offline}
May 5th, 2013 7:17:02pm
24 Posts 		the only thing i can think of is that the shadow doesn't match up with the shadow already on the horse... but since it's a sunset background there isn't a whole lot you can do to fix that.

 

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utakata -✨-{main; dwbs}- - and that, love, was that
May 6th, 2013 7:05:30am
1,540 Posts 		Agreed about the shadow, however that's tricky to change.A couple of other things jump out at me:Firstly, the horse looks a tad too small for his positioning on the background. He looks very much to be perched at the corner, as opposed to actually within the space. Personally, I'd like to see him (just went with a random gender for the pony, haha) a little deeper into the image, and slightly larger, so that he plays a bit more of a featuring role. Secondly, the pose looks a little awkward, especially his head and neck. Again, that's just the stock and has nothing to do with your work whatsoever, but I'd suggest maybe having a chop at that neck of his and repositioning his head/neck so that is's slightly more relaxed as it doesn't seem to quite fit the mood of the picture.But those are just very, very finicky personal opinions, so you're welcome to ignore them, haha! Overall, I like the feel of the image and the direction in which it's headed. The horse just needs to 'sit' in the background a little better. :)

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Mobius // is admiring her new layout with her TBs
May 6th, 2013 8:12:12pm
316 Posts 		I'm no graphic's phenomenon,but the only thing that pops out to me if the water around the horse's hooves.It looks kind of...sporatic(sp?real word?xD) and just placed there.It doesn't seem to fit in the image/the way the ocean moves.The horse also seems to be placed a tad bit above the "ground".To me it slightly seems like it is floating there.I hope that helped and wasn't confusing xD.Please post the final image,I would love to see it :).

 

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May 7th, 2013 12:46:54am
5 Posts 		Thanks for the opinions! :) They're really helpful.

 

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