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Soooo... I can't begin to tell you how much STUFF I put into this. I am so drained right now. But I'll try to say some of the thoughts bumping around in my head because I was planning to anyway. Also, I've started uploading 900 pixel wide versions (the original of this one is over 3000 pixels wide) instead of 800. Let me know if this is too big for most screens, I can go back to my old sizing habits.

Right, so this was made for 's Technology and Nature Contest. For those air-heads in the audience, the technology is the train, nature the horse (and surroundings too). I was wandering over to her page to give her credit for the BG I used in Makani's pic, and I spotted this contest. I've never entered an art contest before, but the theme just sparked this idea in me, and I knew I had to enter.

I cut out every single little knob and twiddly bit on that train. Every. Single. Bit. I considered chopping them off, figuring no one would notice, but I wanted it to look good, so I sat there and cut and cut and cut. Normally I get a deviation done in one sitting, I like to work while the idea is fresh. However, I started this one right after Makani, and I knew finding a workable background would be nearly impossible (honestly nearly all the stock images of railroad tracks are head-on shots). So I cut out the train and horse, and set it aside for later. Hours and hours of multitasking that also involved browsing hundreds of stock images later, I had a background and began the long process of tying everything together. I nearly gave up. The foreground was nasty, the colours were washed out, the horse didn't fit (and was missing two hooves). The train, once I managed to fit it to the tracks, now needed to either hide farther back and be obscured by the horse, or it needed to have some partial wheel construction. *collapses on the floor*

Blah blah blah and then I decided I hated the text, killed it, had a stroke of inspiration, and reworked the stock credits so they didn't look so ugly. Many thanks to ~Elminster-ZK for the running critiques.

Yeah, so behind the image:
Here we have an "iron horse" as they used to call the steam engines, and a horse of the flesh. They were both once the primary mode of transportation in society, but as the image indicates they are now both obsolete. Still fun, but not current.

Well, I'll shut my gob now and let the image do the talking.

Edit: 100 faves? Seriously? I'm hugely flattered! I really wish I hadn't lost the PSD file in the hard drive fiasco, or I would totally fix it up and offer a print. But really, it needs fixing. You people are crazy. xD I love you, but could you go favourite a piece I still like? <3

Comments and crits welcome.

Credits on image.

Thanks to:

Much love to:
for her cloud brushes
for the hair brushes I had fun experimenting with, and
sciencegirl on flickr.com for the rocks in the foreground.

This is copyrighted to me. As long as you don't steal it or change it in any way I won't have to dismember you. If you download it, tell me! If you like it, fav it! Thanks!

TO BE USED BY ME AND ME ALONE!

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Soooo... I can't begin to tell you how much STUFF I put into this. I am so drained right now. But I'll try to say some of the thoughts bumping around in my head because I was planning to anyway. Also, I've started uploading 900 pixel wide versions (the original of this one is over 3000 pixels wide) instead of 800. Let me know if this is too big for most screens, I can go back to my old sizing habits.

Right, so this was made for 's Technology and Nature Contest. For those air-heads in the audience, the technology is the train, nature the horse (and surroundings too). I was wandering over to her page to give her credit for the BG I used in Makani's pic, and I spotted this contest. I've never entered an art contest before, but the theme just sparked this idea in me, and I knew I had to enter.

I cut out every single little knob and twiddly bit on that train. Every. Single. Bit. I considered chopping them off, figuring no one would notice, but I wanted it to look good, so I sat there and cut and cut and cut. Normally I get a deviation done in one sitting, I like to work while the idea is fresh. However, I started this one right after Makani, and I knew finding a workable background would be nearly impossible (honestly nearly all the stock images of railroad tracks are head-on shots). So I cut out the train and horse, and set it aside for later. Hours and hours of multitasking that also involved browsing hundreds of stock images later, I had a background and began the long process of tying everything together. I nearly gave up. The foreground was nasty, the colours were washed out, the horse didn't fit (and was missing two hooves). The train, once I managed to fit it to the tracks, now needed to either hide farther back and be obscured by the horse, or it needed to have some partial wheel construction. *collapses on the floor*

Blah blah blah and then I decided I hated the text, killed it, had a stroke of inspiration, and reworked the stock credits so they didn't look so ugly. Many thanks to ~Elminster-ZK for the running critiques.

Yeah, so behind the image:
Here we have an "iron horse" as they used to call the steam engines, and a horse of the flesh. They were both once the primary mode of transportation in society, but as the image indicates they are now both obsolete. Still fun, but not current.

Well, I'll shut my gob now and let the image do the talking.

Edit: 100 faves? Seriously? I'm hugely flattered! I really wish I hadn't lost the PSD file in the hard drive fiasco, or I would totally fix it up and offer a print. But really, it needs fixing. You people are crazy. xD I love you, but could you go favourite a piece I still like? <3

Comments and crits welcome.

Credits on image.

Thanks to:

Much love to:
for her cloud brushes
for the hair brushes I had fun experimenting with, and
sciencegirl on flickr.com for the rocks in the foreground.

This is copyrighted to me. As long as you don't steal it or change it in any way I won't have to dismember you. If you download it, tell me! If you like it, fav it! Thanks!

TO BE USED BY ME AND ME ALONE!