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Hey you! Feel free to download this to your computer, but don't use it anywhere on the internet without my permission, or you'll have me, my watchers, and my online buds to deal with. Don't be an art thief!More TS giftart! This is Freya, Cricket's Friesian mare who has been utterly lovely and supportive of my poor Khepri who was a bit of a wreck after the events of
Of course, being a classic black Friesian, like Evanescence, she had always been in Evanescence's shadow in Khepri's eyes. However, he's beginning to see her for who she really is, and their relationship is becoming much stronger and healthier than his rather dysfunctional rapport with Evanescence.
Khep still has some pretty deep-seated emotional constipation, but Freya has made it her personal mission to teach him how to love. -sniffle- My not-so-little womanizer is growing up! xD
So this is the lovely Freya, looking suitably patient and serene. She's easily the most rational mare in the herd. I tried something different with the mane to make it wavy. It took forever! So many hairs. I guess I'll stop rambling now.
I love encouragement and suggestions for improvement, and I respond to all comments. ^.^
Credits on image.
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Thanks! I had a lot of fun with the colours and the wavy hair in this one.
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Oh. My. Fucking. God.
This is STUNNING!
What program do you use?
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Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment. 
I use Adobe Photoshop CS4, with a small Wacom Bamboo tablet for hair. I have a walkthrough of my pre-tablet technique here: [link] .
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No problem.
Haha, such a shame I have none of them. xD
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What program do you have?
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Gimp 2.6
the cheapie of the photomanipulation world.
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Gimp still has the Paths tool for epiczorz quality cutting, which makes it way better than Photoshop Elements (a stripped-down, cheaper version of Photoshop) in my book.
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Haha!
I can't use the Path tool. 
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Thank you! It was an adventure learning how to make the mane wavy.
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Hi,
This great piece has been featured here [link]
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Awesome! Thanks very much, I really appreciate the exposure.
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My pleasure!
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Thanks! It was my first time doing wavy hair.
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You've been featured in my journal! I hope you don't mind.
[link]
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Squee! I'm honoured that you noticed something of mine, especially something I didn't link in your journal!
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Thank you! The lighting wasn't too much of a struggle in this piece, except I had to reconstruct some of the chest because the original stock horse had a really long carpet-mane that covered it completely!
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You're very welcome--I never would have seen the reconstruction.
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I like the waves. Specially since she's a friesian and most have really long wavy manes. Very real that way.
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I actually shortened the original stock horse's mane a little, it was like a giant carpet that covered the chest!
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OMG Spec, I completely LOOVVEE you! That's sooo totally Frey 
I <3 you! lol
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Yay! Glad you like it. It was fun to experiment with the mane.
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This is gorgeous! 
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Thank you! I might try that out, but I can't really envision how to achieve it without giving the impression that the hair has turned from black to blonde at the ends.
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Hm. I tend to take a pale yellow and put the brush on low opacity, and also make it a little smaller than the brush I used for the rest of the hair, then gently streak yellow throughout the hair. Then go back and up the number of strands as you get nearer and nearer to the ends, so you get a nice kind of... blend/fade thing, for lack of a better word.
Honestly, I need to make a million and one tutorials so I can actually show people what I mean instead of bumbling around in circles lol. Hopefully that made a little bit of sense. ^^
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I love this! The mane is wonderful and I love where the horse is placed.
The only thing I would suggest is that usually when in the sun, the hairs will get more saturated and lighter as they stray away and you would be able to see a lot more fly away hairs. it's a little difficult to explain. here is an example:
[link]
you can see how the hair is very saturated on the ends. Also if you look at the plants on the right of your picture, at the tops you can see how the lighting affects the thin stems.
Otherwise, this is absolutely wonderful!
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Thanks! I can see what you mean, but I wasn't too comfortable with making the ends of black hair really white.
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That's fine! It still turned out great
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HOMGOSH. I really...really...really cannot express how much I love this! The picture flows so seamlessly, and the lighting is phenomenal. Stunning work, love
xx
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Thanks Havok! I had fun with the lighting.
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Wonderfully done spec ^.^ The mane looks great! You did a wonderful job, again
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Thanks! I'll have to try this mane technique again.
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