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Published: 2004-04-12 08:18:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 775; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 206
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This is a gift for ~Mothic for catching my 33,333 page view!I've never done an image quite like this before, I'm very pleased with it. I didn't try and hide my brush strokes on this one, I am rather fond of the results. Can you guess what song I was listening to when it came time to title it?
Anyhow, done in Photoshop in about six hours. The dual light source nearly killed me. I had a reference of my old horse Deno for the figure, the rest I just made up. The unicorn is ~Mothic 's character, Ariel. Though I think in a way I'll always think of Deno when I look at it.
Remind me no to do horses again... they're so hard to do! Had to do a bit of creative cropping, as well.... I wasn't thinking and just did the horse in the very center of the image.
Not very artistic. Also tried my hand at rays of light, which I'd never done before. Some were more successful than others.Hope you like it, ~Mothic !
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im not good at drawing horses either but it came out awesome. i love the way the sky looks.
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This is really neat Kay! My favorite part is definitely the background. It's so... Van Goshish! Starry Night-like and all, which is one of my favorite paintings. ^^ The rays of light are very nice as well. I think you did a good job of capturing the fine line that they seem to possess. My only comment is that I don't think they'd curl over the rock on the lower right as you have it. Your uni is cute! If you went just a teensy bit more in depth with shadow and highlight, it would eliminate that kind of floating-in-the-air look he has.
The most praise I have is for that sky and the stones. They're beautiful. Nice work overall!!!
~*Emily*~
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That's really beautiful! Lovely effects in the sky
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very nice drawing - not only the horse looks well drawn, but also the perpective is fascinating, looking like a forsaken valley, completely untouched and undiscovered, with a sudden abyss at the end .. the large part the night sky with the stars covers adds to the mystical feeling, the unicorn and the perspective are provoking. the perspective looks a bit awkward though, especially the one of the ledge the unicorn is standing on - while the creature looks like it's standing on an even surface, the ledge doesn't seems to be even at all, but rather losing height towards the right. that apart, you sure did a nice job - the lightening stands out in this drawing, from on the borders (the stones on the ledge and the horse itself) you illuminate to the rays one can see near the sun - it looks great! The river is illuminated on places I wouldn't really expect it to (since the rocks would cast shadows there), and also I would probably add a bit more of shading to the horse's belly, to add more depth, but that's no big deal - the texture on the ground is realistic, and the dampened brightness of the sky makes the drawing fit your title very well - bravo
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Wonderful lighting. The best part are the rocks...they're so subtlety lit.
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BEAUTIFUL! I love the sun rising over the midnight...beautiful and breathless!
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i love.. the rocks.. and light.
horses are evil. :B
but... the sky is so lovely.
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I love the anatomy of the unicorn. (I can't do equine anatomy for the life of me.) The colors give it a nice rich feel and I love the effect you got from the distinct brushstrokes on the sunlight. The only thing is that the rocks on the ledge look two dimensional for some reason. Great job though.
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That's incredable. Unicorns and horses are sooooo hard to draw. I love the moon (sun?) and it's unearthy glow. It looks almost like a gem shining. The creek, the stone, the sky. Oh drool! This is ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!!!!!one.
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Wow, it looks amazing! I love that sky... I think I'm obsessed with skies tho.. 
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Wow...the coloring...jus takes my breath away! I love unicorns so much! This deserves a fav...and a better comment (but my head lacks a brain right now 
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LHAHAH! 
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nice job on this - i love your designs recently - they have gotten a heck of alot more powerful
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OOOU I LOVE the lighting/sun/sun beams. reminds me kinda of van gogh (sp?). also the rocks look really pretty, how they have that kinda shine to them...and I adore how you can see the brush strokes, it really adds alot to the picture. mmm. unicorns. :D
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I love the way you did the light coming off from the sun and the night sky. Wonderful.
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I love the background and the style used on this. I also love Unicorns so this works for me
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Pretty cool Kay. Like the eye lookin this way. Cool Sun also.
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wow excellent art~!! the loghting and colouring are truely brilliant~!!!
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*impressed whistle* The background IS cool, it looks almost like you did it with chalk, or some such thing. It's a definite cool effect, as is the dual lighting effect, even if it did nearly kill you ^^
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Wow... that's beautiful. If I drew a horse, I'd butcher it like heck. o.X; And Deno's such a lovely name. x3 ALso, the sky is so lovely in this pic... *drools*
Though Ariel's supposed to be standing on a ledge, correct? It looks very nice (I love the texture and colors) though it's sorta hard to tell that the ledge is up higher. ('Unless my horrible eyesight has mistaken me) it sorta looks like one ledge all-together, instead of one way down below and one way up high. I believe if you made the lighting and contrast a bit more... uh, contrasted..? (I'm at a loss of words here.
But I still love teh picture; the shading on the horse (and everything else, for that matter) is so loveleh... x3
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Beauitful! ^__^ Absolutely adore how you done the background on this one!
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What a fantastic, beautiful sky. ;.; *has a thing for starry skies* And a great horse. Damnit, I wish I could draw animals. -_- Must - get off - lazy ass - and - practice...
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i think its cool you could do an horse that good on your first try.
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Beautiful unicorn
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This is beautiful! It definetly has an impressionistic flair to it, with all the brush strokes being visable, it really has some emotion in them, and also gives the sky and rocks some texture.
Really stunning colour choices, you have a lot of more neutral colours and then also a large amount of cool colours, but then that sun (which is just done so wonderfully with all the highlights etc) is an excellent contrast of warm colours, off-setting the piece a bit (in a very good way).
Great anatomy on the horse too, their so very hard to draw (well, at least accurately) but you did wonderfully!
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omfg
Eek! I love it, you captured him so perfectly!
'Course I like it 
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Good!
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You did ^^
Can't thank you enough, it's just so good
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Because we love you!
Still dont' mind if I try and make a print of it, do ya?
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Teehee, thanks ^^
I'd LOVE it if you made it into a print
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nice, great schadows on the horse and i like the sun but the montains look a bit 2d but stilll nice work
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