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This is a WIP I started a very long time ago. I've lost interest in it and probably won't be finishing it. But, I put a lot of work into the horse, and I haven't uploaded a manip in awhile, so I decided to upload what I've done with this.
Credits:
Horse by ~Ockie [link]
Background by *legends-of-the-west [link]
Mane and tail painted with brushes by =arrsistable [link]
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Thank you! There are plenty of tutorials in the resources section of this site.
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The horse is so very smooth and beautiful, and I love its mane. Don't you hate pouring yourself into something only to abandon it? It happens to me a lot. xD
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Thanks.
Yes! At least this time I still had something sort of worthwhile to post. Usually when it happens the work that I have done looks terrible and I just delete the whole project.
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You are very good in cutting the horse out, it looks almost real
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Thank you very much, I worked very hard on the cutting.
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lovely dearie. I love that horse too<3
Since it's just a WIP, I'll refrain from a indepthly long crit.
First, the lighting is a bit backward, since the light is coming from the back and on the horse it is from the front, not overly noticable since he's not very shiny, that could be fixed if you decide
A shadow of course.
That's really all I have. I hate the nasty looking bushes on the right, but it would be a ton of work to kill them :] overall lovely, I hope you keep workign on it a bit<3
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It's been so long since I worked on this, I can't even remember what I've done to it. I think all I've done was cut out and smudge the horse, and paint the mane and tail. The shadow is always one of the last things I do, which is why I don't have one this time.
I doubt I'll ever finish this exact one, but I'm so in love with the concept behind it (which you can't really see right now because I gave up on it while working on the really fancy stuff 
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haha understandable :]
oh good i'll be watching for it then<3
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my first though when i saw this was "hey, it's a grulla garrano!" (garrano is breed of wild ponies from north portugal - and the one i want the most!
but it's sad that the background sports a beautiful blue sky (sugesting strong sunlight) and the horse has such little shades/shines (both because of the dull nature of his coat, and because of the original horse's setting - cloudy sky). it feels a bit... off, like the horse wasn't supposed to be there, no matter how cute it looks.
my advice would be to make (by increasing contrast or dodge/burn faking) stronger shadows on the horse, choose a background with less obvious good weather, or remove that blue sky by de-saturating it to greyness and sprinkling a couple of rain clouds.
but other than that, it's a gorgeous picture and a very well done composition! 
PS.: 
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Lol, really?
It's not so much that I forgot the shadow (although I guess I kind of did, since it didn't occur to me to add one in before uploading this). The shadow is one of the last things I do, after I'm sure everything is where I want it. And since I wasn't done this, I hadn't gotten around to it yet.
And you're right about the lighting. I don't think I got around to that yet. It's been so long since I worked on this, and most of the work was done with the more complicated parts that I took out because they were frustrating me, so this is mostly just a horse pasted onto a background. I'm pretty sure all I did was smudge it and paint the mane and tail.
I'm glad you like what I've done, though. It really helps my confidence to know people like my work, even when it's still "raw" like this one. 
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seriously, i wish all my "raw" unfinished works look THIS well arranged and deliberate! 
anyway, if you ever think on finishing this one, or making a redo, i hope my (not always wise) advices help you in some way. i'd love to see this concept finished!
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Not all my unfinished manips turn out like this.
And your advice is always wise, and always helpful.
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I think it looks good 
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