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Published: 2008-11-17 18:50:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1377; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 28
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Drawn for the November round of the EquineXchange on LJ. I got Dreamaria's character this time around. Skeletal semi-demonic zombie translucent mares are a lot of fun to sketch, for sure!(Actually, it's sort of fun to say, too!
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I love the transparent effect you got with this. It's really cool how you got the muscles to show even being transparent like that. The skeleton looks awesome, too. That actually must have been a really good exercise in horse anatomy. I've never drawn a skeleton before. It'd probably help my skeelz, not that you need the help. (Actually, what helps the most is just seeing them day in and day out. I could always draw horses best when I worked with them every day. Now I'm a bit more pants at it.) Gorgeous job on this.
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Man, it really was the toughest shot at one I've done - I had to go study a bunch of skeletons, and then I was like... I want to have the weight of the horse behind it and make it look both solid and wraithish (is that a word..? Ha, it is now!) at the same time. I will tell you, take a crack at a skeleton, it will really open your eyes. I want to draw more of them now - I have to go to the Burke Museum here, sit and draw. Great exercise. 
Yep, I will say being around horses has done a 1000 percent increase in my skills - I see things and realize that yes, that's how it foreshortens, moves, and poses.
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Oh yes! That does look like it was fun to draw! It is also kind of fun to chant in a low voice: "skeletal semi-demonic zombie translucent mares... skeletal semi-demonic zombie translucent mares..."
This is a striking image for many different reasons.
First, you've composed the subject really well -- the mare is arranged in the negative space in such a way as to consume it all -- even to the point of breaking free at the top and the left side. There is implicit power in that. The angle is important, too. To the viewer's eye, it is immediately clear this creature is moving. Moving fast... and maybe noiselessly. There's a strong visual rhythm of the rib bones and legs and the diagonal imposed by the foreshortening of the body causes the eye to read movement.
Second, your use of complementary color -- the light red against the deep blue background -- causes this horror to visually leap from the plane of the image. I found myself thinking, "All I have here is a fly swatter and an orange. What is a fly swatter to a skeletal mare? Nothing! An orange? Nothing!" If the windows were not painted shut, I surely would have leapt to my doom. Well played, zombie mare. Well played.
(Very nice work on the anatomy, by the way.)
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Oooh, awesome! So weird and yet so cool. I love how the figure looks translucent but still solid, and the ridges on the hoof bones.
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