[WIP] Magical horse
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Topic: [WIP] Magical horse
Posted By: cele1989
Subject: [WIP] Magical horse
Date Posted: 18 September 2011 at 2:50pm
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Hi, it's a long time I've done something arty... unless you consider making aquariums is arty :D. Anyway I started off this week with a hand drawn picture of a horse/pony...considering the build of the animal I'd say pony :) Anyway, I scanned it, got the colorcount down, then resized to preferable size, 300x300 pixels... here it is...and now I'm out of inspiration...I'm sorry I started off with a hand drawn picture, because it was to hard to do a horse with pc only...:S  new update: I don't know if it is a good idea to start blocking out the colors  |
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 18 September 2011 at 8:10pm
| the head seems really huge. is there a particular reference you're using? |
Posted By: Qemist
Date Posted: 19 September 2011 at 1:23am
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I think horses have pretty weird anatomy in the first place. but the legs and head might be a little off. Im pretty impressed by how good this looks while its just done sketchy. Hope to see the end result and not miss out it looks promissing! |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 19 September 2011 at 4:02pm
Yeah the proportions are way off. The front legs are almost T-Rex small. This image should be a good reference:
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Posted By: cele1989
Date Posted: 20 September 2011 at 7:19am
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well, I wasn't really using a ref, but I studied my pony at horseriding school very good, so I must say he has a rather big head to be a pony, and I think the ref snader posted is a horse with a rather small head. I depends on the breed a lot how horses are builded. I think I can refer best to my pony as a mini-tinker horse... because he's actually a mix of different breeds. Looks a little bit like this one:  Also I need to used a technique to shorten legs because of the angle of the horse: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkorting_%28schilderkunst%29 - http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkorting_%28schilderkunst%29 This is a Dutch article that shows how the arm of the girl in the painting is shorted for getting the right perspective. I wanted the galloping to look very powerful so, the legs are rather high: like this pose:  I like the shape and I don't see much wrong with it...I'm just struggling with color, pixelpatterns to give it the right structure.... |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 20 September 2011 at 8:16pm
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You not seeing anything wrong, doesn't mean there isn't anything wrong. Currently, the cranial area of the horse is nearly as big as its ribcage, and the head+neck is as large as the entire body.
And if you want to make a beefy horse, sure go ahead. But right now your limbs aren't beefy. They're the thickness of a slender horse, and they're very bony. If you want a beefy horse, look at photos of the Dutch Draft (sometimes spelled draught) and belgian draft   
Thing is, for a beefy horse the proportions are a bit off, but because you've rendered the limbs as skinny and have quite visibly defined muscles - it looks like it's supposed to be a recreational horse rather than a worker. And for a recreational horse, the proportions are a lot more off. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: cele1989
Date Posted: 21 September 2011 at 2:37am
well, by coincidence i found a picture that almost looks exactly like my pony. Big head, strong body, but not very thick legs. And the colors are almost exactly the same... he even has a blue eye. When I saw this one for sale I thought, this can't be true, they are selling my pony! But luckily the other photo's showed some differences and apparently the location of the sale is different. But I was amazed by how much this horse resembles mine :o |
Posted By: cele1989
Date Posted: 21 September 2011 at 3:39pm
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I'm sorry for the wining, but sometimes I get in a bad mood when it comes to artwork, I apologize. Despite I have some good idea's I'm a bit frustrated because I barely get a piece finished. My last finished work dates 2007. In mean time I had periods of trail and error and periods of hiatus...I hope you understand my bad mood and therefor are able to forgive me... I guess I'm not patient and stubborn enough to work at a single piece till it is finished. I tend to have this with digital art even more, just because you can keep working and working on it. I also am a painter (acrylics) and I also make pencils as a base for painting or pixeling. Somehow I tend to be able to help myself better out when it comes to pencil and acrylics, work towards the thing I have in mind and finish a piece within the time I estimated. But I'm just a computer addict I guess... Can someone please give me some advice on how to cope with such things...because I won't quit on art, somehow I keep loving it...:) Anyway, I did a little edit in mean while so check this out:  |