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AT: Perfect Imperfections

BlackHorseWords

Published: Jun 4, 2012

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^{This work may not be reproduced, reuploaded, or used without my written permission. You may use this as a desktop background, but please notify me if you do.

Horse: [link]
Background: [link]
Zebra Stripes Referenced From: [link]
Everything else hand painted by ~BlackHorseWords
Special thanks to ~The-Ripple-Effects *Frostie-Spirits and =prints-of-hooves for their help and critique.
Estimated time: 10 1/2 Hours

Perfect Only In Her Imperfections...

She never stays the same for long,
Assuming that she'll get it wrong
Perfect only in her Imperfections
-- Jon Mclaughlin, Beautiful Disaster

Art trade, art trade! My first art trade! This piece is for the wonderful :devkaydeniero: who asked for something based on this song. As we talked about it, she came to the conclusion that she wanted a brown reverse zebra, with either white or black stripes. And, well, it ended up like this! This was so much work, but I do adore how it turned out. I hope you all enjoy it too. This is my seventh manipulation of the year and was completed on June 3rd, 2012. The original image is 2965 x 2076.

The biggest struggle with this piece was of course the markings, but I found a wonderful way to do it eventually. I use Photoshop Elements, which sometimes differs from the CS brands of Photoshop, so I was wondering if there would be any interest in a PSE tutorial on dark to light markings. Anywho

Anyone who would like the full version of this for a background, please note me.}

Image size

2592x2901px 2.5 MB

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Odilicious

Sep 9, 2012

This is beautifully done and the reflection in the water a brilliant detail.