Vir Lath Sa'vunin ART ZOMG WUT

[ashstoner_021]

*collapses into a huge heap on the floor*  Wow, I wasn't sure I was ever going to finish this... well, and live to see the day anyway, haha.  I've been stringing poor Shimmy along with WIP glances for awhile now, so I figure I'd best get my ass in gear and FINISH IT.



I admit, the background on this is laaaaaaame.  I wanted it to look way more epic, but it just WOULDN'T do what I wanted it to!  So... yeah.  Haaaaa.  

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There ya go!  Hope you gals enjoy!  I admit I'm a HUGE horse freak, so the excuse to work on my horse anatomy was a good one.  Man the muses just BLIND SIDED me with this.  Here I was, all innocent and working on WIAWSNB... and then boom!  I swear I literally almost fell over.  Was weird.  ANYWAY... I promise I'll do more comic now!  BUT THIS WAS REALLY REALLY FUN AND I HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYS!  

<3's to Shimmy and Lenna.  You guys are awesome.

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[ashstoner_021]

Oh lordy, as soon as I learned he was an ALL BLACK horse I mentally yelled "...fuck." Shading an all black horse is almost as bad as trying to shade an all white one. SO DIFFICULT. I actually didn't use black as a base, which helped. I used a really dark charcoal gray color. It worked out quite nicely, and I'm very pleased with his coloring ^_^

And Alistair IS pretty isn't he? Man that threw me for a loop, because in his sketch/lineart phase, he looked awful. I kept telling myself "most of his detailing is in color... REMEMBER THAT", and I was pleased when I finally believed myself lol.

Tesni's horse reminds me of my pony I had when I was younger, although he was a Leopard Appaloosa, not a dapple. SPECKLES ARE FUN!

[valiasedai]

I forgot to add - Alistair's horse's coat is amazing - the way the black goes into the white is very natural - I've got a black and white cat with similar markings and the white running into the black and vice versa is spot on!