Very nice. The musculature is very well done, ane I love how it is a crisp, snow-covered background, with the snow being kicked up. Looks good!

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77 layers!?! to hell with that, i get confused with 5 lol.
it looks fabulous though, i love it!

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Hehe, well I guess that's testimony to how you don't need to use layers - you just do it straight off
Thank you very much - glad you like it

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Thank you very much! I referenced quite heavily for the pose and muscles, so I'm glad they came out well
Unfortuately, the kicked snow hides her legs, which I quite like, but I couldn't just miss out the snow, and I like the effect anyway.
Thanks once again!

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No problem.

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I thought the clouds there turned out great though!! They look loads better than mine anyway, since mine tend to look more like the smokescreen of Satan or something. XD I liked how you made those hoof prints in the snow too! Looks neat though, where it looks like it's changing from summer to winter somehow? Dunno if that's what you intended, but cool all the same to me! XD All in all, I'm damn well going to fave!

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Aww thanks! I had to redo the really big cloud at one point because it looked atrocious....But I bet my early clouds are a billion times worse than yours! (Actually, take any of the other clouds in my gallery....soooo bad.)
Interesting that you liked the hoofprints - they were kind of a quick afterthought near the end...ah well, glad they work!
Mrrr...."changing from summer to winter"? I'm not sure what you mean by that....
And thank you for faving! (And for being one of the few who comments when they fave )

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"They're sad little people...but they are good at mending things." -- My mother, on the subject of men.

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This, my very good friend, is absolutely wonderful. Seventy-seven layers? Oh my goodenss, if I would have known! I feel bad for making you do so much work, but this is so beautiful. Oh my goodness. I love the way you worked with the snow around the legs, and the solf background period with this strong foreground subject. You did wonderfully using cool colors with the neutral of the horse. Ah, those green eyes go sooo well with the coolness, never breaking it up for a bit. I really love how you did the anatomy. Every detail is mind boggling, and just wonderful. The highlights on the fur look so real, it is mind boggling. The mane and tail really add movement in this peice, along with the kicked up snow. This picture has so much life into it. This picture is a blessing to me.

Thank you SO very much hun. I absolutely adore this with all my heart, and it is now my wallpaper.

Maah, don't feel bad! I had so much fun doing this you can't believe it Like I said, it made me stretch my artistic abilities, so I'm really happy with it. I had fun with a scatter custom brush on the flying snow, though in retrospect it probably should have been less blurry.
I was also going for using colour environment properly - cool shadows and warm highlights - I hope it worked
I am so pleased that you like the highlights - I've never done them properly shiny like that, so I had to use a lot of references. My pose reference didn't have the lighting I wanted, so I had to make up the positions of the highlights and pray it worked. I scrapped one set, moved to a different set of references and did the current set.
Also glad you like the movement - working with thick pen lines including the hair areas scares me sometimes, because the lines can sometimes restrict the flow of the hair. So if you reckon it gives it movement, I'm happy
Goodness me, thank you very much! Thank you for faving it, and I really feel truly honoured to have you make it your wallpaper

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"It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain and it grows fouler." -- Octavius Caesar, on the subject of alcohol.
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"They're sad little people...but they are good at mending things." -- My mother, on the subject of men.