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It's been a long journey since 2012 until now.

I remember how I drew the first sh*tty purple horse with a giraffe neck and lava in its blobby eyes - how proud I was, how happy his presence made me feel.

I named this char Burning Tears when I was still a kid, and I named so much more after him later on.

I always felt like I never was good enough to just grasp this atmosphere he was giving me, to just indicate the aura, the soul he has.

But guys, here I am.

My dear friend asked me to draw my beloved OC once more, as the second official commission she got from me.
This is btw the low-res version We two share a larger one. I didn't want to let the dA file go all exploding.
THANK YOU. I really needed this. I needed to challenge myself again, to find a way to draw as beautifully as I was capable of, without wasting literal months on artblock and procrastination.
I did that too often in my past, trust me (and most of you know me, I am a freaking SLOWPOKE when it comes to personal art).

This commission is not only a gift to you because even if you pay me, I had the opportunity to train my skills and combine my self-made 3D model with my 2D art skills; no. I was able to draw HIM for a freakin poster that someone dear to me is gonna decorate their room with? WTF please say that I am awake or so! Lol! Really; I am very shy about my art, I am not thinking this big. I am so HAPPY that people value what I do. I underestimate myself way too often and think like "Oh well, let's just do my best. I can't do more, right?" And then I see what the time I invested in led me to and I am smiling at my own work.

I am happy. That is why I love art. I do what I feel. And I feel what I do <3

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If any of you is interested in Commissions; I have them open! I only want you to be patient and understanding. I am studying full-time so there is not much I can do. I sometimes sacrifice my free-time - sometimes I don't even have any. But whatever I do, I pour all my skills in that! The rest - let the art speak for itself

_________

Software used:

Blender 2.8.16a (horse pose, normal map, texture in render)

Paint Tool SAI 2 (everything else)

Approx. time (editing and 2D art): 15h? maybe.

Amazing SAI2 Hair brush used for 2D and 3D fur effects.

Brush created by Hair/fur brush for SAI v2

Background inspiration: ice

________

Someone asked me how I created this, so I gave a "little" insight on my progress:

Well, I did a collage of my own 3D horse model combined with my techniques of hair, water and skyskapes.
The first thing I did was basically thinking of a stuitable pose. Thanks to my invested time for the model, I had a normal map, a fur structure texture and an almost fitting base color applied to it and I could also move it with an armature system until I found a pose I liked.
Then I panned around and searched for the perfect angle. I tried to find something elegant but also free, wild, unchainable. I had these attributes in my mind and kept searching for them until I could see it in the pose and position of the camera.
I wanted to have a clear silhouette that wasn't overlapping limbs, that is really important for a good pose. I just learnt that recently myself so this was basically my first try if it works out for me too. As you can see, the foreleg and the hinds have a gap in between where you can recognize each of them respectively.
Then I rendered that out and took the image to my 2D program where I started to think of everything I wanted to be there, I imagined where wind streams would flow, I thought about where his characteristic tears would find their way down and where they would kiss the air and fly away. I also had his reference sheet to look at any time so I wouldn't forget any detail and also to check the color intensity of his fur and hair. That one was really tricky for me because I had to slightly re-color the fur since the colors were just dark ones but not the exact color scheme.
I drew the hair alpha and adjusted it until I was satisfied with the look then I started drawing over the render to refine the fur structure. Added a bit more shading here and there, changed the hoof color, added more structure and shine to them, added the tears, made them shine, adjusted the hair more, changed the hair color until it was fitting, added hair shading, added hair shine, re-adjusted the hair hue, added more tear shine, adjusted the hair again, adjusted the fur more, added the little patch at his lifted foreleg, then I tried some backgrounds that I didn't like at all, deleted them, started again, deleted, went into my inspiration folder looked for some cool colors, found a piece that inspired me, took some colors that were close to the landscape gradient and started painting the background colors, made gradients, used some cloud airbrush tools, continued with blurring and trying out further. My friend then joined me and asked whether I'd think of a water scape he would be trotting through. I liked that and started mirroring the sky, applying the colors to the ground, blurring here and there. Added stars with my technique, added some darker and lighter patches, applied color gradients again, adjusted the water, then started to draw shiny lines on the water, blurred and smeared them out. Went back into my 3D program and created a plane with ocean modifier, added screen space reflections (basically made the plane behave like a bit of water) rendered that out, dropped it into my piece, took the reflections and added them to my horse, edited them in, asked for some critique, changed the edge to something rougher and less smooth, went back to drawing more details on the water, started to draw the splashes with a light color, blurred out, shine, blurred, draw, shine, blur, delete a bit of opacity, draw over on a new layer, delete old parts of the splashes, redone, new shine, add more effect layers, adjust the tear shine, adjust the hair reflections, adjust the water reflections, test the contrast by temporarily taking away the saturation, checking the background, checking for errors, adjusting a few hair strains, adjusting lighting again, adjusting shadows, testing, think that's it :'D Then I added my signature and exported ^-^

Description

It's been a long journey since 2012 until now.

I remember how I drew the first sh*tty purple horse with a giraffe neck and lava in its blobby eyes - how proud I was, how happy his presence made me feel.

I named this char Burning Tears when I was still a kid, and I named so much more after him later on.

I always felt like I never was good enough to just grasp this atmosphere he was giving me, to just indicate the aura, the soul he has.

But guys, here I am.

My dear friend asked me to draw my beloved OC once more, as the second official commission she got from me.
This is btw the low-res version We two share a larger one. I didn't want to let the dA file go all exploding.
THANK YOU. I really needed this. I needed to challenge myself again, to find a way to draw as beautifully as I was capable of, without wasting literal months on artblock and procrastination.
I did that too often in my past, trust me (and most of you know me, I am a freaking SLOWPOKE when it comes to personal art).

This commission is not only a gift to you because even if you pay me, I had the opportunity to train my skills and combine my self-made 3D model with my 2D art skills; no. I was able to draw HIM for a freakin poster that someone dear to me is gonna decorate their room with? WTF please say that I am awake or so! Lol! Really; I am very shy about my art, I am not thinking this big. I am so HAPPY that people value what I do. I underestimate myself way too often and think like "Oh well, let's just do my best. I can't do more, right?" And then I see what the time I invested in led me to and I am smiling at my own work.

I am happy. That is why I love art. I do what I feel. And I feel what I do <3

_________

If any of you is interested in Commissions; I have them open! I only want you to be patient and understanding. I am studying full-time so there is not much I can do. I sometimes sacrifice my free-time - sometimes I don't even have any. But whatever I do, I pour all my skills in that! The rest - let the art speak for itself

_________

Software used:

Blender 2.8.16a (horse pose, normal map, texture in render)

Paint Tool SAI 2 (everything else)

Approx. time (editing and 2D art): 15h? maybe.

Amazing SAI2 Hair brush used for 2D and 3D fur effects.

Brush created by Hair/fur brush for SAI v2

Background inspiration: ice

________

Someone asked me how I created this, so I gave a "little" insight on my progress:

Well, I did a collage of my own 3D horse model combined with my techniques of hair, water and skyskapes.
The first thing I did was basically thinking of a stuitable pose. Thanks to my invested time for the model, I had a normal map, a fur structure texture and an almost fitting base color applied to it and I could also move it with an armature system until I found a pose I liked.
Then I panned around and searched for the perfect angle. I tried to find something elegant but also free, wild, unchainable. I had these attributes in my mind and kept searching for them until I could see it in the pose and position of the camera.
I wanted to have a clear silhouette that wasn't overlapping limbs, that is really important for a good pose. I just learnt that recently myself so this was basically my first try if it works out for me too. As you can see, the foreleg and the hinds have a gap in between where you can recognize each of them respectively.
Then I rendered that out and took the image to my 2D program where I started to think of everything I wanted to be there, I imagined where wind streams would flow, I thought about where his characteristic tears would find their way down and where they would kiss the air and fly away. I also had his reference sheet to look at any time so I wouldn't forget any detail and also to check the color intensity of his fur and hair. That one was really tricky for me because I had to slightly re-color the fur since the colors were just dark ones but not the exact color scheme.
I drew the hair alpha and adjusted it until I was satisfied with the look then I started drawing over the render to refine the fur structure. Added a bit more shading here and there, changed the hoof color, added more structure and shine to them, added the tears, made them shine, adjusted the hair more, changed the hair color until it was fitting, added hair shading, added hair shine, re-adjusted the hair hue, added more tear shine, adjusted the hair again, adjusted the fur more, added the little patch at his lifted foreleg, then I tried some backgrounds that I didn't like at all, deleted them, started again, deleted, went into my inspiration folder looked for some cool colors, found a piece that inspired me, took some colors that were close to the landscape gradient and started painting the background colors, made gradients, used some cloud airbrush tools, continued with blurring and trying out further. My friend then joined me and asked whether I'd think of a water scape he would be trotting through. I liked that and started mirroring the sky, applying the colors to the ground, blurring here and there. Added stars with my technique, added some darker and lighter patches, applied color gradients again, adjusted the water, then started to draw shiny lines on the water, blurred and smeared them out. Went back into my 3D program and created a plane with ocean modifier, added screen space reflections (basically made the plane behave like a bit of water) rendered that out, dropped it into my piece, took the reflections and added them to my horse, edited them in, asked for some critique, changed the edge to something rougher and less smooth, went back to drawing more details on the water, started to draw the splashes with a light color, blurred out, shine, blurred, draw, shine, blur, delete a bit of opacity, draw over on a new layer, delete old parts of the splashes, redone, new shine, add more effect layers, adjust the tear shine, adjust the hair reflections, adjust the water reflections, test the contrast by temporarily taking away the saturation, checking the background, checking for errors, adjusting a few hair strains, adjusting lighting again, adjusting shadows, testing, think that's it :'D Then I added my signature and exported ^-^