Horses manes (update)

[Husky_mom]

I´ll try do a better one later at home but heres an idea.........just fill in more the blanks........you know more clumps of hair......

[slleipnir]

Thanks everyone....

I tried, again, at redoing the mane. I tried to think of how it would flow...


I think it looks a little less like a mop but needs work D:


no mane

[slleipnir]

also if you have any other advice for making it look "sharper" please tell me. I know the anatomy is wrong, but I'm not going to fix that now.

I need to ditch the bg don't i?

[Husky_mom]

another attempt, I can seem to make it right either, lousy mouse thing..........

anyway I think just filling it in more and the details you just did on top of that would be great, and just the front legs a tad longer.........but other than that it´s great.........the personyou are doing this for will be thrilled when you hand it over.......

heres a long maned horse rearing

[king2005]

Read before looking at my red lines, other wise it'll look like I'm on crack or something lol

Start the hair from the bottom & work your way up(as in individual strains, bottom to top).. the upper hair is ontop like you know... BUT your *mop* makes it look like the hair is all coming from the top of the neck only & just covering the neck in a lot of places... I think your flow is mostly ok, but the hair needs to look like its coming from the whole neck, not just one place...

AS you know I suck at explaining anything, but I hope that makes sence... I only have paint here, so I cannot do anything (I'm still at work)... I use GIMP & I would use the blury round tool to make the hair (solid centre, but blured edges).

Do you remember that GSD puppy I did? (its of Travis when he was a little fella, a PT members dog)... It took too many hours to do the fur as I tried to draw almost all the hairs.. it was crazy! But when I printed it out on photo paper, people think its a photo of a real dog!

[king2005]

also if you have any other advice for making it look "sharper" please tell me. I know the anatomy is wrong, but I'm not going to fix that now.

I need to ditch the bg don't i?

Nope.. thats what Layers was invented for

[slleipnir]

What do you mean, Jess about the layers? I don't want to change the anatomy because it's too much effort lol. I do layer my work. Everything is on a diff layer.

[slleipnir]

I think I'm finished. I don't know what else I can do unless the person it's for doesn't like it.

Do you dislike the background???

[slleipnir]

I'm not that satisfied with it but I duno...if you paid me $15 for it would you be happy or would you want it to look better and more detailed?