This is very, very mixed media. The horses were drawn by hand and colored with colored pencils, the sky is a photo that I took and digitally manipulated, and the grass is a brush from photoshop. This is part of a picture trade I'm doing with Kimira (http://kimira.deviantart.com/) of two of her characters, Star and Nil'Chi. I hadn't drawn horses in a long time, and I hadn't used traditional media in even longer, so it was fun to break out the prismacolors again. Of course my coloring skills aren't as leet as some other people I know, and this is made even more obvious by all the whitespace the scanner picked up (I used a blending pencil, I swear!) .. I'd considered adding a painterly effect (dry brush) to the horses, which actually looked quite nice, but was out of place with the rest of the picture. And it obscured too much detail. Anyway, this didn't take me very long at all (three or four hours?) so I'm going to be doing another pic for Kimira as well. [photo references used]
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