New Coat Of The Moment - - - Arya`s Base Comez Here!

here it is! have fun with it guys

Ok! Here is my entry! I had some help from Shiny and I credited my work Lol

That has to be one of the best jobs I've seen Cherry. You do armor reallllly GOOD girl!
Jess that came out as the best coat you've done yet...you should be proud of yourself!

why thank you robbin! i'm curently working on hackney king-he's loookin good lol! thought about doing an armor job on him too (or something new) just cause i love his pose

Thank u so much Robbin! Again, Shiny helped with the mane and tail and eyes and background. Lol. But thanks so much again!

Oops! eye lol

VERY good bancam!! Its great!!!

I LOVE THE ARMOR, cherry!!! Oooooh I'm so going to work on that now!!! Wait... it's midnight.

hehe i can't wait to see it ember

Awe thanks Ember! You guys are great. Without you guys, i'd still be yelling at GIMP cuz i wouldnt be able to work it lol

I don't know how you did it cherry...... each try on this one always comes out wrong.

But..... OH WELL!!! I have to say- the amount of detail in the armor is AMAZING!!

whats not working for you ember?!

I have tried mainly fantasy colors... like a purple, for the horse, which I am not too good at. I think I'm going to try a different color that is more real.

ya that would be hard cause you don't have anything to go off of

Lol

do you use layers ember?!

Yeah she does. She taught me how to do em (YAY!)

Yup I do.

AAAAAH!!!!!!! GIMP IS BEING SO........DUMB RIGHT NOW!!


Sorry- angry moment for ember. GIMP just CLOSED on me and I lost two things I was working on!!!!!!!

oh no ember! i'm sorry!!
ok if you work with layers what i did is start by doing the armor-i used like 7 or 8 different layers to get the highlights and everything just right-when i was sure i was done with the armor i merged them so i wouldn't have so many layers floating around! then you start a layer underneat the armor that way you don't accidently color over it (found that out the hard way) and then color your horse a color-then start with shadows (a new layer inbetween horse color and armor) to give it the 3-D look then start the horse muscles and stuff itself you'll get it! choose a purple that you like-then take it 2-3 shades both directions, 2 or 3 shades darker then lighter and put them above your horse-and use those colors!! good luck!! if you need more help (should i say confusion hehe) let me know

It shouldn't be any harder to do a purple horse than any normal color. You know where you want shadow and highlight, its just a matter of picking the colors. When I do my coats, I pick the base, but then I go all over the place for my accents. You don't just have to go straight lighter or darker- in a brown horse the shadows can be blue or purple, the highlights can be more copper or orange... the more colors you blend together, the more 3D it starts to look. The white horse I did for he last competition probably had 15-20 different shades of gray, blue, purple and pink.

Here is the one I have done:


All the others are amazing!! Cherry, the armour is great

holy taleders lol

a_horseaholic- I do know that. But normally with GIMP I find it easiest to use the Dodge/burn tool, doing it many times for many shades. I have done lots of different colors on my coats- like a blue one I have. Or my favorite fire colored horse. I lost it anyway when GIMP closed on me.

OH
MY
GOD.
CHERRY I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR ARMOUR!!!!!!!!!!!

That's REALLY good, Harriet!!