Whew! All my previous posts are now published! *happy dance* All of the posts were simply babbling about horses, but soon I'll be uploading art. I'm almost done with my second TB line art. :D I just have to draw the jockey. I haven't drawn people in a while, so that should be interesting. :)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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There was a really bad storm the night I was supposed to go to my aunt's. So, no horsie pictures. :(
I have been soooooo busy lately. I've had hardly any time to get comic-related stuff done. I have been thinking about it a lot. Right now I'm thinking of character names for the jockeys. I've been browsing stock like crazy. I have a lot of QH and TB stock, so the majority of my horses will be those breeds. I've found a good bit of Arabian stock, just hardly any jumping shots. :( Luckily, I can now make a minor horse character be a Morgan, since I found some jumping and running stock photos of Morgans. :)
QHs
I'm back from vacation! The beach was lovely, except my little sis accidentally broke my camera. So, I got a new one. I'm hoping to test it out today. My aunt has two quarter horses and I might be able to go see them today! Hopefully I can get lots of good pics.
P.S. I kind of dislike posting now, since that Selle Francais on the cover of my page looks so dang smexy and I'd hate to move him out of sight with my rambling posts. XD I'll have to find a way to make him the background of my page. *runs off to fiddle with the HTML*
~Fearless
Bit of a Delay
You won't hear much from me for a few days. I'm going on vacation. Then, after that, I have to play the flute and piccolo a lot so that I can get one of the piccolo parts for marching band. *crosses fingers* I really hope I get the part. Which reminds me, you probably won't see a lot of comic-related art the first three or four months of school because of marching band and regular art classes. Plus, band camp is next month all day for 2 weeks, except weekends. Maybe I'll babble and blog about the comic on weekends. ;)
More Lovely Breeds…
One of my friends on deviantART just told me about her favorite breed, the Selle Francais, which is good at steeplechase.
Selle Francais-
Image From: http://www.dkimages.com
Since Arabians are also speedy horses and a popular breed, I will probably include some Arabians in the comic. :D I dunno why I didn't think of Arabians before.
Arabian-
Image From: http://www.horsesden.com
Breeds
I was reading about steeplechases, and there are some that have breeds other than just Thoroughbreds. :) Which is fantastic! So, now I can have all the breeds I just mentioned.
In case you aren't well-versed in horse breeds, here are some pictures of the ones I want to include:
Akhal-Teke
Image From: http://www.homozygous-horses.com
Thoroughbred
Image From: http://www.theequinest.com
Trakehner
Image From: http://www.best-horse-photos.com
Budyonny
Image From: http://www.sidelinesnews.com
Quarter Horse
Image From: http://www.cotesbachquarterhorses.com
Any other horse breed suggestions?
Sketches
Started to do some loose sketches today for the comic. I've found some really nice Thoroughbred stock photos. I tried looking for Akhal-Teke stock photos, but I can't find any. :( Can't find any Budonny ones either. I'm gonna look for Trakehner stock photos sometime soon.
Babbling About Names and Breeds
I'm still thinking of names for the horses. Anyone have any good racing or steeplechase horse names? They can be total randomness. I have a racehorse named Serengeti Sorceress. Luckily her name is exactly 18 letters and 1 space! (Racehorses can't have names longer than 19 characters, including spaces.)
Horse Names
Basically, what I'm doing now is just coming up with horse names for all my horse characters. Later I'll come up with names for the jockies and riders. I have a good bit of names so far. I'm making a chart that has all the specifics like name, gender, color, markings, etc. I'll upload it later. :)
Hi Everyone!
For everyone who doesn’t know me, I'm FearlessFilly! I love drawing horses realistically and I just recently decided to start a horse comic. My horse comic will be on my deviantART site in addition to this blog, but I want to be able to blog about the progression of the comic.
Doing a comic will be a huge challenge for me. I've made traditional art all my life, but I'm interested in learning how to create better digital art. The comic will be drawn traditionally and colored in digitally. Plus, I'll have to work with putting a lot of emotion into the horses, which is not something I am very good at.
Check out my art at the links below and if you like my art, even if you don't love horses very much, please follow my blog and read the comic when it's finished.
Click here for my horsey deviantART site.
Click here for my other deviantART site that has more than just horses.
Copying and Pasting Posts
Be patient while I copy and paste all 9 of my previous posts into the new blog. :) Hurray! I’m excited about the new blog. I can’t wait to make a header image. :D
The only bad thing is, Blogger is evil about copying and pasting from MS Word since it screws up the HTML. Luckily, I know some HTML, so I fixed it. :D (Or at least I hope I fixed it… :P)
Importing My Blog
I used to have a blog with blog.com that I recently started this past month. I’ve found out that Blogger is a much better site and is more flexible. I need flexibility more than anything. :D I already love Blogger. I love arranging my blog and fiddling with the HTML. It’s great. There are so many great widgets you can put on your page. The only bad thing is Blogger is being uncooperative with importing the blog file, so I have to copy and paste all my posts in from my blog at blog.com.
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