Such a beautiful coat color. I remember when i was little i had this horse types book & i tore out a picture of such a horse.
The black/navy color is awemazing. Love the shading on the shoulder blade, very strong.

Can you explain what you mean by blending brushes? I'm just curious because I use photoshop and I'm not sure what those are. Maybe I've been using them without knowing their name.

They're a brush I downloaded from another user. Try this one:
http://nebezial.deviantart.com/gall.....t=216#/d1b18c6

Basically what it does is it takes your painterly/choppy lines and kind of blends them together so they're not so choppy and there's a more natural transition. Before I used the blending brush you could see the hard edges of where I was color picking from my own colors and trying to do it myself. You can still see what it looked like "before" on the ankles, whereas "after" is on the belly and butt. I can't remember if the one I'm linking you needs to work better with the "smudge" tool, but test it out at different opacities :)

Awesome, thanks for that! I usually use brushes that fade out at the edges so that's probably why I haven't had a huge amount of issues with blending, but I'll take a look at the one that you posted a link for. The picture looks great by the way! It's obvious you're having a lot of fun with it. ^_^

Best of luck! I just started using it on this pic myself, my previous method being the one you're using too, it makes a big difference :)

Thank you!

YAY! I love this so much :D
Thank you again!!

I'm so happy you like it, you're more than welcome :D

Such a cute horsie! n.n I love the pairing of navy n cream on him <:3

amazing! I love how the fur is all shiny! I adore your technique.

wow this came out beautiful, a black Shire! very cool