I'm going on an adventure,

I've been itching to finish this since I started it. Unfortunately I had a camping vacation weekend planned right after I started it so I've been impatiently waiting to sit and do a thing. Hopefully this will cooperate with me and become part of the new layout for Adaptation....hopefully, and if not I'll make it into a new character xD.

EDIT: Added a few smaller sand puffs and some falling sand to make the motion a little more apparent. At this angle the horse (in my mind) doesn't actually touch down until the rung right above where it's at now (and even then it's body would bunch together and it's hooves would land in relatively the same spot) but the larger lip a ways above was broken as they fell (falling sand here to mimic the disturbance). I grappled with sand puffs at the front hooves as sand does't behave the same way dirt does, in puffs and plumes, but rather it reacts by bunching and pushing forward in a bunched wave and then puffing up behind when the feet or hooves leave and kick it up witht he bending of the ankle/fetlock but it looked unbalanced without the front puffs so front puffs you have! Also Sand Puff is a scientific term so....yeah.

     

Photomanipulation copyrighted to Sarahroo. All rights reserved, 2013.
Horses: bluebird-stock
Things: falln-stock, somadjinn, rachellafranchistock & 4l1-stock
BG: elaineselenestock & momotte2stocks
Brushes: from all over the web, all free to the public.
Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2 & Bamboo tablet
Time: about 25-ish

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