Goddamn title blanks are too fucking small. *mutter*

WHY YES, I DID FINISH THIS IN ONE DAY.

Sorry. I did this is three sittings over the course of the day. I started at 8:30 this morning, and it's now 11:30. I am EXHAUSTED, but I feel it was worth it. I've never done a horse in this magnitude of digital realism, and I feel it was at least somewhat successful.

I'm making it into a print for valentine's day, I think, so if anyone's interested in a hand-signed print (from myself, not dA, prolly), I may try to figure out a reasonable price...since I'm making one for myself and possibly a friend of mine, as well.

Oh, yes; this is inspired by KT Turnstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree." Great song. If I were the singer, I'd have married him. =3

Done on Adobe Photoshop CS. Clocked at 8-9 hours.



Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking.
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.

I felt a little fear upon my back
He said "Don't look back, just keep on walking,"
When the big black horse said, "Hey lady!"
Said, "Look this way, will you marry me?"

But I said no, you're not the one for me.

And my heart hit a problem, in the early hours,
So I stopped it dead for a beat or two.
But I cut some cord, and I shouldn't have done it,
And it won't forgive me after all these years

So I sent it to a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
Now it won't come back, 'cause it's oh so happy
And now I've got a hole for the world to see

And it said no, you're not the one for me.

Big black horse and a cherry tree...
I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me.