Beauty and the Beast

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
. . . she's the beauty of the kingdom
he's the beast to be tamed . . .
&& they live in harmony &&

Ooh. Ahh. I'm a little in love with this piece. <3 Partly because of the concept, and partly because it's my first time putting two subjects in the same setting. I worked for a couple of days on this, took a long time because I couldn't find a black horse with a fitting pose without tack.. so in the end I just ended up removing a rider, saddle, reins, and bridle from a horse. I'm happy with the tack removing, it looks pretty realistic. Theen I saw that my white horse was unable to reach the black horse's leg without being out of proportion.. so I angled her leg slightly different. (it.. must.. reach xP) Background was fun.. blending is oober fun.

All stock from Flickr.com except white horse, whose sources are unknown.
Textures from 44suburbia.com.
Made with Photoshop CS2.

Full view please.
--be warned, image is quite HUGE >.>