'Holy cow'!! Beautiful painting!! At first glance, I thought the artist known as 'Akyra' did this painting.....she used to always draw beautiful horses.....I miss her. Anyways.....this is really awesome Elly.....I LUV it!!! :)

very nice, love the veins and eye wrinkles

Thanks y'all. What bothers me about this is my 'obsession' with the dodge and burn tools. I liked version 5 MUCH better before I had to go and mess with the dodge tool....when will I learn to leave those tools alone??!!! lol

Lovely. Compared the versions. I think I like 5 better as well but the final version is beautiful too. I think the lighting in 5 looks more like a photo. The texture is more velvety.

I know what you mean Elly.....I'm kinda obsessed with the 'dodge' tool too......I use it all the time....I like the way it brightens things up. I like this version the best!! Awesome painting....:)

Beautiful work elly. I agree with teapot...the texture is so on, like velvet. :)

<3 this

I'm the same way with those damn tools. But I don't see any problems with how this came out, El... Beautiful image.

Beautiful, my daughters loved this