Hey, ya'll! I've just started out on manips (only four pieces lol), but I know I can definitely improve!! I'm guessing I'm a T4 but just wanted to make sure. I cannot change colors or anything yet and am not amazinggg at making the horse blend into the background stock. Some of these are in my premades shop (here!) and i dont know if I'm charging good prices or not! any and all help is appreciated! love ya'll!

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I would make the end more blend into the backround, it looks very unnatural.

Sry if I sound rude, just trying to give advice <3

Also add a little more shading to the manes, I can see the solid colour <3

Also add a little more shading to the manes, I can see the solid colour <3

Add a shadow to the ground below the horse! That will help it fit in with the surroundings better. Add a little vignette in the corners to help frame the horse (use anything but actual black, and use an overlay or softlight attribute). You could darken the horses a bit in the purple image, and add more dark contrast as well. (add more contrast to the laying down horse as well). Adding a lighter highlight layer with the overlay, add, or soft light function could help too. Sorry this is brief, I'm unfortunately busy right now but I will hopefully be able to come back later!

Hi! I think your pricing as of now is decent, anywhere from 10-15k is reasonable :)

I think you're making an awesome effort at blending the horse into the background! I can see where you've added clouds on the pegasus, grass texture on the laying down roan, and I especially love the reflection on the dapple piece. I think the area you'll want to play around with the most is lighting. It's hard to find horse photos that already perfectly match the background lighting. Personally, I use layers with different blending modes ("Multiply" for shadows, and "soft light" for highlights) to help the horse fit into the background better. Try to avoid using pure white/black and instead pull colors of shadows and light from the background (ex: dark blue/green/purple for shadows, yellow/light blue/light pink, etc for highlights). I also really like what you're doing with your mane/tail shapes. You've got some great movement going on which really adds to a more natural look. However, you may want to work on building up the layers a bit more. Typically, I have a base color, a darker shade, and 3 lighter shades. My base layer always has the thickest lines (3-4px) with the thickness decreasing as your shades get lighter (usually my lightest shade is about 1 px in thickness). Keep up the awesome work though and I can't wait to see what you make next!! <3

thank you guys so so much!! i really appreciate it!

OK I opened up a shop and I think I've improved LOTS but am looking for a little more critique! Any and all! Thanks guys <3

(here's some recent work)

I absolutely love what you're doing with color changes and you've made some excellent improvements in drawing the hair!!!! Remember to add a shadow on the horse cast by the mane/forelock, I personally like to use Soft Light or Multiply layers for this. The shadows from the horses are looking awesome but you have a few pieces where the tail isn't casting a shadow while the horse is ;D

I think the next big thing to work on is lighting on the horse. Specifically looking at the blueish winter sabino piece, the horse looks somewhat out of place because the lighting doesn't match the background. Again, I would recommend layers on Multiply for shadows, use a dark blue in that scenario (shadow color from the background that's not black) and darken the horse where needed. Similarly, use layers on Overlay, Hard Light, or Add for highlights, again choose a light color from the background (not white). Keep up the absolutely amazing work!!!