Solar Flare

Yeah I know, unoriginal name for a red horse, but hey, he looks pretty goddamn solar flare-ish, so why the hell not?

Anyhoo, I decided to practise horses as I haven't for a while and I don't wanna lose my touch, so I thought I'd not just "draw a horse", but paint one with the proper shading and shiny bits n all that.
I don't think it came out too bad! Obviously this is complete arse when compared to 's work, (especially the mane and tail... oh dear god what was I doing!?) but yeah.... hopefully if I do this enough I'll get as good as her.

Done in Paint Tool SAI, with a little bit of Photoshop CS5 for adding in the background and the horse's shadow.

I think my problems started when I worked in too big a size... but hey! I'll know for next time!
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this. Its not perfect but the next one will be better!

PS: I know the lighting is all screwy, but that's because I added the background in after, and after working on this all day, I kinda forgot that the sun should be in a completely different place... -_-;;; My bad.

PPS: Drawn completely from scratch, the only references I used were just random horse images from Google to help with the shading, but the drawing is completely mine... which is probably another reason it looks a bit screwy. Legs too long etc... Sorry, I make all my horses into supermodels!