The Phoenix

[Emma]

Beautiful, glorious and sacrificing self for renewal,
you build a pyre and set yourself ablaze.
For the sake of self.

Red bird of fire you come forth through
your ashes a new bird shedding the old self which no
longer is needful.

You embrace your new strength and
fly to the heights of the sky to the city of the sun and
give the ashes unto the alter of the sun god for your
immortality.

Embrace yourself for you are a child of
the sun and will live eternal through birth, death, and
renewal! The spirit never dies!

- The Phoenix, by Rebecca Wiles.

This poem inspired me. And made me realise fire is VERY hard to work with.
Critique my latest?

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hate hate hate the mane.

[Emma]

Still needed on this pleaase.

[`Poet.]

I really, really, REALLY love this! Adore the concept <3

There's really not much to critique, actually, but I'll try and find something

Hmm...

1.) The mane and tail could use a few more highlights and shadows, in my opinion. It looks like the hair is essentially all one color, with the exception of the red glow from the fire. Painting in some varying colors (or dodging and burning) would do wonders! And maybe some more individual strands/flyaways, especially on the tail. But I really like the flow and motion that you gave the hair. Looks good!

2.) The horse is a bit too blurry for my taste. Maybe because you smudged a lot of it, maybe the stock was already like that. Dunno xD But you could remedy this by using a 'sharpen' filter, or painting in some highlights/shadows manually to give the muscles and stuff definition.

3.) Just curious... What is that dark blob/spot under/behind the horse? Is it a shadow of some sort? Or....? xD

Other than that, I think it looks amazinggggg! Love the feather looking thing behind the text. Adds a real nice touch to it!

Fantastic job! :3