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This is a horse I drew a couple of days ago. It's the first digital drawing I've done in .. quite a while so I tested out a new style and I think I like it! The title is a bit random, In Flanders Fields is one of my favourite poems and I had it in my mind whilst drawing (hence the ugly, sketchy flowers at the left corner). I've also named the horse Poppy, for unknown reasons!_____________
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Reference: [link]
Estimated times: A couple of hours?
Tools: Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen&Touch, Photoshop CS5
Size: 5283 x 3974 px
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Comments: 63
Haha I hate the background in this one, and especially the flowers. Idk everything seems sloppy (which they're lol) and uh. But that's usually how it is for me; I'm really proud when I've just finished it and then a few days later I dislike it hah. XD
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It's okay, I do the same thing. 
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Är hon inte söt? 
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det tycker jag du ska göra! Klart du ska ha en arab! Jag har sjäv länge fudnerat på att skaffa mig en arab till mitt stall, men jag har så himla många hästar, så den drömmen får vänta ett tag XD
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Jag har inte precis överfullt med hästar så jag antar att du har en poäng! 
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Haha, jag kanske bara måste sluta vara så lat! Förresten, jag sitter och klurar på en design till din "design my new nord - Zebra!" tävling
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haha xD vad är du sugen på att ha för hästar i ditt stall? Bara verkliga raser, eller några "hite-på" också? :3
Åh vad kul! ser fram emot ditt bidrag
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Jag ska fokusera på realistiska raser tror jag nog, åtminstone till en början. Främst varmblod också, för att kunna regga dom lite här och var. Typ HIEF och HEWA och vad nu inte 
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du borde skaffa några riktigt flashiga varmblod då tycker jag! Säg till om du vill ha hjälp att designa några 8D
haha jadu, hur den genen funkar har jag ingen aning om... det är därför jag ber folk hjälpa mig 8DD
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Supersmexiga sådana, eller? 
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Självklart! 
Haha kör på det du!
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Åh, jag är klar! 
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äh! kör på bara! jag tänkte knåpa ihop några designer nu, kanske hittar du nån du vill ha bland dom 8D
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Woho, en design för en design, så att säga!
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This is a really nice, painterly style and I like your use of colour in the horse, too 
And I also had to say I've not heard anyone mention In Flanders Fields for so, so long! Its not my favourite poem, but I did enjoy studying it when I was looking at War poetry back in school. Its nice to see it mentioned here
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Oh, thank you for the long comment 
I adore that poem, I discovered it for not so long ago when I wrote an essay about the First World War and hat to find some WW1-related poetry! The only poem I've encountered which I like more so far is Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain!
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You're welcome
And a lot of people use references for their equine art - the gender of the real horse doesn't matter, you just use the pose/lighting etc for your character, so if it's a mare to you, that's what you go by ^^
I've not heard of Whitman - I may have to look it up. I like a lot of poetry, though, many for different reasons, so I don't have a favourite. A war poem I really loved back in school was Perhaps by Vera Brittain.
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Oh, look it up!
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I'll go do that
And I read more now than I used to, but I don't read it nearly as much as prose/fiction. There's not too many authors I know but I like Edgar Allan Poe - for his fiction and poetry. That's what I meant about liking them for different reasons, though - Some I like because they're poignant or darker, and others I love for the comedy and rhyming. I've loved this one - [link] - since it was read to us in school for a laugh
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Oh, yes, Edgar Allan Poe is really good! I haven't read that much of his work, but I've encountered them in class, of course
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I haven't read all that much of Poe's actually, but his voice is so distinctive. His short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' was studied in my English class, and it's stayed with me for years. Some of his random quotes I really like, too.
Haha, yes, that poem was a lot of fun when I first heard it
I used to read a fair bit of Charles Dickens, that and Roald Dahl. I've not heard of Selma Lagerlöf, but I'm hopeless with languages, so maybe that explains it XD. Lately I steer clear of the classics (other than Catcher in the Rye, which I like) and some of my favourite authors are ones that not everyone seems to know - Maggie Stiefvater, Cliff McNish, Helen Dunmore and more recently Rick Riordan who is more well known. I like fairly balanced narratives, though - equal description and diologue. Christopher Paolini who wrote the Inheritance Cycle was too over the top descriptive for me, but I like Maggie Stiefvater's very lyrical imagery in her books. And this is why we need very different writers - for very different people
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Oh yes, that's a good one! Well that's understandable. Selma Lagerlöf have written The Wonderful Adventure of Nils [link] (wow, that's a weird translation haha), Gösta Berlings Saga and a lot more. My favourite of hers is "Bortbytingen", a short story about .. well this [link]
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The Wonderful Adventure of Nils sounds a bit like a cross between Don Bluth's 'Thumbelina' and Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers' - they all revolve around the adventures and intricate lives of tiny people. And I've read about Changelings in folklore and other books, too. Some definitely leave room for interesting stories
I can't remember the last time I wasn't reading a book XD. I'm a little obsessed 
And lol, no worries (I do read some strange things). It was nice talking to you about the poets, though ^^
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Thumbelina I've heard of, not The Borrowers though! Well yes. I don't know if I'm that much of a fan of Nils Holgersson (as it's called in Swedish) but that's one of the things she's most famous for! Oh yes, I want to read that book as well (I also want to watch the Disney film ..). Is it good?
I should read more books .. The last book I read was the third book in the Game of Thrones series. I don't really know what I think of those book .. They're good but still. Meh.
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The borrowers is really old, with a lot of movie adaptations. I've never read the books, just seen one of the films. And as for the Disney film - I really like it. True I like Disney in most aspects anyway, but Hunchback has one of my favourite characters ever - Djali, the goat
And reading is really up to you. Different people again XD. I just read a lot more than the average person, but if you're not so into it, that's fine, too
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I love old style Disney, Pocahontas is one of my favourite Disney films. Yeah, I've heard that it's supposed to be really good! I also want to see that .. The Road to Eldorado-something film. I've heard great things of that as well
Oh no, I love reading. I really do. It's just hard for me to find good books. I'm not very into the typical "teenage literature" which fills up the bookshelves at the libraries where I live. It's hard for me to know what kind of books I want to read, and it's generally hard to find good books. Which is a pity
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I have to say I like them both. Some of the artistry in the newer Disney films, where they use computer animation, CGI and 3D software is just visually stunning. Things like Rapunzel's tower in Tangled just have such depth and intricacy to them. But I will always have a huge soft spot for the original animation which I grew up on. Maybe not so visually stunning, but classic and beautiful in its own way. The angular style of Sleeping Beauty I really liked, but then the sketchiness of 101 Dalmatians was unique and likeable, too. Bambi is a favourite, though, because they employed a new worth ethic to it to make the incredible forest backgrounds, whilst keeping the hand-animated characters. I do love the Pocahontas movie - mostly for Meeko, since John Smith annoys me - and admittedly some of their scenery is very good, too
The Road to Eldorado I have seen once. It was amusing and a good film, as far as films go, but not one of my favourites or particularly memorable for me. I hope you get to see it, though - you can make your own decision about it ^^
That does suck - I go nuts when I can't find decent books. Try google searching for some good books; I do some scouting online if I can't find anything good in the shops. A little while ago all that was on shelves were novels about girls who were half angel, and they meet a boy, and there's evil to fight...blah, blah. Not that they're bad books, but the same thing in every one of them gets annoying. Vampires started going out and angels came in
Do you have a particular genre you like to read? I find it easier to find books if I look in one area. For me, for instance, I'm into urban fantasy or dystopian novels, though complete fantasy and horror/thrillers I don't mind, either. If you know what you're looking to read, finding books could be easier
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I guess I have to agree, but I'm a sucker for those old style, hand painted backgrounds. It's a different kind of magic to me! But probably it's because I grew up with it. I guess it's the same with the languages, I always prefer the Swedish translated versions, both speech and songs
I don't like John Smith and I don't like that other guy either, in the second Pocahontas movie. What's his name? Rolfe something? That's what I've heard, that it's supposed to be really fun
Oh, I've had my shared deal of those! Not really my cup of tea. I've read the Hunger Games trilogy and it was an interesting plot but I didn't like the author's way of writing at all. It was to short and she jumped to much (you know, I got the feeling as if every chapter begun with "two months later" or "the rest of the train ride passed in a haze")!
It's true, but I don't really have a specific genre which I prefer. I can read almost any kind of book, it's really the writing which decides whether or not I'll read it. And well, I guess you get the point haha
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Yeah, I grew up on the old style Disney, too - but the new ones are still handpainted - they're just done digitally. I don't know - I can just appreciate the different styles for what they are
Its good to know I'm not alone where John Smith is concerned! I've never heard anyone else say they didn't like him. And I'm not a fan of Pocahontas II at all. I never liked Kocoum much either. I think the only guy in that film I liked was Thomas, though Radcliffe was funny as hell, looking back
You shouldn't get me started on Hunger Games, either. Those books I utterly love. Just as much as I utterly hate them. So in the end, I'm at a happy mid ground where I don't care one way or the other XD. I think (how to put this simply?) it was a unique and intriguing plot, and it was undertaken well, on the whole. I don't mind the time jumps all that much, because I don't want to read about a whole train journey if something significant only happens in the first ten minutes. I'd rather the plot moves forward. But it was pretty good about being descriptive when it mattered. That's what I liked - the gritty, no truths spared narrative of what a war was, and the suffering that came of it. And then I hate it a lot because of the whole concept and the unfulfilling ending. I was never for or against Katniss/Peeta or Katniss/Gale. I never got into the love story and to me it felt forced and because Katniss was confused and more focused on the war and her sister, the whole Peeta/Gale seemed trivial next to that. So when Katniss had kids and a life with peeta, I never really felt that was the right ending. I was more interested in Annie and Finnick than the main triangle because it was clear in just a few moments of the second book that the two of them meant the world to each other. The thing that really gets me is that Prim died, though, which makes three books completely redundant, because Katniss only volunteered to save her, but at the same time, she had to die to make the moral of the books matter and to really show the outcome of war in the most devastating way.
Told you you shouldn't get me started XD Sorry for that wall of text...
But if you're not really into specific genre, that's not bad, just check out some authors of things you like. I'm like that - some great plot ideas and concepts I will put down because the writing isn't my thing, just the same way I'll put up with not so good plots and characters if I like the writing. If you like descriptive passages, you may enjoy Eragon by Christopher Paolini and Cliff McNish is different in that there isn't a lot of description, but he makes words really matter - his Doomspell Trilogy are some of my favourite books. Anyway, good luck with digging up some new reads
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Are they? Hm, I guess I'm not very informed about how those new, Disney Pixar films are made
Yes I have. I like that movie a lot as well! Well, he's just a twat isn't he? I love the scene where he says that Odette is beautiful and she replies with something like "thank you, but what more?" and he's like "what more is there?" Such a dingus.
I agree whole-headedly! My favourite book is the second one and my least favourite the third one. I didn't like the ending at all. And I don't like what happened to Peeta. That was a bit .. too much for me. (Plus, it feels like Katniss only ended with him out of pity or something). Yes, neither Gale or Peeta felt right, in my opinion. Oh yes! Those two are very interesting .. I also thought the whole thing about the winners being "prostitutes"/"sexually used" (well not really but I don't quite remember and well, I'm a clumsy English speaker) was very interesting.
Once more I agree, haha. The only part of the book which really emotionally got to me (I actually think I cried a bit) was after that moment, when Katniss and that ugly cat sought comfort with each other (can you even say that? God I'm sorry, my English suddenly got very rusty!)
Thank you! I'll look them up for sure
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I've been on a bit of a Disney kick lately, so I've stumbled on some 'behind the scenes' and 'the making of' info 
Derek is a complete dunce, that's for sure. I remember reading a review on the movie where it was said 'the first 5-10 minutes are the best it gets', and I sort of agree, though I do like the plot in general. Both of them had so much more character and personality while they were growing up - the betrothed pair who hated each other and liked to play pranks during their summers forced together. That would have made for a wildly hilarious movie if they were still doing that at the adult phase. But no. They leeched all that personality out of them and made Derek a clueless prince, starstruck by beauty and Odette just held onto one main trait - stubbornness. I still can't work out exactly how they fell in love, considering they spent most of the movie apart, right after Derek made a mess of things
And same here! I like Catching Fire the best (mainly for Finn. He has to be my favourite character, and I like the arena a lot more in the Quarter Quell). I agree - it felt like Katniss wasn't with Peeta for the right reasons later, and I do think the whole lobotomy thing was taken too far with his character. Truthfully, I think everyone who made it out of that war is way too damaged to really have an honest, healthy relationship after it. Katniss is drowning in grief, Peeta's mind is broken in places and Annie hasn't been sane as long as we've known her. Even if she has a kid to live for, Finn's ghost is always going to be over them. And all that is just for starters. As for the prostitution, that wasn't a general thing that winners went through, it was just in Finn's case, because of his good looks. He got out of the arena relatively unscathed and still sane, so Snow found new ways to break him.
And I remember that bit. Katniss talking to the cat was a big kick for a lot of people, because I think that's the first time she opens herself up to the grief she feels and it comes out quite explosively. (and no worries, you said it fine 
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Yes, yes! Wiggins! I loved that little hummingbird .. bird. I think he's named Flit in the Swedish version! I remember a snow ball fight in the very beginning and a cruel bear scene but that's about it.
I know, that part is weird. My least favourite part is when they are forced into that ballroom and suddenly they're all "oh heavens, he/she's dashing" and then they start waltzing around. Finn's ghost? Does he die? It was ages and ages since I read that book, I can barely remember anything besides the ending and that whole Peeta thing. No! Oh, now I got really sad. Really? I though it happened to Johanna as well? Probably my mind playing tricks.
Is that so? You're the first THG "fan" I've really TALKED to about the books so I didn't know that. But yeah, guess that's true!
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He's Flit in the English version, too
Haha, yes, that whole ballroom scene just makes me really annoyed, then makes me laugh my head off. My favourite stage was the teenage years when Odette was in a purple dress, because that gave you some great clues to the personality she should have had. She loved reading - she was absorbed in a book even when the maids were cleaning, but she had a sense of humour and a really good poker face which led to her being able to beat Derek and Brom at Poker. She could have been so epic and instead she loses all that.
And sorry - I say odd figurative stuff like that sometimes. Finn never came back as a ghost. He did die, yes; he sacrificed himself after he and Annie were married so that Katniss and her little soldier troup could get away from some manufactured creatures. When I say his 'ghost' I mean that because Annie isn't exactly sane, and he was the only solid person in her life, Finn's impact on her won't fade, so she'll go through life and raise their kid but Finn will be this spirit - in a way - that I don't think she'll know how to grieve properly so his loss will always be there, which isn't exactly healthy. As for Joanna, I really can't remember what happened to her! I'll have to check that out or it'll annoy me
Aww, you may want to check out some THG groups on DA - plenty of people will be happy to chat about the books with you
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Yes, yes .. I feel incredible dull for doing nothing but agreeing with what you're saying, I'm not really contributing with anything but, everything you say is really interesting and true.
I remember now, when you say it! And I also remember that it struck me hard when reading the book. It's odd that I don't remember that he died but well, it was I long time ago. Haha, check and see (I only have the second book so) and then tell me, please. Or else it'll probably bug me as well
I think I will! I haven't had such an interesting conversation in decades, it's really satisfying for my mind. I don't know, I get a pleasant feeling from it 
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Haha, that's okay. I love analysing books I read (a throwback from uni, I think) so when people get me on the topic, I just start reeling off all my thoughts and theories, some more formed than others. If you find my ramblings interesting that is great to know all on its own ^^
Finn's death struck me hard, too, probably because he was one of my favourite characters since he was introduced and in a way, he had the most to lose. And according to the THG wiki, Joanna was never explicitly given an ending. She was still alive and recovering from the war and her water phobia from her time in torture at the end of Mockingjay when Katniss killed Snow. After that it was assumed that she returned to her District (it would have taken too long to check the books XD).
Good luck, then
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I must pop in and give my two cents about poems. Robert Frost also has some interesting pieces, as does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, at least in my opinion.
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Haha, feel free to drop in
Robert Frost has some lovely poems. Some of his I don't click with at all, but others I really have a soft spot for - like Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Ghost House, Reluctance and particularly Nothing Gold can stay, though I like Fire and Ice, too. Its his imagery that I really like.
Wadsworth Longfellow I'm not so fond of. He's a good poet, but not really my thing. Maybe its the light-heartednes - I seem to steer towards comedic or emotive poems, and he seems to write about simpler things. I do like the poignancy in Afternoon in February, though.
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I enjoyed The Road Not Taken, as well as Birches. There's a few others of Frost's that I enjoy, but I can't name them off the top of my head.
Afternoon in February isn't bad. I found that I enjoyed Longfellow's poems about the sea. I suppose the light-heartedness, as you put it, reflects my own fascination with the sea. I could relate to what he was writing.
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I like the concept and story of Road not Taken but I don't like it as much as some of his others. Birches I just looked up, having not heard it before. For me, was just too heavy without a flow that I could get into. That's definitely not one of my favourites.
I love the sea, and in some ways fascination is a good word for it
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I can see your point. There are things that I don't like about those poems as well, but the general imagery and idea win out for me.
I get too sappy when describing the ocean, or any body of water, really. It is the biggest source of muse for me as a photographer, writer, and artist. It just...opens my mind up to who I want to be and allows me to think deeper. I think I liked the poems he wrote because it kind of tapped into how I feel.
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And that's why I like poets who have a variety of different works
Another area where I'm different, I guess. I don't think of the ocean in sappy terms - I think of it more as reckless, wild or untameable. I remember reading something a long time ago and which I know live by, in a way. I love the sea, but I don't trust it. and Vincent Van Gogh said this - “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”. In essence, I'm of the opinion that as much as I love the sea, it's dangerous, and because I see it that way, I describe it that way, too. And all kinds of different things inspire me - it really depends on my mood - but I get what you mean about the ocean being a big part of that.
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