[Art] Oooshala - the Waterhorse

[moonvoice]

Oooshala - The Water Horse

Some of you have been following my wildspeak entries in my journal where I talk about my practices as a contemporary shamanist / animist / totemist / insert-other-ist-here. And so you will have heard of Oooshala, my beautiful, strong, and still-so-young spirit companion.

Oooshala, is a young water horse who is still finding his voice, and mostly helps me in my shamanism to carry things I need for healing myself and others from place to place.

There are many types of mythological water-horse. However, Oooshala is based off a European type (of which - by the way - there are many, like the backahasten and the nokken), where he is a small fey pony with a mane and tail of fire. He lives in the sea to keep his inner flame from burning out of control; but he can emerge from time to time, lighting the path, and protecting those who require protection.

Comments

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

This was the first thing on my f-list--what a great way to start catching up :) Nice work, especially on the colors!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Aw yay. Glad you like the colours too! :)

[tanwyn.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I love blue.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[aleia-kali.livejournal.com]

Wow he is stunning, so beautiful, the colours are perfect :-)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

very pretty

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:D

[earthguardian.livejournal.com]

This is SO beautiful!! :3 The coloring is really nice.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
And that icon is awesome.

[halfapersona.livejournal.com]

This is stunning!

I love the colours so much.

^_^

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like him. :)

[sotepetsenu.livejournal.com]

I jizzed my pants, this is so awesome. Words cannot convey.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Jizz. In. My. Pants.
I heart that song.

And your icon.

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

The chest hair is particularly awesome, the eyes are great, the whole thing is just like... awesomeness in horse form!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! :D

[starla80.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, I love the colouring. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[bodylove.livejournal.com]

oh I love it, I love how the mane of fire looks with the deep blues. very beautiful

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you love it. :)

[fire_my_spirit]

I think this is my favorite piece you've done lately. I loved the subtle shading in the linework and here I love the colors. Contrast makes me excited.


I keep having things to comment about in your posts recently but I keep getting sidetracked and then you've posted again. :P I have several tabs open for you at the moment. I will get to it.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Aw I'm glad you like it so much. Contrast gets me irrationally excited too. Hehe.

[psychrobia149.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful P, really really really beautiful. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*bounce*
Thank you chicka.

[anrui-ichido.livejournal.com]

Gods, your line-work amazes me every time, as do the colours. I feel I can relate a lot to Oooshala; being a water-fire person I always felt like my water kept my fire from burning out of control, but didn't put it out completely. :)

Absolutely gorgeous.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[dragonsrmd.livejournal.com]

This is just beautiful, I love the contrasts in this picture and his wonderful deep soulful eyes :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you.

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about Oooshala's eyes -- are they flame as well?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they pretty much always reflect flame, even underwater when the rest of his mane and tail is muted.

[white9-fox.livejournal.com]

Wowey-wow-wow. My heart skipped a beat with this <3

(you've touched my inner pyromaniac, lol).

I realized soemthing though; he seems to have different moods showing in his eyes and (to a lesser extent) his face at each step of the drawing process that you showed us.

The picture is alive.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Aw, hehe, hoorah for the inner pyromaniac!

[cloversix.livejournal.com]

God that's gorgeous o_____o Your talent keeps increasing!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I hope so! And thank you. :)

[ariestess]

Oh, he's gorgeous! And I really like the stylization of the shoreline in the background.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. The colors. The line of his ear, the look in his eye. Just gorgeous.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you. :D

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

lovely coloring; he looks so sad though.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he does have moments of introspection and melancholy, he's not a very playful pony.

[istari.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[shimmerhawk.livejournal.com]

This is so unbelievably stunning! I love how you can see the power and energy in the colors of the mane, but then there are also the calming blues that balance it out perfectly while still letting it shine through intensely.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you. :D

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

Ooh wow! He is absolutely gorgeous!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*bounce*

[amhrantine.livejournal.com]

That's very bright - is he a bright sort of character? I love the beach in the background, too.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

In terms of colour; yeah, Oooshala is quite bright. But it terms of disposition, definitely not - if you mean disposition, that's quite weird, since everyone else has seen melancholy or sadness.

[silere.livejournal.com]

I love him. I love his ears, and his neck fur, and how velvet-soft his muzzle looks. His expression seems.. pensive.. or longing.

I love the color contrast.. and the sea.. i miss the sea. <3

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I miss the sea too, I haven't been in way too long.