burn your crosses, make way for science,
christ has only caused death and violence,
burn your crosses, make way for yourself


First off - this has NOTHING, NOTHING, to do with hate-art, insults or any indication that I'd like to kill of Christianity!! IT IS JUST ART with no reasons except inspiration from a song.



So, wow. This version sucks. It was made for my art class, and therefore I did it big of doom - original is 2048 wide. So yeah. I don't like it much, but I'll upload another version somewhen in a not too far future, which will be the image I've always had in my mind.
Anyway, this image.. It is inspired from the lines you can see above, burn you crosses etc. so.. Well.
The thing in the sky is a sort of rip, heaven being ripped open and set aflame, you know? The burning horse is one of the cross-followers and the black horse is not.

This was my first time working with flame, and I can tell you, it took a good 10000 tries for me to make the fire hightlights almost good. On the other version I'll upload, I promise to make them better.

If you're curious, the layers on the black horse are like 30, the dead horse also a good 30 which means we're now up in 60 layers. The background landed with the layer number 103 but I remember deleting some 10-20 layers.

I will upload close-ups and wallpaper version soon.
will probably scrap this version when the other goes up.

WIP I: [link]
WIP II: [link]

Close-Ups: [link]
Wallpaper: [link]

time: 9 hours on the horses, 4-6 hours on the background, 4-6 hours finishing it. 20 hours in total I'd guess (gasp!) and mostly worked at between 7pm - 1 am.
program: Photoshop CS2 & CS3

[ credits ] - directly copied from my notepad document.
*backinthesaddle - dead horse
~greenleaf-stock - horse
~FigureStock - horse's ear
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~barefootliam-stock - cross
~saturnstock - cross
~huomennastock - cross
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jesuino @ SXC - cliffs/waterfall
~LucieG-Stock - waterfall
*resurgere - mountains, fire
nathanjb @ SXC - cliffs/waterfall
Rockstar12 @ SXC - cliffs
~fakethisstock- cliff
~AshenSorrow - sky
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*resurgere - fire
=FantasyStock - embers
~narghaash-stock - fire
~Lucy-Eth-Stock - fire
~LadyDeath666 - fire
~Drk-Stock - fire
~cacunai - fire
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~elmo21737 - brush
~v-k-s - brush
~JavierZhX - brush
~VPDesigns - brush
~thiselectricheart - brush
~BBs-Brushes - brush
*Blood--Stock - brush
misplaced moments - brush
`spiritsighs - brush
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=arrsistable - tutorial