Annabelle worked Sancha as they warmed up just before their start together with Joey and Ramiel from Fallen Angel Stables. Ana had practiced their routine many times and knew it like her back pocket. Though, she felt a little uncomfortable in her white dress. It was so... sophisticated... and classy. But, she did it for the art and the routine.
One, two... three. Perfect. Joey smiled to himself as he completed a flying change with the dun stallion and slowed him down to trot, then to walk, patting Ramiel's muscled neck. Glancing to his side, his genuine smile even widened at the sight of his pas de deux partner, Annabelle, struggling with the dress. It was odd, indeed, even for him to be clothed like that, in a long, black coat, when riding a horse. But then again, it was part of the play. He rolled in the saddle a little and walked the snorting stallion to Sancha and Annabelle. "Ready?" He asked briefly, looking fondly at the Rosendal rider.
As Joey and Fox came closer Annabelle held in Sancha from her collected trot and steared her way to meat up her teammate.
"Ready as I ever can be!" she said with confident as Sanca now faced her half brother with a silent snort. "And you?"
Joey giggled at that and straightened in the saddle. "Well, it's a double first time. First time for Fox, first time for me with someone from Rosendal. We better rock this Pas De Deux." Fox lifted his head and leaned to sniff on Sancha's forelock. "I am sure we're ready." Joey continued. "And dressed like that? I'd call it an art of riding deduction, haha."
"Same for us. First tiem for me in a pas de deux, and the very first time for Sancha." Ana nodded down to the mares head, who had her chin tucked tight to her throat as Fox sniffed her forelock.
"Oh, I am sure this performance will be something out of the ordinary!" Ana smiled wide as if this was the very truth.

Joey just smiled again in reply, showing his perfect teeth this time as he grinned at Annabelle. He then heard a ring from the tribunes and their names flying across the field, calling them to the arena. "That was ours." Joey closed his eyes and took a deep breath before opening them again and offering a hand to his riding partner. "Time to dance, m'lady."
"With pleasure," she mused as she placed her hand in his, sticking her chin up high like a nobility as Sanca classy moved her behind in a half circle til she was next to Fox and they were ready to make their performance.

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Entry #702
Music:[link]
Horse: FAS Ramiel aka Fox & RD's Sancha
Rider/ Handler: Joey and Annabelle
Breed: Spanish sporthorse x American Saddlebred & Spanish Mustang
Gender: Stallion & a Mare
Age: 5 and 6 years old
Stable: Fallen Angel Stables & Rosendal Stables
Show: Summer Dressage Show 2012 (H-I-E-F) Class 7 - Pas de Deux
Training pics [link] & [link]

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Iiihee! A collab with Michelle
She did the lines which is so breathtaking and was so fun to color. I highly enjoyed that. So, I colored and I did the background xD
I adore this picture so much, so extremely much!

Me and Michelle decided early on to make a Sherlock Holmes theme performance with Joey and Annabelle X3 Fans as we are LOL So, Joes is Sherlock and Annabelle is Irene. Not so hard to figured LOL

Michelle did the lines ages ago, and I simply waited until the very last minute almost to color it, by some frickin reason xD Most because I am going through the moving, so my time for art is limited... but yesterday I colored it and finished.

Gosh, Michelle... you are so amazing! I sure hope to make more collabs in the future (or sit next to you and draw again x)
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Tools & Info
Refference: Reference used
Estimated time: Lines: 5 hours Coloring/background: 6-8 hours
Tools: Wacom Intuos4 tablet & Photoshop CS5 & Paint tool sai.
Layers: About 80+ layers
Background: Mine
Lineart, Joey and Fox:
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