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Winter begone.
Let the flowers in the deep vast forest awake again
and bloom over the land.


Yay for being burnt out...I don't even know how to describe this picture.

Anyway, I'm really happy how this picture turned out in the end. It was sometimes a real struggle but I got there eventually. You might have noticed big changes in the background and colour scheme.

I spent most of the time thinking where to set the next brush stroke and especially thinking of which brushes to use. After browsing my PS brushes and brain, I finally came up with the WIP, which I showed to you already: [link]

The face has changed from the original sketch too because painting fur really didn't work on the base of the sketch: [link]

In the end, I struggled mostly with the background because the colour scheme didn't co-operate with the orginal sketch (trees and mountains), so I changed it after three freaking outs and one banging-the-head-on-the-table.

I will post a walkthrough of this as soon as possible. :D

Thanks a lot for looking! :iconlovegreenplz:

Photoshop: 30 hours

:icondonotuseplz::iconmyartplz:

The Plant Spirit is Copyright to Claudya Schmidt aka AlectorFencer. Please do not alter, copy or redistribute!

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:iconaikya:
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I love the colors you've chosen-the purple's really make me feel like he's leaving winter, and entering spring, or bringing spring! :D

Love the foreground!

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"The living beauty of nature cannot be copied, it can only be expressed."
Piet Mondrian
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"Cool! Look! A Manatee fart!"
Chris Krat from Kratts' Creatures
:icondanji-isthmus:
I love how this looks so much ^^

I normally hate winter because it's cold, wet and a bit miserable, but there really isn't anything like a forest in the wintertime. But then when it gets all spring-like and colorful it's so delightful to see all the life slowly coming back to the world <33

I love this piece so much Great work <333

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Awesome icon by the =Neltruin person C:
:iconwhitefox94:
It was well worth the time and effort you put into it! I know just how you feel :) Winters my least favourite season

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Dreams are an aid to the imagination, and a cleanser for the soul...

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devThe-Big-Cats-Club
:iconsimbamarasa:
very mythic. reminds me of the firebird sequence of fantasia 2000.

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in real life i'm a psycho lioness...
:iconeternalsolaceessence:
beautiful !!!! :headbang:

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..."he devoured my soul; thought it would be easier, something else; now vulnerable my soul bleeds: his name carved into me..."
:icondarkhoodness:
Excellent work - Sorry that I doubted it a little at first, but I think the influenza affected my brain again. :S

It was really awesome to watch you finish this piece off, especially after you spent ages thinking about how to do it and trying out many different colour and background combinations, but I knew you'd come through in the end. :)

This pic makes me wish it was possible to melt away the Winter and make Spring blossom through in a flurry of greenary and flowers. . . *sigh* But it makes me think of warm things. :) Nicely done.

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"Never stick your dick in a pudding. It might still be good pudding and you can spend all afternoon explaining that, but no-one's going to eat it because you stuck your dick in it!" ~ Yhatzee, Zero Punctuation
:iconred-kremling:
sis nen waldwolf xD

ich finds toll xD irgedwie erinnerts mich an prinzessin mononoke

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i think patience helps to find a way
:iconpythosblaze:
you always do such beautiful work^^

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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."
=^..^=
:iconc-c-corone:
That's a very beautiful piece of art X_x *stunned*
Simply beautiful colours and an amazing concept... I love it! :heart:
:iconsilver-sully:
Oh my gosh...

Alector, this turned out better than I could have imagined it would. I love it so much!! I'm sick today, and this made me feel a little bit better. :3

The glow around his face... The detail in the leaves... the change from leaves to snow... it all looks so perfect!

This is absolutely one of my favorites of your pieces.

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