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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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:iconbochan:
Wonderful! I love it! The details are amazing!
:icongloomyunderwoods:
Man, I'd never have the patience to color all those plants and leaves! :wow:
:iconbumblescutt:
oh my goodness... Beautiful!
:iconkate44:
It worked out very well, the colours, the leaves, his eyes, everything :clap::clap::clap:

--
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers, 1897-1935
:iconmackico:
Wow. That's really, really good.

I like it. It makes me feel happy and sleepy at the same time. Has the Plant Spirit been sleeping all winter, then woken up to ready for spring, only to still have snow on the ground?

That's what it seems like to me.
:iconlovethepebbles:
I love how much more detail you put into it, it's amazing!!! Yeah I think everyone is itching for spring to come :}

--
Never be bullied into silence,
Never allow yourself to be made a victim,
Accept no ones definition of your life
:iconbloodhowl:
How in the world you do such amazing things as this in such short times? @_@

--
"Gryningen har äntligen kommit
Dagen är slutligen här
Nattens mörker är över
Evigheten kommen är."
:iconemberspirit:
It is amazing!! I am not good at writing comments and such but I am always touched by your work. I haven't faved every single piece of art in your gallery but I'm always in there. =)
And thank you for taking some of your time doing a walkthrough.
:iconslayerterrabrei:
the way you blended the winter and spring elements into this is amazing! the snow is so perfect, and i love the glow around him!

--
I understand the theory of evolution.
I also understand, that at a certain point in human evolution, something went horribly horribly wrong.
:iconreisen:
beautiful, I love the contrast in the colours and the ambience

--
At number 10 upon the stair,
I saw a man who wasn't Blair.
He wasn't Blair again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away.

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