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We're hurrying through the days,
Always going somewhere
In a rush to get doing something else
And all that is left for us
is No Time

____

I thought I wouldn't have done this pic yet, though I've had the idea for this for a while. The title "No Time" of course inspired me to do a pic of Arcaillax, the Protector of the Phoenix Clock, thus the title doesn't really have anything in common with her. If there's something that Arcaillax has, it's time... It's more just symbolism, the
clock/locket symboling time, and the white phoenix bird symboling hope and light. There's hope that someday we all would have time, time for our loved ones, time for the things we enjoy, and most important, time for ourselves.
The spacy background... It's just because if thinking about a place where time doesn't matter, it's probably space.
Space is old, everything comes and goes, has their time until their time comes to it's end (and, I just love all kind of space-pics, but I've never done one myself). Another choice for the background could have been a black hole, which definetely DOESN'T 'have time'... But it's a bit tricky to start drawing a black hole.

But why I decided to do this now, anyway? I've felt absolutely worthless after screwing up my entrance exams for one school, and those works we had to do weren't even hard to be done! I felt so useless and I hated myself because of it, so I decided to show the world I CAN do something... Or more than to show the world, I wanted to show myself that I can... I tried to prove myself I'm not just a failurer... And I really hope I'm not... Thus, Arc's legs and wings look like crap.
Even if I would have failed those exams, there's always tomorrow, and tomorrow brings new chances for every of us. It brings new chances for me, too, and I won't give up yet :)

PS CS 3 and Aiptek Slim tablet
Time: Too much (Maybe over 25h?)
Amount of layers: 35
Original pic size: 1120x1670

STEP-BY-STEP -PICUTRE CAN BE FOUND HERE

Arcaillax & art (c) :iconwhitephoenix7:


Note: I changed my phoenixes' desings a bit by adding fluffy-looking decorative tail feathers for them, instead of
those plain strings with the feathery end in them. From the start those feathers were supposed to do to look like that,
but I thought they would be hard to do, unless I HAD to do something like that in my art trade work for Konsi. As
Charisma has two fluffy decorative feathers in her crest, I had a chance to notice that they're not so hard to do after all
:roll:

-And it seems that Arcaillax started taking karate-lesson or something... :o *Jumpkick!*-

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:iconzeralex:
Ihana ja aivan fantastinen ^^ Toi asento miten se on tossa ja se ilme...Kaikki valot ja varjot...Oih, toi on niin ihana...Olet tehnyt taas niin fantastista jälkeä WP. Aivan mahtava!! Mä rakastan tota <3 :3
:iconcashda:
Ei HITTO TÄÄ ON AIVAN UPEA O__O
Sä olet kehittynyt ihan saatanasti, siis ihan mielettömästi.. Käytit tähän sitä jonnan tekemää tutoriaalikin.. >_< KAMALAA ei hitto tää on kertakaikkeaan ihana. Rakastan tota tirpan ilmettä ja olemusta, ja ah, ei tässä voi muuta sanoa kuin että vau..

O__O olen ällistynyt.
:iconhayatedragoon268:
aargh, just when I was thinking you're so pro already you can't possibly improve any more, YOU DO. The lines are very smooth and sleek, the shading is smoother, the blue fire is brilliantly executed and overall the picture contains a lot more depth compared to before. The subtle foreground blur is especially effective.
Good work, very good work.
:iconkatruu:
Herranjestas...! :noes: *kupsahti*
Tämä on aivan älyttömän upia! .____. Sanattomaksi veti..! ;u; Arcaillax on tosi kaunis hahmoinen! *u* Ja väritys tässä on aivan täyrellistä! c: Varjostus on onnistunut mahtavasti~ Nui liekitkin ovat aivan mielettömän kauniita ja tausta ihunan värinen~! :3

--
Awesome icon by ~Yakiraz :heart:
:iconwhitephoenix7:
Öö, en ole käyttänyt Jonnan tekemää tutoriaalia, koska en ole sitä vielä käsiini saanut... Mutta kovasti yritin Jonnan tekemiä liekkejä matkia, koska ne on aina niin perhanan upeita. Ja mähän melkein onnistuinkin x'D
Mutta awwwwn, ja kiitoksia kovasti! :hug:

--
I'm back on the battlefields
I'm still standing,
I'm facing my enemies
and I'll rise, always, again...

You can hurt me, but you will never take me down...


-New Phoenix club-
:icondorini:
@__@ Niin eeppinen kuva, että pääni pamahtaa. Hieno värimaailma, hieno posetus, hieno ajatus taustalla, erityisen hienot koristesulat ja kaikki pikku yksityiskohdat ja nuo - nuo lieskantyyppiset... Ja taustakin.

Sommittelussa on minun mielestä jotain hassua: kun alhaalla on "ahdas" vaikutelma, kun pyrstösulat eivät mahdu sinne kokonaan ja ylhäällä taas on jätetty tyhjää, mustaa tilaa, lopputulos on ehkä vähän epätasapainoisenoloinen. Mutta ei se oikeastaan häiritse muuten hyvän kokonaisuuden rinnalla.

Hyvää työtä teit, tämä on upea! Ja jep, uusia mahdollisuuksia tulee koko ajan, epäonnistumiset on osa elämää ja nekin ovat kokemuksia, jotka loppupeleissä vahvistavat ja opettavat jotakin uutta.

--
Life is not good for health - if you live, you die.
:iconwhitephoenix7:
Aww, kiitoksia paljon mukavasta kommentista! ^^ Kiva kuulla ettei ole ainakaan tullut tehtyä turhaa työtä, nimimerkillä Taisin-Juuri-Hajottaa-Selkäni... :p

Ja kiitokset myös favittelusta ^^

--
I'm back on the battlefields
I'm still standing,
I'm facing my enemies
and I'll rise, always, again...

You can hurt me, but you will never take me down...


-New Phoenix club-
:iconkonsiwagner:
wow this looks amazing *favs* you did the lighting and shading absolutly well in this one :D and I love the way you did the blue-fire-something .you are really getting better every time ^^
:iconcashda:
Ai minä luulin xD Haha.
:iconwhitephoenix7:
Aww, thank you very much for your comment! It's always nice to receive these ones with explanation about what is good in the pic etc. ^^
But, I just don't think I'm pro at all ^^; I usually do my works with a little testing about how to do different effects and all, trying to find new, useful ideas and so on. But I guess everyone does that, sometimes :)

Thank you for the fave, also!

--
I'm back on the battlefields
I'm still standing,
I'm facing my enemies
and I'll rise, always, again...

You can hurt me, but you will never take me down...


-New Phoenix club-

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