This night...

"...the ground burns and sky's flaming and I will take what is mine!"

I did it. I totally did it. OH MY GOD. THIS TOOK FOREVER.
I would have done much more if I had the time, unfortunately I'm leaving tomorrow and coming back after the contest is over. So as it was right now or never, let it be now!

INFO NOW.
This is to be submitted for 's contest, Creative Copycat. Or at least, it might. I have really taken too much liberty and was so inspired to draw this that I lost track of the real point of the contest, which makes me very, very sad and pretty upset right now. It features Mistress-of-Air's characters Fayza(black gryphon) and Zyreus(white hippogriff) a few seconds before the moment she illustrated with Descent to Eternity. I love their story so much, I couldn't resist, sorry... I really think I've not been clever...
Anywaaaay I've had a white night the day before yesterday in order to work on this baby and right now it's 8am. And I haven't slept at all :'D. So yeah, now that this is done, I can grant myself some rest. Gosh, that was one...chalenging challenge.

Well Mistress-of-Air, even if it doesn't get into the contest, I hope you'll at least enjoy it, I put a lot of heart in it and learned so much while doing it! Feel free to criticize whatever you want to. (Just gotta say, it's missing much purpley light effects. And Fayza's wings are horrible, I've failed them so very hard D: )
Being a real fan of your work I hope that it brightens up your day for a few seconds, even though I haven't done these amazing guys much justice


50+ hours, Photoshop CS2 only. And a Wacom tablet that died once but I managed to fix.

Art is mine.
Characters are Zyreus and Fayza, and they belong to