WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4505DA47381AC2B2

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"But in my dreams began to creep
that old familiar 'tweet, tweet, tweet'

(...) I opened my mouth to scream and shout
waved my arms and flapped about
But I couldn't scream I couldn't shout,
The song was coming from my mouth.

From my mouth, from my mouth"
("BIRD SONG", by Florence + The Machine)

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This is a collaboration I made with my brilliant friend PriAlanis@dA! The composition / concept is 99,9% by her. The only thing I made was to add the idea of the twilight sky, the rest came all from her insanely creative imagination. Thanks a lot pal, I really loved doing this collab! <3 I hope we join our powers #CaptainPlanet and make more of them in the future! =D

About the piece:
The piece was inspired by Florence's "Bird Song", but it was a little twisted in a nice way, because the original idea behind the song is very dark - Florence is confessing she did something wrong but the more she tried to hide it from people around her, the more evident it was and it was making her going nuts, probably because she regreted what she had done that much.

Here, Florence is actually releasing her music to the world through the form of this little bird, which is her music coming to life, her musical essence embodied in a light form.

Enjoy!

~~> REFERENCES:
With the help of Pri Alanis, we made this manipulation of the concept, to have an idea of how it should look like in the end: http://i.imgur.com/rPMRK.jpg

I used:

Florence's pics
Twilight Clouds: based from FantasyStock@dA
Cage support: AjoensA-stock@dA - http://ajoensa-stock.deviantart.com/art/Lantern-IX-15230818
Cage: cstarr-stock@dA http://cstarr-stock.deviantart.com/art/Bird-Cage-3-126132992

Bird reference: Google images for the bird's anathomy.

TOOLS: Paint Tool SAI | Photoshop CS2 | Wacom bamboo PEN | 11h30m (3 days)

ART (c) ME, ~CelticBotan | CONCEPT / COMPOSITION (c) ~prialanis
FLORENCE (c) The Great Bird Entity who chose her as its avatar on Earth.