This picture is a ...er re-illustration of an idea I used for an older picture a little more than a year ago. In the older CG drawing I had a very close up shot of Locke peering into a slime green Phoenix esper outside of the cave he found it in (created in Painter when I was first learning to use it). But in this new one I zoomed out on Locke a bit and I tried to make his magicite a lot more magical looking, I also decided to make Phoenix red because I think that helps make it look more like "warm glowey you can bring your girlfriend back to life with me magic" than the green did ^_^ plus Phoenix is a supposed to be a fire bird. Overall I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out (sure took me long enough), and I do think it's quite an improvement over the original.