Been a while since I've done any major pieces of art focusing on Flames, heck, considering the guy is supposed to my 'sona and the main character of my old stories, I rarely seem to do any art of him.

Well, this was a pain in a few areas and there's some design changes here and there to be noted that have actually existed for a long long time in my head (I just never got around to actually putting them image). The X-Sabre in particular looks quite different in many ways and I'm not too sure which design I prefer.
I've been experimenting with backgrounds a bit as of late and I'd like to say that they're improving, at least compared to some of my older art. Admittedly, I spent less time on this BG than on my Sonic Boom piece and it probably shows as this scene is one of my fairly generic ones.

I've lately been finishing off every art by adding a "HD Version" that is intended to resemble a large chunk of modern games and their interpretation of "realistic" (bloom lighting, brown colours, dark, etc), similar to some pieces I did a while ago. This is mostly just for fun to see how they look as it doesn't add to much time to the art and I tend to leave them on my hard drive and submit the regular versions...
Although my Samus piece recently was an exception as the "HD-ified" version didn't look too bad and seemed better than the original XD

So, I might add the HD-style version of this art to my scraps or something. Whilst I remember (yes, even more rambling on), big thanks to  Vosur, who gave me a lot of snapshots of a 3D model of Flames in various poses, one of which I used as the basis for this art.
It's been lying around on my external drive for so long, I figured I might as well use it, even if it's a tad later then you likely envisioned it seeing used :P

As ever this was made in the GIMP. This rambling gibberish is not covered by any insurance firm, nor will you get those moments of your life back. My apologies.