Heat Wave is one of my favorite MetaZoo: Wilderness spell cards; just had a lot of fun with it. Since the Gee-Gee Bird is a cryptid that's all about being miserably cold, of course I had to use it for a card all about being miserably hot. Poor boy just can't catch a break!
Originally, I was going to draw Gee-Gee holding a fan, and I was asked to put a plant or flower on it as a design. I think. I drew the Kindling Sparkroot on the fan as a pattern, as it's the only plant of the Flame aura (I think?) Something Frost themed would make more sense to put on a fan, to make one think cool thoughts, but that might have ended up reading incorrectly, giving the sense that the meaning of the card is cooling down when one is hot, instead of an overwhelming heat that makes the idea of a refreshing breeze into a fool's dream. Anyway, I don't know if I misunderstood the request, or if it was asked oddly, or if someone changed their mind after seeing the pencils, but I was asked to change it again, to replace the fan entirely with a leaf used for the same purpose. I used the same leaf that the Snipe carries around as an umbrella.
I also added the Belled Buzzard into the background just because I like that cryptid and felt that the composition needed one more little something in there.
