I grasp the message... definitely been through that before. It's tough.

i feel you x.x

This happened to me yesterday and you have no idea how much this touches me ;u;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21g0t49iy8 You should give this a listen <3

Also *hugstight* I know how that is. With buses and trains. It ends in December for me. And let me tell you, it's going to be amazing when you finally are with your loved one forever. c: Beautiful pic as well too, hun.

Again hope the trip goes smoothly!

All I have behind me is a 16 hour flight to see my brother. Airplanes make me bored, and I lack the ability to sleep on them. That was a looong ride.

I think she's just depressed that the airline coffee is so expensive.

<_<' I have never had to pay for airline coffee.

aw, this is an awesome pic

Uuuugh so true. SO RELEVANT TO ME NOW. I've been on both sides of those flights, currently awaiting the boy who is flying a good 18 hours to come see me. So nerve wracking how it just DRAGS BY. TIME SO SLOW. Love this.

My partner is only in New Zealand (i'm in Australi) and just went back, and in Feb I did the trip over. TIME TAKES WAY TOO LONG on those damn flights ;_;

Ah I'm currently in NZ, second time I've done long distance from NZ to Cali. But I can see how being 'cross the ditch is a mega pain too :(

I've done Auckland to Los Angeles to Amsterdam without an overnight stopover... never again. You can sleep on ONE leg from NZ to Europe direct - and you won't sleep on the other one. So you'll get one leg of staring at the walls for twelve hours. Argh!

I hear ya. Hope you'll be back over here soon. :( *Hugs*

i may not have had that or will be having that experience of flying overseas and leaving alot of freinds behind but i get what you are trying to portray here in this picture and i hope that you can still be able to go and see those olf friends and keep contact with them and dont let your friendships die cause you are soo far apart because you shall always be closer to them and them to you because you and them will always be in each others hearts! oh and ps. Welcome to the US!^_^

hehe. this piece reminds me of my trip this summer, those screens on the chairs were pretty bad and the games were even worse, but 15 hour long flight.. so what do you do..
Nice picture anyway :3

Aww...it's sad...yet beautiful.

I hate the wing seat, you can't see shit!

It's worse when it is a long flight and you have two people to climb over to get to the bathroom.
DAMN YOU WINDOW SEAT!

But you can see all the funky things the flaps do on landing! ^^

True, that is rather interesting to watch. You're like, wow! I'm in a giant flying robot!

I can identify with this pic sooooo easily...haviing my mate 12 timezones away is a real pain, and it hurts so much to leave him behind...

Been a while since I've rode on a plane. I like how lost in thought she is.

why you gonna put this in scraps kyma? this picture has alot of meaning for you, i can see it goes deeper than most of your pictures.

XD Most of my pictures are commissions. And yeah - I want to work on more pieces that people can relate to.

fly like a G6

SMACKS.

Yeah I get this: I fly a lot. Window seat over the wing is a butt-fest: gotta bypass two other cretins to pee and you don't even get a good view... just a view of a reflecty-ass wing. BUTTFEST.

So many butts @_@'

The only thing worse is the seat right across from the lavatory. Imagine getting sprayed in the face with everyone's toilet/sink mist for 13 hours from NYC to Tokyo. NEVER AGAIN

Gorgeous lighting.

<3 safe flight

I was reminded of a piece of glass art I saw... (warning, very of-the-period fashions ahead)
http://collection.cmog.org/detail.p.....0#.TreAV9838dI

That museum should be in day-trip range for you some day, WELL worth the trip.

I did that for two years. I empathize entirely. *hugs*

Maybe not overseas, but cross country? Yeah... I'm rather familiar with that feeling.

Gah I love flying! And this sums up about how much I flew to holland when I visited my loved one. Gorgeous job

I used to know how that felt. I wish i still had someone to miss :P Maybe soon, but i love the feeling in the photo, captures it perfectly.

Ouch... haha... hey this is familiar, I did something like this about a year ago... (I flew, I meant, not drawing)

The feeling is so unsettling, I was flying a long trip - 10 hours - to meet a... uhm...
Yeah. I cannot rest, yet I cannot -not- rest, you know, the plane being small, no where to walk. The feeling is so... haha, oddly pleasant and yet at the very same time, I felt like blasting through the Emergency Exit door and 'escaping'.

Especially when I saw the timer on the plane - 1 hour to arrival. The mixed feelings...

Um, sorry for ranting, haha. This is really, really good though.
<3

Yeah, I definitely know that feeling. If making a 12 hour flight, a 3 hour flight, then a 10 hour flight to see them doesn't mean you love them, I don't know what does. x3

Personally, I couldn't do a long distance relationship. I'd go crazy. To think that I found an amazing girl in my own town... She's the love of my life and I feel so lucky <3

Best of luck to you, Kyma <3

1Thats the best profile pic ever! :D

Window seat, check
Pee'd before flying, check.
Applejuice to calm nerves, check.
Headset and in-flight movies to keep entertained, check.


I've never really been depressed when flying to or from the UK. This last time -to- the UK I was just super calm since it would be my last flight over the atlantic in a long long long time.

Almost rubbed my visa into the immigration officer's face too. I did a "heeeeee I'm here.... yay~!" little 'dance' thing once I got past immigration as well.

Suddenly I feel lonely too.

Good luck.

DO NOT SCRAP

Is very emotive ;-;

I will be doing much work like this next year when my mate goes on exchange to japan!

Kyma is traveling tonight on a plane.

I can see the red taillights heading for Spain, oh and.

I can Kyma waving goodbye...

God, it looks like Kyma...

Must be the clouds in my eyes...

I would never be allowed on a plane... Too many weapons I'm to attatched to to part with. lol

Also, my 5 am grammar...

I think I know the feeling your're getting at...for sure.

Oh your going to bloody love the 12 hour flight from NZ to the US

Uuuurgh, don't remind me, Ontop of that I have to get across the country too... so that is about 20 hours of flight time

Just to rub it in even more if i cam recall correctly is that its quicker going from the US to NZ due to the jetstream :P

Oh btw....Best thing about international flights! FREE BOOZE!

Only on Air New Zealand :/ I have yet to find a US airline that gives out booze.

Went through this 2-3 weeks ago, rode a train up to Illinois from California to see my mate, takes two days to get there and back, I had my own private room so I was seperated from everyone else. On the way there I was so excited and happy to be going there, it seemed very short on the way going, and after a week of being together and finally celebrating our birthdays together, (a funny coincidence that ours are back to back october mine being october 14th and his the 15th... but i digress) it was like heaven... Then once on the train back in the solitude and knowledge of the fact that I was being separated from my mate for a third time.... I cried in my little room every time I was awake, those two days cut off from the world were agonizing(cell phone signals suuuuuuuuccccckkkkk on the trains) but long and probably unwanted story later, I know how you feel

on an added note, it does get easier each time you part, and the sadness you experience on the first couple days does eventually go away, and instead of feeling like you wish you could turn back time to do it again, you're counting down the days to when you can be together again ^^

I really relate to this...wonderful work kyma. Love the message behind it, and I know what its like to wait for that loved one, as they are flying to you...<3

Went through it last Monday when I flew back from seeing my mate. What sucked the most was the seat next to me was empty when I wished so hard they where sitting there with me. The flight attendent knew what was going on when she saw me crying and kept looking out the window.

i once spent 15 hours on a train. i wanted to friggin DIE.

815?

I wish you only the best for the upcoming move, congrats again for finally making it!
Very surreal drawing, submits the mood darn well.
I really like taking the airplane (window seats ftw, I'll always reserve one), most flight time for me was 6 hours :D
Hehe...wonder what it will be like for me when I move to Canada in around 5 years, I'm already giddy only thinking about it now :3

Leaving loved ones is always hard

All too familiar. My sister lived in England with her now late husband. A couple of days after he died, I flew over the pond to help her through the funeral and move back to the US. Those were some of the most painful flights of my life. I usually love flying! I'm a pilot and I almost always look forward to it.

I can see the feelleing

I know exactly how this feels, as I have family in Canada, the flights are very long, especially if you have small children around you screaming/kicking your chair/peeking over the one in front of you. >.<

I understand this feeling all too well.

This is actually pretty good Kyma. Not quite what I usually expect when I see something you've done, but certainly unique and different. I like it. ^^ The mood comes through well and the art style supports it. That's what counts as far as I'm concerned. ^^

Definitely been there. But this looks amazing <3 I really do wish you all the best in Ameridurr and hope to see you again soon~

This is lovely. Love the expression!

several times... good job on this...

"Long-distance USA,
Last night I heard her say,
She'd been away too long now, she's coming home.
Be on the morning plane,
If I still feel the same,
I should be waiting 'cause she'd be all alone.
I'm in Arrivals by the time she had said.
I searched the information board and read:
Terminal 3: Flight's on time."

-- Linda Martin, 'Terminal 3' (with pronouns switched around to make it fit the circumstances).

A fitting picture; the expression says it all.

Airplanes are miserable and treat you like a convict sardine anyways. It only adds to stress.

This is a very nice piece of art. I can see the emotion in her face and it saddens me.

The shading really adds to the emotion.

Flying over the world itself (besides the seas and ground and all) As the air plane reached above the clouds I felt like the clouds were the ground itself,but soft and white like an ocean of pure whiteness. I felt as if i entered a new place,surrounded with calm and beauty. Flying on an air plane is magnificent,yet people next to you can be rude while your trying to enjoy something you never experienced ever...damn sniddy old biddy elderly stupid hags telling me what i shouldnt be doing i have a sniddy old biddy and it's my grandma,shes kicking ass still...but back to what i was saying Being on an air plane would mostly take you away from the world,it's like as soon as your enter the clouds your in a loading zone,waiting hours to get back onto the ground and before you know it a new horizon of explorations and places emerge the naked eye you have and you will want to explore as you land,but nothing is exactly as the home you came from so me i only had a "limit" to explore which was dull...

Very nice, Kyme. I can certainly relate to this situation. Great job =)

lovely work.

And take solace in the fact that its still possible to see them again

What MP3 are you using?

the wait is a bitch
but so worth it :3
very nice piece Kyma~

I get it. I lived in Norway for a long time and my family is in the US. I've made that treck many... many a time. It's boring, daunting... no fun at all... and for a guy who's really tall, it hurts lots!

But ya... get that MP3 player out, or a little game pad, and try to make the best of it. So boring... and nothing out the window to see by either flat clouds... or ocean. Occasionally you get to see greenland but, nothing exciting there from that high in the sky!

Lovely colors!

Was in this position a few days ago, halfway across the world now...

Looking forward to going back to the N.A continent within the next year or two for sure...

*still homesick*

Man I know that feeling...It sucks :S

Yeah it does :<

I've been there... I know the feeling.

I absolutely love this picture. Works quite well with the short scene I wrote a time back from Poetigress's Thursday prompts.

I really like the coloring ^^.

flights always make me drowsy its all the white noise

my stoned brain half expected feathered wing outside the window >.< . flying to somewhere you want to be is epic.

I love the window seat! ... more so because I don't really need to go to the bathroom all that much. The only thing I detest is the fact that the airline food never fills me up. But I know that feeling and that look, especially the pose. I had to listen to music though so I could drown out the noise for a bit.
Uuuugggghhhh, the cramped flight from the US to Germany pained me I think it was around 13 hours. Then like another couple of hours to Sweden.

I know this one very very well..