Phoenix lettering

Hi!
With some friends (poke @Francis ^^) we made a lettering challenge.
The idea was to do some lettering with the word "Phœnix". As I'm not the most inspired person about the mythological bird, I decided to work on the form mainly and thought it would fit with the city of Phoenix. So here we are :)

You can see my process here :
- First version (drawing and vectors)
- Iterations based on the "œ" part

It took me about 2 hours to get this done, so it might need some extra hours to make it perfect :)

Photo courtesy of Andrew Tseng