"I dream. I imagine.
I, the Creator, am a god in my world."


----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Finally finished this. X_X I thought I'd never make it till the deadline. But here I am, I made it!



So, let me explain the drawing a bit:
Starting from the intro of the contest "Your fantasies? Your desires? What have you always wanted? How would reality be if it where as you would have it? What do you dream?", the predominant idea in my mind was that of the artist itself.
Treating the matter subjectively, I portrayed my two important characters, Ciel (on the right), and Rin (on the left). They are shown as half, because together they represent the artist, and they are both a part of me.
The side I chose for them was also significant: left side tends to stand for the supernatural (Rin being a demon, her hand pointing upwards), while the right side stand for material, daily activities, 'the good side' (Ciel being an exorcist). This also represents the duality existent within every human being, even artists (that of good and evil).
Rin's hand also points towards the papers at the top (4 sheets of paper), the 'support' on which an artist's world is created, while Ciel's hand holds the paintbrush, the 'tool' with which the artist creates.

- Disintegrating watches show the flow of time that is slowly bending, shattering, which also represents immortality.
- The fog is the obscure matter, the gray zone between reality and unreality, material and immaterial.
- The apple, a very controversial symbol, here stands for The Universe, absolute power and wisdom.
- The hellish worms show the dark nature of man, the unconscious, savage and uncontrollable power buried deep within us.
- The Sun and The Moon are the universal Father and universal Mother, the two dual principles.
- The Flame represents the artist's divine nature, its superhuman power, superior and detached from the material needs. [spiritually speaking] It's also the artist's direct connection with the universal power.

With the material support, and the spiritual power one it has been entrusted, an artist can venture into realms that no other man dares to reach.....

.....that is, if we learn how to life in harmony with our spiritual self.


---
I deeply apologize for the long description, but I believed it to be relevant for a better understanding of the painting.
Thank you for reading
*sighs* now I need to rest my head..... -.-'''

sketched with 0.5 HB mechanical pencil on a4 colored and textured paper
inked with 0.05 Copic multiliner
watercolors, acrylics(mainly for strengthening colors)
white ink and nib for highlights and white outlines
final adjustments on the outline with the 0.05 Copic multiliner
scanned and adjusted the levels in Photoshop CS2
time: 26 hours