"Octavean- The cost of power"

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"Octavean- The cost of power"
*"The Cost of power" was actually my first post in steemit. Back then I had no clue that steemit will help me so much. The last month was really hard for me. But in the end, I managed to stand up and thanks to steemit I helped my family to get on its feet... Thru art. I am so happy that i can do that!*
When I finished the drawing on paper I asked my teacher how to do this better, he told me to digitalize it. But I had no idea how I this would look in the real world, or how could I do that technically back then. 

![octavean thumbnail.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQsAwwwzNaxRRr8zrz9Ueun5gSJJgQKepZoH54kBee7g6/octavean%20thumbnail.jpg)

<center>**The Cost of power**
*revisited*</center>
An ancient Archmage. Once a teacher, and a student. He desired one thing. To know and to be capable. How  could he reach this? And how he could maintain that power? 
He exalted himself, out of the world, out of his own mind he was seeking the patterns of the chaos and the chaos of the order. He witnessed how a star dies and how a new one is born. How a comet destroys a planet and the dust of it forms a new life on another one. How planets are formed and how supernovas consume everything around them. 
He understood one thing. The mind is the one that gives meaning to everything. Humans try to give meaning to everything otherwise they could not survive. This is the one thing that most humans can't live without. Meaning, and emotion!
Octavean collected the consciousnesses of many, every emotion he felt. Every desire and every thought. If one could paint his mind, it would be a simple chaos, similar to the vast universe that we live in. Every consciousness is a galaxy and in the middle of this storm you could see an empty pitch black void that could consumed everything in his desire for more.
But the shell... The shell that is holding this is fragile. One can see the cracks in it. The torture in his eyes and the pain captured in the cage of his mind. 
**Nobody can save you from what you desire**

![Octavean full image.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVYvnQSv2nCLB3Xm9RnXnHKZNLZKrYt286tYqD22Awob5/Octavean%20full%20image.jpg)
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<center>**Details**</center>
![octavean detail 1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWFbzG2H3zmV5173QzUhXwPYPpEgL2wcCCj4g1QZTYMB4/octavean%20detail%201.jpg)
*Detail 1*

![octavean detail 2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcojb9csfN7owAa4TTvVWZJqwMyjQwgh6PJVB6dfR2tr2/octavean%20detail%202.jpg)
*Detail 2*
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Original Concept

![the first banshee.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQRbnDzXHnAEMAgXfACdyD181SFvM7XThqUdHfo22XPDw/the%20first%20banshee.jpg)
**Tools used:** Photoshop cc2018 and Wacom Intuos pen small; For the traditional sketch Red ink ballpoint pen and for better reading I converted it to grayscale in photoshop. 

*Tip to artists-* Take your chances! Don't be afraid, you've got nothing to lose!

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