Title: Zillva
Original Dimensions: 18”x 29”
Medium: Prismacolor Pencil on Cold Press Illustration Board

My dear Vorgue and my dear Zillva, so much to say about them.
They are my darlings really, I love them both so dearly above all my other creations, but strangely I have never really felt they were truly my creations.
These are the second set of them, neither have changed, both are exactly as they were, only here they are somewhat of in colour where as before they were done in charcoal and soft pastel.

They are from what was the most real and quite likely the best dream I have ever had. A dream concerning a world called AlterRealm which was a realm that existed outside the worlds of both reality and fiction, as it was explained to me in the dream. It was quite an involved dream so to make a very long story short they followed me back to the waking world. I never saw them in that world just many, many other fantastic beings, but I know that my Vorgue and my Zillva are the guardians of that dream realm and they came back with me. I always had the distinct feeling when drawing any of the creatures that I was somehow betraying them, they weren't meant to be seen. All but Vorgue and Zillva that is, they were the first things I knew when I had awoke and the first of the creatures I drew. The originals weren't ever even sketched. I had woken up from the dream and immediately started work on them on 20”x28” boards and I finished them both one after the other before I could sleep again, which was well over the twenty-four hour mark. The first versions are in my own collection to stay, I will never sell them and most likely never exhibit them again.