Artist Dreamland

Made for BlenderGuru 2016 Dreamland Competition
The theme behind this image is dream as a source of inspiration for everyone attempting to create something artistic: dreams give you a lot of inspiration and ideas , maybe you were able to produce something good in the past but the overall creation process is something a bit scary , tied to your technical skills and filled with potential distractions.
Everything has been achieved in Cyles: to achieve the final look I've created 2 versions of the same image, one with volumetrics on and one clear. The first one was rendered with branched path tracing ( 70 AA samples, 4 Diffuse & Glossy, 3 AO, 80 Volume), the second was rendered with cycles @ 2000samples, 3150*1050.