Okay, so first, i'll copy and paste the important stuff...
okay, so here's my entry for circuit II of the derka competition (http://po-taters.tamashii.org/index.html)

we were assigned a scan, and a REALLY tough scan at that. not only was it an amano scan, which...are incredibly plain, yet detailed and intricate at the same time, but it was one that was even more so than usual.
i love dthe scan, but working with it was tough, especially concidering the guidlines given.
you can check the derka website for that. and i suggest you do before giving a single comment, because if you don't know the guidlines, you won't understand why i did what i did.
anyways

i saw the scan, and after a few days of thinking "oh crap", i came up with this idea. day vs. night.
the scan showed the male character with the stars on his cape, so thats where that came from. i originally didn't want to chop up the scan like i did since i'm kinda against it, but in order for it to work, i had no choice. so i chopped it up and moved it around. and parts that were added were taken from other amano scans to keep the style. anything else was only alterations such as lighting effects, and levela djustments and the likes.

now, i edited it quite a bit. same general idea, but i took some suggestions from tate, shinn, highknees, and others and worked on it a bit. so thanks guys for your help.
i decided to just reupload it because i'm a horrible person.
if you commented before, please do so again and i'll love you forever :D

oh yeah, and the text behind the main text is from a poem by Sidney Lanier titled "night and day" the stanza i used is the following:
"The innocent, sweet Day is dead.
Dark Night hath slain her in her bed.
O, Moors are as fierce to kill as to wed!
-- Put out the light, said he. "