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"when the clouds glow on behalf of the sky"

originally created September 28, 2024 ✦ republished February 7, 2025

(Originally posted on Tumblr. This retroactive post is copied from the Tumblr post.)

wew

It's been a long long while since I've made something like this. I've been wanting to make a night sky for a long time now, but character fanart (and even more so college work) took more of my attention. Somehow, I feel like I could draw MORE rn—I could just burst out all of this energy inside of me, and splatter it all over my poor defenseless Wacom drawing tablet. I don't wanna do anything other than this. There's nothing I can think to do other than this.

(Man, it's been a long time since I've rambled like this, too!!! I used to do that a LOT on my Instagram. But Instagram is shit, so I'd like my Insta to become old news someday. Tumblr is so much better, it has no word limit and is a real boy blog.)

I didn't expect the clouds to turn out so floofy, either. Years ago, when I drew nature stuff more often, I didn't scribble the blending tool around as much. I think that made my clouds look flat. Now, here, they look like pulled cotton. Which is good.

I tried to imitate how a cloudy night sky looks, where it's hard to tell whether the clouds are the dark patches or the slightly-lighter patches. I think the clouds are the light patches, because the clouds are the solid objects that reflect light and whatnot. Is that how it is?...

I totally finished this in like 10 minutes, istg LITERALLY the fancier-looking things take LESS time to draw, HOWWW—

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Originally created: September 28, 2024 9:19:00 PM EDT
Republished: February 7, 2025 11:26:23 PM EST
Last edited: February 7, 2025 11:26:23 PM EST
Categories: Art