#cloudy illustrates

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it was pointed out to me today that ( for various reasons) this could all been seen as a sequence and I honestly didn’t plan for it to be that way but now I cannot unsee it! The mind works in mysterious ways ( specially with blorbo fanart).

The year is wrapping up and I’m feeling happy to all the progress I’ve made as an artist—so I thought hey let’s put this all together so I have a post to go back to and remind myself of happy tidings 🖤

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Sandman Inktober 2023, Day 5 Sigils

“My siblings I stand not in my gallery and I don’t hold your sigils but I need your help”

So for this one I was inspired by this panel of Sandman Overture:

Art wise Sandman Overture is my favorite Sandman volume ( with Sandman Dream Hunters not very far behind) and this was one of my favorite scenes in the comic so it felt appropriate for today’s prompt 🖤

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"You know me. We've met before. I have many names. I am the King of Dreams and Nightmares: I am Morpheus, Dream of the Endless"

( can you tell I ran out of clever captions? anyway I think this concludes my nightmare dream era for now! this was my own fun art exercise and I'm happy with the results! if you missed the other two illustrations here's the first one and here's the other one! )

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"I will show you horrors with a handful of dust"

( so I took about a month off art hiatus and i'm back with...whatever this is? nightmare dream for sure! he is grumpy because they ran out of his favourite biscuits at the store! don't worry tho hob managed to find a different sufficient kind of sweets to placate him!)

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Art Log, Dreamling painting practice part 3✨

Because I’m incapable of doing things if there are not in a set of three—this could be seen as continuation of this last two posts

So I didn’t add my color swatches on this one because I got…quite lost doing this? I wanted to go for soft dusky colors but warm colors are so hard for me to do and adding the light source behind them didn’t help me 😅.

This will be a doozy to write down on my actual art log but oh well 😭

We are doing this to practice and learn folks so it’s okay! I quite like the pose and the overall vibe here! They are cozing up together because cold weather is upon us and I am inflicting this on my blorbos 🖤

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“No sé qué tienen las flores llorona, las flores del campo santo” Death of the Endless, Day of the Death.

I was going to post this tomorrow but in keeping with tradition I thought it would be more appropriate to do it now!

For those who don’t know what day of the death is: It’s a two day holiday that we celebrate in México to honor our departed loved ones. We make ofrendas (offerings) in altars that are brightly decorated with candles and flowers and we put up photos, food and drinks of our deceased loved ones enjoyed.

It’s a celebration of life and death and instead of mourning we celebrate! And I, personally, think that this is a day that Death of the Endless would love to be a part of.

Anyway I’ve run out of words but I hope you enjoy! I put a lot of effort on this one! And I’ve been trying out a different style so 🖤

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Art log, Dreamling painting practice ✨

This could be considered a part 2 to this post.

Went out today for a silly little mental health walk and I thought it would be so nice to paint something with sunset colors! I’ve been working with gradients so this seems like a nice fit to keep within my line of practice.

I’m also trying to become better at having more than two characters engaging / interacting so—-is this a tender moment or is Hob telling Dream he’s an idiot sandwich? You decide!

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Having one of those “annoyed because I overworked my painting” moments! I liked my color sketch better now that I compared it side by side with the finished piece.

This is a valuable lesson on sometimes less is more and why I am keeping a more careful art log now—anyways here’s the sketch for archive reasons✨

And as added bonus a pen brush sketch that I end up not using for this but still liked and might save up to use later.