This was not my first attempt to paint one of those magical anime skies in a more painterly style, just to check what would happen if such a scene would be transposed to a medium like oil.
It was not without challenges. It is very difficult to obtain interesting edges digitally because we are "painting" with stamps that have no natural variation resulting in very boring marks (and the ones that do have variation are uncontrollable, after all, we are painting with a pencil tip that can be 1 pixel or the size of a house, and adding jitter to it will not make things easier).
But I took my time and, sooner or later, as some kind of complexity was achieved through layering, somehow it started to resemble what I was looking for. I have mixed feelings about it when viewed from up close vs from afar.
I may continue to work on it in the future, or maybe start all over, with completely different tools and approaches. This is just one iteration, as all art is, out of infinite possibilities. I don't get too stuck searching for perfection. It's ok for me to accept that I am a limited human being and these are the limits of my perception and skill at this point in time, this is approximately the best I can solve this problem, and getting stuck on it for another 60 hours hoping some lucky accident would save me would not bring me the same benefits that starting from scratch or another painting altogether would.
After all, this is all we are doing after declaring our work finished. We take whatever we may have learned through that experience and we start another one. And that's all there will ever be to it.
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