There’s this bug in the game where the belonging masks eyes don’t shine, giving them a more pearlescent look. I posted this on Sky Reddit and some guys say that they look like they took in too much dark water/ dark plants lol.
A delicate dessert that’s crunchy on the outside, and soft and creamy on the inside! Made with a sweet vanilla merengue that’s baked in the oven and filled with whipped cream, blueberries, and a tasty jam layering on the inside. All complete with extra blueberries on the outside and a drizzle of special “cosmic” blueberry syrup, and a jello cosmic manta that’s both cute to look at, and delicious!
.
(this took so long to finish HEKFBJNCS) let me know if yall want me to draw the inside of the pavlova :3c this WAS meant to be an addition to @/thebutterthatcanfly’s candle restaurant on instagram, but i was too late to submit my dessert ;; so instead, i decided to make it my own thing so that i could have the opportunity to really perfect the dessert!
Currently, Sky: Children of the Light and Mononoke are my two favorite things and I so very badly want to will this collaboration into existence. 🕯⚖️
Process GIF & artist commentary below the cut!
This began as a self-indulgent costume design project: aMononoke-inspired Sky cosmetic. It was supposed to be a quick-and-dirty mockup that would not be shared outside of private Discord servers, but I got...carried away.
It came out a lot nicer than anticipated. A bit rough around the edges, but when zoomed out clean enough to look like a legit Sky cosmetic. I extracted the high-res Sky and Mononoke logos from their respective websites. I custom-made the handhold collaboration icon. Then I slapped it on top of the costume design. It looked neat!
But then I started having second thoughts. The outfit was quite complex, and it didn't feel right to have it sit in a sterile, empty space like that. It looked half-baked, incomplete. So I used the Mononoke movie poster as inspiration for set dressing and color palette:
There are vestiges of the project's origins scattered throughout this piece - namely that a lot of the visuals were built upon screenshots from Sky. Since it was a costume design project, I didn't feel the need to draw from scratch. They were completely painted over in the final product, but using this technique sped up my process quite significantly!
I went to the Sky Wiki for references. I cobbled together some Season of Revival's kimono cosmetic as a starting point for the outfit. The eyeliner detail Days of Style mask looked similar to the Medicine Seller's face markings, so did a quick photoshoot in the Office to match the camera angle of the previous image.
For the lantern, I made a shared memory in the green room to get the ideal camera angles for each of them:
The grave markers I referenced from a photoshoot in the Hidden Forest's hub:
And the bridge I took from the Sunny Forest:
The butterflies were a last-minute addition - I wanted something to make the composition more sparkly! Then I remembered the end credits of Mononoke had a butterfly too! I figured since I went with the Medicine Seller's new design, this would be a nice homage to his classic look.