Northern Lights

 Northern Lights

1200 x 1500

SketchBook

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For this piece, I drew inspiration from several places, one being the Northern Lights itself. Then, there is the song ‘Surrender’ by Birdy, which is one of my top favourite songs, and there’s also DEATH STRANDING -- I am at that part of the game now where the skies are filled with auroras now post Chapter 9. And then, there is HIS DARK MATERIALS, in which the Northern Lights served as a trigger for Lyra’s epic and bizarrely spiritual adventure. 

The blending of the aurora lights were the hardest to achieve. It took some experimentation between several types of brushes, until I settled on a weird mixture of three -- round, square and air, with the aid of the smudge tool. It was fun playing around with them, nonetheless.