stardusted studio

daydreamers linger at the orange cat cafe

One more piece of art tonight! this is a redraw of a mermaid design I created back at the beginning of the pandemic, way back in March 2020. I’d like to think I’ve grown as an artist quite a lot since then!

"And then Suwa starts to sing. Two verses in, I fidget, knowing what's to come, but it still bowls me over when the song tilts and pushes into the chorus. I see it so clearly, the visual sequence attached to the moment. Of Marigold free-falling, but the perspective of the camera is flipped so that it looks like she and the leaning clouds are scrolling across the screen instead. Streaks of gossamer glitches gliding down the frame, blooming into iridescent halftones.

...Afterward he beams, his eyes crinkling like new butterfly wings. It feels so natural and so, so right to watch him onstage. He's cast a spell over the entire venue."