Today I am experimenting on using limited colors and just one kind of brush of my choice. Sometimes the simplest tools will the simplest but with the most impact like this digital marker brush. I did not use no layers or polishing, no blending, just strokes of color that created their own texture. What I love about the marker brush is the imperfections you can see when I hesitated and lost of my confidence on a particular stroke. That is just fine and what I am going for.
In this piece, I leaned into warm tones: burnt oranges, faded browns, and the glowing red base that anchors everything. The round, pale shape at the center could be read as the sun, or maybe a moon what matters is the blur and transparency, like the sky itself trying to decide what time of day it depicts. The clouds aren’t sharp outlines but fragmented patches that evoke that feeling of light rather than solid forms.
This is what sketching is for me: not accuracy, not realism, but mood. I felt this moment kind of vibe, even if the lines never seem to support that. Using the marker brush made it feel loose like and that is my goal.
