cinnamoroll

ok i need to yell about my cinnamoroll pattern into the void and i felt like the description was the wrong place. i love cinnamoroll, it was my first manga as a kid and i read it backwards bc i was an elementary schooler so i didnt understand that japanese books read right to left, i would also forget they were dogs and get surprised when they turned out to not in fact be bunnies. anyway i know a little bit of cinnamoroll lore so ik that he's not actually a dog, he's a cloud. ive always wanted merch of him but its really expensive so i never got any but! i can make my own for myself! which i always forget about when thinking of projects. but when i sat down to draw on my dorm chalk wall i finally remembered, so i drew him sitting on a cloud with the moon and stars around him. it was soooo cute and i was really sad when i had to destroy him during move-out. so i was making a bajillion cat patterns when i remembered that drawing and was like omg i should make that on kandipad! so i pulled up the photo i had on my phone and quickly realized that was kinda pointless since it was mostly lineart and kandi doesnt work well for that. haha kandi and kinda are the same word with the i and a switched around. so i went off memory and made cinnamoroll without references but then i had to made the clouds and i had some trouble but eventually got the swirlies down. then i moved onto color and used the first purply "cloud sunset" image on google as a reference (i did the sunset pattern first). the sun was definitely the hardest part, i went back a few times after saving to redo it but i couldn't improve on it (if anyone can do it better pls remix it, i wanna see how you think it could work). since the rays of light make contact with the clouds and figure i had to be careful about which color touched so that the image would come across without getting too muddled. idk if i succeeded, but it works if i blur my eyes. im really glad i used as many colors as i did, i love the gradient effect that came out of it. then i used the sunset pattern as a base to make the moon pattern and omg it went so smooth and easy and satisfying. probably my favorite pattern i've made overall. it reads really well, the lighting works beautifully, and the whole thing looks really cohesive. i swapped out the purples, pinks, and yellows for blues and covered cinnamoroll in more shadow since the moon is a dimmer and less harsh light source, and i switch the pink and yellow in the flowers to purple and green so they looked like they were in shadow. honestly my biggest issue with it is the practicality of making physically since it would be hard to colormatch the beads. the final product is a definite upgrade from the chalk wall lol anyway thx for reading my rant i love talking about my art, this is the og drawing right b4 i disintegrated it. you can see the weapon of destruction in the bottom left