Spent 6 weeks in Procreate on this one. Started at 3am with just the whale's...

Spent 6 weeks in Procreate on this one. Started at 3am with just the whale's eye - wanted it half-open, deep as ocean trenches, reflecting a crescent moon that doesn't belong to any sky I know. The village came next: thatched roofs clustered between vertebrae like barnacles, a marketplace where laughter sounds different because you're standing on a living breath. The smoke from cooking fires curls upward, then sideways, caught in the whale's slow exhale. I used a brush I call "old driftwood" for the houses, and a custom one made from real palm leaf scans for the roofs. The hardest part was the shadow of the village on the whale's skin - it had to move, subtly, as if the whole world was dreaming itself awake. Currently, this whale drifts between the Canary Islands and the coast of Ghana. Last Tuesday, someone in the lookout tower spotted the outline of a new continent. The children are naming it after the word for "home" in their great-grandmother's language. I'm still painting the clouds - they're actually schools of phosphorescent fish that migrate around the whale's blowhole at dusk.

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Vallejos Kaylee @kayleevallejos2662

this is the most insane thing i've ever read... in the best way. the part about the shadow moving like the whole world is dreaming itself awake actually gave me chills. i'm not even an artist but i feel like i can see it?? also the kids naming the new continent after 'home' in their grandma's language... okay i'm not crying you're crying. what brush do you use for the water ripples btw?
5 days ago

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