My Life in Palette: Under The Same Sky

In hushed reverence, we gaze at the stars and the moon - in awe of their timeless beauty, knowing that their grandeur hold the secrets of our most enchanted and cherished moments under the great glittering sky.

Hello everyone!

Tonight, I talked to the moon and the stars.

It was that smile, the first time I saw it on that one fleeting magical summer night. I knew then that I wanted to see it for the rest of my life.

As I watched the stars gracefully waltzing among with all those other astronomical marvels, I saw in them the resemblance of your smile, which sends sparks to every atom of my entire existence, the first time my eyes set on you.

For one more time, I wish I could see your eyes sparkle again like the way they did on that night, beneath the sky - the sole witness of how that moment has etched joy to my heart.

But by the same mischief of fate, life doesn't always go our way. And here I am, asking the sky why at some point in the universe, other stars no longer align.

Could it be possible that when one star is at the pinnacle of its grandest luminance, one could just suddenly lose its radiance?

Maybe some stars radiantly flared but blurred with clouded turbulence - and later on, perished. So are well-written stories that ended in contrary to how our hearts desperately wish it would have happily indeed.

Nothing in this life is permanent. All those flashes of happiness and bursts of pain slipped through my fingers. And even though I have long accepted that, still, it emotionally pinched and in a way, broke me.

Yes, it bloody ripped me inside. But instead of bursting it into tears, my heart wanted to pour them into my ink and shade it with the blissful celebration that even though no matter how enormously vast the universe is - you and I collided.

And so tonight, I drew the moon and the stars.

I gathered all the diligence to summon all the artistic cells that run through my veins to have this sketch done. Like a diary, this will always remind me of our beautiful encounter - how perfectly the universe has made the stars aligned and magically put us together under the incomparable grandeur of the glittering sky above. And with that, I'm forever grateful.

And here is a quick glimpse of my heart's eagerness to put this pain yet magical feeling into a piece of art.

The process:

🔶 Step 1:

I started by sketching it with a pencil.

🔶 Step 2:

As I was done with the sketch, I traced the images with a blue gel pen.

🔶 Step 3:

And then for the magical highlight, I added these cosmos beauties.

🔶 Step 4:

In the last part, I added the dots that make them look like distant stars.

And tadaaaaaaaa, adding it with my signature and I call it done!

And so tonight, I inhale the sweet dream of having you beside me forever and exhale the bitter reality with a deep sigh that you are again another "almost", "the so-close", and "the fleeting" - a vibrant yet distant star that was never mine to lose.

But it's amazing to know that it just takes one gaze above to comfort and protect me from the storm of the void you left that wreaked havoc inside my chest.

Despite the distance that fate has drawn further between us every day, hopelessly leaving me with an endless wondering if will I ever have a glance of your pretty face again, it helps to think that at least we are still under the same sky - we still see the same glittering universe .

Until our stars meet again. ✨