I started a sketch for a proposal on a job, then I took to liking it myself and kept working on it. Recently I think I found the key to making better starry skies. You have to make layers of smaller lighter stars in the background, and slowly build up to foreground stars. Also, if it seems like you can count the stars, even if it took you all day, then there are not enough stars. It has to look like a blanket of fog when you blur your eyes.







But even when I finished that much detail, I still found that I had to add a plasma (cloudy) layer underneath it all to keep it from looking blank.



