I accidentally ended up painting along to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFTyO7jduY for a couple of hours.

Didn't really follow how he made his clouds work, and I've got less light bloom and no wizard, but I'm fairly happy with it just the same. My flying visitor is welcome to land any time and I shall not blast it with magic pew pew.

(Went in looking for a tutorial on 'painting' with manga studio, particularly with regards to oil and watercolour - which this turned out not to be. There's not a lot of hard info about how to use brushes and blending and such, so sadly, research fail. Still, interesting exercise and I feel like I could pull off this style for different structures in future if I wanted to.)