I am trying to come up with a design for a half sleeve, I have the main idea down but I could use some help with the details.

My thoughts are to start on the lower portion of my arm with a dark, surreal type picture that gives off the image of pain and suffering. It would have a dark sky with heavy clouds and as the design goes up my arm the clouds would lighten to a clear sky with a sun at the top of my shoulder with the sun rays really coming out. The idea is that no matter how bad things are right now the sun is still shining and things are bright above.

I have some basic designs for the dark parts (below) but I haven’t really seen a good picture of a sun or sky that I think would work well. The lower portion would be something along these lines:

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Any thoughts/ideas?