sophia
the other oc i made in 2010. gabrielle's partner. sad then, sad now.
i remember listening to songs like Siren (サイレン) by Asian Kung Fu Generation, which i love, when i first drew this character. it resonated a lot with me. i was just sentimental and isolated and sensitive and...in short i was in a very bad place. just two years had passed since i was diagnosed with depression and generalized anxiety disorder. i had hope though, that i would one day make cool drawings for a living. im still depressed...but im also still holding on to that hope.
i went back and looked at the drawings and they're so weird and rough...but they had this gentle sentimentality to them, which i now appreciate.
that song is still really good imo. i almost always listen to siren and siren#2 back to back.
i didn't use a specific character or person as reference. and as usual had to fight to make it not look like something else. in this case my sister. sigh.
