Nov 20, 2010

"When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left." Sufi Epigram

Melancholia is my new favorite gal to draw for the moment. I dressed her rather well if I do say so myself =]

She's shy, jumpy, and perpetually saddened. I see her as the girl that all strong motherly types want to protect from the world. She is easily embarrassed but never lashes out, just shrinks into the background. When comfortable I'm sure she is super exited and bubbly.


this drawing got a bit smudged before it was scanned unfortunately.

I think i like here so much because she stands for my depression/suppression. for a few years now my friend Hannah has been calling me Melancholia when ever i am melancholy. this girl looks how i feel a lot of the time, especially for the past few months.  well, July-September and now.

1 comment:

  1. I don't see any smudge.

    And just how many of the various details should be considered symbolic of your mental state? The spiral pupils for confusion, the hair over them to show the difficulty in looking ahead, or the asymetrc sleeves showing a sense of not fitting in/matching up properly with the normal perception of how things are supposed to be.
    I mean, the eyebrows are probably the only definitively translatable symbol, with that particular shape being anything from unhappy to skeptical. (I don't actualy think you meant most of that, it just feels critic-y to draw conculsions like that)

    Regardless, I have confidence that you'll pull through with a greater pool of experience from which to draw. So buck up milady, nothing good was ever gained by living in the past.

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