I sometimes do this thing where i'll go through my galleries/folders and see what works i have that have the same title, cause i'll forget what i titled something and end up using the title again.

This time are these two images

Smile for Me (2015)

Smile for me (2017)

It's funny how similar yet different these two art.

Both wolves, both portraits, both with a emphasis on blue, both dark (one also in a different way), and both in a style that's different from what i usually do.

But the mindsets were completely different when they were drawn.

the 2015 one, I was just playing around and having fun with drawing stuff and seeing what would happen. Learning new things and what not. I was living with my mother at the time.

The 2017 one was... a rough time. I was living with my mother again after jsut getting out of a toxic household, but said person kept harassing us all the time when we were trying to move on. It was suffocating, like you could never get away and yet you just had to keep up that mask of 'everything's fine' hoping that one day it'd be true.

It's just interesting, how these are so similar yet so, so very different.