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When I think about what Nick Domnall and Dominic Mephitto represent as characters, with Domnall embodying my depression and grief while Mephitto embodies my artistic side but also my feelings of just not fitting in anywhere and how ashamed of myself I often am, and both carrying various regrets of mine, "holding the hand that holds me down" pretty solidly sums up how they feel about each other.
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Friends that have been through a lot, whose relationship has been strained time and again but they have always managed to pull through, with each acutely aware of the others' grief and sorrow but not really able to help in any meaningful way.
That's honestly how I feel about most of the people in my life. Simultaneously like I am a burden they'd be better off without, and that they are letting me down and may be a burden I'd be better off without as well.
And that's how I've felt about a lot of things in my life as well, art in particular being a big one, something that has served really only to get in my way and distract me from other things that may have actually served to improve my situation if I hadn't been sitting around drawing cartoon animals instead of doing those things.
In my solitude and on my walks while listening to music, my mind has put together quite the striking "music video" for "Without You" by Breaking Benjamin as a sort of duet between Domnall and Mephitto, that would serve as the conclusion to the Domnall's Desolation story arc. I'd love to reach a point where I could put something together based on it, a series of pictures, but for now and for the foreseeable future, this is the best I can muster.
Nick Domnall looking up at the roof of the factory, and seeing his only remaining friend standing there and ready to jump, and desperately screaming "COME BACK DOWN! SAVE YOURSELF! I CAN'T FIND MY WAY TO YOU!" before saying/thinking to himself as his gaze turns away, "...and I can't bear to face the truth", the truth being that he is the whole reason his friend is up there in the first place.
Domnall, as the embodiment of depression and despair, being the death of Mephitto, the embodiment of art and expression and happiness in the little quirks, is an extremely fitting metaphor for the past year or so.
I have been and still am going through much the same journey with Nick Domnall as I did with Nico Reynard last year, but where Nico represented anger and frustration, which are far more proactive and directable and controllable forces, Nick Domnall is sheer depression, pain, and nihilism. And I can't just pretend that isn't there, just like Dominic Mephitto can't turn his back on his friend even if many would argue he should. Of course that also reflects in my art, where as much as I'd like to hide behind the Mask of Mephitto and spam the silly repetitive art of fat cartoon animals in underwear and diapers and stuff, the truly meaningful art has really been coming from trying to deal with depression and express those somber moods. It's caused me to experiment more with using photos for backgrounds, play around with different shading techniques and coming up with something that looks very good to me, and most importantly, it's gotten me to just step away for extended periods and go the fuck outside, even if it's just to get more photos to use as backgrounds for moody animals.
I think that in the end, even if the relationship is strained and they both acknowledge it is strained, they would remain friends. Art and powerful emotions, even (and *especially*) the dark ones, are powerful allies, even if those dark emotions can often be the death of art and artists.
It's all very hard to word, and I'm not sure I should have even bothered...
I finished this one up on October 31st (as well as the previous version with Nick alone), as I already had a great picture of the factory from mid-October and the picture of Nick, and it wasn't too much trouble to throw together a matching pic of Dominic to go with him.
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Find Me On:
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Friends that have been through a lot, whose relationship has been strained time and again but they have always managed to pull through, with each acutely aware of the others' grief and sorrow but not really able to help in any meaningful way.
That's honestly how I feel about most of the people in my life. Simultaneously like I am a burden they'd be better off without, and that they are letting me down and may be a burden I'd be better off without as well.
And that's how I've felt about a lot of things in my life as well, art in particular being a big one, something that has served really only to get in my way and distract me from other things that may have actually served to improve my situation if I hadn't been sitting around drawing cartoon animals instead of doing those things.
In my solitude and on my walks while listening to music, my mind has put together quite the striking "music video" for "Without You" by Breaking Benjamin as a sort of duet between Domnall and Mephitto, that would serve as the conclusion to the Domnall's Desolation story arc. I'd love to reach a point where I could put something together based on it, a series of pictures, but for now and for the foreseeable future, this is the best I can muster.
Nick Domnall looking up at the roof of the factory, and seeing his only remaining friend standing there and ready to jump, and desperately screaming "COME BACK DOWN! SAVE YOURSELF! I CAN'T FIND MY WAY TO YOU!" before saying/thinking to himself as his gaze turns away, "...and I can't bear to face the truth", the truth being that he is the whole reason his friend is up there in the first place.
Domnall, as the embodiment of depression and despair, being the death of Mephitto, the embodiment of art and expression and happiness in the little quirks, is an extremely fitting metaphor for the past year or so.
I have been and still am going through much the same journey with Nick Domnall as I did with Nico Reynard last year, but where Nico represented anger and frustration, which are far more proactive and directable and controllable forces, Nick Domnall is sheer depression, pain, and nihilism. And I can't just pretend that isn't there, just like Dominic Mephitto can't turn his back on his friend even if many would argue he should. Of course that also reflects in my art, where as much as I'd like to hide behind the Mask of Mephitto and spam the silly repetitive art of fat cartoon animals in underwear and diapers and stuff, the truly meaningful art has really been coming from trying to deal with depression and express those somber moods. It's caused me to experiment more with using photos for backgrounds, play around with different shading techniques and coming up with something that looks very good to me, and most importantly, it's gotten me to just step away for extended periods and go the fuck outside, even if it's just to get more photos to use as backgrounds for moody animals.
I think that in the end, even if the relationship is strained and they both acknowledge it is strained, they would remain friends. Art and powerful emotions, even (and *especially*) the dark ones, are powerful allies, even if those dark emotions can often be the death of art and artists.
It's all very hard to word, and I'm not sure I should have even bothered...
I finished this one up on October 31st (as well as the previous version with Nick alone), as I already had a great picture of the factory from mid-October and the picture of Nick, and it wasn't too much trouble to throw together a matching pic of Dominic to go with him.
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Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Kemonomimi
Size 2400 x 1500px
File Size 4.84 MB
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