
"As you, in your body, lie empty and dying
I steel my resolve, to chase dreams of flying
I speak to my heart, while you keep your strings
At last it can start: the era of wings"
It's taken me 14 years to let myself have a fursona with wings - like I've always wanted - and almost that long to find out who I am and to get to this point in my artistic journey. 9 of those years were spent with a sona that I loved a lot... and that I held myself back with.
Maybe one day I'll draw my old sona one last time or do some kind of diagram so I can point out all the things about her that I wish she had that Artemis does now, or just... how I felt about her or why I wasn't happy with her anymore. Part of it is how she was designed, part of it was memories I made with her and part of it was all the time, money and art I invested in her. Not all of it is fond but it was still tough to let her go after almost a decade. She belongs to someone else now though, so I've moved on but I'm always going to be drawing comparisons between new and old.
I'm much happier with my new sona now. Artemis having wings is just such a big part of it. I've always loved the idea of being able to fly and go anywhere I want, and old sona was not capable of that, in terms of design or the direction she went as a character. I shied away from giving my old sona wings because I thought it'd be too hard for me to depict with my artistic skill at the time, so she became a very grounded, down-to-Earth character. Artemis can do much more with wings that can take her anywhere, now that I feel much more confident with drawing them. For me, her wings represent freedom and confidence to do great things.
Reuploaded with edits to the original piece, from July 2024.
Category All / All
Species Gryphon
Size 1202 x 3065px
File Size 2.24 MB
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