If anyone has read a post from my other blog, it might be known that I spend my off days volunteering with Rape Response. It's the career path I've chosen for myself. Got a Master's degree and everything! But obviously this is heavy stuff to deal with on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly/life basis. When you're an advocate who responds in these hard situations, you have to have a healthy outlet for yourself when you're done. You have to go home after finishing a case and do something warm and fuzzy for yourself to remind yourself that the whole world is a dark and miserable bastard of a place. That good people still exist, and not to give up on life. What became that process for me was a painting. And when I say painting, I don't mean real life stuff. I can't shadow or shade worth a damn. But with an idea and a color palette, I can create some original stuff.
This was the first piece I did, that started my art phase. For anyone who hasn't played video games and hasn't heard of Portal 2 and hasn't played co-op, these are the characters you play through the game as: Atlas and P-Body. Because my best friend Meredith and I are the shit (seriously, we are), we played through the game together and beat it in co-op. So when it came time to do her birthday present, I knew what I wanted to do. This. So I created this and sent it along. Fyi, all artwork I upload on this blog is my own creation and completely freehand.
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