gin and phonics

now that there r two drawings in this “series” i should explain the concept; like, right after I finished innsin i had the idea to draw all the main cast as children with their initial personae (or Joker, in Jun’s case) obscuring their vision. The idea was to try and explore what aspects of their self/life their “mask” serves to hide and what their persona is protecting them from. I didn’t go into the symbolism for Jun bc i figured it was #obvious, but i will for Maya: Her fear of abandonment, childishness and helplessness were what i wanted to capture. Most obviously how awful it must have been stuck in the shrine with nothing to do but wait and hope someone will save her, but if course her father dying was also a big deal for her (duh.) So i wanted to draw her sitting and waiting, with it being ambiguous whether someone is opening the door (to save her?) or closing it (to leave her). It also could be her having to “close off” her child self and her trauma in order to be an adult… it’s ambiguous whoah. Then Maia shielding her from the flames and the dark/night is i mean she’s her guardian angel we all know this. There’s some other stuff but interpretation is the audience’s job figure it out