last summer of childhood

so…..… last summer of childhood 🌾🏠 ࿔ *:･ (lsoc in short!)

i'd love to introduce you to a very personal and beloved story of mine in this post

lsoc is primarily about four people – Lyova, Nadya, Pasha, and Eugene – who spent every summer in Zavet as children, a quiet post-Soviet town by a reservoir that locals call “the sea”. now, as adults, they return and move there to live. each for their own reason

they were once close friends, but life pulled them apart: grief, mistakes, things that changed them. now, by coincidence, they’re all back in Zavet, trying to figure out how to live after everything

meet the four!

i plan to create illustrations, mini (and not so mini) comics, short animations, animatics, and maybe one day something bigger!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY <3

do not forget ‧₊˚ ☾. ⋅

more like emotional dynamics chart tbh :D

the first pic is their relationships right after they moved to Zavet and accidentally met there again (oh don't worry, i'll create a mini-comic about their first mega awkward meeting in the coming months). clarifying this because of course over time their relationships will start to change <3. if you pay attention, everyone has their own patterns – and some feel the same emotions toward everyone ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_

[small clarification tho – Nadya and Lyova met a bit earlier than the others, because when their mom died, they needed to deal with it together – so they moved to Zavet together. though their level of distance from each other was also high ( ;´ - `)]

and the second pic is one of the "golden years" of this friend group! ☀️ they continued to come and see each other after that too, but that summer was one of the warmest.