I stink at drawing animals, so I decided to try and improve my skills by drawing this horse. The horse is probably the coolest of any animal.
This is a character from an anime called Digimon. His name is Flamedramon. When I was a kid, he was my favourite character, and I tried really hard to draw him, but could never get him right. Recently, I remembered how much I loved this character as a kid, and decided to try my hand at drawing him again.
A guy is walking when a kid on a bike overtakes him. The picture represents a split second encounter, where the guy looks at the kid and longs for his youth. That’s why his head looks like it’s stretching out towards the kid. The kid’s head is also stretched out, because he’s envious of the guy. The kid wants to grow up. I angled the kid so that in the next few frames of this story, he would be out of the picture. This is because I wanted to show how quickly these feelings precipitate. They’re impulsive. It’s like when you put your hand on a stove, you don’t need to stop and think before you pull your hand away. In the same way, a split second encounter like this one washes me over with a longing for my childhood. Thinking back, it’s funny I wanted to grow up so quickly.
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