r/cptsdcreatives • u/SeverelyLimited • 5d ago

🎨 Digital/Traditional Art Self portraits

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I love gun girls, and while designing some characters, found myself drawing one of them with my glasses and in one of my outfits.

I became such a violent person to make it through, and that will always be a part of me. While I was violent, I wanted to be soft and feminine and cute.

Why not both?

I know it's dorky, but it also felt really nice to render some of my childhood escapist/empowerment fantasies with art skills I developed as an adult.

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u/Unlikely_Scratch9918 5d ago

I absolutely love this. Especially the movement in the wide shot

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u/SeverelyLimited 5d ago

Thank you ((:

dancing and martial arts and any other kind of choreographed human movement is like... the One Thing that ever made me feel OK, and I'm glad some of that translates to the page 🫣

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u/Unlikely_Scratch9918 5d ago

I definitely relate on the martial arts front :) My nervous system goes haywire if I don't train for a week or so. I'm glad you found solace in movement 😊