#it's funny bc by drawing yumemi in a more vulnerable state I am now feeling like an overprotective parent letting my kid out into the world
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Survivor.
kind of a 'then vs now' comparison (idolhood vs living through everything post-idolhood) but in the same outfit.
the urge to quote "despite everything, it's still you" is very strong right now.
#milgram oc#ocgram#koike yumemi#this is where the creative energy is at today okay besties we're unpacking self-image and self-esteem and the trauma and the baggage and th#it's funny bc by drawing yumemi in a more vulnerable state I am now feeling like an overprotective parent letting my kid out into the world#I cannot tell you how much I love yumemi in all shapes + forms ;w; there's so many idol career designs I haven't even gotten to showing yet#the time difference between these two is the closest though - I'd put it at around... 8-10 months before the present day?? yeah.#is it normal to want to hug your own OC? I'm feeling that right now oough TwT#I can't really explain it but I'm really happy with this piece 💜 I think the vibes are just right yknow#my art#Edit: can't believe I completely blanked about what I wanted to mention asdfghjkl- I want to emphasise yumemi's definition of a 'normal'--#--body is highly distorted. when u spend ur whole life in idol training regimes you forget how fucked up the whole process is.#so for her the changes to her body feel way more dramatic than they actually are... like. she just has a regular body now. but it's not--#-- *her* normal if that makes sense?? anyway. completely forgot to mention this when that was the 1st thing I wanted to say oof
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