Ref Sheet- Kima [SFW]
Been hankerin to finish and post this for months now.
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Backstory:
Kima has become so developed since I created her as a plain white domestic cat back in middle school.
If 11 year old me could see her now, I'm not sure she would even believe we are the same people.
Shortly after I added some brown spots to her coat. I was a bit depressed as a child and I guess I still am, but I placed all the brown where I either had caused self harm, or where I wore boots or my hair over my eye to cover half of my face. My sisters and family made me feel very unworthy and they would constantly tear down my confidence and call me fat or masculine. Growing up in a religious house hold showed me the ugliest side of religion, and human nature.
In high school I snapped myself out of that mindset when I attended my first LGBTQ meeting in the art room with a handful of other very lost and insecure young men and women. Religion had imposed the idea in my head that certain things were "evil" such as being gay or having a dysphoric gender identity.
This was a very toxic way of thinking and it was very quickly vanquished and my mind completely changed by merely becoming friends with, and observing the trans, gay, bi, and lesbian community. These people were just like me, it was a huge revelation to me. I began to observe people and the world around me in a different way, I was able to meet people and converse with them without all the weight of those thoughts following me around.
Through my own personal journey, heartaches, and trauma I have risen up again and again and become tough like the jaguar. My strength sometimes even scares me, but I have to believe I have become this strong to vanquish my own demons, and protect myself from people who just want to take advantage of me.
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Backstory:
Kima has become so developed since I created her as a plain white domestic cat back in middle school.
If 11 year old me could see her now, I'm not sure she would even believe we are the same people.
Shortly after I added some brown spots to her coat. I was a bit depressed as a child and I guess I still am, but I placed all the brown where I either had caused self harm, or where I wore boots or my hair over my eye to cover half of my face. My sisters and family made me feel very unworthy and they would constantly tear down my confidence and call me fat or masculine. Growing up in a religious house hold showed me the ugliest side of religion, and human nature.
In high school I snapped myself out of that mindset when I attended my first LGBTQ meeting in the art room with a handful of other very lost and insecure young men and women. Religion had imposed the idea in my head that certain things were "evil" such as being gay or having a dysphoric gender identity.
This was a very toxic way of thinking and it was very quickly vanquished and my mind completely changed by merely becoming friends with, and observing the trans, gay, bi, and lesbian community. These people were just like me, it was a huge revelation to me. I began to observe people and the world around me in a different way, I was able to meet people and converse with them without all the weight of those thoughts following me around.
Through my own personal journey, heartaches, and trauma I have risen up again and again and become tough like the jaguar. My strength sometimes even scares me, but I have to believe I have become this strong to vanquish my own demons, and protect myself from people who just want to take advantage of me.
COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN
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Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 1092px
File Size 2.05 MB
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