Departed

a digitally painted portrait of a ghostly pale, short-haired man in a dark suit with his upper face and body below shoulders obscured white flowers. a muted red rose is sprouting between where his inner eyebrows would be and a single tear streak is visible on his right cheek

Medium/Style: digital, 2D, fully shaded painting without lineart

Notes: my character Michael was once part of a webcomic that I thankfully never finished, which was going to be a lot darker than the story he exists in now. I often cringe at the old stuff, since it reflected how stuck I was in my trauma rather than how I learned to overcome it (since I hadn't overcome anything yet), but a lot of the art that came out of it still feels very evocative.