Corinna
Terrarian
This will probably get ignored but I'm going to give it my best anyway. This character is the only character I've ever really made in my life and I've hung onto it for over 10 years now due to personal memories as an artist as well as a gamer.
Way before terraria, when I was a child, one of my grandmas used to play Link to the past with me all the time. I was a big fan of the Zelda games after that, but one thing I remember is we always tried to complete the game 100%, meaning getting all the heart pieces, well we never found one and she passed away before we could beat it. I later learned that the last one we didn't find was in this graveyard digging minigame. Years after that I felt the urge to go visit my grandma's grave for no real reason at all, and I did, but as I left I noticed something strange about the numbers, I looked on my phone and saw that I had coincidentally gone to visit her on her birthday. A life lesson tied together in my head later on - that you don't know how much something means to you until its gone, because like the missing heart piece in the zelda game being found in the grave, a missing part of my life in real life was in the graveyard, and that was Grandma. In a crazy way that made me hold on and move on with my life.
However I would learn a harder lesson years later when I would come to lose my other grandma.
Now I didn't know this before she had died, but she was an artist. I haven't done art in a long, long time myself for multiple reasons ranging from being hurt to hard memories. Not to get into my life story too deeply, but one of those reasons is a memory. A memory of my grandma who was not only artist, but a kind, giving person, who despite not having much money would always try to buy me paints or art supplies just because I like art. She didn't even have running water at one point and I had found out despite not being able to afford to get it she asked my aunt for 100$ to buy me a digital tablet. She died alone in her house in poverty before I got a chance to make things better, I always wanted to go into the programming industry, maybe in video games, to make her life better and pay her back for all the kind things she did. It really hurts me I never got to do that... but despite me being too emotional to even draw, years later after this incident. I never forgot this character or the thing she represented for me, and that is Creativity.
This character was originally intended for something involving role play and majora's mask with a bunch of art friends years ago. She was supposed to be this alien (the ones that take cows) in the disguise of a human form (the second picture design reflects that more). Well those friends often excluded me from there groups, and ironically like my character, I felt like an alien, alienated with no friends as I constantly try to impress a group of people to let me be part of something with no success. Now I just use this character as a logo, a sort of representation of my creativity, because despite all the down times, I still hang on to it, and I won't give up. The first image of her is also heavily inspired by pink floyd as you can tell by the triangle on her head and her shirt being like the album art for 'The Wall'. Which was even more fitting because some of those albums were a story of someone who alienated themselves from society, ironically named Pink just like her hair color, which is funny because in the past I had given her pink hair randomly and she was just related to zelda stuff... her pink hair linked me to the past to remind me it all happened for a reason. It's about inspiration building my creativity, that inspiration was passed onto me and I hope maybe one day I'll inspire someone else to be creative as well..
Way before terraria, when I was a child, one of my grandmas used to play Link to the past with me all the time. I was a big fan of the Zelda games after that, but one thing I remember is we always tried to complete the game 100%, meaning getting all the heart pieces, well we never found one and she passed away before we could beat it. I later learned that the last one we didn't find was in this graveyard digging minigame. Years after that I felt the urge to go visit my grandma's grave for no real reason at all, and I did, but as I left I noticed something strange about the numbers, I looked on my phone and saw that I had coincidentally gone to visit her on her birthday. A life lesson tied together in my head later on - that you don't know how much something means to you until its gone, because like the missing heart piece in the zelda game being found in the grave, a missing part of my life in real life was in the graveyard, and that was Grandma. In a crazy way that made me hold on and move on with my life.
However I would learn a harder lesson years later when I would come to lose my other grandma.
Now I didn't know this before she had died, but she was an artist. I haven't done art in a long, long time myself for multiple reasons ranging from being hurt to hard memories. Not to get into my life story too deeply, but one of those reasons is a memory. A memory of my grandma who was not only artist, but a kind, giving person, who despite not having much money would always try to buy me paints or art supplies just because I like art. She didn't even have running water at one point and I had found out despite not being able to afford to get it she asked my aunt for 100$ to buy me a digital tablet. She died alone in her house in poverty before I got a chance to make things better, I always wanted to go into the programming industry, maybe in video games, to make her life better and pay her back for all the kind things she did. It really hurts me I never got to do that... but despite me being too emotional to even draw, years later after this incident. I never forgot this character or the thing she represented for me, and that is Creativity.
This character was originally intended for something involving role play and majora's mask with a bunch of art friends years ago. She was supposed to be this alien (the ones that take cows) in the disguise of a human form (the second picture design reflects that more). Well those friends often excluded me from there groups, and ironically like my character, I felt like an alien, alienated with no friends as I constantly try to impress a group of people to let me be part of something with no success. Now I just use this character as a logo, a sort of representation of my creativity, because despite all the down times, I still hang on to it, and I won't give up. The first image of her is also heavily inspired by pink floyd as you can tell by the triangle on her head and her shirt being like the album art for 'The Wall'. Which was even more fitting because some of those albums were a story of someone who alienated themselves from society, ironically named Pink just like her hair color, which is funny because in the past I had given her pink hair randomly and she was just related to zelda stuff... her pink hair linked me to the past to remind me it all happened for a reason. It's about inspiration building my creativity, that inspiration was passed onto me and I hope maybe one day I'll inspire someone else to be creative as well..
