Confined in the helpless safety of desires and dreams
We fight our insignificance
The harder we fight
The higher the wall

- Anne Clark, Sleeper In Metropolis -

The basis to this picture is actually one that is 1,5 years old. The lineart for it was a simple doodle, drawn during a roleplay session on New Year's eve end of 2002. I had no particular idea in mind when I had started it, nor was the game we were playing even remotely responsible of it, but it turned out to look a lot like Jen, both physically and "emotionally", so to say. Let's say that at this time, my poor character was at a very bad turn of her life, and completely lost regarding what she was to do; I think my drawing was kind of an illustration of this "feeling", because to be honest, I wasn't too sure myself as a player where these choices I made her do were to lead her/me.

I never completed the picture, but found the doodle again in my old RP sheets recently. I considered putting it in colors, then finally decided on using it as a basis to practise vectors, as it's been a few months I hadn't done so in a freeform style (I'm not talking of what I need to do for work here). I've kept the idea of "Jen", although whether it's really her or not doesn't matter a lot in the end.

I kept on thinking that I should do something more with this picture; but then I reached the point when I felt that adding more would simply spoil it, so... I stopped.

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