#apovember day 4: I’m a little embarrassed to share this one where a lot of new people can see it, but it played an important part in my life and not just art, so 😃 Once upon a time, myself and some friends met Apocalyptica for the first time. I could go on all day about that night, but there was one thing specifically that inspired this drawing. I had absolutely no control over my emotions back then, so unfortunately once I got to meet Eicca, I just straight up cried, right after one of my friends got emotional too. Awkward. I could have been so embarrassed, except he dealt with it in his usual fashion – Cuddle the fan to death :’D Little to his knowledge (and here’s the depressing part of the story), it meant a great deal more to me than just “a hug from that guy in the band I’m obsessed with”. I couldn’t cope in school, I hated it and 99.99% of the teachers didn’t care that I was depressed, so I gave up and fell through the cracks. I spent my last months at school working on this instead of studying. I remember dropping lessons and sitting alone in empty classrooms, drawing all the lines on the wings and counting down the days ‘til I could leave and never come back. I guess this drawing was my slightly dramatic way of saying that I once met a guy who gave an emotionally exhausted kid’s shitty feelings more patience and validation than pretty much anyone else at the time, even though he didn’t even know me. And that’s pretty fucking angel-like. "Everybody needs good hugs" he has said to me over the years. What a giant marshmallow 💜 #apocalyptica #eiccatoppinen #marshmallow #storytime #throwback #tb #angel #enkeli #fanart #pencil #pencilart #graphite #pencilportrait #portrait #pencilartist #portraitart #artistsoninstagram #apocalypticart #oldwork #oldart #theawkwardyears https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxI0MGAYQX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wruo0yjcqjzq
