... I was going to save this until I had gained more popularity, in hopes that I might possibly achieve a "Daily Deviation." It's a hope I really can't actually care about, so I suppose it doesn't matter & so, Here You Are! A new submission from Me, Finally. I know, it's been about two months since I've drawn Anything.

This picture was inspired from a picture I had taken of Myself. I had just ripped a pistol away from My brother's head & out of his hand {quite literally}; in order to keep him distracted, I asked for a camera. I had him take My picture with it while telling him, "If you do what you are thinking about, who is going to take this picture for Me?" While he was distracted, I unloaded it & broke it down. Later, after seeing the photograph for Myself, this piece came to Me.

The featureless shadow is nothing more than a shadow.
But...
If it absolutely Needs to represent something, then let it be as My old way of life, left behind in favor of Wandering with no chance of going back. For those of you whom I haven't told already, I'm happily Homeless. The shadow was attempting to make it into the light where it can be found more easily, trying to resurface; but I suppose it died trying. This action represents the way I am told that I am wasting My life, should settle-down, & try to be what "everyone wants Me to be." Obviously, it hasn't worked, & may never succeed in this. The door May not look like it, but it is closing; a symbolic motion that is representative of My unwillingness to regress.

The character with the gun & the knife is loosely based on Me. I happen to get paranoid at times, thus the weapons. I have not experienced emotion in what seems like ages, thus the Painted-On-Smile. The large, bloodshot eye is a stereotypical & cliched symbol of madness. I'd decided to bestow it upon him after I had been told that anyone who CHOOSES My way of life "simply can NOT be all there" {I am a diagnosed Schizophrenic, but I fail to see the reasoning behind the statement}. The necklace/choker is one of the few personal posessions I carry. It doesn't come off, & so I drew it on him in an attempt to further associate him with Myself. My hair is also quite long.

Coloured Sharpie on Paper.

"...The Things You Own End Up Owning You..."