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Recognition, Dissociation

Made in November, 2025

Medium: Digital (Procreate)

Time Elapsed: 10 Hours

Character(s) Featured: Rose Levine (they/them), Rose Levine (she/her)

They came back from those woods forever changed.
(But many never return at all.)

The colors for this one look rich and lovely on my iPad, but they look... so washed out on my computer, and I'm not sure where the issue lies, so. If they look particularly ashy, I promise it's not intentional.
I free-handed this whole thing from scratch in just two days, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out!! I'll definitely be messing with how their hair looks in later pieces more for certain, but for a relatively quick doodle, I'm still happy with it. Especially the fiddlehead ferns.

Image Description

ID: A digital drawing of two near-identical teenagers, from the chest up.
On the left, Rose is a young teenage Black girl, with a small, lopsided smile. Her hair is a short Afro, and her eyes are brown. She is looking to the left, but not looking at the second Rose- instead, she looks upwards. She stands in a carved wooden picture frame with symbols of vines and the cycles of the moon adorning it, wearing a blue shirt with an abstract purple design printed on it.
On the right side of the image, Rose is a young Black teenager with green eyes, short dreadlocks, and a yellow shirt with a green flower printed on it. Fern leaves and a tall tree fill the background, and a dusky purple sky sits behind them. They look to the left with anxiety and worry, their brows knit, lips twisted, and bags under their eyes.
Fern leaves sit in the dark background bordering the piece, with the hand-written phrase “I cannot recognize my own face” written in the free space. There are exactly three words at the top and bottom of the image.
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