As person growing up in a city with buildings, sometimes I feel lost and falling behind. Buildings, though they are frigid structure, get taller every year. They get pulled down to be built taller and taller; while human, or me, doesn’t. I can’t break myself down to rebuild me to a better person.

Together with the book “Dora Bruder” by Patrick Modiano, I come up with this idea of a girl getting lost in a city, a crowd of cold blocks stacking over each other.

The sketching for this illustration actually took longer than the painting. There are a lot of windows to draw and I have to make sure the perspectives are distorted out of reality. About color, I already have the idea of using orange-yellow tone for a nostalgia vibe, which indirectly determined my choice of shadow (purple).

That’s it! I love this illustration because I love the book and I’m proud of me taking time with all these windows.