This is an art from my very early art project — Gaia Symphony. The girl in the picture is Klomi Noah, she is travelling in a JRPG fantasy world.
When I started drawing Gaia Symphony arts, I had not yet developed culture awareness. I was just drawing stuff to mimic what I absorbed from the media I consumed at the time, which happened to be dominated by western/Japanese culture.
Gaia Symphony started around 2000, and it ran for a few years. I think I took inspiration from the works like Grandia, Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy Tactics and Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana). Because I lacked philosophical reflections and art skills, the project went nowhere, and it was abandoned a long time ago.
This picture is the last of the series, but it was actually created long after the project was abandoned. I created it as a summarization and closure of the past.
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