November 29th (Patreon)

Since today is my birthday, I decided to do a silly, yet amusing, picture. If you don’t know the character, he’s my avatar Linker, the one you see in my profile picture.

I tried to imagine how a family picture would look like, most precisely a birthday memory, transformed into a cartoon environment, and this was the result.

My father has always been a bit of a photograph enthusiast. Even when cameras weren't in our tissues as today, he was always taking pictures of anything he considered important. 

Obviously, he documented many events in our family, including our birthdays. I think that's a fortunate thing to preserve, considering we barely have any depiction of him or my mother when they were kids, because of several situations that didn't allow them to do such a thing.  It makes you realize the little things we might take for granted nowadays.

He also tended to write little notes on the pictures, like the day it was taken, the place we were in, or the people that were depicted on it. So, I also decided to add that as reference, instead of leaving it as a nameless picture.

You can read some of the history behind this precise baby Linker picture, and see some previous versions that I made before it here: Link 

I decided to make it look like a instant photograph, instead of just submitting the illustration as it was, mostly because I wanted to give the sensation of a past family moment, an aura of a treasured memory.

If you got here through Patreon, you can watch an alternate version I made on my DeviantArt page here: Link