Why I'm changing my art style

I did a big move this year and unpacking some things i camr across some old diaries that had some drawings i used to do. I loved creating new characters with a name and small story. Girls that always had funky hair and cool makeup. Its always been my passion. Maybe something to do with the fashion and creating something pretty. But i felt very inspred to try to paint it now.

I did my first one, a small painting and it was the most fun Ive ever had creating in the last 5 years that ive been painting. It felt natral. Im a girl who loves to color so i felt like i was coloring. I got such postiive feedback that I did a bigger one and it was even ore fun! I Just finished my third editon and I now feel confident to keep going in this diretion.

I named them y2k girlies. Im a millennial woman who grew up in the times of bop magazine, before cell phones, before soial media. when life felt simpler. It was more colorful and real. The music was great and the time spent with friends was anthing but ordinary. The theme is 90s and early 2000s look and feel to the girls.

I really feel like Ive been painting what i thought told my story, what i thought people loved. Instead of what I loved. what made me feel good and what really resembles who I am as a woman now or even who Ive always been. I guess you can say this is the result of so much healing that i finally am able to be free in my work without overthinking it at all. This is what inner child healing is.