This should still count as February’s album, so let’s pretend this was uploaded on February 45th! I said I would do an entry with something farther from my beloved rock/punk songs, and I just recently listened to LØLØ’s album “falling for robots and whishing i was one”. Originally, I was thinking of another album for this entry, but the drawing didn’t feel as genuine for how I felt with the album (and it was still very rock-based), and songs from these album are catchy and have lyrics I could have connected with at some dramatic points in my life. More on the drawing and how I got to the album here: https://breakumbrella.com/2025/03/17/album-gallery-3-falling-for-robots-and-wishing-i-was-one/ 3

For better or worse, I started my “internet artist” adventure near the time I graduated from University. I had other artist friends that posted their drawings from as early to our middle-school days, and I was hesitant because of fear, shyness, lack of confidence, the usual stuff. Revisiting my early work, more specifically, the first versions of my comic, made me feel how I think those friends would have felt when viewing their first Devianart or Tumblr posts when I hadn’t start with my own journey on this. The feeling of cringe to be precise. Perhaps we should all experience this as early as possible, or maybe that would demotivate us, but I think is something we should all accept to feel instead of running away from it. I am surprised at how edgy some of the stuff I made was (I thought it wasn’t edgy when I was drawing this), but at the same time I’m happier I see a lot of errors on these old comics now, and still do in the new ones without feeling overwhelmed. In some way, it makes me feel I’m improving. Here is the post with the index to all 8 parts, each with some comments on the things that changed and more: https://breakumbrella.com/2024/12/11/revisiting-original-break-umbrella-comic-part-1/ 2

Initially, these were the main protagonists for my comic (Stephanie and Seymon), but later I decided to start the story in a point of the timeline before they met each other. I haven’t drawn them as often as I would like to, but I needed to draw something I was more familiar with. This is not part of my Album Gallery, but while drawing this, I was listening to Back 2 U from Yours Truly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cCGm66MT-I I drew these two a lot when I was obsessed with pop-punk songs in high-school. I always gather some energy from those days whenever I remember the good, the bad and the hopeful of that stage in my life. Of course there’s a lot of (if not more) good overall now, but nostalgia hits me hard when it hits me. 4

Also related to my last post, I did this one with the song “Ghost” from Yours Truly in mind. It ended up becoming my favorite song from the album, and I wanted to draw… well, a ghost! Natasha is not a ghost in canon but she was in my mind while listening to the whole album, so I guess it had to happen. 7

I didn’t thought I’d make another one of this this soon, but I’m sick at the moment and still wanted to draw something, and I wanted to draw while I listened to “Self Care” from the band “Yours Truly”. It wasn’t until I made the post in my blog that I found the irony of drawing something inspired on an album titled “Self Care” while sick, but I’ll try to have more “self care” for the rest of the year. Even though I made this before February, I will keep the monthly updates I mentioned before; this one was just a special case. I’ll leave the post here if you want to know more of the drawing and my thoughts on the album: https://breakumbrella.wordpress.com/2025/01/19/album-gallery-2-self-care/ Also, give a listen to the album! I really liked it! https://open.spotify.com/album/0yZ7DLbYUALRodwFoV62S4?si=z5rNhucsTPWPj4B-49NuJQ 4