Never Grow Up Too Much

So tonight my mom and I were looking through some of my old art stuff, deciding what to do with it for when I move out. I discovered two old, beat up notebooks circa 1994 filled to the brim with my doodles from when I was a kid. Most of it was dinosaurs (and a lot of...dinosaurs in bondage...dont ask, I was a strange child) but then I ran across THIS and was hit smack dab in the face with the biggest wave of nostalgia ever. As soon as I saw it I thought "oh my god, that's Eila!"

Eila (pronounced eye-lah) was my first imaginary friend. She stuck around for a good two years or so. She was some kind of crocodile/eel/dinosaur thing that was inspired by a lot of the things that I liked as a kid. It was so weird...upon seeing this silly little doodle I drew when I was four I suddenly remembered everything about her...how she was 'supposed' to look, her personality, voice, whatever. I rushed off to my room to draw it.

So yes, this is what she looked like in my head all those years ago (well okay, not EXACTLY because I obviously didn't have an idea of this kind of style, but you get what I'm saying). I had so many adventures with this thing. She was kind of a motherly figure to me... I assume this was because when I was younger my mom wasn't around much so I really needed something like that. Eila was later replaced with E.T. and Casper the Friendly Ghost as my imaginary BOYfriends, lmao. I was uh... an awesome kid

Normally I wouldn't care, but if y'all could refrain from any comments of the murry purry variety that would be super... many would say something like "this character's like my baby!" but...this one almost feels like a second mother, as weird as that may sound! I'm sure a shrink would have a hay day with me, lol.

YEAH SO. IMAGINARY FRIENDS. If you had one, you should draw it :3