This time I rescued an old drawing of the days when I was son keen on Nine Inch Nails. The character is Trent Reznor and he is portrayed in the dark ages between his Downward Spiral (1995) album and The Fragile (1999) when he was after known for suffering depression, social anxiety disorder and bear with the grief of his grandmother's death. His grandmother raised him alone. Also he got addicted to cocaine and suffered from alcohol addiction as well as other thoughts about committing suicide, he was walking on the thin line. One day he was reborn when he used chinese white heroin which he believed was cocaine and consequently overdosed, he ultimately resuscitated at a local hospital.
Trent Reznor has a bipolar disorder which he exorcitates through his music. One can notice the strength and high tempo of some of his tracks combined immediately after with other calmer, softer parts, probably reflecting his ambivalent manic-depressive disorder. I can't help being moved by this kind of people, people with mental illnesses which bear constantly with their condition and in spite of it , no matter what they manage to get through. Obviously not all of them succeed, many commit suicide. There is another public character with bipolar disorder that I look up to after learning all he has had to suffer and that is Stephen Fry the english comedian, actor, writer, and so, so many other things. Stephen Fry deserves an entry on his own.
The drawing is just a quick sketch with some postproduction with Photoshop: colour adjustment and rain effect.
I'll leave you with my favourity NIN song, a cover of one of Joy Division's tracks Dead Souls, part of the The Crow Soundtrack.
