Another year, another @dcbtv under my belt! đ
This year, I was paired up with the amazing @rainbowitup and our song was "Dress." Do yourself a favor and check out the story HERE!
As always, I will be adding more ramblings under the "keep reading," so take a peek if you'd like, or just hop on over to the story!
This year, for the bang, I decided to be a little brave and say that I was open to working on any Taylor Swift song. It was becoming more and more apparent that my knowledge of her songs was pretty limited, and that there were a lot more songs that I hadn't heard of just because they never really made it into the radio stations (when I actually listened to the radio that is). I was not disappointed when I got my song and author pairing. I had never heard of this song before this bang, and now it's one that gets stuck in my head a lot! đ
I'm not going to lie, when I found out that I was paired up with Tricia, I was instantly a ball of nerves. I had heard many people talk about her stories and how wonderfully written they were, and so I was feeling quite a bit of pressure. So much so... that I actually scrapped the first two sketches I came up with for the story. đ YUP! What you're looking at up above is V2 of what I initially came up with. Original V1 sketches shown here:
...Yeah... I suppose they're not horrible... but, again, there was a lot of self pressure I had put on myself, so brain was like, "No! We need to make something better to match the level of awesomeness!" I also at the time had sort of crashed and burned out art-wise because I was working on 3 different art projects that needed 9 different drawings all with very close deadlines... but we don't need to talk about that... đ
I am very happy with this V2 version that I came up with! There's a part in the story where Cas tells Dean, "I want you to â to eat me out." And after reading that, I just couldn't get this "eager puppy" expression on Dean's face out of my head. đ I did my best to share how I imagined the scene went, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!
I decided that since Cas' whole deal is that she's wearing a sexy dress, then it would be kind of fun to have Dean in something a little opposite in color. I found this picture of Jensen at a premiere with his daughter and thought it was perfect!
I just want to wrap this up by giving out some thanks:
Thanks to Tricia for being such a wonderful partner during this exchange! You were so kind and patient as I scrambled around to get my side done. I loved how well you took the song and made a beautiful story out of it! I loved every word I read, and you deserve all of the praise you receive in this story and every story you write/have written!
Thanks to the DCBTV mods who put on this bang again! You were all so kind and helpful and understanding. I appreciated how when I admitted I was feeling a bit over whelmed, you took some time to make sure I was doing ok and always offered to help no matter what. You are all wonderful, and I'm giving you all big hugs! â¤ď¸
And finally, a huge thank you to my bestie Apollo, who helped me with the final stretch of finishing up the main drawing by reading me some of her writings as I worked on the color and shading. Our middle of the night hangouts are always the best! â¤ď¸đ¤
Ok, if you haven't gone off to read the story by now... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! Go on! Get! It's fantastic and worth the read! Shoo! Shoo! (But if you have read it already and are coming to read this... thank you! đĽ°)
