Hi, dear!
I wanted to write you a personal message to express my love for your art. ✨ Your most recent ones are beautiful! There are so many details I enjoy (like the little hickeys on Morpheus’ skin asdfj). The way you draw faces and depict bodily expressions is fantastic, and I think your understanding of anatomy is really good! If you ever feel pressured into believing you’re not good enough and, thus, you shouldn’t share whatever wonderful art you wish to with whoever you like, please, remember: it’s a-ok to want to improve your craft, but don’t be so hard on yourself. I’m sure many more would agree with me when I say that we are thankful just to see your presence on our little screens! Your dreamling art is fantastic and the effort you put in it is not in vain. ❤️
Feel free to talk to/yell (affectionately) with me anytime about the sandman or anything you want. 💕
Cheers,
Cocoa
Hello hello, dear Cocoa,
First and foremost, thank you for your message, it’s very kind and encouraging, so thank you, so so much.
I’m glad you like their body languages !! Because it matters a lot, for me, when I draw intimacy.
I often struggle with my own style : full of lines, lot of details… And so I feel both free and locked by it. I have so much to tell, and so little time, skill and efficient mind I have for. Hence, I need to convey, even with the smallest things : love, (mis)understanding, a certain amount of melancholy, empathy, just two people with different wishes and battles… Making up with familiarity, whatever it means for them.
Dreamling is the best exercise for it. Their relationship can be told from sooo many different perspectives, so many issues, so many versions of them. It happens that love, for the worst and the best, happily dances around them, and so an endless of possibilities come up with it, as simple as it can be. I love to see and read, from lines and words, how brillantly fucked and weird and beautiful dreamling are, equally to the world they live in. It's just… so therapeutic.
I won’t really tell more about it, for now, but in so, so many ways, The Sandman has helped me to come back to older roots -oh teenage laments-, to greet friendly ghosts I wished to forget, and most importantly, to heal.
To help crafting a more appeased relationship with my art, being ok with fighting (a little) with the characters ; to understand better how they work, deep diving into the nuances, making up your mind about your own failures, especially with portraying, accepting intimacy, and being unapologetic with it.
I’m so, so happy I've discovered this universe and its fandom, and I can’t thank them enough for being a part of this healing process.
So naturally, I will draw more of them ! For me, it has patched some memories up, bringed some long lost smiles, and so I wish with warmth that my drawings will provide, even for the briefest moments, a fragment of those peculiar feelings.
So thank you again, for your adorable message ! I’ll keep going !!
