*knocks On Your Door* The Candy, Hand It Over >:3

The sun is sinking in the west 🌅

Hiii - wanted to say first thing first I love your art style, it's so dynamic and fun and those color palettes? Stunning ^^

And second thing second, just some food for thought if you ever want to get angsty about Jerry and Dean, coffee by Chappell Roan sounds like it was written about their break up specifically and I can't stop thinking abt it dndnden

*Cue me losing my mind*

Hiii- they say flattery gets you everywhere and turns out with me, it gets you animatics- jkjk but I do appreciate the kind comments ^^

I’ll put up the animatic separately and take the opportunity to leave the preamble here to keep the video post neat bc until someone tells me to shut up and just post art- I’m gonna ramble… So here’s the commentary you didn’t ask for along with my favourite panels:

First off- You turned me into a big time Chappell Roan listener which is great bc I need music recs to fix my listening habits before Spotify wrapped drops. My roundup last year was shameful… Red Wine Supernova is my new dish washing song.

Even tho it’s not the song’s vibe I kept the content as silly as I could for my own sanity. I don’t love getting too deep into the serious/sad side of M+L for a few reasons but I do find it all very interesting. Point being this song was too good to pass up doing something a bit bigger for.

Ngl tho- this did have me pulling out hair at multiple points. I never colour animatics, rarely even tone them- but you mentioned colour palettes and I was determined to deliver so pardon the messy colouring but (that was the tradeoff) I did not have it in me to stay in the lines. I’m choosing to be kind to myself and opt to call it an artistic choice and not midway burnout. And nothing was gonna get me to open after effects/premiere not even the janky ass golf ball OML this only makes sense if u watch the video.

There are parts of this I’m SO happy with and others I hate. I think it’s really obvious which sections I started losing steam on but overall I lowkey like the end product. Nothing I make will ever be good/perfect- this was one hell of a practice in accepting that lmao- but I can still be ok with the work problems and all yknow? I very nearly shelved this completely bc I got so worked up about the maybe 5 panels I dislike out of 106 total. Counting them was eye opening to ask myself: you’re gonna let that small a ratio stop you from sharing this after putting in days and days of effort? The insecurity goes deep and TBH getting asks has been a nice way of working through it since I post the art I make for answers no matter what only bc I KNOW someone out there wants to see it. It might not sound it but it’s actually quite positive.

Also, although I feel I’ve done my fair share of reading, I’m no expert. So if anything is really off point- sorry my bad (I won’t fix it tho bc I cannot physically stand to look at this another second lol)

I tried to stick to real things found in articles/books/photos/interviews etc bc outside of obviously fictional AUs I’m not super into making stuff up about them (and who needs to I mean the legit stuff is already insane enough) Sure I framed the events in specific ways to suit the song and some aspects are fictionalized (mainly bc the referenced written accounts lacked detail to draw 100% faithfully from anyhow) but otherwise I got my sources cited.

ANYWAYS… sorry for hijacking this answer I need to learn to chill out. Irl I’m a pretty reserved talker so you can tell I’m in a comfy place when I let loose and blather on endlessly lmao brevity is not a skill I possess.

You were probably expecting illustrations or smth but I hope what I came up with is still somewhat alright AND please don’t let my complaining fool you, I genuinely loved making this.

One FINAL Relevant Note: the line “nowhere else is safe every place leads back to your place” is gut wrenching. You’re so right about this song perfectly describing the break up. They always came back to each other and there’s something so devastating about that kind of haunting human connection.

OkAY I’m done promise- I thought I’d implode if I didn’t get all that out

I just figured out you can filter posts on people’s pages using the tags- that’s so cool I’m amazed the organizational possibilities- wah

Always at my happiest when I leave art unfinished and half a mess + thinking about the lighter story at the end of Dean and Me

Switching it up with some Sinatra & Kelly bc I told myself I need variety then proceeded to branch out no farther than a different 40s Hollywood duo

Hehe ty for the tag @mister-warmth :3

Last song: Wreck by Gentle Giant

Fav Colour: Yellow

Last Book: Everything Calls For Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli

Last Movie: Breathless (1960)

Last Show: High Fidelity

Sweet/Savoury/Spicy: Savoury 100%

Relationship: Single and really sad about it rn

Last Google Search: How to embed code in adobe portfolio (the website building is not going well im gonna pass away)

Looking forward to: my tea finally being done steeping so I can get back to storyboarding ;w;

(I’m too scared to tag anyone lmao but if u see this u should do it- I wanna know everyone better)

10 people id like to know better!

ty to both @rainwingmarvel7 & @kenobifitz for the tags! 💞💞

last song: sleepyhead - passion pit

fav color: black & white

last book: stargazer by laurie petrou which if you love toxic female codependent friendships i recommend!!!

last movie: captain america the winter soldier

last show: daredevil (IM NOT OBSESSED W MARVEL ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS….)

sweet/savory/spicy: SWEET

relationship: very taken 🫶

last google search: “sonny carisi gif” 😭

looking forward to: talking to oomf u know who u are 🤞 + some stuff in my personal life to be wrapped up soon hopefully 😭

i simply do not have 10 tags but 🫶

@mister-warmth @justalwaystired @heartsandstars46 @nolan-price

Do you ever just rotate JL in your mind… I do…

When the dork in the yellow vest sings “Broadway rhythm everybody dance” everyone better dance

Happy “this is my lucky day” March 23th 24th

dawg you got my mind RACING now because of the Dracula!Dean AU

BECAUSE NOW I'M IMAGINING A LIL HALLOWEEN SPECIAL FOR THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW AND I'M JUST LOSING IT AHHH your stuff is so good dude 😭

Dude YOU got my mind doing back flips with the Dracula!Dean AU. It haunts my waking hours tbh I kinda wanna make more art for it.

Ok Moonie… I know you probably weren’t actually asking for this BUT what am I supposed to do? Answer with a “thanks and gee yeah that’s a neat idea” and leave it at that? Lmao NO I gotta draw you something. So even though it’s a way too early for Halloween, here we go: Presenting the Dean Martin Show Spooky Special.

Dean sings Monster Mash and does a duet of Blue Moon with Frank, who I refuse to make Frankenstein’s monster just for the name so he’s a werewolf because all of his “moon” songs. Sammy and Jerry are the behind the door guests. I wanted to make Sammy the Candyman but the timeline doesn’t work so he’s a mummy. Jerry (who is permitted to sneak onto set for this fictional episode bc the 20 years was a lie anyways) is Frankenstein’s bride because I firmly believe given the chance he would do Halloween drag in a heartbeat. The two up on the balcony are mystery guests, any guesses? Whoever gets it right gets a prize. Oh and the goldiggers are all bedsheet ghosts bc my sense of humour is in the shop for repair.

The M+L/Rat Pack monster mash up is actually so silly and fun, but save your Christmas requests because I can’t touch that until December lmao.

My love of cowboys, westerns and Dean Martin can’t compete with my hatred of drawing horses