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there is no right way to be human

“You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

Last batch of my sketchbook series inspired by The Ocean at the End of the Lane by @neil-gaiman

I’m sort of happy with the 24 of them. It was a nice exercise to do. Each took me between 20 to 30 mins to sketch and paint. They’re not all good but there a couple good ones and that makes me happy.

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I recently read "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by the brilliant Neil Gaiman (finally!), and I completely fell in love with the characters. So much so that I had to try my hand at some character design and make a few sketches straight away...

The little boy and Lettie Hemptock.

And now, go read that book if you haven't already! :)

More Lettie and little boy sketches ... :-)

“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Nothing’s ever the same,“ she said. “Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.” - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.” - Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane