r/MadeMeCry • u/Cahzera_ArtWorks • 9h ago
In April it was my godmother's birthday, a spectacular person in every sense who has been present in my life and has always supported me in the art world ...
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And I didn't know what gift I could give her, I spent practically a week thinking about what could be special, something unique that would bring a smile, cause emotion and that she could always remember. I asked myself questions to reach the most accurate result, such as "what is extremely important in her life? What are her precious things? Something that was present in all the special moments of her life and the happiest ones?" And the answer was her son and her daughter, and a realistic drawing of them that I will make with the highest quality possible clicked in my mind! And from that moment on, I chose the best photo, the one that would be a true tribute (I saved it from her Instagram without her knowing) and I started making every detail and layering with lots of care, with the smoothest and most harmonious shading. And I delivered it to her, I was going to record her reaction but I got shy, the reaction was the best I could have imagined, when she tore a part of the wrapping paper she saw the edge of the frame with the part of the faces, then her line, already crying, was "Oh no way 🥺, is it really true?" And it continued and I had to hug her because she was very happy and crying a lot, she finished opening it and really just kept looking without speaking, there was no need for words because her expression spoke louder than any sentence she could say, right there I realized more deeply how much power what I do has to touch people and what it can cause positively, I decided to share it with you, in the video below it shows how it turned out after I finished