Skip to content

notes art

explorations in iphone notes

  • Blog
  • About

face

2023/09/23

September 23, 2023
A figure with exaggerated proportions—small head, thin arms and legs, a very wide body—stands on a black background. The figure's chest is covered by an expressionless face with empty eyes. The figure is standing beneath a bright yellow star.

2023/09/20

September 20, 2023
A white, mask-like face. Most of the face is nondescript, like a mask; the eyes and mouth blaze with colored stripes. The eyes have geometric star-shaped designs.

2023/09/09

September 9, 2023
The stump of a thick tree, with a birdhouse mounted at the top of it. The front of the birdhouse looks like a face: the circular entrance is the mouth, with a nose and two round holes placed above it. The birdhouse also has two devil horns and, behind the stump at the base of it, something sticking up from the ground that looks a lot like a pointed tail. In the background is a flat plain, with mountains in the distance. A bird is flying off in the sky.

2023/09/07

September 7, 2023
A pink blob that looks, vulgarly put, like a blob of chewing gum that someone stepped on. Embedded in the blob are two googly eyes, like those from a craft store; a gold star sticker; and a rainbow sticker that looks almost like a smile.

2023/09/06

September 6, 2023
A tall, rectangular object about the size of a small apartment building. The object has a human face. The lower left corner of the object is missing, a giant chunk taken out of it by a small figure with a shovel. The figure appears to be digging into the object, and the face is looking directly down at the figure.

2023/09/03

September 3, 2023
A rough, sketch-like rendering of a mask. The technique suggests a blend of pencil and paint. The right side of the mask is crimson, and has dimensionality, as though molded or carved from a material; the left is black, and, while the area around the eyesocket looks three-dimensional, most of it is flat, as though sketched out in charcoal. The mouth is stretched wide in a smile revealing a white surface, suggesting teeth. The right side of the mouth has blurry vertical lines on it, as though dissolving into static.

2023/08/27

August 27, 2023
A face shaped like a tall shield: flat on top, with a curved, pointed bottom. The top half of the face is occupied by a single eye on a dark, textured background, roughly suggestive of a Cyclops wearing a leather mask. The lower half of the face is red and ordinary looking: nose, closed mouth. Surrounding the face is a textured gradient. The colors of the gradient are the inverse of the face: a red gradient on the top, a black gradient below.

2023/08/22

August 22, 2023
A figure with two legs, no arms, and a head that takes up over half of its body. The figure is set against a deep blue background; the front of it is lit starkly by red and green light. The figure has a quiet, blank expression on its face.

2023/08/15

August 15, 2023
A figure, wearing a black shirt or robe, visible from the chest up, staring at the camera. The figure is set against a slate-gray sky with a row of clouds above it. The figure has its mouth open in an apparent scream, both hands clapped to its cheeks. The figure's head is more like an icon than anything human—not much more than a yellow sphere; two large white ovals that constitute empty, staring eyes; another black oval for a mouth. Someone familiar with emoji would recognize the iOS "scream" emoji; someone familiar with art would recognize that emoji's inspiration. If I were the pretentious type, I'd say something intelligent-sounding about how this is the most meta thing I've ever drawn. It is, but I'm not.

2023/08/03

August 3, 2023
A face in profile. The face is basically a head with two legs; there's no body to speak of. The face has odd, precise contours framing the open mouth and eye, as though it's carved from wood. The eye is a rectangular hole with rounded edges. In other circumstances, it might suggest a mask, but in this case, there is another, smaller figure—also viewed in profile—visible through the eyehole. That, and the shape of the eye, gives the sense of someone viewed through a vehicle's window, like the head is a vehicle and someone is driving it.

2023/08/02

August 2, 2023
A humanoid head in profile, wearing a miner's helmet. The head looks as if it is carved from wood or metal: craggy, angular, with harsh lines and overlapping shapes. The expression is somber. The light on the helmet is illuminated, casting a beam forwards. The figure's eye is illuminated, glowing white like the helmet light.

2023/07/31

July 31, 2023
A giant, tree-covered mountain peak in the shape of a head. The head has a sober, intense expression, and is staring across the valley in front of it at a small figure standing in the foreground. Above are a few wisps of clouds.

2023/07/30

July 30, 2023
A chaotic surface that suggests a partially melted wall with an arched doorway in it. Standing in the doorway, staring out, is someone whose face is darkened by shadows. The person looks like they are wearing a robe, and has a shaved head and two intense, staring eyes.

2023/07/27

July 27, 2023

2023/07/24

July 24, 2023
A strange, mask-like object. It has an arrangement of details that suggest a face, but a weird and mechanical one: a perfectly round eye in the top right, a semicircular indentation in the middle left, a nose that looks more like a metal spike or machine part. The right side of the face has several carved, curving indentations, like a wooden mask. There are a few tendrils of something hanging off the bottom of the mask, suggesting attempts at facial hair.

2023/07/22

July 22, 2023
A large, furry, headless figure holds up a large mask on a stick. The mask is a big-nosed, bearded face with its mouth slightly open. Sitting on top of the figure, where its head would normally be, is a person sitting in a chair. The mask is positioned directly in front of the seated person, obscuring it totally from view if you were approaching the headless figure, er, head-on. The seated person is holding an umbrella with two horns on top. The overall effect is of a large, horned, furry monster, with most of its head replaced by a person sitting in a chair.

2023/07/21

July 21, 2023
A portrait of a furry creature from the chest up. The creature stands like a person, but is not a person. The creature has a long neck, a round black eye like a rodent, and a sharp snout. The creature's mouth is slightly open, as though it is in the middle of speaking. It is wearing what looks like a naval coat over a T-shirt, with a shield-like patch where a badge would be. The patch has an anchor design on it. The creature is wearing a sailor's cap.

2023/07/12

July 12, 2023
A crude white face on a black background. The face has two cavernous eyes, a frowning mouth, and no nose. It is roughly scribbled in crayon, as though drawn by a toddler. Above the face is a more carefully drawn wide-brimmed hat, floating in space. Below the face is a shirt, also more realistically drawn. The shirt is upright, as though someone is standing in it, but empty, as though the person is invisible. The overall effect is that of an invisible figure wearing a hat, a shirt, and a disproportionately large, misshapen face drawn by an upset child.

2023/07/08

July 8, 2023
A roughly cut rocky slab with a large arched window in it stands among grass. It's a puppet theater, in which a production is taking place: two round faces on sticks interact. The two faces resemble Facebook's "angry" and "haha" emoji. The angry face is looking up at the laughing face. The angry face has a beard; the laughing face, placed above it, has spiky hair. Above the two figures hang items intended as scenery: a cloud and a lightning bolt, both suspended from the top of the window by threads. There's a wispy suggestion of clouds in the top left of the sky. Perched on top of the right side of the theater is a black bird that looks a little like a crow. Below the window, on the front of the theater, is carved a mask, one side of which is frowning, and one side of which is smiling.

2023/07/07

July 7, 2023
A very pointed, nearly perfectly conical hill, covered with grass. Balanced on the point of the hill, sort of like a platter on someone's head, is a flat platform, on which stands a large, stone statue. The statue has a humanoid face, but is roughly cut, with no arms or legs, and looks like a religious figurine. Sitting right under the platform, keeping it balanced on the tip of the hill, are two figures. One of them is looking at a phone. The sky is mostly clear, with a few wispy clouds.

2023/07/06

July 6, 2023
It is very late evening or very early morning. Standing in a grassy meadow is a giant round sign, maybe 10 feet in diameter: a smiley-face that appears to be constructed from metal and plastic, like a sign for a gas station or roadside attraction. The sign is falling apart: panels are missing or broken, revealing the metal framework underneath, and plants dangle from the frame. In the background is the suggestion of a foggy tree line. Standing to the right of the sign is a person, shining a flashlight up at it. The darkness and the beam from the flashlight throw the seams and contours of the sign into sharp relief, making the smile empty and menacing. As Lon Chaney once said, "There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."

2023/07/04

July 4, 2023
A creature with heavy, primitive facial features, pointed ears, fur all over its face, and eerily expressive eyes stares pensively at a small sphere suspended by a string above its head. Only the creature's conical, gorilla-esque head is shown.

2023/07/01

July 1, 2023
A rectangular shape that looks like a boxy human head without ears, similar to a mask. The face has tired eyes with bags under them, craggy features, and a prominent nose. Set into the person's forehead is a small, roundish cathode ray tube display, like something you would have seen on an early personal computer (to be specific, any Mac made between 1984 and 1986). Nothing is being displayed on the screen, however. The person's mouth is a disk drive: the kind designed for those 3.5-inch Sony diskettes, to be specific. The steam engine that powered these very early computing devices is not shown.

2023/06/18

June 18, 2023
Three boulders stacked, one on top of each other, on top of a small, grassy hill. The lowest boulder has a mouth; the middle boulder has a nose; the topmost boulder has a single eye. Moss hangs from the boulders, and two birds perch on top of the top boulder. There are no clouds or sun.

2023/06/11

June 11, 2023
A face in profile, with a blur of short, dark hair. The face is sterile, minimalist, and expressionless, like that of a mannequin. It appears to be a mask, but other lines and seams make it look as though the entire head is assembled of multiple parts, as if the entire figure in the drawing is a machine or robot of some sort.

2023/06/06

June 6, 2023
A large human face in profile, both eyes and mouth wide open. The eye contains a blurry television screen; the cavernous mouth contains a stereo speaker.

2023/06/02

June 2, 2023
A huge, wrinkled face rises out of the desert floor, seemingly carved from stone. It looks like an obelisk. All of it is fully formed, except for the mouth area: a giant, rocky hollow which someone is carving out, hacking away at with a miner's pick.

2023/05/28

May 28, 2023
A figure with three legs and a face made of two masks, each mask itself half a face. It looks as though one three-legged person—or maybe one one-legged person next to a two-legged person—are standing behind two giant half-faced masks, holding them together. The eyes of both masks are empty; one seems to be a hole with light behind it, one is totally dark. This bizarre assemblage stands outside, the suggestions of grass and cloud around it.

2023/05/04

May 4, 2023
Eek! It's a large, furry creature casting an anxious glance over its shoulder, and finding that its pointed tail is actually the nose of a face with a scheming expression. The face is located where none of us would want to find another face on ourselves.

2023/04/29

April 29, 2023
An armless trenchcoat or cloak, worn by a tall figure. There are three heads emerging from the open front of the trenchcoat. The first two have leering expressions; the last is bearded and looks thoughtful, like an old man.

2023/04/23

April 23, 2023
A mask with glowing green eyes and an unsettling smile, surrounded by bits of debris and rocks. The mask is illuminated by an iridescent greenish light, the source unseen. The light is also reflecting off the rocks and debris.

2023/04/16

April 16, 2023
An eerie figure that seems to be carved from stone stands in the light of a moon that looks like the Facebook "haha" reaction. The figure has no ears, a strange smile, and wears a suit and fedora. One side of the figure's face is hidden in shadow; on the side that isn't, there's a smiley face instead of an eye.

Posts navigation

Older posts
  • Mastodon
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Glass
  • Pixelfed
  • RSS Feed

    All work © Chris Silverman