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2023/11/21

November 21, 2023
A grassy field with a tall, thin building placed to the left of it. The building looks like the profile of a human face: more specifically, that "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for classic Mac operating systems. It's a thin, blocky head, comprised entirely of rectangles. The eye is a rectangular window high on the face; the mouth is just a horizontal line. To the right of the building is a misty white speech bubble, with a window set in it directly across from the building/face's eye. Both the window in the building and the window in the speech bubble have the profile of a human figure standing inside. The drawing is indigo ink on a bright yellow background. The speech bubble is white.

2023/11/19

November 19, 2023
A creature with a giant head, in profile, and three legs. The head looks vaguely like the talking head icon from old Macintosh operating systems: elongated nose; very simple facial features; a vertical line for an eye and a horizontal line for a mouth. On the side of its head, where its cheek would be, is a large, slightly dimensional speech balloon with a blue lightning bolt inside it. The drawing is blue ink on a green background. The creature's eye, and some of the shading on the speech balloon, is white.

2023/11/18

November 18, 2023
An intricate pattern of geometric shapes, lines, and textures that form a rough, robotic face. It looks like a blueprint for a mask or a microchip. The drawing is mostly white ink on a medium-blue background, with some shapes drawn in yellow, green, and a translucent highlighter pink.

2023/11/16

November 16, 2023
A dark night. Rearing up out of the ground is what appears to be a tree, although it's hard to make out in the gloom. The tree does not have any branches, it's just a winding trunk, extending upward. Hanging in the sky, right behind the tree, is a large orange moon with a smiley-face on it. Below, to the left of the tree, emerging out of the gloom, is a figure wearing a tall hat and carrying a lantern, which casts an orange light on the trunk of the tree. The figure is dimly illuminated by both the lantern and the smiling moon in the sky. The drawing is black ink on a dark blue background. The moon is orange; the lantern and lantern light is yellow.

2023/11/11

November 11, 2023
A face that appears to be carved into a rectangular block of wood or stone. The face is craggy with a hooked nose, a mouth straight as a ruler, and two round eye sockets without eyes. The left eye socket is empty; not a hole, but a circular indentation, as if you pressed a sphere into clay. The right eye socket is a round black hole, like you'd find on a mask. Sitting inside that hole, as though looking out a window, is a small figure with antlers and a suit jacket. That eye socket is surrounded by odd striations and wrinkles. The drawing is black ink on a green background.

2023/11/09

November 9, 2023
An irregular, vaguely oval shape, like a scrap of cloth or a hole. On the left side of the shape is a highly simplified human face in profile; the "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for pre-OS X Macintosh computers. The eye is a vertical line, the nose is a simple rectangle, and the mouth is another line. On the right is a very tall speech bubble with no speech inside it. The bubble is blurry around the edges and slightly dimensional, as though it's dissolving into fog.

2023/11/05

November 5, 2023
A figure with two feet planted in the ground like a statue and a spherical, featureless head. In the figure's left hand, it holds a head or a mask out in front of it. Its right hand is planted on its hip. The head is looking back at the figure. The ground is rocky, with plants and weeds. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a mountainous horizon. The drawing is black ink on a salmon-pink background.

2023/11/02

November 2, 2023
A sinister figure with no arms, spindly legs, and a vast body covered in what looks like an overcoat. The figure has a small hat with a brim, a face mostly in shadow, and eyes that glow. Incongruously, the figure is wearing a pin with a smiley-face on it.

2023/10/30

October 30, 2023
A structure that looks like something between a building and a face. The structure is a flat, rectangular slab with a rounded top, roughly resembling a generic tombstone. It has a sharp, slanting nose. The mouth is an archway; the right eye is an elongated windowlike hole; the left eye is a circular clock. This structure is more like a wall and does not have an interior. A small path winds through the mouth, and there are sparse weeds growing around the base. The drawing is fluorescent blue-green on a dark indigo background.

2023/10/28

October 28, 2023
A portrait of someone from the neck up. The head is slightly blurry, the facial features blank and indeterminate. Half of the face is in shadow. The only striking detail is a sharp, prominent nose; the eyes are just hollows, and the face is mostly smooth, like a store mannequin. The only hint of anything in the person's face is the slanted brows that suggest they are scowling. The drawing is black ink on a yellow-orange background.

2023/10/22

October 22, 2023
A rough, misshapen mask of a face—more suggestive of a fragment than a single object itself—with a large nose, open mouth, and bony, irregular striations. The eyes are two blank spheres that seem to float next to the mask. The mask is bright green on a black background.

2023/10/15

October 15, 2023
A chunk of misshapen metal with ripples and striations across it, as though it's partially melted. At various locations on the metal are neat round holes, like for bolts or or screws. The metal resembles a roughly crafted mask of a cyclops, with a large single eye at the top, a straight rudimentary nose, and a gaping horizontal hole for a mouth.

2023/10/14

October 14, 2023
A misshapen mask assembled from several different chunks of metal that seem to have been melted onto each other. The eyes and mouth appear to be filled with glass. In the mask's left eye stands the blurry silhouette of a person, as though the eye is a window.

2023/10/13

October 13, 2023
A collection of colored scraps that have been assembled to form a face. They could be metal, plastic, or some other material. They are irregular shapes with straight edges and holes that are placed to form a rough mask. The center one has a nose; the bottom one has a large elliptical opening resembling a mouth. Visible through some of the holes are glowing green eyes.

2023/10/12

October 12, 2023
A huge expressionless head, empty-eyed, perhaps carved from stone, sits in a small cart. The cart is placed on a hill, and has only two wheels, one on each side. The only thing preventing the cart from tipping and rolling down the hill is a small head—again expressionless and looking like it's carved from stone, although more roughly than the head in the cart—wedged under the front of the cart. There are wisps of cloud in the sky, but the overall sensation is of desolation.

2023/10/11

October 11, 2023
A figure stands looking at its phone. The figure has two short legs, a heavy barrel-shaped body, and a face that looks like a smiley-face mask. The face is lit eerily from below with green light from the phone screen. There are no background details, and the ground is hazy in a way that suggests the figure is standing in front of fog.

2023/10/08

October 8, 2023
A giant head with two legs and no arms. The head looks like that of a robot: no hair, an oddly machinelike mouth, and a large eyesocket, which seems to be a computer screen displaying lines of glowing green text.

2023/10/04

October 4, 2023
A rough mask of a human face. The left and right sides of the mask also contain smaller faces in profile.

2023/09/25

September 25, 2023
A rough fragment of something, maybe rusted metal. It resembles a backwards letter C; that, and something you'd find in an abandoned factory or junk shop. It has two bolt holes at the top, two slits in the middle, and a grating that looks like a toothy mouth. Taken all together, the effect is of a skeletal 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.

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