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2024/05/25

May 25, 2024
A dark, gray night. A remote, grassy hill. Rising up from the hill is a small, oddly shaped house, with no windows, a pointed roof, and a doorway like an open mouth. On the side of the house, at the top, is a large white eye. Hanging over the door is a small, glowing sign that says "open". This is a monochrome drawing rendered primarily in gray and black.

2024/05/22

May 22, 2024
A blue shield with a realistic portrait of a devil on it. The devil has a heavy brow, muttonchop whiskers, and no ears. The devil is rendered in fluorescent green, with yellow light illuminating one side of the devil's face. Above the shield floats a green bar with diagonal yellow stripes on it, looking sort of like those barriers you see at construction scenes. Floating above the bar is a ghostly greenish star. A dark figure is standing behind the shield, aligned in such a way that it looks like the face on the shield is the figure's head. The figure is holding a glowing greenish-yellow key. The devil in the shield appears to be looking at the key. The background of this drawing is black.

2024/05/15

May 15, 2024
A dark figure with long, clawed hands and a pointed tail stands on a small promontory. In its right hand, the figure holds up a glowing blue orb. The figure's head is white, with two long, thin horns, a thin scraggly beard, and empty black eyes that suggest a mask. The background is dark blue, suggesting night.

2024/05/14

May 14, 2024
A vast black figure with no arms, an enormous body, and tiny legs. Its head has two horns. Its face is a simple smiley-face: two glowing blue dots for eyes, a blue smiling mouth. It has a small batlike wing. On its body is a weird set of circular designs, in glowing greenish-blue, that look like circuitry designed by an alchemist. It stands against a crimson background.

2024/05/13

May 13, 2024
A roughly rendered figure with three horns; a large, open mouth; round, staring eyes; and two appendages that could be either giant clawed hands or bat-like wings. The figure has a neon yellow lightning bolt on the front of it. This is a red and crimson figure on a cobalt blue background.

2024/05/12

May 12, 2024
A strange figure wearing a gray suit and tie. This is a portrait taken of the figure from the chest up. The suit is mostly featureless, except for what appears to be an ID card and name tag on the left breast, and a small yellow star pin on the right. The figure's head is green and yellow, perfectly circular, with seven eyes scattered about it. Each eye has a different, colorful iris. The irises on two of the eyes are stars. The head also has three horns: two on the left, and one on the right. Floating above the figure's head is a dim, hazy, bluish-green star.

2024/05/11

May 11, 2024
A house on the edge of a steep cliff at night. The house is small, with two lit windows, and a back porch that faces the cliff. A white light is glowing on the back porch. About halfway down the cliff is a small ledge on which is standing a very tall creature, about the size of the house, with two glowing eyes. There appears to be a staircase, or some sort of path, down the side of the cliff. There is no moon or stars. This is a grayscale drawing.

2024/05/08

May 8, 2024
A large boulder with two small horns, a glowing halo, and a giant eye on the front of it hovers over a surface with two symmetrically placed candles. In the center, between the candles, is a small object with a sphere on top, and two crossbars beneath it. The overall appearance is of some sort of shrine, guarded by a monster. This is a primarily yellow drawing, with the boulder and surface in charcoal black.

2024/05/07

May 7, 2024
A forest at night. The sky is heavy and gray with clouds. The trees are faded and ghostly. In the distance, but still unsettling close, stalks a giant figure with glowing eyes, holding a white glowing lantern. In the foreground, a much smaller figure stands in the shadows, watching.

2024/05/05

May 5, 2024
A creature comprised of two halves that look like they're stacked on top of each other. The top half is the upper part of a head and nose. It is yellow-green, facing right, with three eyes that are looking down and to the left. The three eyes are different colors and have different colored concentric circles in the irises. The lower half has nothing but two short legs and a giant open mouth with teeth. The left side of the lower half is orange crimson; the right side is a glowing, bioluminescent green. The background is dark gray.

2024/05/03

May 3, 2024
A bizarre ghost-shaped creature, vaguely reminiscent of the ghosts in Pac-Man. It has a dome-shaped head and no arms. The lower half of it is ragged. Its color is a mixture of crimson and roughly painted, iridescent green. The green texture extends beyond its body, as though it is dripping or glowing. The upper half of its body is covered by four eyes with multicolored irises. The largest, top-most eye has two irises. It also has three horns, and a glowing halo that appears to be dripping with paint.

2024/04/25

April 25, 2024
A ghostly blue-green figure standing against a dark background. The figure is wearing a suit jacket and black tie, with an ID badge on its left breast and three stars on its right shoulder. The figure does not have a head. Floating above its empty neck is a round, blazing orange object that looks like a coin. The head on the coin is gaunt, with staring, empty eyes and two horns. Floating above the coin is a pale blue halo.

2024/04/21

April 21, 2024
A grim-faced bald man with a disproportionately large head and tiny legs stand in a dark area, holding a scepter or baton with a smiley face on it. A closer look at the head suggests that this may be rubber mask: the eye looks more like a hole. There is a very real, very red eye behind the mask. This is a primarily monochrome drawing, rendered in shades of black and eerie green.

2024/04/20

April 20, 2024
A three-legged orange entity, somewhere between a creature and a machine, with two horns and an enormous eye-like window in the middle of its body. The entity is in a dark area: at night, or maybe even under the water. A person is visible in the window, operating controls. A glowing green bolt of electricity jumps between the entity's horns. The light from the interior casts a hazy green glow out into the darkness.

2024/04/19

April 19, 2024
A tall house on a grassy hill. The front of the house, illuminated by the sunlight, has no windows and only one door, an arched opening. In front of the door stands the small figure of a person. The side of the house, in shadow, has two large, staring eyes looking at the person. Both eyes have an iridescent green glow. The sky is red-orange, with a glowing yellow sun. The building and hill are reddish. A black bird, perhaps a crow or raven, is perched on top of the house.

2024/04/17

April 17, 2024
A large gold coin with a face in profile on it. The face is, like that on most currency, a bald man with a hard, vacant stare. Unlike most currency figureheads, this one has devil horns. The coin serves as a head for a figure wearing a dark suit. The figure stands on a blue background.

2024/04/16

April 16, 2024
A person wearing a dark gray suit dances, playing an instrument. They are facing away from us, one leg lifted as though skipping or prancing. The instrument they are playing is a large snakelike creature with gray skin and large, iridescent green eyes. The creature's tail is in their mouth, and its large head is above and behind them, its mouth open.

2024/04/15

April 15, 2024
A dark, dungeon-like room. There is only one window in the top left: narrow, gothic-looking, and glowing red. To the right is some sort of dimly visible pillar or arch. In the center of the room is a glowing pile of coals, gray smoke billowing from it. Rising up from the very center of the coals is what appears to be a small, black plant with leaves that look like claws. The underside of the plant is illuminated red in the glow from the embers. The flower part of the plant suggests a creature, or a Venus flytrap: two mandibles open, belching yellow fire.

2024/04/13

April 13, 2024
A small, rocky path winds beneath a steep cliff. The path is on the right side of the drawing and the cliff is on the left side of the drawing. Standing on the path is a small figure with a wide-brimmed hat and a staff. In front of the figure, far in the distance, is the dim, vast shape of a mountain. The sky is clear blue. Standing on top of the cliff, in the top left of the drawing, is the bulky figure of a horned monster. The monster is peering down at the traveler, looking ominously focused.

2024/04/10

April 10, 2024
Night, somewhere remote. A white crescent moon hangs in the sky. A squat, hunched-over creature with thin legs wears a fedora and carries a ball under its right arm, staring directly at the viewer. The creature's face is indistinct and oddly featureless, as though it is wearing a mask. The part of its face most in shadow from the hat has a glowing green circle where an eye would be; its mouth is a row of glowing red lines, like a robot's face. It is wearing a baggy T-shirt, and appears to be surrounded by grass, with a blurry suggestion of trees in the distance. This is a dark gray drawing, with the only color being the glowing green eye and red mouth.

2024/04/09

April 9, 2024
A large black figure with angel wings sits on a small, rocky promontory, on top of a grassy hill. The figure is shining a flashlight directly downwards at the foot of the promontory. In the beam of a flashlight, as though caught in a spotlight, a smaller figure stands, seemingly praying. This is a mostly green drawing.

2024/04/05

April 5, 2024
A person stands in a rocky, mountainous area. The person is on a craggy open peak, with wooded skylines on both sides. Directly below the person, as if carved into the rock, is the huge form of a stone giant that may or may not be in the process of waking up. The giant is bald with a heavy, jowly face and eyes hidden beneath a heavy brow. The horizon is afire with either a sunrise or a sunset. Above, a hawk turns in the sky. This is probably not what Lebanon, New Jersey looks like, but then again, I've never been there.

2024/04/03

April 3, 2024
A small figure wearing a gray-black jumpsuit with a glowing green lightning bolt on the front of it, and a small orange lightning bolt on the shoulder, walks in an empty space that's entirely a light periwinkle blue. The figure is wearing a very large, bulky orange helmet, the front of which is occupied entirely by a giant eyeball with an iridescent green iris. The helmet has horns. In front of the figure, attached to a string that the figure is holding in its left hand, is a small, orange sphere, also with an eyeball in the front of it. That eye is blue. In its right hand, the figure is holding an orange sphere with no eyeball. The shadowy silhouette of a zeppelin hovers bizarrely in the background.

2024/04/02

April 2, 2024
A structure about the size of a very small two-story building sits in a desolate, remote area: high grass on the ground, a suggestion of forest in the background. The structure has only two large, round windows in the front of it. The lower window is a bright, fluorescent green; the upper-story window is red. Both stories are defined by metal panels bolted to the front of the building. The overall effect is that of a building that looks like an old-fashioned traffic light. Visible in the green window is a horned devil figure. In the upper red window, an angel stands with arms outstretched, a glowing halo over its head. These windows are the only colored items in the drawing; other than that, everything is a dull, charcoal gray. To the right of the building stands a small figure looking at the building, the red and green light from the windows reflecting off of it. Perched on the top of the building is a large black bird that looks like a crow or raven.

2024/03/30

March 30, 2024
A person stands in a clearing at night, a full moon visible in the sky. There are indications of low trees, or a meadow. The person is flying a huge, shield-shaped purple kite with a frowning monster's face on it. The kite has a single red eye, a long nose, and exposed yellow teeth, with red stripes on it as well. Its tail resembles a beard. It is the only colored object in an otherwise grayscale drawing.

2024/03/28

March 28, 2024
A dark gray, hunched-over, humanoid monster prowls a remote area. The sky is a dismal, grayish green. The monster stands on what looks like a meadow with a forested hill rising up in the distance. There appears to be a layer of fog over the ground. The monster has a tail, long claws, and a reddish eye. A black speech balloon is above the monster's head. The balloon looks like a computer error message without any text; it contains a triangular yellow warning icon, and a blue button that says "OK". But things are not OK.

2024/03/24

March 24, 2024
A large purple head with an unsettling smile, exposed iridescent-green teeth, and no hair or ears. The head is lit from behind with green light, and looks sort of like an Easter Island statue. The head's eye is a round yellow window in which the silhouette of a person's head can be seen. The person appears to be wearing the head like a costume; their legs are visible. The background of the drawing is red-orange.

2024/03/21

March 21, 2024
A bizarre creature with a sharp beak like a bird and a large eye that looks human. The creature stands on two legs and is holding a cane or walking stick. It is wearing a hat with a brim and a white feather, and has a windup key sticking out of its back. This is a black and white charcoal drawing.

2024/03/20

March 20, 2024
An eerie scene that looks like it was created in either charcoal or watercolor. A tall, thin apartment building rises up out of a ground covered with undergrowth. The building has  only one window in the top left. It is lit, with the blurry silhouette of a person in it. Stalking around the base of the building in the lower right of the drawing is the huge form of a shapeless creature with glowing white eyes. In the background is a blurry suggestion of a forest. The scene appears to be at night.

2024/03/19

March 19, 2024
A black and white charcoal drawing of a blurry meadow with a thick metal pipe sticking up out of it. On the right side of the pipe is a small keyhole. Exploding up out of the top of the pipe is a jack-in-the-box-looking creature. Its body is blurry, almost as though it is made of smoke or extremely furry. Its head looks like a bowling ball with a smiley-face embossed on it. It has a pointed jester's cap with a bell. Mid-air is a round lid that must have been on the pipe before the creature blew it off. Also mid-air is a key, ejected from the keyhole.

2024/03/17

March 17, 2024
A hulking, crimson devil-figure with horns, a crimson jacket, and a tie stands on what looks like a surfboard with a small jet engine mounted under it, soaring over a landscape. The figure is silhouetted against an orange sky. Its right arm is behind it for balance; its left arm is holding up a phone that it is staring at. The phone screen shows a head with horns, suggesting that the devil is taking a selfie. The screen is reflected in the devil's large, mirrored eyes.

2024/03/15

March 15, 2024
A small promontory that looks like a crater. On the left side of the drawing, standing on the slope of the promontory, is a small person, holding up a wand or bar. On the right side of the drawing, in the center of the crater, is a tall glowing white form stepping out of a perfectly straight beam of white light from above. The white figure is tinged with an iridescent green and is about twice the size of the person. It is pointing a finger at the person, from which a bolt of electricity is leaping. The person is warding it off with the bar, which seems to be acting like a lightning rod, catching the bolt and stopping it in its place. The background is an indeterminate blue-green, giving little clue about where this is taking place or the time of day.

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