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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.

2024/03/13

March 13, 2024
On the left of the drawing is a large rocky cliff with a flat top. On the right is an open space. A huge black tentacle, like that of a monstrous squid or octopus, is reaching up from the bottom of the drawing, yanking a fishing pole out of the hand of a person standing on the top of the cliff. The sky is a greenish blue; the tentacle and the cliff are black. Below, where the tentacle is reaching up from, is white fog and ocean spray.

2024/03/11

March 11, 2024
A drawing evenly divided into two sections: an upper one, all yellow, and a lower one, which is purpleish black. The effect suggests a cross-section of a two-story building. In the upper section, a reddish monster with a long snout and horns seems to be entertaining a person in a chair. The monster is talking to the person and holding up glowing white orb. The sun is shining in the sky. Below, we see the monster is actually a puppet on the end of a long pole held by a yellow person. The basement area, such as it is, has a small, dull-purple clock on the right side, with a bookshelf of colored books below it.

2024/03/09

March 9, 2024
A small, sparrow-like bird with a red eye, oddly long, spindly legs, and no tail stands on top of a small, rocky promontory. The way it's standing is more like how a person would stand. The bird is mostly black, silhouetted against a blazing yellow and orange sky. It has highlights of iridescent green. The strangest thing is that it has a clockwork key sticking out of its back and a glowing white halo over its head.

2024/03/07

March 7, 2024
A bizarre, humanoid figure with two arms and four legs. The legs start at two and then branch off into four, forking like lightning bolts. The left arm of the figure is normal; the right has a giant hand with jagged lightning-bolt fingers. The figure's body is a purpleish black, while its head is a simple red sphere with an angry emoji-like face on it. It is on a yellow background.

2024/03/06

March 6, 2024
A room, darkened. The walls and floor are the blue color of a normally white room that's mostly dark. There's one light source, though: the large door in the center of the room, in which a tall demonic figure with horns is standing. The figure looks like it is wearing a leather jacket and has one hand on the lightswitch next to the door, as though it is walking into a closet and flicking the light on. In this case, the light is an inferno of yellow flames that spill out into the floor of the room. To the right of the flaming door is a small picture in a frame, the subject indeterminate, and an electrical outlet.

2024/03/05

March 5, 2024
A blazing yellow sunset over black mountains. From a vantage point high on a hill, a large, furry creature with two pointed ears looks down at a small building in the valley. The building has one large open door, like something on a garage or warehouse, and some smaller windows in the second wing of the building. The large door is spilling greenish light out onto the ground. Green light is also visible in the other windows. The ground of the valley is also covered in yellow light; the building is casting a shadow. We are looking at the creature from the back, but the front of the creature is lit with yellow light.

2024/03/03

March 3, 2024
An open, swampy area in a forest. It's the late afternoon; the sky is pink with the sun lowering towards the trees. There is an overgrown path with dead, branchless trunks of trees next to it. In the distance is visible a tree line. Crossing the path, heading to the right into the part of the drawing that suggests an open bog, is the shambling, hunched silhouette of something with two sharp, pointy ears and a humanoid hand. Closest to the viewer is a large, weathered yellow sign that says "area closed". A hawk wheels in the sky.

2024/03/02

March 2, 2024
Two people are in a dark room, staring at a bank of glowing green screens on the wall. The person on the left is sitting, and only their back is visible to us. The person on the right is standing and seen in profile: a figure with a short crew-cut and a hard, expressionless face. The screens are showing video feeds from different cameras. One in the lower left shows lines of text; one on the lower right shows a grainy picture of the pipe that everybody's so interested in. But the biggest one, above the first two, is the most horrifying: a night-vision image of a monster with two horns or ears, no eyes, and a savage mouth rushing the camera, arms raised. Some people consider being filmed without their permission rude.

2024/03/01

March 1, 2024
The interior of a large, mostly lightless, concrete room. Towards the top of it, white light blazes from a circular opening. Crouched in the opening is the figure of a robot with a spotlight for a face. A ladder descends from the opening. In the foreground, lurking in the darkness but silhouetted in the light, is a large furry figure with horns. This is a mostly black drawing, with pale-green-accented white highlights.

2024/02/25

February 25, 2024
Night, deep in the woods. In the sky is a thin crescent of a moon. In the background is a hilly tree line indicating heavy woods. On the left is a windowless concrete warehouse with the number "3" stenciled on the side. On one wall of the building is a large open door, casting an eerie green glow out into the darkness. A robot has just left the building—perhaps without permission—and is walking out into the darkness. The robot's head has a light on it that looks like a headlight, casting a beam forward. The robot's body has several other colored glowing lights. This is a mostly dark blue and indigo drawing, with highlights of white and glowing green.

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