Skip to content

notes art

explorations in iphone notes

  • Blog
  • About

monster

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.

2024/02/23

February 23, 2024
A clear, cold night. The full moon blazes across a frozen lake with what appears to be fog on the surface. In the foreground, walking across the ice, is a hooded figure. On the far shore is a wooded hill with a single house on the side. There is a yellow window glowing on the side of the house. This is a mostly blue drawing: the sky is blue, in the way that it is when there's a full moon, and the ice is a lighter but cold blue.

2024/02/22

February 22, 2024
A gray monster with three legs and one large arm with a huge, clawlike hand. The hand has three figures and is about half the size of the monster. The monster's head is obscured by—or perhaps composed of—a number of colored circles with small, emoji-like faces in them. Most are angry or unhappy-looking. The monster is on a light gray textured background.

2024/02/11

February 11, 2024
A mountaintop, lit red on the right side, with a small figure of a person also standing on the right side, looking taken aback. The person is staring at a huge, inhumanly colored figure, covered with colored bars that vaguely suggest a skeleton. Perhaps the bars are painted on the outside of the figure, or showing through from inside. They are neon colors: pink, blue, and green, with the figure's head and chest area a glowing white. The giant figure has a green halo above its head, and appears to be leaping into the air. The sky behind it is an apocalyptic yellow-green. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

2024/02/10

February 10, 2024
A disturbing figure wearing a black coat and a black bowtie, and a round black head with no ears, no nose, and a wide, neon-pink mouth with yellow teeth. The figure has two round eyes, both different colors: the right eye is concentric circles of red, yellow, blue, and orange; the left eye is crimson and blue. The face has wrinkles on it as though it is made of leather. The figure is wearing a cartoonish fedora-esque hat. The drawing is on a pink and orange background.

2024/02/09

February 9, 2024
A ghostlike yellow-green monster with a craggy-toothed smile, three eyes—brightly colored in red, orange, blue, and purple—and three horns. The monster has several stars printed on it and is on a dark blue background.

2024/02/08

February 8, 2024
A bizarre, neon-pink figure: a giant head on five legs. The head has a panicked expression. This is a pink and yellow drawing on a black background.

2024/02/07

February 7, 2024
A head, rendered in a series of bright colors: red, bright, yellow, blue, crimson. The head is floating in space on a white textured background. Its mouth is open, its eyes are wide, and it has a surprised expression. It has three horns and bristly crimson hair. It looks like a monster.

2024/02/06

February 6, 2024
A large figure in a crimson jumper with yellow and crimson stars printed at various locations on it. The figure is very wide and looking at a phone in its hand. It has devil horns. Its face is illuminated blue from the phone screen, and it is set against a yellow-green background.

2024/02/02

February 2, 2024
A small white figure stands on the right side of the drawing, casting a huge, shapeless purple shadow that looms over the figure on the left. The shadow has a single bright eye that is watching the figure. In the top right is a white circle that's either the sun or the moon. The background of the drawing is a mix of yellow and bright green.

2024/02/01

February 1, 2024
Two figures. The one on the left has a purple, almost cat-like body with two legs, a curved tail, and no visible arms. Its head is about twice the size of its body and looks like a mask: shield-shaped and pale green, with a giant single eye in the center. Its eye is an iridescent green iris on a black background. To the right of it is a small crimson creature with four pointed, triangular legs, a domed body, and two horns. The creature also has a shiny green eye in the middle of its face. Both of these are set against a dark blue background. Above them both, in the top-right corner, is a sharp, white, five-pointed star.

2024/01/26

January 26, 2024
A hulking blue monster, standing on two legs, clawed arms outstretched in front of it. It appears to be roaring. It has a round, froglike head and vaguely resembles a more malevolent-looking version of Cookie Monster. In lieu of eyes, three googly eyes are pasted to the top of its head, as though it's a two-dimensional drawing with additional elements stuck to it. It is on a light beige background.

2024/01/25

January 25, 2024
A huge factory with three smokestacks billowing smoke. The factory is heavy, rendered in black and dark purple; it stands against a blazing yellow and orange sky that appears to be on fire. The smoke from the smokestacks is yellow. In one square window, on the right side of the factory, a single silhouette of a person is visible.

2024/01/17

January 17, 2024
A creature shaped like a bullet, or a spraycan. The creature has a metallic body, one giant green eyeball that takes up most of its body, and a mouth pursed in a grimace, framed by crimson lipstick. Above it hangs a glowing yellow halo with bolts of electricity coming off it. A speech balloon is coming out of the creature's mouth; the balloon has no text, only an icon of a lightning bolt with an arrow at the end of it. The creature appears to be wearing boots or galoshes. This is a bluish creature set on an orange background.

2024/01/15

January 15, 2024
A sinister, skeletal figure, hunched over and loping like a zombie, one emaciated arm outstretched, the hand with fingers like claws. This is a black charcoal-like drawing on a yellow background.

2024/01/13

January 13, 2024
A peculiar figure with two horns, a long fur robe, and a pointed snout stands on what looks like ice. The figure is gripping a thin staff in its right hand, back to the viewer, looking up at a full moon. This is a mostly black painting on a purple and lavender background.

2024/01/12

January 12, 2024
A short, squat creature wearing a giant mask. The mask looks similar to those classic theatrical ones: shield-shaped and minimal, with two empty eyes and a smiling open mouth. There are several wrinkles in the forehead. Visible in the mouth is the single eye of the creature wearing the mask. The creature has two furry arms and legs, and is wearing an orange shirt. This is a mostly black drawing on a light blue background.

2024/01/10

January 10, 2024
A simply rendered robot: a small box for the head, a larger box for the body, and two blocky legs with triangular feet. The robot is different shades of red, purple, and black. The face is two large, staring, round eyes and a simple mouth that looks like a tally mark. The head has two curved horns. The robot has one left hand on the end of a curvy, tubelike arm, which it is raising. It also has an electric plug for a tail. Centered on its body is a large television screen—the old-style, round-cornered kind, rendered in blue, phosphorescent, green, and white. There is a blurry figure wearing a suit speaking on the screen. The robot is standing on a yellow background.

2024/01/09

January 9, 2024
A flaming red-orange background. Standing in the foreground is a monstrous dark figure, wearing a trenchcoat, a tie, and formal shoes. The figure has no arms, and its entire head is taken up by one giant iridescent green eye. Its head is bristling with fur and two large ears or horns.

2024/01/07

January 7, 2024
A small, brightly colored, furry creature with two legs, no arms, and one blue eye. The creature has iridescent fur; red and gold, turning holographic green at the edges. It is walking in a forest at night, surrounded by gold brown grass with the same greenish tinge to it. Above it hangs a perfectly round, green object, like the moon, if the moon was actually hovering inside the forest.

2024/01/06

January 6, 2024
A humanoid figure facing to the right. The person, if that's what it is, has no hair; a long straight nose; a small, set mouth; and eyes narrowed to slits. This is not a pleasant face to look at. Especially because the one visible eye has an eerie green glow, as though the figure is not human. The right cheek is covered with small wrinkles and veins. Behind and above the figure are a glow of vertical yellow beams—not sunlight, but something technological, like the transporter "beam" effect from Star Trek.

2024/01/04

January 4, 2024
A bizarre figure wearing a formal jacket and tie. The figure has two large round ears on top of its head, similar to Mickey Mo—er, "Steamboat Willie"—and one giant eye in the middle of its face. No other facial features are visible. This is a black drawing on a cold blue background.

2023/12/31

December 31, 2023
A roaring bonfire in which stands a giant figure, the flames rising around it. Flames come out of its eyes and mouth. Next to the bonfire stands a much smaller figure, holding out its left hand, from which is erupting a small fire. The drawing is primarily yellow, white, and brown, on a black background.

2023/12/29

December 29, 2023
A tall, thin person, standing with arms apart. The person does not have any visible facial features. The person is surrounded by a dark, amorphous shape that could either be a hole or something that the person is wearing; there are two three-dimensional horns on top of the darkness, but the body appears to be a cavelike entrance. The edges of the shape are blurry; if you saw only the silhouette of the darkness and nothing else, you would think it was a large, round, furry monster with horns, two legs, and no arms. The drawing is black pencil on a light green background.

2023/12/28

December 28, 2023
The edge of a foggy wood, set against a light orange sky. Looming out of the fog are many straight, tall tree trunks. The branches aren't visible, giving the impression of a forest of dead trees. A low white fog covers the ground. Standing among the trees is a tall figure wearing a robe, with two horns that look like tree roots sticking up out of its head. It is holding a tall staff, which also has small roots and branches sticking out of it. It is walking towards the right of the drawing, where there is a small sign pointing to the right. No lettering is visible on the sign. A hazy white sun hangs high in the sky.

2023/12/15

December 15, 2023
A dark, northern forest at night, the full moon high in the sky. Green and blue curtains of auroral glow hang above the low treeline. Down among the trees stands a large, shambling figure, hunched over a glowing white fire. The fire is more of a greenish hue than the yellow one would expect. There are strange things in the woods at night.

2023/12/13

December 13, 2023
A giant, furry red creature with two pointy ears and round, shiny, insect-like eyes pilots a white two-wheeled vehicle. The vehicle looks like a bicycle, but instead of a seat and pedals, it has a tiny basket that looks like the lower half of an egg. There is no obvious engine or propulsion system. The creature is, impossibly, squeezed into the basket. A creature this size would presumably have very large legs, but no legs are visible. The overall effect is of a giant red bear riding a cartoonishly tiny bicycle. The background of the drawing is black.

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
  • Mastodon
  • Instagram
  • Glass
  • Pixelfed
  • Link
  • RSS Feed

    All work © Chris Silverman