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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.

2023/11/10

November 10, 2023
A promontory shaped like a horn. Standing below it, in its shadow, is a small figure holding a hiking staff. Balanced on the promontory, tipping forwards and about to come crashing down, is a huge boulder with an eye on it, staring at the figure below. The drawing is black ink on an orange 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.

2023/11/08

November 8, 2023
A very short creature, with two short legs, no arms, a large toothy open mouth, and one visible eye. The creature's head is its entire body. This basically looks like a monstrous incarnation of Pac-Man with a terrifyingly realistic eye and legs. Escaping from the creature's mouth is a white cloud that looks like a speech balloon. In the cloud where the text would be is an eye. The iris of the eye has a small lightning-bolt icon. The drawing is black ink on a light teal-blue/green background.

2023/11/07

November 7, 2023
A hunched-over creature holds a large, triangular sign up to its face, covering its head entirely. The sign looks like one of those warning signs with the exclamation point in a triangle, but this design is slightly different: the dot in the exclamation point has been replaced with a wide, frowning mouth. The drawing is bright, neon green on a black background.

2023/11/06

November 6, 2023
A person stands in the middle of a small trail that runs over the top of a hill. In front of them, quite a ways away, the trail cuts a small valley through a woodland. This valley is the horizon, behind which the sun appears to be rising or setting. The light blazes through the opening in the trees, sharply silhouetting the figure in the foreground. Another person is standing on the path there, looking back. The drawing is bright orange ink on a cobalt blue background.

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.

2023/11/04

November 4, 2023
A small, grassy hillock. At the very bottom of the drawing, set into the hill, is the top of an arched steel door. Most of the door is not visible, cropped by the lower edge of the drawing. The door has a round window set in the top center of it. A large eye is peering out of the window, looking up. Planted in the top of the hillock is a weed-covered, dilapidated sign with the word "exit" in rough uppercase lettering. There are a few wispy clouds in the sky. The drawing is indigo ink on a yellow background.

2023/11/03

November 3, 2023
An underwater scene: the ocean floor, craggy and uneven, with plants and coral rising up. It is very dark—the deep indigo you would see after sunset. Also on the ocean floor is what looks like the ruins of a submerged building with an eerie green light in one of the windows, as though someone is home. Above it hovers the huge, blurry shape of a submersible, its portals also eerily lit. The drawing is mostly black ink on deep indigo, with watery green-blue for the lights.

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.

2023/11/01

November 1, 2023
A scarecrow with two stick legs, no head, a large wide-brimmed hat, and a tattered T-shirt with a smiley-face symbol on it. The scarecrow stands under a blazing sun in the middle of a meadow with a couple of stalks nearby. A black bird is perched on the scarecrow's hat. The scarecrow and field are black; the sun is white; the background is orange.

2023/10/31

October 31, 2023
A spooky house. The house is tall and thin—"spindly" might be a better word—with at least three stories, and two covered porches, one above the other. The architecture is almost cartoonish: curvy and warped. Most of the windows are dark, except for the very top one in the attic, which glows a bright, otherworldly green. Nothing is seen in this window, just the light. Above the house hangs a large, orange moon, the shadows suggesting a skeletal face. On the first-floor covered veranda stands a blurry, translucent white figure.

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.

2023/10/29

October 29, 2023
A person holds a string attached to a very large crimson balloon floating above their head. The balloon is the size of a small cottage. Instead of being spherical, though, the balloon looks like a rose, albeit one with smoother, simpler petals: something that might have been created by a machine. The rose is crimson; the person is a black silhouette; the background is a light featureless blue.

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.

2023/10/27

October 27, 2023
A forest at night: the full moon high in the sky, and a black wall of narrow, twisted pines. A low fog hangs over a path. Walking along the path, on the right side of the drawing, is a person holding a walking stick, the moonlight reflecting off them. They are going to need that stick, because creeping directly behind them, crouched and ready, is something else: something vaguely humanoid but furry and brutish; something that does not look like it comes out during the day. The drawing is black ink on a dark teal background. The moon and the moonlight are white.

2023/10/26

October 26, 2023
A rounded, slightly lumpy ceramic coffee mug with two legs, the handle in the back almost like a curled-up tail. Sticking out of the top of the mug is a head, dimensional but cartoonish in its simplicity: no hair, large nose, empty expression. The overall effect is of a creature that's made out of a coffee mug. The mug is white. The head is bright yellow, gleaming as though it's gold. The background is a crimson pink.

2023/10/25

October 25, 2023
A flat, winding road with large hills on both sides. The road leads to a tall archway up ahead with buildings on both sides, like the gate to an old city. There are a few clouds in the sky. Close to the viewer, in the steep side of the left hill, is a small arched doorway; the entrance to a tunnel that looks almost like a mousehole. The color scheme is black ink on a gold-yellow background.

2023/10/24

October 24, 2023
A huge asteroid-like rock hangs suspended in a dark blue starry sky. Built on the top of a rock is a small concrete house that looks a bit slipshod in construction: uneven walls, uneven windows. In the back is a porch with a roof. Hanging from the bottom of the asteroid are what looks like weeds or Spanish moss. In the top right of the sky is a bright, full moon, the white light reflecting off the roof and sides of the house. The house has several windows, most of which are dark, but one of which is lit with bright yellow light. No living things are visible.

2023/10/23

October 23, 2023
A confusing amalgam of a figure: two legs; a cloak with a pocket in which is stuck a giant wrench; three large horns sticking out of the top of the cloak; and a spherical white face with a shock of white hair, sticking out of the right side of the cloak where an arm might be. Imagine a cross between some sort of dinosaur and an armless hunchback with a smiley-face for a head. If you have any loose bolts, he'll tighten them, somehow.

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.

2023/10/21

October 21, 2023
A figure with three legs and no arms. The figure is wearing a trenchcoat and a large-brimmed spy hat, with one giant crimson eye appearing under the hat. The coat is buttoned up tightly around a large eyeball that, while most of it is concealed, appears to be the entirety of the creature's head.

2023/10/20

October 20, 2023
A window on a bright yellow wall in a well-lit room. Outside the window, it is night: a deep blue. Also outside the window, peering through it, one large paw against the glass, is the huge, shapeless figure of the Groke. You will find the ground beneath this window frozen solid tomorrow, as though the dead of winter visited this one specific spot. Nothing will grow there until spring.

2023/10/19

October 19, 2023
It's night: a clear sky, and a bright full moon. A figure is standing in front of a large, abandoned-looking building, shining a flashlight beam on an arched doorway. Above the doorway is an ornate metal arm from which hangs a sign, sort of like what you'd see on a tavern in an old city. The sign has the word "exit" on it. There is an arched window above the doorway, completely black, except for a sinister figure looking out of it. The figure looks like it is wearing a coat and tie; the face, dimly illuminated by the moon, looks like a skull or mask.

2023/10/18

October 18, 2023
A small, church-like building with a tall tower and steeple. The tower has an arched doorway in it with a small winding path leading out of it, and a round window near the top. Next to the building are some overgrown trees and weeds. The building seems to be set in some remote natural area. Behind the building, in the sky, is a huge, blazing sun.

2023/10/17

October 17, 2023
A figure that appears to be wearing a ghost costume made of a sheet. The figure is yellow, with no arms, and is also wearing a crimson broad-brimmed hat that looks like something a cartoon spy would wear. The figure's face is a simple smiley-face arrangement of two round holes for eyes and a smiling empty mouth.

2023/10/16

October 16, 2023
A huge structure that looks like it's made of stone. It has a cylindrical trunk, two turretlike extensions upward, and a short diagonal stump extending right. Placed on the left upper turret are a cluster of conifer trees; on the right is a small building with a pointed top, like a church. In the background is a blurry shape that looks like a similar structure, but off in the distance. The sun blazes above.

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.

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