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2024/05/27

May 27, 2024
An unsettling goblin-like person with a bald head, pointed ears, and round, unpleasantly glistening eyes. Its mouth is hanging open, teeth exposed in a prominent overbite. It looks like Gollum's clueless uncle. This is a mostly dark, monochrome drawing that looks like it was rendered in charcoal.

2024/05/26

May 26, 2024
A creature with two legs and one arm. The creature is simple, brightly colored, and set against a black background, as though cut out of construction paper. Its body is reddish-orange with touches of magenta. It has spikes on its shoulder and arm. It is wearing a bright green and yellow mask with three red eyes and a beard that looks like it's made of connections on a circuit board. The mask has two horns. Floating above the creature are blurry multicolored bubbles.

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.

2024/05/24

May 24, 2024
A dark night sky with a field of bright red grass below. Planted in the middle of the field is a small sign, pointing to the right, with no visible text. Hovering above the sign, floating through the air, are glowing green wisp-like creatures that suggest ghosts or spirits. High in the sky is a bright red disc that could be a moon.

2024/05/23

May 23, 2024
A small dirt road cuts through a scrubby area with low trees and high weeds. In the lower left is a small wooden sign, pointing to the road, but no letters are visible on it. Farther down the road is a small figure wearing a hat and carrying a staff. There appears to be a slight haze of fog hanging over the road. In the distance, high in the sky, is a huge red heart-shaped balloon with yellow stars printed on it. The sky is gray and cloudy. A few birds circle high above. This is a primarily gray and dull blue drawing.

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.

2024/05/21

May 21, 2024
A scene at night, somewhere in a remote, natural area. The ground appears to be covered with low trees, weeds, and shrubbery. Rising up out of the ground is a sign with the word "open" on it in glowing pink letters. The sign is tall, like a sign for a gas station. Approaching the sign in the background are multiple hazy figures who appeared to be carrying powerful flashlights, like a search party. This is a mostly blue and black drawing.

2024/05/20

May 20, 2024
A scene that shows either a blazing sunrise or sunset. The sun is low towards the horizon; above it hangs a much larger planet, like the moon if it was several sizes bigger than it actually is. In the foreground stands a tall building, like a tenement, rising up out of an uneven landscape. The building does not appear to be in a city. It only has one window: a glowing red window at the very top. This is a primarily red and yellow drawing, with the building in navy blue.

2024/05/19

May 19, 2024
A tablet, with a ghostly face reflected in the black screen. The tablet appears to be off, but a green light at the top next to the camera indicates that it is recording something. Reflected on its screen is a blurry, pale face with no expression and empty eyes. They say that sometimes, the abyss looks back. "When one looks long into nothingness, one becomes nothing, empty." –Theodore Van Rooy (totally random guy on StackExchange)

2024/05/18

May 18, 2024
A dark night. A small creek winds through a black forest with a tall, conical mountain rising in the distance. Blazing into the sky from the mountain is a glowing light with a tail like a comet, suggesting a flare or a firework launched by someone on top of the mountain. In the foreground, on the bank of the creek, a small figure stands next to a fire, watching the light in the sky. This is a primarily blue drawing.

2024/05/17

May 17, 2024
A Martian landscape: yellow sky, red soil, desert landscape. Hovering above the ground is a strange figure. The top of its head is perfectly flat, its eyes are large and empty, and it has a haggard expression. Its face looks almost like a mask. It has thin arms and two short legs. It is being suspended above the ground by a very small red balloon attached to its backpack.

2024/05/16

May 16, 2024
A large sign with a word written in an alien language. Below the word on the sign is some indistinct lettering and two symbols: a triangle with lines radiating down from it, and something indicating that no photography is allowed. On the left leg of the sign is a smaller triangular sign with similarly mysterious glyphs on it. On the right leg of the sign is a small box and wires, leading to an antenna at the top of the sign. Behind the sign, in the sky, is the blurry form of a triangular dark aircraft with a single white light visible under it. This is a monochrome drawing, primarily in various shades of grayish blue.

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.

2024/05/10

May 10, 2024
A desolate, grassy area at what is either sunrise or sunset. The sky is pink and purple. Standing in the middle of the grassy area is a tall pole. At the top of the pole is a large smiley-face sign. It looks like the sort of sign a gas station might have: this giant round smiley-face that appears to be made of metal. The pole is supported by another pole right next to it, and a glowing white street lamp is mounted on it, extending out to the right. To the left of the two poles is a small electrical box. The leftmost supporting pole has some cables and pipes mounted on it.

2024/05/09

May 9, 2024
A glowing white figure stands on an icy surface at night, with blurry suggestions of a tree line in the background. The figure appears to be wearing a hat with a brim, and has a clock key sticking out of its back. It is holding up a black eyeball with a bright red iris in front of its face, staring at it. An iridescent green glow hangs in the sky. This is a bluish-indigo 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.

2024/05/06

May 6, 2024
A person stands on the edge of a large rectangular object—could be the edge of a building—shining a flashlight off to the right of the drawing. The location and time of day is indeterminate. The background is the dark blue of early morning or early evening. The flashlight beam is a greenish white. This is a barren place, surrounded by the unknown.

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.

2024/05/04

May 4, 2024
A barren, sun-blasted desert, rendered in shades of bleached yellow and tan. This desert is particularly sun-blasted because hanging low in the sky are not one but two suns, similarly sized and close to each other. In the background is a low mountain. In the foreground is a small, domed building that looks like an igloo with entrances in the front and the back. To the right of the building is the small figure of a person; possibly a bored moisture farmer who is wondering where his droid went.

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.

2024/05/02

May 2, 2024
A dim room: not light, but not quite dark. Like a space during the day where the lights are off. On the right side of the drawing is a doorway through which white light is streaming. A blurry figure stands in the doorway, indistinct in the blazing light. Directly in front of the doorway, inside the room, is a perfectly round hole in the floor, like a manhole with the cover left off. A ladder leads down into the darkness of the hole.

2024/05/01

May 1, 2024
A metal sphere, floating in deep space. The sphere is a dull greenish color, the color of tarnished metal. On its left side is a round door with a round portal window in the center of it. Hanging above the door is a small bell. On the right side of the sphere is a round, open window with a small plant in an orange flower pot. On the top of the sphere is a glowing red light, suggesting this is some sort of buoy. Also similar to a buoy is the orange cable, extending from the bottom of the sphere, seemingly anchoring it in place. In the background, the black sky is filled with stars.

2024/04/30

April 30, 2024
A dark gray hill covered in grass. The time of day looks like either early morning or twilight. At the top of the hill, to the right of the drawing, is a large rectangular stone obelisk with the words "reject all" carved into it, and a giant red button—one of those round plastic things you might see on an arcade game or video controller—embedded in the stone. Somewhat down the hill, on the left side of the drawing, is the silhouette of a person. The person is approximately half the size of the obelisk. The sky is a mix of orange and yellow. High in the sky are two birds, perhaps hawks.

2024/04/29

April 29, 2024
A deep pit, dug into the ground. We are seeing a cross-section of the earth: gray-black soil with a tall pit the size of a multi-story building extending down into it. Scattered throughout the soil are many rocks and pebbles, with a few bones. At the top of the pit are several mounds of soil. At the bottom of the pit, standing on a large mound of soil, is a small figure wearing an orange hat and an orange shirt. The figure continues to dig, seemingly trapped in this towering hole from which there is no escape. Also buried in the ground, a few feet away from the figure but not yet unearthed, is a large yellow smiley-face. Above the pit, at ground level, the sky is blue with a few white clouds.

2024/04/28

April 28, 2024
A figure with a stiff black suit, a white collared dress shirt, and a red tie stands against a blue sky with white clouds on it. The figure is wearing a black bowler hat. The figure also does not have a head, with a white envelope floating in space where its head would be. Those who know art will recognize René Magritte's painting "Son of Man". Those who know technology might recognize the iOS Mail icon.

2024/04/27

April 27, 2024
Something that looks like an extremely occult version of a playing card. On a gold background is placed a vertical gray rectangle with fraying edges and rounded corners. The rectangle has a faded red border inside it. The rectangle contains a scattered array of symbols, all drawn in red and gold, that are not arranged according to any order, but still seem to have a weird sort of precision to them. These symbols include: a large, inverted triangle with an eye in it and a star with rays above the eye; various permutations of stars inside circles; intricate icons of the sun and moon; a lightning bolt; and the letter "A" in the top left and lower right corners of the card, similar to an ace playing card. Oh, and also a sword, because swords are epic.

2024/04/26

April 26, 2024
A giant, spherical cartoon bomb, fuse pointed down, is attached to a long, thin cord, swinging back and forth like a wrecking ball. In this image, the bomb is caught at the left end of the swing, about to swing back. Its path will take it through a small bonfire, through which the fuse will also pass. Sitting on top of the bomb is a small human figure. The ground is steely black, the same color as the bomb; the background is fiery orange red.

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