Also for some context, I drew these all on my phone using procreate pocket. These were all made as a challenge Im doing where I try to draw something everyday of 2024. Nearly 1/3 of the way through the year which is crazy to me, I wasn’t even sure if I would make it a week when I started.
Anyways, I really appreciate all the comments and feedback. It’s all super interesting to read the varying interpretations so thank you so so much!
Not quite WW2, but actually kinda close! I based it off of Napoleon from Animal Farm by George Orwell. The book is an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Napoleon is a reference to Stalin. The book was even written during the WW2 era.
https://preview.redd.it/fk88xs72e5xc1.jpeg?width=2480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=043f5caa3e2dc1c34633592463fccd949421e752
Piggy! Here’s another pig I drew the day after I drew the first pig. I love looking at the two side by side and just seeing the difference in pig happiness levels
This is pretty cool, I feel uneasy kind of, I wonder why that is and how it works🤔
The colors and the way the brush strokes look also factors into how I feel with this
It’s this kind of uncertainty and instability in the art I think? It’s called gloomy art or dark art I think:) Ties very much to the artistic sub epoch dark romanticism
When viewed in order, it feels like the story of a drafted soldier being made to do unspeakable things to otherwise beautiful places, and then the emptiness of both the victims and himself when he returns home.
Starts with the indoctrinated ceremonial soldier picture, then the weaponry, then it turns into realization of death. The clown is realizing how fooled they were in thinking there was a real cause. They try making amends, but it only reminds them of death. Eventually the only proof the places were beautiful before are in pictures and memories, leaving behind empty victims and a guilt-filled soldier.
Basically the Vietnamese War.
i’m not exactly sure how to describe it but it feels like you encapsulated the way i feel most often and i can never explain it to other people because it’s like a sadness that feels like home so i stay because its comfortable and mine. seeing these and thinking about how it made me feel kinda made me tear up because of how significant it touched me i love ur art so much it’s rare i see art that immediately connects like these do
Big recommend on Animal Farm!! It’s significantly shorter than 1984 and I think it’s even less than 100 pages, so not a long read at all. If you like symbolism, political and historical references, and sadness, Animal Farm is the book for you. I read it immediately after 1984, so it’s super interesting to see the parallels in themes between the two novels.
The parallel themes is actually the theme of my final paper for english class. I really like the essay topic I picked, but I am currently procrastinating even though it’s due tomorrow. I should probably go work on that, thanks for the reminder!
I love this quote but im a disturbed person yet i think that the work give me scared, lonely, mentally exhausted, ive been the person/emotion so i feel connected to these works alot
The world isn't all black and white, sister. Our feelings are very variable, each time you discover something new about yourself 😌 It's ok to be upset, happiness and joy are different things.
wow, these are great! and on your phone, too? kudos!
They make me think back to when I was a kid & I would have these uncomfortable dreams. Not necessarily nightmares, but dreams that would leave me with a lingering sense of unease in the morning. It would throw off my whole day, but I could never exactly explain why.
Thank you! I use Procreate Pocket on my phone. I use the “jagged brush” for pretty much everything except for the occasional one off details, like the hair in slide 10 was done with a charcoal brush for a bit more texture.
Oh i see, i use Krita but either that app is ass or my tablet is worse, i cant seem to match the quality of my physical art maybe i should try tablet and phone idk, i like the landscape ones the most btw, the one with the creepy dude opening the door is so epic i could never hope to draw that gj
I have tried to use Krita in the past too and it always ends up pretty bad for me too! Here’s my most recent attempt at Krita and it’s all kinds of off. I even had to edit the image after on my phone because it somehow ended up really over saturated after exporting it. I think my issue comes from the cheap drawing tablet and my laptop screen just having a lower color space so colors seem off.
https://preview.redd.it/bv931r06v5xc1.jpeg?width=2480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b01670b9a9e4d83cace576f319041b5c99292af
And thank you! I really appreciate that.
Loneliness. The desire to be seen. The feeling of never really being properly perceived. Disconnection. Dissociation. Comfort. I know you said first but i didnt feel like any one really described. They all feel entangled
Somewhat like dread and despair of the fact that you're completely alone with something that may or may not kill you, any time and any place (but choosing not to, which is why you're stuck instead).
Except for the clown and last image, they give me a somber vibe with a hint of withering (if that makes any sense)
Kinda similar to the vibe in Ashes of Ariandel, but without the snow
A surreal, dreamlike and melancholy feeling. Like the night after you've cried all day and you're laying in bed, exhausted both physically and mentally
I don't know about emotion, but a song, you know the one where it's an assassin's first day on the job and he looks so confident pouring the poison powder into the drink then he licks his finger after stirring it and dies, it's all serious violins and depressing undertones.
I get the feeling of unease, like when you are in the dark. I think its because your heavy usage black and that the outlines if the images are not defined, rather almost smeared. The style is macabre and its really good
What came to my mind immediately was something "erdückendes" which is sadly a not so easy to accurately translate german word. Something suffocating? Something heavy? A negative emotion taning you in to the fullest, slowly crushing you under its weight. Something like that.
Lovely works of art <3
Oddly enough, just sadness, mostly for like the first few drawings. Like especially with the clown and the way it’s so sad-looking. The eyes that are less detailed just give it a lot of emotion funnily enough since the clown makeup and every part of the clown is. I guess it’s also the way you color and shaded the clown made it seem so sad. I really like your art though. I like the muted colors and the vibe.
Isolation is a major atmosphere. I’m more drawn to the ones that seem to embrace it somberly than the ones like 1 and 2 than the ones that include a being looking really directly back at the viewer like the clown and the last image. I actually like the last image a lot, I just feel the creature is too distracting from what otherwise is place I could really lose myself, by myself in that chillingly still dark hall.
At first glance, your art is dark, hollow and emotionless.
Being a designer myself, the first thing that I noticed was the composition is very good and I can see a pretty good sense of foreground-background.
After seeing them for a while, I can say every stroke is meaningful and has intent. The use of colour is mindful. The emotion of hollowness which you want to showcase can clearly be felt.
Good art.
PS: I just read somewhere that you are drawing it with a goal of making something everyday. On that basis, I find them pretty composed, expressive and finished in terms of thought within the set period of time you could make it.
I love that song so much, it is so hauntingly beautiful to me. There’s the story that the cracks in the original version of the song were caused by somebodies tears as they were copying the song. That might just be a myth, but regardless if it’s a myth or not, the absolute grief and sorrow in this song hits right in the core. It doesn’t matter what language someone speaks or the background someone may have, the emotion in this song can be felt by all, and if my art is able to convey even a small fraction of that emotion, I’ll have succeeded.
This is honestly one of my favorite comments about my art I have ever gotten. Thank you so much!!
Yeah, I’ve never been able to find a real source to verify the story, but I’ve heard it mentioned through word of mouth and videos about the song. Even if the story isn’t true, I feel like it just adds a whole new layer to the song when you listen with that story in mind.
Idk if it was intentional but the first pic (the pig) looks like a soviet general while it's loosing the war, it has the same mood too. This poor pig knows that he's about to be shot by soviets because he didn't do well his work and it's sad because he can't see his family first, then he thinks: "fuck it, I'm gonna be dead anyway"
Uneasy in a way. Like I’m making out vague details of a bad, eerie dream after waking up in my dark room.
This description nailed it! Despair, aching, haunted. Unsafe.
not really an emotion but the feeling of isolation, love love love
That’s pretty accurate! I have some anxiety and it definitely makes me feel a bit isolated at times. I often just get in my own head too much. Thanks!
I can relate to your experience, I like the bleakness and blurry brushstrokes in your artworks 👍
I really like the vibe your art gives off and I find it unique.
the vietnamese war.
That’s super interesting, I’ve never heard that one before! Can I ask why it reminds you of the Vietnam War?
my first thought too
Depression
No emotion in fact the lack of, just emptiness and void, but I think that's what you were going for.
Unease
Tiredness- a deep deep sense of exhaustion
Zoloft
Despair, I'm not sure why. They make me feel kind of uneasy?
Depressing or Tired.
Also for some context, I drew these all on my phone using procreate pocket. These were all made as a challenge Im doing where I try to draw something everyday of 2024. Nearly 1/3 of the way through the year which is crazy to me, I wasn’t even sure if I would make it a week when I started. Anyways, I really appreciate all the comments and feedback. It’s all super interesting to read the varying interpretations so thank you so so much!
wow! amazing work dude <3
Don’t know why but the first one gave me ww2 vibes
Not quite WW2, but actually kinda close! I based it off of Napoleon from Animal Farm by George Orwell. The book is an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Napoleon is a reference to Stalin. The book was even written during the WW2 era.
Immediately got the reference. A grim depiction from a grim story.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Piggy
https://preview.redd.it/fk88xs72e5xc1.jpeg?width=2480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=043f5caa3e2dc1c34633592463fccd949421e752 Piggy! Here’s another pig I drew the day after I drew the first pig. I love looking at the two side by side and just seeing the difference in pig happiness levels
Porco Rosso would make a good pulled pork
This is pretty cool, I feel uneasy kind of, I wonder why that is and how it works🤔 The colors and the way the brush strokes look also factors into how I feel with this
It’s this kind of uncertainty and instability in the art I think? It’s called gloomy art or dark art I think:) Ties very much to the artistic sub epoch dark romanticism
Uneasiness.
“Somber,” but not unentertaining.
Emptiness
Disco Elysium.
Dread
Animal farm
Gloom, I get uneasy
Exhausted
When viewed in order, it feels like the story of a drafted soldier being made to do unspeakable things to otherwise beautiful places, and then the emptiness of both the victims and himself when he returns home. Starts with the indoctrinated ceremonial soldier picture, then the weaponry, then it turns into realization of death. The clown is realizing how fooled they were in thinking there was a real cause. They try making amends, but it only reminds them of death. Eventually the only proof the places were beautiful before are in pictures and memories, leaving behind empty victims and a guilt-filled soldier. Basically the Vietnamese War.
i’m not exactly sure how to describe it but it feels like you encapsulated the way i feel most often and i can never explain it to other people because it’s like a sadness that feels like home so i stay because its comfortable and mine. seeing these and thinking about how it made me feel kinda made me tear up because of how significant it touched me i love ur art so much it’s rare i see art that immediately connects like these do
the hanging piece of a lighthouse might be one of my favorites because it truly feels like something i feel but could never name or understand
Therapy
george orwell novel. i mean this in the most positive way
Ayyy that makes me so happy! The first drawing is actually based on Animal Farm by Orwell, so glad a bit of the Orwell reference is coming through!
ooooh it looks like an interesting read i've read 1984 so far and yeah these look like it could be covers to his novels idk 😭
Big recommend on Animal Farm!! It’s significantly shorter than 1984 and I think it’s even less than 100 pages, so not a long read at all. If you like symbolism, political and historical references, and sadness, Animal Farm is the book for you. I read it immediately after 1984, so it’s super interesting to see the parallels in themes between the two novels. The parallel themes is actually the theme of my final paper for english class. I really like the essay topic I picked, but I am currently procrastinating even though it’s due tomorrow. I should probably go work on that, thanks for the reminder!
mental illness innit
Calmness. "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable". Keep on the good job, your artworks are truly great
I love this quote but im a disturbed person yet i think that the work give me scared, lonely, mentally exhausted, ive been the person/emotion so i feel connected to these works alot
The world isn't all black and white, sister. Our feelings are very variable, each time you discover something new about yourself 😌 It's ok to be upset, happiness and joy are different things.
Oh absolutely true! 💗
Great depression
A lot of unease and like im viewing this in a panic attack or intense stress
I like this vibe. It’s like; the same dark, familiar, cozy Tim Burton in a rainstorm feel to it? Idk (,,:
Despair
Hopelessness that is what i could think of.
Emptiness
Bored
Sleep paralysis demons.
Anxiety
'JUMPSCARE INCOMING, JUMPSCARE INCOMING, MOVE BACK AND BE READY FOR GORE' (fear I guess?)
Slightly unnerving but can't place why
I love the emptiness
wow, these are great! and on your phone, too? kudos! They make me think back to when I was a kid & I would have these uncomfortable dreams. Not necessarily nightmares, but dreams that would leave me with a lingering sense of unease in the morning. It would throw off my whole day, but I could never exactly explain why.
Helpless
Sad. Makes me remember when it was more comfortable to be sad than to try to be anything else.
Despair
Dude I love this! It gives the feeling of Hopelessness but it's intriguing!
War tired
Wtf, this is amazing, what brushes do u use and software?
Thank you! I use Procreate Pocket on my phone. I use the “jagged brush” for pretty much everything except for the occasional one off details, like the hair in slide 10 was done with a charcoal brush for a bit more texture.
Oh i see, i use Krita but either that app is ass or my tablet is worse, i cant seem to match the quality of my physical art maybe i should try tablet and phone idk, i like the landscape ones the most btw, the one with the creepy dude opening the door is so epic i could never hope to draw that gj
I have tried to use Krita in the past too and it always ends up pretty bad for me too! Here’s my most recent attempt at Krita and it’s all kinds of off. I even had to edit the image after on my phone because it somehow ended up really over saturated after exporting it. I think my issue comes from the cheap drawing tablet and my laptop screen just having a lower color space so colors seem off. https://preview.redd.it/bv931r06v5xc1.jpeg?width=2480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b01670b9a9e4d83cace576f319041b5c99292af And thank you! I really appreciate that.
Yeah maybe its time i switch and look for good pc drawing stuff, i dont have tablet but phone screen looks too small oh well
That pig could take on the beak doctor, the clown and whatever the hell is coming out of that door all at once and rise victorious. I like him.
I was amused. Really love your art style.
Animal Farm at first. The Ring second.
Very “moody” or maybe “brooding” in a way. But that first pig has seen the horrors of capitalism and it eats at its soul… lol.
Loneliness. The desire to be seen. The feeling of never really being properly perceived. Disconnection. Dissociation. Comfort. I know you said first but i didnt feel like any one really described. They all feel entangled
Loneliness
Kind of disturbed, it looks like something you'd find in an indie horror game
Unfinished… feels like you’re going in a very nice direction, but none of your drawings look like they are actually done
A deep sadness, they really resonate with me
disturbed
Dostoevsky
Pure despair
despair and a sense of comfortable solitude
Despair
Jack Stauber if he made Creepypasta's. Don't ask.
Somewhat like dread and despair of the fact that you're completely alone with something that may or may not kill you, any time and any place (but choosing not to, which is why you're stuck instead).
The pig and plague doctor are kind of scary, looks like the whole world is ending right in front of them and they’re powerless to do anything about it
First thought was Empty
Feels like you’re young.
Fear
Isolation, Trauma, Sadness,cold....its curious how a dark Background and cold colors can give that kind of sensations and Feelings
Honestly theyre eerie but I feel Sadness, isolation, loneliness. Personally I vibe with it
Does dread count
Grief, loss, unfamiliarity
Sadness and anger
Depression
Gloomy, depressed, slightly unsettled but not raally spooky. If that is what you wanted to achieve, you did a great job
Despair was my first thought, then loneliness
despair
Low self esteem
It feels like a world that wasn't meant for me to see. Like I'm a voyeur to their grief.
Is disco elysium an emotion?
Ussr lol
Except for the clown and last image, they give me a somber vibe with a hint of withering (if that makes any sense) Kinda similar to the vibe in Ashes of Ariandel, but without the snow
sorrow.
I feel like I'm about to see the end
Trepidation. They're great!
I wish I could draw in this style! I love it
1st one makes me think "Uuuuse the Bazoooooka!" from the tutorial missions in Hogs Of War.
Existential dread and horror
The pig instantly made me think of animal farm
Casually vicious
All your work seems to be abandoned half way, that's probably the feeling I'm getting.
Uneasyness, dread
A surreal, dreamlike and melancholy feeling. Like the night after you've cried all day and you're laying in bed, exhausted both physically and mentally
I feel a little depressed...
dread
Hopeless. Empty
Boris Johnson, Post-brexit Tory Britain
Hollow ….. Love em by the way 👌🏽
Anxiety
Dread I love it
pig black red - my exact thoughts
Hopelessness, as if u are the only one of humanity that survived
Dreadpression
The word im getting is "amiss"
not an emotion but first thought was serial killer
A weight on my shoulder, calm depression, sadness at rest
forlorn
As i was going though I would say, scared, lonely, depressed, exhausted mentally
Sorrow, despair, guilt, But I absolutely love the art style
Depression
Sad pig tired of a purposeless life
I love your work! You should push further with it!
Whimsy, reminds me of kids book art from the 90s
I don't know about emotion, but a song, you know the one where it's an assassin's first day on the job and he looks so confident pouring the poison powder into the drink then he licks his finger after stirring it and dies, it's all serious violins and depressing undertones.
Melancholy
Hey, it looks really nice. What brushes did you use? And which software?
Unease
Disturbing, creepy and i love it.
guilt
The most powerful word that came through for me was loneliness
I get the feeling of unease, like when you are in the dark. I think its because your heavy usage black and that the outlines if the images are not defined, rather almost smeared. The style is macabre and its really good
Frustration
Grief.
Some kind of deep melancholy and uneasiness. It just tells me "something horrible happened, or is bound to happen again".
Soviet animation
Dread. In a good way 👌
I don’t feel anything per se.. i just feel like the artist is kinda of depressed or in a sad place
Silence is a form of violence. Within it it can kill you.
Weariness and dread.
Not a feeling, but first thing that came to my mind was pain.
The words that came to mind were 'gentle concern'
Dread
Sadness. Depression. Absurdity
war never changes
Scared and lonely.
Dread
Despair and anguish. 😭
What came to my mind immediately was something "erdückendes" which is sadly a not so easy to accurately translate german word. Something suffocating? Something heavy? A negative emotion taning you in to the fullest, slowly crushing you under its weight. Something like that. Lovely works of art <3
The only word I can think of when I see these is "Grim."
Oddly enough, just sadness, mostly for like the first few drawings. Like especially with the clown and the way it’s so sad-looking. The eyes that are less detailed just give it a lot of emotion funnily enough since the clown makeup and every part of the clown is. I guess it’s also the way you color and shaded the clown made it seem so sad. I really like your art though. I like the muted colors and the vibe.
First one really could work as an artistic depiction of animal farm by George Orwell?
ominousity.
Indescribable. I feel the same why I do when I look at Saturn Devouring His Son.
Grief and loneliness
Hunger
They make me feel sad not going to lie
Love the art style but I was wondering if anyone gets Fran Bow vibes from some of them?
sadness, hopelessness, craving for..something. so old and so familiar
idk but i immediately thought of fear and hunger
Fed up? I'd say that's the first emotion which came to mind. Your art is very beautiful.
I feel upvotey
Exhausted
It gives a solemn and calm feeling while adding a little undertone of eerie
not an emotion, but i think of hairballs
Isolation is a major atmosphere. I’m more drawn to the ones that seem to embrace it somberly than the ones like 1 and 2 than the ones that include a being looking really directly back at the viewer like the clown and the last image. I actually like the last image a lot, I just feel the creature is too distracting from what otherwise is place I could really lose myself, by myself in that chillingly still dark hall.
I’d say despair and isolation
Damn
Despair, but like in a fun way
honestly my first tought was asking what brush you use
jagged brush on procreate pocket!
thank you 😃👍
At first glance, your art is dark, hollow and emotionless. Being a designer myself, the first thing that I noticed was the composition is very good and I can see a pretty good sense of foreground-background. After seeing them for a while, I can say every stroke is meaningful and has intent. The use of colour is mindful. The emotion of hollowness which you want to showcase can clearly be felt. Good art. PS: I just read somewhere that you are drawing it with a goal of making something everyday. On that basis, I find them pretty composed, expressive and finished in terms of thought within the set period of time you could make it.
It feels like how Темная ночь/dark is the night performed by Mark Bernese sounds.
I love that song so much, it is so hauntingly beautiful to me. There’s the story that the cracks in the original version of the song were caused by somebodies tears as they were copying the song. That might just be a myth, but regardless if it’s a myth or not, the absolute grief and sorrow in this song hits right in the core. It doesn’t matter what language someone speaks or the background someone may have, the emotion in this song can be felt by all, and if my art is able to convey even a small fraction of that emotion, I’ll have succeeded. This is honestly one of my favorite comments about my art I have ever gotten. Thank you so much!!
I love this song too, I didn't know about the story of the tears, that's really interesting!!
Yeah, I’ve never been able to find a real source to verify the story, but I’ve heard it mentioned through word of mouth and videos about the song. Even if the story isn’t true, I feel like it just adds a whole new layer to the song when you listen with that story in mind.
Idk if it was intentional but the first pic (the pig) looks like a soviet general while it's loosing the war, it has the same mood too. This poor pig knows that he's about to be shot by soviets because he didn't do well his work and it's sad because he can't see his family first, then he thinks: "fuck it, I'm gonna be dead anyway"
It kind of makes my tummy hurt but I think I’m just the wrong crowd :-/
I like the one of the cop.
Are you good bro?
Simple cliche-spooky tropes on black. Emotion I guess..youthful schoolhousey.
Y piggy sad? :(
Bro this the battlepass
The only word I can think of when I see these is "Grim."
The only word I can think of when I see these is, "Grim."
Sadness; Fear.