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When I'm not here being a 50s fan penguin, or at work, I spend my time drawing horror comics.
Today, I wanted to create a cute image based on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The idea was that, finally, the country mouse invites the cat to watch the stars that can't be seen in the city. The cat, amazed by the sight, decides to be friends with the country mouse.
Then I added the town mouse, who was friends with the country mouse, and will also live peacefully if the cat stops bothering them. Maybe the three of them will be friends now and visit each other.
It was supposed to be a sweet scene where everyone learns to get along and find peace.
But, look at me, I'm a horror artist. I just couldn't stop imagining something else going on. I don't know why, but the image feels unsettling. I can't tell if it's the Jeffrey Dahmer vibe the country mouse gives off, or the fact that the little cat has fangs, but I can't shake the feeling that no one in the image has good intentions, and that something terribly dark is about to happen.
So I decided not to color it, and left it as a sort of comic page that keeps that dark, eerie tone. I guess old habits die hard.
I'm a danger to society.
Today, I wanted to create a cute image based on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The idea was that, finally, the country mouse invites the cat to watch the stars that can't be seen in the city. The cat, amazed by the sight, decides to be friends with the country mouse.
Then I added the town mouse, who was friends with the country mouse, and will also live peacefully if the cat stops bothering them. Maybe the three of them will be friends now and visit each other.
It was supposed to be a sweet scene where everyone learns to get along and find peace.
But, look at me, I'm a horror artist. I just couldn't stop imagining something else going on. I don't know why, but the image feels unsettling. I can't tell if it's the Jeffrey Dahmer vibe the country mouse gives off, or the fact that the little cat has fangs, but I can't shake the feeling that no one in the image has good intentions, and that something terribly dark is about to happen.
So I decided not to color it, and left it as a sort of comic page that keeps that dark, eerie tone. I guess old habits die hard.
I'm a danger to society.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Mouse
Gender Multiple characters
Size 1614 x 2283px
File Size 923.9 kB
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Thanks for your comment, it makes my day. <3 <3
The gothic style is something exciting, I really didn't get there through traditional means. (I had never seen the illustrations for the War of the Worlds, in fact. :'D) But as Alfred Hitchcock said: "I am scared easily" and everything I do eventually turns into some gothic or romanticism product.
I had a book when I was a kid, it was called 'Classics para soñar' I think. The book came from Spain or something like that. There I read Country Mouse City Mouse for the first time. I loved the illustrations because they were incredibly good and kind of scary. It really marked my artistic style. I remember I also had Thumbelina, and the illustration of her covering the wounded bird with leaves so it wouldn't freeze during the winter stayed in my mind for a long time.
Then that was combined with some ink from seinen manga and some Johnny Cage and puff. I had a gothic comic in my hands. EVERY TIME.
So don't worry, American Gothic will survive. It appears organically from people with fear and some pessimism in their hearts. You know, the works of art look like their owners. lol
The gothic style is something exciting, I really didn't get there through traditional means. (I had never seen the illustrations for the War of the Worlds, in fact. :'D) But as Alfred Hitchcock said: "I am scared easily" and everything I do eventually turns into some gothic or romanticism product.
I had a book when I was a kid, it was called 'Classics para soñar' I think. The book came from Spain or something like that. There I read Country Mouse City Mouse for the first time. I loved the illustrations because they were incredibly good and kind of scary. It really marked my artistic style. I remember I also had Thumbelina, and the illustration of her covering the wounded bird with leaves so it wouldn't freeze during the winter stayed in my mind for a long time.
Then that was combined with some ink from seinen manga and some Johnny Cage and puff. I had a gothic comic in my hands. EVERY TIME.
So don't worry, American Gothic will survive. It appears organically from people with fear and some pessimism in their hearts. You know, the works of art look like their owners. lol
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