Obscuriosity OC’s!

This is a blog where I can talk and post art about my Original Characters! I'll be talking about their stories here and I'll post my more traditional art from school or detached to anything else. I may also post art made with friends!

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Ghost Mantis

My Final for my College Art class. We had to pick a bug as our subject and I chose the Ghost Mantis. We had to put patterns into the segments of the insects we chose and do another pattern for the background.

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Lone Resident

This is a collage I made as part of the sustained investigation of isolation. This one is heavily based on a memory of a motel/hotel that I visited in Lubbock that was constructed in a style that was popular in the 80’s I believe. The Motel had rooms that had windows next to the door to enter the room, but for the rooms that did not lead outside at all. Idk if the construction of the motel was that weird but I was young, small, and had never seen rooms like that before so it felt kind of surreal. It feels kind of like a liminal space thinking back on it and left a big impression on me.

To give you a better idea of what I’m talking about, the interior looked kinda like this, with the rooms facing the lobby(?) area

And the actual door and window looked like this

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Honey Jar

Just a little study I did like 2 years ago. I just love the colors and lighting so much and am surprised that I took the original photo myself. I think I’ll try painting this one again at some point.

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I Dream to Turn Back the Clock

I made this in my senior year of high school and wanted to play with a distorted perspective. It also deviates from the usual style I use for my isolation exploration. I really wanted to capture the idea of wanting to return to childhood, to a time of innocence and comfort. I wanted to really elicit a feeling of nostalgia, adding toys I played with as a very young child.

The walls have clouds and the ceiling stars and a moon to help elicit the idea this is a child’s room. The ceiling light/window is there to act as a spotlight and keep the room lit while still being dim. The room has drawing and writing materials scattered around because I’ve always loved drawing and writing and often left all my stuff out.

Things that I remember from my childhood that I included in this piece include a rocking chair that my mom used to sit and read from, a train set, toy blocks, a bookshelf full of books and boxes, plastic chairs and tables that were used in grade school and daycare, a wood chest to hold toys and blankets that doubled as a chair, a tent thing I had, a step stool, a bean bag, marbles and balls, and many stuffed toys. I remember having a stuffed rabbit, a stuffed snake, and a giant pink teddy bear that was the size of child me. I still have a stuffed fox and the stuffed dog is a reference to my closest friend’s childhood toy. The pictures on the walls are of my dog, a photo of me and a friend, a poster of the sunset, a surreal hallway, and a still life. All are based on my imagination and capturing more the idea of these things rather than being one to one with something from life, except for the tiny picture with the pan colors and heart, I made a real tiny painting of that.

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2023 Goretober Day 1: Teeth

CONTENT WARNING!!! BLOOD, GORE, HEAVILY IMPLIED SELF HARM!!!

I started trying to do goretober in 2022 and completed 2 days of 2023’s goretober. I wanted to practice and explore the gorey body horror side of visual horror and different types of lighting.

This is a more gruesome exploration of what could happen to a person when stuck as an immortal being alone in an empty world. I imagine that at some point, one would become desperate enough to start harming themselves, gradually doing worse and worse things to themselves. This would take place many years from the original event that erased the universe and broke reality, adding the idea that a broken reality would eventually allow a person to morph their body into different forms, explaining the added teeth and mouths in places they’re not supposed to be.

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El Payasa

El Payasa is a complete sweetheart. She loves performing her tricks for people and she gives great hugs :)

She came into existence when I randomly doodled her on an assignment once and now she has an entire group of friends. At one point I considered making her entirely out of candy, her clothes hair and skin made of fondant, her mouth nose and tongue out of taffy, her finger pads and organs out of gummies, bones of hard candy, muscles of cake with frosting gluing the skin to cake, and her teeth gum. I scrapped the idea though because the kids would try to eat her and we don’t want that, and she’d probably be too unstable to properly perform. I will probably use the living dessert idea for something else.

Can you tell I like drawing clowns? Because I love drawing clowns

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“I Don’t Want to Talk About it”

This one isn’t as well constructed as my other pieces, but I had wanted to draw out my tendency to hide away and clam up when I’m really upset.

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Since Our Last Chat

This is another piece of art I did for my exploration into isolation. This one was to build off my mania painting with more desperation expressed. I did this one digitally at the beginning of my senior year and experimented with some of the different brushes to create more textures. It’s one of my favorites because of the angle and vibrancy of the colors. I did my best to make it feel like the figure was really pressing themself against the floor.

To explain the lore of this art further I must give a warning because it does go into some dark ideas and personal stuff

As I explained in my previous post with the triptych, I was exploring some of what I would feel in a situation where I was completely isolated and had expanded the ideas into an entire scenario. I find that being able to be messier with my art style, really move my hand arm and body while I’m painting helps release excess emotional energy. It’s definitely very weird to do so but I find it very cathartic to draw a version of myself experiencing this nightmare. Due to anxiety I’ve always experienced some level of isolation from others, but have also built very strong bonds with family and friends and I know I’d be devastated and spiral if I were to permanently lose them. I wanted to express feelings of loneliness and some more explosive feelings that I don’t usually express. I also wanted to share my art because I find the concepts I’ve come up with fun and interesting, even if it’s dark and weird, and I hope that I’m not alone in finding catharsis in this kind of thing.

In this scenario that I’ve come up with, an unknown event causes the entire universe to be completely erased. A bright crack of light consumes all and everything is gone in an instant, leaving me completely alone. I’m alone and wandering for a long time, having the occasional breakdown. Because the very reality of this place has unraveled, it becomes apparent that some level of manipulation towards my surroundings can happen, so I make a “home”. This building eventually becomes very warped, impossible, and large, like the house from House of Leaves and nothing much changes. This version of me can’t die, not permanently. Maybe a few seconds or minutes of relief, but the body will rebuild itself as if nothing happened. This is the life of this version of me for the rest of eternity, doomed to forever reminisce on what was lost, what was never had, and to slowly decay and regenerate in mind and body for the rest of time.

I have considered making this character entirely separate from myself so it’s a little less weird, but I’ve already drawn a lot of art with myself in it (even if it doesn’t look like me very much) and I don’t really feel like changing it.

Other inspirations for this scenario comes from the results of an incursion as shown in multiverse of madness but with a far emptier void, I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream, A Short Stay in Hell, Manifold Garden, the library of babel, NaissancE, art by Matthias Jung, Cinta Vidal, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

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“Nobody Here, There’s Nobody at All!”

“I’m Doing so Well have You Heard?”

“Be Right Here and Forever You’ll Stay”

These paintings are a triptych I made in my junior year of high school as part of my sustained investigation. When I made these I had just watched supereyepatchwolf’s video on liminal spaces, and it got me thinking about how I would feel trapped in a space where I was the only person left. I ended up making up an entire scenario about this where I’m stuck in this endless building in a white empty void endlessly wandering and missing my loved one’s. I also took some inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Urban Isolation paintings

All of them use gestural brushstrokes and color to convey intense emotions with the last one also using space and perspective to do so. The first meant to capture mania, the second deep sorrow, and the last intense loneliness.

Yes all their titles are song lyrics from “Aishite Aishite Aishite”