#lacking sleep

[c00lkiddsdaycare]

Have you perhaps been on weed the past few hours?

maybe..

/j i have just been lacking sleep, and i still am it’z 3:46 am and i am still awake. HELP

[daneecastle]

Working on somethings …

It’s been a bit. I got a new job as a long term substitute teacher so I’ve been managing that. Then my sleep has not been good so focusing on anything hurts the eyes. When I mean bad sleep I mean, since August 3 I’ve been having 2 to 5 hours a night and mostly it’s been 2. So … getting that fixed.

Also, I’ve been collecting references for both art projects I have planned.

The Good Omens Inner Reactions Project and The Unfortunate Door Project.

(If you’re curious, only ask. I will always answer.)

So!

Now since I can see better, here is the the base color.

…

Also, I got permission to us another artist image for another fun idea. I’ll share sed artist and their works once I have a working sketch going … or sketches.

[goldenhusky407]

Y'all I need motivation.

[saltgrave-prose-poetry]

Fears and Dreams

It has become so hard

To rest my eyes.

I gnash and gnaw

Till my lips are shreds

And my skull is pounding.

I do not worry about

Going to sleep

And not waking up.

I fear most

Waking up

And no one being there.

I am so afraid of

Walking around, going about my day

And not a single person

Caring that I exist.

No hellos.

No goodbyes.

No “I hope you’re doing better!”

I think I could handle

Being the last person on Earth

Better than

Being so hated by humanity

That not a single person

Acknowledged my existence.

Existence is heavy enough as it is;

We share that weight by caring -

Specifically by showing we care -

And I cannot bear

Doing it alone.

I also have nightmares now

Of memories that are not mine:

A girl who runs from killers to hide in a school bathroom.

They catch me anyhow.

A man who goes to hell in the middle of a war.

The devil had no mercy.

The neighbor who watches wild dogs rip apart his flock.

That one still makes me nauseous.

I see these and

More

When I close my eyes now.

Sometimes I miss out on the violence

And experience new worlds,

Or confusing, pointless stories.

I don’t mind those so much.

They are harder to recall when I wake up though.

My jaw hurts so much when I awake now.

Mouthguard or not,

My teeth feel like pebbles jammed into my gums;

Yes,

I have dreamed of that too.

My eyes are so often red

And under them are bruise-like reminders

Of whatever demon I faced in the night.

Even my stupid hair has less life to it after this year.

I so deeply desire a good night’s sleep.

I am just not sure

How much I’ll have to fight

To get it,

And the opponents are quite daunting.

Will these fears

Continue to haunt

That strange space

Behind my eyelids?

- Shae Saltgrave

[daneecastle]

And the night comes to an end

I'm so tired. Ok, I worked a bit on the new image from the last base color post I did today. So here is the update. Or at least a picture of where I'm at.

I'm trying a different style of coloring. Makes more sense to keep it cartoony and simple with more light-hearted images.

Will work more when I wake.

[fly-sky-high-main]

Defeated

[natlian]

“Yeah I’m fine, why do you ask?”