Surreal Horror - Tumblr Posts
masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved
these are all creatures to me
Chasm
Empty space stretches out in all directions away from you. On either side, two great walls boxing the world in between them. But it isn’t quite empty — in the distance there’s a rope bridge traversing the gap. Pff, as if anyone would have a hope of crossing that flimsy thing. The remnants of what looks to you like a previous bridge lies below it. And if you keep looking, even further back, there’s that—
No. You don’t want to think about that. You can’t help yourself, you shiver. You feel like it’s watching you. Whatever it is.
And then, in that awful emptiness, something falls. A disturbance, it catches your attention immediately. Instinctively you lean forward, tilting your head upwards to get a better look. On that blank white page, a thin black figure. No, it can’t be! A person, hanging there in the air — falling. You don’t even know if they’re alive; you don’t hear a scream.
And then you swear, you swear on this whole godforsaken place, that it looks up. You’re sure of it, its pupil has moved! As the person falls downwards, to eye level and past the rope bridge, that pupil follows it. As if pulled down by gravity too. And they fall a looong way down — god knows how far the bottom is. You hope not to find out. Yeah, let’s not think about that. You wrest your eyes back up from the depth and take a step back.
And then… then you know it’s just you and it. Alone. You get that horrible feeling again. Like it’s watching you. But the difference is, now you know it probably is. You can’t help it — you shiver.
The Crooked Forest
This pine grove is one of the most unusual forests in Central Europe. The so-called Crooked Forest (Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located outside Gryfino, West Pomerania, Poland. The grove was planted around 1930, when its location was still within the German province of Pomerania. It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known.
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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 24
ZombieCleo x Junji Ito
For Cleo I chose the work of Junji Ito! Specifically I looked at references from Uzumaki, Ribs Woman, She is a Slow Walker, The Enigma of Amigara Fault, and Tomie.
Junji Ito is a master of horror illustration, specializing in body horror and surreal horror. As such his works are not appropriate for younger readers (it will give you nightmares).
In fact, I toned this Cleo quite a lot for the final draft, but I am still tagging this with a number of horror related tags in case people have those filtered out on their dash.
To learn more about Junji Ito's work and see my style references, go below the cut.
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Junji Ito is a Japanese manga artist who writes and illustrates uniquely disturbing horror stories. Most of his works are fairly short and are best enjoyed in one sitting for maximum suspense.
His most famous work however, Uzumaki, is a full-length, 19 chapter surreal/psychological horror about a town that is slowly consumed by a plague of spirals. It's really difficult to explain how disturbing the story is from such an odd concept but trust me, if you are a fan of scary stories and haven't read Uzumaki yet, you are missing out on some of the best horror out there.
My personal favourite Junji Ito story is The Enigma of Amigara Fault. This is a story about mysterious, human shaped holes that appear in the side of a mountain. When someone sees the hole that fits them they are driven by a strange compulsion to enter. That's it, that's the story. Please go read it - it's horrifying.
Im a big fan of horror and specifically of Junji Ito, so I couldnt pass up the opportunity to try out his style with the lovely ZombieCleo. My hand cramped up pretty badly towards the end, but I think I love how their face turned out - I think I nailed that part of the drawing for sure.
Style references
This is probably the most famous image from Uzumaki
I had to cut out a LOT of references that I literally cannot post here because of the intense body horror and gore involved.
Low res image of the Uzumaki title font I copied. There are a few different covers and I have to admit, I picked this one because it was easiest to do and my hand was cramping like wild at that point.
The Mind Electric Animation - Lonely-Man's Lazarus
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If you are interested in animation, I can't recommend you enough to watch this video.
The fact alone that Lonely-Man's Lazarus has put
one year and 3 months of work
to create this animation is mind blowing!
The creator is a real master of mixing shapes and rough lines to convey weight and movements in a very unique way. It gives the feeling of seeing a very weird dream in a psychedelic way, and that's kind of difficult to accomplish. Really, it's cool, you should check it out!
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an annihilation-inspired haunted (light)house commission for dani! i'm currently working on putting things together for an artbook of my first 50 haunted house illustrations, so stay tuned for more information on that! 💜 tip jar | patreon
Ghost friends. An anonymous fear submitted to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!
You can find original artwork in my shop!
