It's really quite interesting to see someone else's introspective/stream of consciousness stuff. On the occasions that I dig up my older works akin to this one, I always wonder how many other artists do it. I guess now, at least, I can rest assured that I'm not alone!

Thanks for sharing!

Streams of consciousness are fascinating things no doubt. It really is a trip finding these old cathartic drawings and briefly glimpsing that curious past perspective.

Glad you like it!

Mental

Insane in the membrane. :o

When I stay awake too long, I usually write instead of drawing. I don't post it because it's mostly in spanish <:/ But I think it's alright of you to post these little jewels of inner thoughts. After all, what's art if not the inside of the very artist? I'm really liking it :> the way you shade with pencil is real pretty :> and your inks are interesting!

Hah yeah. It would seem there is some sort of strange state triggered by being overtired that just brakes down certain barriers and things just end up flooding out. And thank you very much. c:

Yah man just put that shit up, let it filter out and show it. Doing it is obviously the most important part, but don't feel weird about putting it up in the space. I like to see work like this because in the phases before I produce non-BS stuff I usually have to get out that introspective rambling. It builds up like a dam.

Breaking open the floodgates.

I must say I think of your stuff when I end up doing this because I get the sense you embrace this technique quite often. I love that. It always takes on such interesting dimensions when viewed by an outside source.

I'm sorry, but the critical vampire cracked me the hell up.

Don't be sorry! He was totally there for comic relief. ;)

hello this is all i ever do

Organized chaos, it's really neat..

Just but a hint of structure goes a long way. Thank you muchly. c:

Woo! I love this...
Seriously, It's awesome, and it has great drawings (love your draftmanship, love the rhythms you manage to make there), and it's creative, and it's quirky, and it has consciousness stream things, and it looks fun!

Broken limbs and stuff fit right in - it's consistent with the rest of the picture (that's already continuity for you). I have a hard time imagining anatomically correct stuff fitting in.
C'mon, even the composition is interesting and works, despite how diverse the elements themselves are.

What's not to be happy about in this picture?

(That sounded a bit fanboyish, sorry. I'm just trying to tell you I really like it.)

My goodness thank you! I feel you give me too much credit!

My unhappiness with it basically stems from the internal problems I associate with how/why I drew things. Like halfway through it I became intensely conscious of how nothing was touching anything else and I strangely felt that this was wrong. Something should be touching something here or at least overlapping, but I couldn't get the characters to touch and be satisfied with the composition.

And the continuity, yes, I guess there are consistent elements but I'm still left here wondering why an angry tigerfish is trying to attack an inadequately limbed deerman who is befriended by an anxiety ridden bat and tormented by some sort of manipulative metaphysical feline entity.

Mostly though I like it well enough, it's just those extra mind hang-ups that are only a part of this for me and no other viewer that impacts how I feel about it.

Basic basic 1 2 3: I fear my own subconscious.

Ah, I see what you mean. You may have been right about things touching things, I see how that would've resulted in a picture that would've been more mashed-up and maybe solid. But then again... it could've just been your habits speaking, pictures can work without elements touching each other, and this one works, so, no harm done, and you can say it's an exploration of things you're not used doing. :)

A picture doesn't have to make rational sense. Moreso, for a surreal consciousness-stream-kind-of picture, nonsense seems to be quite essential, if it has no mystery, it fails to grasp.

"I fear my own subconscious."
Show me someone who doesn't... Seriously, even the surrealists, who basically lived in the subconscious and celebrated it, actually feared it and made mostly monsters. Subconscious is the stuff nightmares are made of... literaly.

"A picture doesn't have to make rational sense."
This is true, and strange even, because I love things that don't quite make sense. (As to why that is is a whole other set of convoluted explanations I'm sure.) I think I just wish I made sense more often. Or at least be able to accurately perceive when I'm making sense...It's tiring trying to figure out ways to communicate most effectively. Very difficult stuff.

"Subconscious is the stuff nightmares are made of... literaly."
Ahaha. You have a good point my friend. I'll remember this.