I don't really know how to express this, but I think you did a great job on the shape and general feel of the trees. They're really instantly recognizable, and the fact that they're so easy to identify helps draw attention to the silhouettes. Nice stuff!

Thanks for arting!

This one is really creepy, and I mean that in all good ways. I really don't have much else to say about this one. I guess the figure on the left stands out as more sketch-y than the rest?

The human-like shapes moving through the trees are just ambiguous enough to be super creepy without being overstated. Good job balancing those forces out!

I really love this one. You captured so much of the forest very minimally but very powerfully, and the figures are just present enough to be unsettling. It looks like this is chalk as well, and I really respect your ability to work with that while creating something that looks as crisp as this. Between the general sharp foreboding of the piece and the inversion of "brightest day and darkest night" in the alt text, this has a great, unnerving, wrong air to it.

>>Bachiavellian, >>KwirkyJ, >>thebandbrony, >>DuskPhoenix

Where Do the Children Go?

Thanks for the great comments!

I used a piece of black oil pastel, about an inch long, to do the tree trunks. Dragging its side along the paper produced stripes of interesting texture. I tilted the pastel to produce smaller trunks. I then went back with a china pencil and outlined the trunks, then added branches and the figures.

Sometimes simple techniques produce good results. Being playful is one way to discover what works.

The title and caption refer to the song by The Hooters.