DON'T YOU EVER B L I N K FOR A SECOND TOO LONG AT 1 A.M.?
Date: 2017
Medium: Pencil on paper, Paint Tool Sai, Photoshop CC
People sometimes say the night introduces a whole new world. I use open doors and drawers as portals to traverse the worlds of night and day in this illustration. The night world heralds an riot of abnormalities: from your kitchen counter opening up into hundreds of tiny holes to fluorescent tentacles growing out of your moldy sandwiches.
I explore the idea of fears at night—the surreal aspects were chosen to correspond with fears of my friends. I believe people fear the night for its ability to conceal their daytime phobias, above any other horrors. They’re carefully abstracted however, to come off as aesthetic instead of frightening.
I’m a huge fan of animated illustrations—they’re simpler than full animations, more manageable between a busy daily life, yet have the same captivating dynamic vibe. I especially enjoy creating these surreal pockets of space in otherwise mundane life; by hiding magic within normalcy, it gives the illusion this could be the case in real life as well.