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Go Back To Sleep...

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OK, this one has quite a story behind it. It's still cool without it, but I'll bet anything the back story will make anyone appreciate this that much more.

So, I'm near blind without my glasses. I'm fairly blind WITH my glasses. (If I had missed one more letter when they were checking my vision for my driver's license, I would have been legally blind. 'O_O') Well, two nights ago, I went to sleep around 10, maybe 11 at night. I slept for about an hour, long enough to let the FLCL soundtrack I was listening to to get me to sleep finish. Well, I woke up at 12:58, two minutes away from 1 a.m. in the freakin' morning. I rolled over on to my back and looked up at my ceiling fan. ...Without my glasses, the lightbulb pointed in my direction looked like an eye; the other two; tusks. There was an odd, jagged shadow running across the nearest blade, creating the illusion of a mouth. I was horrified... And, simultaneously, thrilled that my disturbing paranoia had given me inspiration again. I turned on my lamp on my bedside desk and dug my sketchbook out of my backpack. Without putting my glasses on, I lightly sketched out this behemoth over a period of 30 minutes, then went back to sleep. I went to my college classes later on that day, and received so many comments from random passerby as I spent approximately 8 hours outlining with pen and marker, then shading and re-shading. I finally finished it yesterday while at Six Flags, where I added a darker shade to the mouth and worked on giving the eyes a smoother transition from top to bottom. Object of my nightmares; now, my masterpiece.

As an afternote: what is it with me and evil appliances? Should I go visit my psychiatrist again? Xb ...No, really. I'm asking.
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tizali's avatar
weird! but probably normal... my friend had on of those where she woke up and saw a giant tiger on the end of her bed that pounced on her. After a few moments the illusion faded, and it turned out to be her brother who'd woken her up 0_o...

...this is why I am glad to have 3 younger sisters rather than 3 younger brothers... ;P

nice work though! very smooth lines