How to draw horror & scary art without looking like an edgy middle schooler?
>>8048717post examples
>>8048717Try to genuinely make yourself uncomfortable. A lot of edgy horror cliches like excessive blood and wide smiles with huge sharp teeth and such don't really scare anyone because they've become generic symbols. They don't feel Real anymore. Doodle and experiment with designs and concepts until you hit upon something that makes you want to look away. As with all art, the best horror art comes from the soul.
>>8048717It’s kind of just intrinsic to the genre. Embrace the edginess and the teen angst.Also learn from the best. Stephen Gammell’s art in the “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” series is classic
simply paint things that are not edgy
>>8048731Basically thisIf it creeps you out after YOU drew it you are doing it well
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>>8048717good inspiration...
>>8048731>>8048741these
we're all scared of the unknown so it might be a good idea to bathe your fearful/monstrous subjects in shadow, fog, or put them behind objects, imply distortionim wondering where you draw the line between edgy teenage schlock & quality horror art... what about Trevor Henderson's artwork?
>>8048743Major fire hazard
>>8048717>How to draw horror & scary artThe obvious answer is knowing how to draw realistically, and being able to caricature that realism into something uncanny.And of course a good understanding of lighting as well.Though this isn't always the case, of course, cartoony unrealistic stuff can hit hard too.Picrel really impresses me as a horror image, the way it leads the eye to the jumpscare (great use of lighting), despite it being a unnecessarily furry image.>without looking like an edgy middle schooler?That's a little more tricky. What's cool and dark will become schlocky teenage angst tomorrow. Especially with how popular horror is with teens these days.Slasher films were scary adult fare, until teens feel in love with it (probably because of the abundant tits).Creepypastas were almost certainly started by adults, like telling ghost stories to eachother, but teens fell in love with it and ran with it.Analogue horror as well is something that's quickly lost it's oomph as teenagers run rampant with it.No criticism to the teens though, that's just what they do, and probably what we did as well. They latch onto things and try to make it their own. I think that's a part of growing up.And, major digression there; my point is that you shouldn't bother worrying too much about being teen schlock, because if it pops off, it will become so regardless. Just make what you think is good and don't worry about it.
>>8048968>picThis one is fucking good. I saw this one before, but it still worked again because I forgot what's the catch was.God damn.
Just either make it gothic or look up femsle msngakas who drew disturbing things..
>>8048717Subtlety
>>8048717This nigga thinks Bill the Cat is scary.
>>8048717well that's the thing, horror in itself comes from the unknown, not from jaws and teeth, and specially not from the gruesome, or from big mouths
>>8048968>>8049020yeah, this one is good but the subject is lame, it spooks you and makes you uncomfortable but i wouldn't care too much otherwise
this one always got meactivates an ancient genetic memory I think
>>8050625Maybe its a sign youre closer related to a Purgatorius than a modern person
>>8050625Kind of looks like a creepy Gorilla.
I drew this today for my daughter's lunch. My wife thought it was horrifying.
>>8050924Anons are having families...
>>8048717No such thing exists. Everything horror/scary related is edgy. The very foundation of liking horror is edgy.
>>8050927Anon gets a kid and is STILL drawing blooks
>>8048717whats wrong with being an edgy middle schooler?
>>8051013Yea, I'm on day 6 of daily blook practice. I started practicing purely to increase the quality of the lunch notes I give her.
>>8048743This is just a Protestant Church potluck.
>>8051049That is cude anon, I think they should be 30% less scary but the idea is great
>>8050927Now I really feel behind... at least with art I had hopes.
Looking at the images posted here one of the main things actually contributing to the scare/uncomfortable factor is pulling the viewer into the scene so the scare factor actually means anything. Like the images with the dogs, having a dog on the image is effective because you empathize with the animal, you're put in the position of "person with a dog looking at their dog", it makes you feel like a part of the story and then everything else hits better.If whatever is the implied threat is either partially hidden, or just completely not present and only alluded to by the environment, you are forced to spend more time in the image before you encounter it, at which point you've been pulled in more so the impact is felt harder.>>8048968This one is fucking genius, the way it portrays a fake threat and pulls your attention right to it first thing, by use of it being in the light part of the image, to lull you into a false sense of safety/comfortability about the rest of the image. Holy shit.So yeah I think other than having good realistic design, the way you work with the viewer's sense of partaking in the image and their attention makes or breaks the scare.
>>8048717By being a depressive, traumatized wreck
Maybe draw something that fucks with the human brain use the uncanny valley theory to help you that shit real
I remember coming across a thread exactly like this one, including many of the images posted here. Even worse, there was even a comment like this one >>8048910
>>8056067creepypasta moment
>>8048717Just draw reality. Draw how americans are turning white countries into fucking brazil full of shitskins. That's the greatest horror there can be.
>>8049020>look once, dont notice>read this post>look again>spooked anyway
>>8048717I'd say practice by doing studies of certain artists works from the past like Francisco Goya, Alfred Kubin, Franz von Stuck, and a few of Odilon Redon. Maybe do a little research on them, learn what life was like while they were alive, get an idea of what could've been going through their mind as they were drawing, painting, or whatever else.
>>8056132my interpretation is that the little boy is jumping for joy at the prospect of the big lobster dinner he’s about to have now that he’s found that thing
>>8051049Kek, funny and effective way of practice, based dad
I've been really curious about this for a while. I think most people have a misunderstanding of what's scary. It's too easy to lean into that American Silent Hill type of horror where you draw fangs and blood and snarling faces.A few years back for Inktober I tried drawing something that really creeped me out and I went with this weird idea of coming back to your bed from the bathroom and something already being in it. I like it, but I've never been able to replicate the feeling.
>>8056067Well here some more of that threads pictures (they are very effective)
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>>8058842Phil Hale. Good stuff from the series "Life Wants to Live"
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>>8058846Last one from me.
>>8058840>>8058842These two are quite great, though the others are too abstract for my tastes.
>>8048717People come off as edgy teenagers when making horror because they are trying too hard to make it fantasy. There is nothing more creepy and horrific than reality.
Been trying to get back into the scary art inspired by Stephen Gammell habit
Artists rely way too much on this high contrast/mostly in shadow approach for "horror and scary art", I get the logic but it feels a little bit limiting, and closer to what OP seems to be trying to avoid.I especially like this scene in this movie because it escapes from that logic completely:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO-6My5eMxo
>>8059534it's liminal space * jump scare. art do not jump scare unless it's 2005 gifs
>>8059264Hey, I didn't know you did spooky stuff too. That's pretty cool.
>>8059264Would
>>8059157>The horror of trying to have a normal conversation with someone, and every chance they get, they turn it into a political screed.Reality truly is the most horrific thing.
spooky
>>8059157is this real
>>8048741would look way yyscarier if there were two glowing red eyes in the darkness!
>>8059657>be american>ruin the whole world>wonder why people everywhere get politicalGo and die for Israel mutt ! ! ! !
>>8064151>Be american, or a stupid america obsessed foreigner with american cum on the brain>Assume everyone who says anything I disagree with must be americanGo and die for Palestine mutt ! ! ! !
>>8059157Did ya boy just not know about jews?
>>8056070AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>8058845LOVE Phil Hale
>>8064151The american ruling class ruined everything. The regular american people are subject to brainwashing and all sorts of abuse by their ruling class. Its better to help them break their brainwashing so they cant empower themselves and stop the murder machine led by their elites.
>>8059657Anon, have you looked at any white societies in a while?
>>8066188To me it seems as if the average american is either in jail or homeless or drug addicted or any combination of this.
>>8048968This is the first time I've ever been jumpscared by clever composition
>>8059157literally everyone that had exported niggers had the courtesy to castrate them. only the jewmerimutt are fetishistic enough to make even more of them.
>>8059157HOLY BASEDBut yea, I really don't understard why amerimutts didn't just kill them, instead of fighting for them.The amerimutts also helped soviets against Germany.
>>8067097Soviets saved europe you retard. Those stupid nazis should have destroyed (((england))) instead of being their golems trying to destroy russia wich is the might and strength of the white europe.
>>8067105Europe did a collective effort to defeat Nazis, it's not like they did nothing.And russia fought only to save themselves, not because they wanted to help anyone.You aren't any different from the liberals bootlicking the islamists.Why do you care about those snow niggers so much? They constantly create misinformation, perform cyber attacks, invade our space, give nuclear capabilities to our enemies, they don't even left us alone on online videogaming. You consider this "saving us"? You deserve to get killed.
>>8066179love this
>>8066179nothing scared me ITT but I fucking hated this. gave me goosebumpsit looks like a nightmare
>>8067097I hope HP Lovecraft did write it, but I couldn't find anything on it besides that meme.But even if he didn't write it, he would have!
>>8067123Fuck you, you don't know shit. Russia has been the only european nation fighting the good fight since middle ages. Without Russia Christianity would be gone in Europe. The bolshevik "revolution" was concocted and planned in london, (((lenin))) went into Moscow in a train that came out of Germany."europe's collective effort"? Like France? LOL, like Italy?LOL, like Norway, sweeden and all of those faggots? LOL.. Like Spain? LOL. Like (((ENGLAND))) who backed Adolph right up until the moustache faggot bounced out of Russia and turn against (((them)))? That piece of shit Churchill was full on the Nazi train pushing them towards russia, same with Napolean, same with Zelensky. Nothing ever changes with the anti-christian (((collective effort))) against Christian Russia.>They constantly create misinformation, perform cyber attacks, invade our space, give nuclear capabilities to our enemies, they don't even left us alone on online videogamingThat a perfect description of (((ENGLAND))) thank you! Who do you think leaked the american nuclear program to the rest of the world? Grab a book, or two.Misinformation, psy-op, false flag, has been Englands playbook since centuries. And america has been one their primal targets. What do you think pearl harbor was, or 9/11, or the epstein blackmail program, etc, etc, etc? (((British))) at work.
>>8048717draw women without make up
>>8067097Muhammad married a six year old then raped her at nine years old.Muslims need to shut the fuck up and jump into the trash immediately.
>>8067283>Kikes and Muslims need to shut the fuck up and jump into the trash immediately.ftfy
>>8067260slav melties are so funny>>8067287add christians to the list and i fully agree
>>8067218>>8067214It's great, isn't it? I guess he did a couple versions for Flinch. He's definitely worth checking out
>>8067316>slav melties are so funnyTrying to explain how some random battle that literally no-one except a couple of serbian nazi autists has heard of that took place in southeastern slovenia 1500 years ago has absolutely zero impact on the global geopolitics of today is literally impossible. They just don't get it dawg.
>>8059157I wonder, how does reddit react to this quote? Don't they like him for being the scary horror ctulhu man?
>>8067260russians made a deal with hitlerthen tried to erase any identity of people living on the land stolen through the dealsoviet union was fundamentally anti-religiousthe fuck are you blabbing about bro?
>>8068216The dude hates England and loves russia. He is probably brown.
>>8068192reddit? muh whole western witchy quirky coolchure of mystery knowledge and primordial gnosis, has been looking to the other side about their big god-hero denying the fact that he was the biggest fascist chud that ever lived LMAO!
>>8068272no, the molotov-ribbentrop pactand you didn't even try to deny the russian empire/soviet cultural genocides, kek
>>8059157Bros I think reincarnation is real
>>8059264This reminds me, how do you balance between horror and erotic? trying to give a whyboner instead of killing a boner
>>8068312you need to have a sensitive soul to pull it off IMO, otherwise you end up with banality like monster face on plap bodyalso it will never be erotic to anyone but you because you're mixing your fears with your sexual proclivities
>>8068289> (((oh nooo muh 60 gazillion soviet genocideeee)))You (((anglo))) murderers sacks of shit. The (((british))) empire (along with the USA, still a colony to this day) was the one killing 150 million people all around the world, all across humanity.The (((nazi))) british genocidal psyop, destroyed white europe forever. Hitlers fuck up decimated the white population in europe wich could never recover to this day. But (((london))) can't have enough, they kept killing whites in europe in the balkan wars, and they just engendered their most brutal hit with the Ukraine war, wich is just another russian genocide planned in the hell offices of london. They just want the annihilation of all slavs and all Germanic people. Yes Germans have been playing the useful idiots game for more than a century as well. Those stupid germans still think the enemy is at moscow and not at London. They have been the useful idiots since the psyop (((agent))) Luther's (((schism))).
>>8068477It's over anyway, because of boomers. Boomers are fucking retarded. I know I won't die a peaceful death but I can only try to take down one or two niggers with me when a warband breaks into my home within the next 5 years. Or I'll just get stabbed in the street for pocket change. It's just a matter of time now. We'll never come back because boomers bought the whole racism thing. We got fucked by our fathers.
Wasn't that thread about drawing horror and scary art?This board is such a gigantic waste of time, it's downright malicious. No wonder nobody browse it these days.
>>8068233>the dude hates EnglandHe must be an American revolutionary, based af
>>8068678People just can't help themselves. Which would be one thing, but these conversations are never coherent either, and that's the real killer.
>>8067260Ivan, your VPN subscription has expired. Please, renew your subscription using the following payment options: USDT, BTC, TON.Btw, living with faggots like this is the reason I left the country and now donate to groups like Azov and RVC
>>80695953rd Assault is based too
>>8058840This is vaguely terrifying
>>8066188>amerimutts>doing anything other than sucking (((dick)))Not gonna happen. Things will only get worse.
