Inktober 2025 – Day 15 : Exotic – Dark Art
This creates a different kind of dread—the dread of the survivor.
The motion here is incredible. You can feel the toxic wind tearing at him. The interpretation of “Ragged” as these unraveling, bloody-red bandages rather than just old clothes is a brilliant, stylistic choice. It looks like he’s holding himself together by sheer will, or maybe the bandages are the only thing keeping him from dissolving into the air. The grey skin makes that red pop violently, like an open wound that refuses to heal.
I also love the clash of the fantastical and the mundane. You have this ethereal, wraith-like flow of the scarf, the dehumanizing gas mask… and then those bright red sneakers. It anchors the horror in reality. It suggests that this isn’t some ancient demon, but something that happened now, to us. It feels lonely, beautiful, and decaying.
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