The spirals somehow remind me of the "Uzumaki" mangas.

(They are about a town that is haunted by spiral patterns that make people obsessed, so they start to collect everything that has spirals on it or drive people mad so they cut everything of their bodies that reminds them of spirals like the fingertips (because of the fingerprints) or their curly hair and even stab their ears because of their spiral shaped cochlea and lead to several freak-accidents and suicides, while everything in that town slowly transforms into spirals.)

Since I read them I see spirals with different eyes. They have something hauntingly beautiful.

Wow, that's cool! I haven't seen or read that series.

The Black Spiral Dancers are supposed to be totally unhinged, so it kinda made sense that one of them would draw spirals in repeating patterns all over everything. I guess the visual is really appropriate for obsession, or depression.

Somehow spirals draw attention to themselves, while the eyes follows it's pattern to the center, surely a reason why some hypnotists use rotating spirals to hypnotize people. And it is almost funny how often people unconsciously scribble spiral patterns when doing something boring, repetetive or answering the phone. And if you look closely enough, you can find them almost everywhere. That might be a reason why the author from Uzumaki chose the spiral pattern. Because they exist in nature and also in artificially created objects. Just add something supernatural to them and let them appear more obvious and more frequent and there is the haunting feeling that something is very wrong there. The manga has also an eerie lighthouse, where illuminated spiral patterns appear at the walls of the dark staircase or a giant underground lair, where the source for the curse was hidden. Somehow your picture captured the feeling I had after reading the mangas pretty well. I just can recommend them. (They are just 3 volumes). There was even a japanese live action movie about most incidents of the first manga. They just left a few interesting chapters out and don't really explain the events like the third manga did, but their special effects were pretty eerie.

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Also <3 well drawn BSDs. Nice job, as ever.

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This made me think of that song Patio Lanterns by Kim Mitchell.

I love the lighting on this, and you've captured a really strong sense of narrative.

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Wow, this is seriously interesting, and also creepy. I love it! Makes me think of all sorts of pagan/occult stuff.

Some of the things written on the wall look like Chinese!

Not intentionally - I just figured putting them in with marker would make them a good background element without taking too much from the main figure, and I just scribbled randomly to make sigils. I think the calligraphic lines you can get from markers are why it might look vaguely Chinese.

The whole picture actually came out of reading an old Dragon magazine article about kappa - and about how they had this weird disturbing spindly language. As far as I know, Japanese folklore never says that kappa are even literate let alone anything about how they'd write, but I thought it was cool.

awesome!! , just....so cool! 83

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X3 it's nothing but i gatta admit , i just love this! 83

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Wow, eerie and striking!