Creepy yet interesting all the same. Is this pencil or charcoal?

Just pencil. :)

You did amazing with the shading :3

Thank you :>

Shadow people are creepy... I hate whenever I see them.

My god, the atmosphere and emotions this provokes are amazing, all from something done in simple pencil. Superbly unsettling.

So true <3

Thanks a lot, I'm glad it comes across as so provoking! :D

Ughhhh shadow people were the bane of my existence as a child. Them and the single black shuck I saw. Fun times.

This is an amazing piece. It portrays the experience very well, wow. Having some flashbacks here haha! Love how many you have appearing here. The subtle touches of color is very well done! I like the toys on the dresser too. Aw hell, I just LOVE this piece <3

Only ever seen a shadow person in certain dreams. Always very vivid and meaningful dreams. I suspect that shadow person represents some part of me.

Eerily familiar. I feel your pain :/

Interesting style, a bit reminiscent of Lynd Ward's pencil work. Would you call him an influence?





Mark

I've actually never heard of him, but I can see the resemblance. He utilizes a very lovely interaction between tones.
Thanks for the reference! :D

As time went on, Ward's name would have been mentioned by someone here on FA... so it might as well have been me. :)

Hnngh these guys are so creepy. I've only ever seen one, and I seen him for thirteen years. >-o

Like others have said, this is provoking and creepy. You did a spectacular job on this. I love how the room is distorted, whether that was intentional or not. It gives that extra creep factor and makes all of the shadows seem closer and larger (at least to me, anyway).

Must have been a frightful night, if you had seen this many of them in a room.

The distortion was definitely intentional, partly to depict the way things seem to morph and breathe in low light and partly to show the sort of pseudo-space these guys seemed to take up.

Seeing so many in my room really wasn't too uncommon when I was little. It was almost a nightly ritual. They generally just seemed to stick to themselves, like they were having some sort of congregation. It was freaky, but more because I recognized that they weren't normal rather than them doing anything spooky.

This reminds me of the most terrifying thing I have ever seen, and is the reason I no longer sleep to where I can see a corner in which someone or something can come around it. Anyway, so I was sitting in bed, after just having woken up, and it was some random time in the early morning. I look at the corner of my room, and see A FUCKING HAND reach around the corner, then something that looks circular follow it. I nearly shat myself and went back to sleep.

IT'S ALWAYS HANDS; THEY'RE THE WORST. I always have to be against a wall so I can see eeeeverythiiiiinnng >:I

Yup, I don't like being not against a wall either.

lol you should talk to my mother, when she was a child she saw people, women, men all from old age dancing like ballroom dancers in her room.... and one person, a nun would sit by her bed and talk to her, my mum was scared at first but after so long of living there she soon became friends with the nun... that is until she told my mum that something bad was going to happen while instantly afterwards her dad, my grandfather was having a sort of stroke due to his cancer and died... sad day... the nun stoped seeing my mum after that.... i have never experienced much but my mother is now a medium, a clairvoiant if you will so i hear a lot about the spirit world... even if i don't want to

thats all very interesting. this is very very creepy. i cant sleep with my back exposed either. i sleep between my husband and my daughter (shes five. fucked up that id put her on the outskirts i know. but i cant sleep otherwise!) and all doors have to be closed too! not even a crack open