A dark, staticy composition featuring red hands, a melting Omori, branch coral, and footprints; based loosely on the aesthetic of Black Space’s “Suspense.”
“Nothing but static.”
Artist Commentary
From the deviantArt description:
-slaps staticy melty stream-of-conscious scribblesthetic- It’s Free Zoneout Estate
Started as a random sprite redraw, then went for a more interesting crop (was originally just the bottom right), and then a boatload of layers happened. I really like doing compositions like this :0 Uses snippets from some recent art stuff, if you squint.
Vague spoiler babbling:
Words cannot do justice to the experience of exploring Black Space for the first time, going in completely blind and having no goddamn clue what to expect. It’s weird; usually the type of ambient droning in most areas turns my brain to mush, and the Yume Nikki OST had mostly similar effects (haven’t played it, probably won’t knowing that, but wanted to check out the tracks anyway after noticing a few similarities)—but something about the Black Space tracks specifically scratch an auditory itch, especially the first 3 (including the welcome/hub). Dunno what’s up with that but catch me vibing to a distorted classical whistle at 2am ✌️
</ramble>Anyway, I had sillier doodles in mind for today but those can wait for the roundup I guess V: Head was in a funk and this got finished instead.
Time taken: ~1 hour
A slightly modified version of the sprite redraw can be seen on the widescreen version of the Black Space area reference page.