The Chamber of Unseen Selves
Dark Art - Pencil Sketches
Mystic
Shay'aanviers story
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Mystic Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
This monochromatic surrealist drawing is a portrait of a figure from one of my alter states, depicted through anatomically distorted and hybridised forms that reflect its internal psychological presence. Through layered organic imagery, symbolic fragmentation, and strong tonal contrast, the work explores identity, trauma, memory, and transformation as lived internal experience.
Matte Alter Shay’aanvier turning into Vampire Man
The deeper Shay’aanvier moved into the cavern, the stronger the pull became, as though something ancient beneath the mountain was calling his blood by name. His father shouted for him to stop, but the boy no longer seemed to hear—his body stumbling forward with fevered purpose, drawn into the black throat of the earth. The mystic woman followed close behind, her expression shifting from confusion to dread as old symbols carved into the cave walls began to reveal themselves in the torchlight.
At the cavern’s heart stood a stone altar stained dark with age, and there the mystic woman froze. She recognised the place from the forbidden pages of her oldest texts—a ritual chamber spoken of only in warnings, where cursed blood was awakened, not healed. Shay’aanvier collapsed before the altar, writhing as the infected wound on his neck split open and poured blackened blood across the stone.
The Mystic woman stepped forward, chanting desperately in an ancient tongue, hoping to halt what had begun—but the cave answered her instead. Shadows poured from the walls and coiled around Shay’aanvier’s body as his screams echoed through the chamber. His spine arched, his teeth sharpened, and his eyes burned red beneath the darkness swallowing him whole.
When the shadows withdrew, Shay’aanvier rose slowly from the altar, no longer the boy who had entered the cave. The mystic woman stared in horror and awe, whispering the only words her trembling lips could form:
“The blood has chosen him.”
The Fully Sickle Scarecrow
The fully sic Scarecrow Original Drawing - graphite on papaer - 860mm x 610mm- copyright 2024
This monochromatic surrealist drawing is a portrait of a figure, depicted as a stitched and weathered scarecrow-like being whose fragmented body merges with rural and symbolic imagery to reflect its internal psychological presence. Through layered textures, symbolic distortion, and atmospheric light, the work explores identity, memory, protection, and the transformation of trauma into constructed persona.
A child conceals within the long grass, swallowed by its height as though the trees itself is trying to conceal them. Hidden beneath the tangled blades, they seek refuge from the violence of the home world, turning nature into a shelter where fear, silence, and survival intertwine. The scene speaks to the instinct of childhood self-preservation—of becoming small, unseen, and still in order to endure.
Goat Lord Skull
Goat Lord Skull Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
A surreal Charcoal composition exploring themes of mortality, faith, and inner conflict through symbolic imagery. Combining anatomical forms, religious iconography, florals, and occult motifs, the work creates a dense psychological landscape where beauty and decay coexist in tension.
Sheriff of the damned
The shapeshifter entity trying to cause Matte harm
Sheriff of the damned Original Drawing - graphite on papaer - 860mm x 610mm- copyright 2024
A cigar clenched between his teeth, the sheriff stands resolute beside the saloon, his top hat firmly in place, from which tiny, intricate paintings dangle like ornaments. Punk-styled hair peeks beneath the brim, and charcoal strokes capture every rugged crease and shadow of his face. On the horizon, a massive tornado churns, its swirling force threatening the town, while the surreal details of the dangling paintings add an unexpected layer of artistry and chaos to the Western tableau. This is a depiction of the shape shifting alter Matte has that doesn’t want him around anymore.
Jesus
Jesus Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm- copyright 2024
A black-and-white charcoal portrait depicting an alien-like Christ figure, merging sacred iconography with otherworldly anatomy. Crowned with twisted thorns, his gaze both human and uncanny. Soft gradients and harsh shadows create a haunting, ethereal presence, while distorted facial features and elongated forms evoke themes of divinity, mutation. Above him, a cigar-shaped airship drifts through a moody sky, where a lone dove glides, bridging the earthly and the cosmic in a surreal meditation on divinity and otherworldly presence.
Gustav
Gustav Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
A boy, helmeted and solemn, grips the handlebars of a trike as he pedals through the shattered remains of a war torn building. His eyes hold a thousand-yard stare of reckoning, as if witnessing the collapse of worlds both around him and within. Charcoal strokes accentuate the chaos: jagged debris, crumbling walls, and smoke curling from a burning airship high above, casting a shadow over the scene. The work balances dark humor with apocalyptic intensity, capturing a moment suspended between innocence and catastrophe
Spooky dolls
Spooky Dolls Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
In the flickering glow of a candelabra, three broken dolls sit like silent sentinels on a worn stool, their cracked faces and fractured limbs frozen in a haunted stillness. Shadows writhe across the decaying walls of the house, where an abandoned pram leans into darkness and a pale ghost drifts through the air like a whispered memory. Above, a painting of a devilish creature watches with knowing malice, its eyes alive in the charcoal’s smudged depths. Every mark and shadow conjures a world where innocence is haunted, and the boundary between the living and the spectral is dangerously thin.
Crow
Crow Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
A lone crow perches on a gnarled branch, its feathers meticulously rendered in charcoal with lifelike detail, capturing the tension before it takes flight. Its sharp, observant gaze scans the world below, while subtle glow rings and a soft depth-of-field suggest light interacting naturally with its form. The composition conveys both stillness and imminent motion, grounding the scene in a believable, almost tangible reality
Vulture of death
Vulture of death Original Drawing - Charcoal on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
This vulture looms over a barren landscape with a dripping beak, skeletal claws, and armour‑like plumage that turns its presence into something both regal and decayed. The drawing uses this exaggerated, death‑touched form to explore themes of ruin, inevitability, and the uneasy beauty found in creatures that thrive where life has already thinned away.
Scarletton Airship
Scarletton Airship Original Drawing - Graphite on paper 860mm x 610mm - copyright 2024
A graphite drawing depicts a looming airship drifting into a mass of turbulent thunderclouds, its silhouette swallowed by layers of dark, swirling graphite that churn across the sky. Stark contrasts and smudged tonal gradients create an ominous atmosphere, evoking a sense of foreboding as the vessel disappears toward an uncertain and catastrophic fate.