54 of 365: That thing gives me the creeps by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

54 of 365 That thing gives me the creeps by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

I was recently on a chat with a friend, and she explained that she really loved this breed of dog that has abundant wrinkles, very short legs, and clipped ears. The name of the breed escapes me, but my reaction was “that thing gives me the creeps”. I paused for a moment and thought about how odd that phrase is, which is usually a trigger for me to illustrate it. I pictured a 1970’s style treatment, dark, and playful.

In Inkscape, I placed the text, and applied the font Ballpark, a staple of my illustrations. I skewed the lines up and to the right. I duplicated and applied an outset to the duplicate, twice. Each time moving the outset shape backwards. I imported a lovely foggy image of red trees in summer morning, and used those colors for the palette.

I picture it being used in social media threads in which one person shares an image or idea that is full of creepiness, and someone shares my illustration as a response.