#SCREAMS. SCREEAAAAAMMS

[alien-shmalien]

REALLY COOL ART whats the thought process behind it. and the character.. what's wrong with them whats their problem (lovingly)

HI!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

Basically, the idea was to try and capture Kayjay's mental state. KJ themselves has lost their mind, and can barely form a functional thought at this point in their life, and runs purely off instinct and the occasional little thought that slips through the madness. I associate them alot with songs that have that almost Overwhelming Anxiety feel to them- and I was recently introduced to Machine Girl, and their song Palm Tree Panic fits them really well!! especially the "random" change of beat and feeling for The Part (I'm sure if you've listened to the song you understand what I meant)

YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT I THINKSIES

Now I'm gonna talk about KJ first before i go more into the actual art itself because I have alot of thoughts about how i set it up and i don't wanna bore anyone who wants to hear about the character. its all below the cut!!

SO THIS IS KAYJAY!

Their name is "The Killjoy" or "The Eclipse", but due to some divine fuckery, the name "Kayjay" is stuck with them.

KJ is a god in my story Eidolon (meta note, KJ isn't in this folder! don't get too frazzled), and mostly the "main character" or the antagonist if you want to think about it like that. They're a universe crawling asshole with a taste of vengeance and the need to destroy, and makes it everyone else's problem!

They're caught up in alot of bullshit with a guy called Crown, and has a stupid weird situationship with them <3

(ignore the extra guy in the second image this aint about them <3 (ITS ALL ABOUT THEM ITS ALL ABOUT THEM ITS AL-))

but i love them so so so so much. theyre . so!!!!!!

they have alot of themes of "lunar madness", or that whole idea of the moon making you insane sometimes. However for KJ it's different, because KJ *IS* the moon! they're driving themself insane with their quest of revenge and conquest! and it makes me ! crazy! i will write essays about this motherfucker! i have!!! and i will continue to !!!!!

It's sort of a small thing, but KJ is pretty regularly called a "kraken", this isn't ENTIRELY accurate but its because of one of their big inspos being the Moon Lord from Terraria who is weird octopus god, so teehee <3 it also just fits with the mythical creature theming with The Sun <3

I support women's wrongs :thumbsup:

NOW. THE ART ITSELF

i actually have the art open on my computer still so we get to look at the layers <3

the very basis of it is KJ themselves.

they're colored in black and outlined in blue, its a theme i have going for kj art, and theyre covering their face with their hands, but peeking through where their yellow eyes are exposed and watching- Now KJ doesn't have Yellow eyes anymore, this isn't a design redesign or anything, its the fact that they Lost the color of their eyes at some point! you actually find the color on Another character who i will definitely talk about if someone wants to hear about it <3

the frame behind them is also a disconjointed collection of fucked up boxes and their own outline jumping off them :)

then when you turn on the background...

you get an overwhelming amount of color! and the moon! it goes from warmer colors away from KJ and gets to cooler colors towards them, and the frames behind it and where they overlap are Exclusively dulled down purples and blues!

and the moon is blue :) its just blue i dont have anything specific here. i wanted it to be yellow but then i realized i had too much yellow

and then add the little kj and the word "Hysteria" in blue and black, and you got it!

the little KJ is really silly, but i wanted it to be a sort of "ideal" vision of a manic KJ. little, but refracting into multiples slowly losing themselves. and the word hysteria is from the song specifically, but !!!! i wanted it blue because its a color i associate with KJ alot :)

theres other little things and character metaphors in there, but i dont need to put a final college paper on your dash at 11am LMAO

also heres little kj. play with them like a doll

please please please please please ask me more ill go insane/LH