Patrick Tsao | Commissions 1/3

On display at Skeleton Crawl Art Ball - here til the 2nd of November. Come take a look. #skeletoncrawl

Some of the things I'll be doing, places I'll be and spots to see my art this month. It'll be a busy month, and there may yet be more. If you're in Brooklyn, come and find me.

#artshows #darkart #skeletoncrawl #brooklynhorrorfilmfestival #brooklynartcave #thingstodoinbrooklyn #halloweenartshow

Here's to you, America. Here's to the day that drove us insane.

Pictured: "Aconite Garden", by me - a piece about how hatred is a garden you grow

#neverforget #darkart #aconites #hatred #NineEleven

On display at Bushwick Street Art at Monsta House Universe

Back at it.

#darkart #macabreart #artshow #bushwickstreetart #monstahouseuniverse #galleryshow #indieartist

Happy Chinese New Years, everyone. May this year be one of safety, prosperity, love, and excellence. Take care of yourself and those closest to you. Hold tight, and you’ll surely float on.

#ChineseNewYear2025 #YearOfTheSnake

WIP detail from my latest work

#wip #painting #digital #wires #darkart

Happy New Years, everyone. Here's to a finer, fuller and more blooming 2025 - for you, for me, for the world, and for all of us.

See you all soon.

#HappyNewYearsEve

#repost

We, Who Languor In Braindeath, Lavish You With Our Dreams

A piece about the veils between life and death, and those who sleep in them - and reach, from them.

#darkart #surrealart #braindeath

Oh - my speciality.

Clockwise from upper left-

I'm Not Ready
St. Cerise's Offering
Paying It Forward
We Who Languor In Braindeath Lavish You With Our Dreams

#darkart

An old piece - but still a resonant piece for many - called "Precipice".

It is about letting go of painful things.

Thank you very much : )

A figure with a contorted, sorrowful face and black streaked tears in their eyes nuzzles and cradles another figure, who is missing their head. In place of the head is a lit, half melted red candle, which dribbles wax that mixes with the blood from the wound, onto both figures. The lighting is stark, shadowy, and yellow. A meat cleaver, with arms reached, lays abandoned on the floor, stained with red, and a long arcing streak of thick red liquid spatters the ground. The lit candles creates a glowing halo of yellow light that frames the headless figures' lack of head, and shoulders.

#throwback #repost

"St. Cerise's Offering" - an expression of tragic, uncorrectable wrongs, and a tribute to a particular storyline in Fallen London

#darkart #horrorart #macabreart #emotionalart #digitalpainting #fallenlondon #mreaten #areckoningshallnotbepostponed

Dying Season 12 - Defiant To The Last

If there will be no succor, then let just desserts be measured otherwise - in pounds of flesh.

#darkart #inktober #artchallenge #injustice #justdesserts #poundofflesh #heavymind #feminism #spite

Welcome to all newcomers fleeing from other more poisonous environs.

There is art to be had here. While i work on some new pieces, here is some of mine. I am available for commissions, if my work strikes your fancy.

#twitterexodus #exodusfromtwitter #darkart #macabreart #commissionsopen

Dying Season 11 - The Meek

In the end, all that will be left the worms. And it is from them we shall grow anew.

#DyingSeason #inktober #drawingchallenge #darkart #surrealart #macabreart #darkartculture #drawtober #goryart #worms #TheMeekShallInheritTheEarth #renewal #digitalart #dansemacabre

Dying Season 10 - Shimmering Dance

There is profundity in all things - order in the fluttering of a butterfly's wings.

A tribute to an old friendship I ruined.

That's right - October may be over, but Dying Season continues.
#dyingseason #inktober #drawingchallenge #darkart #fandance #monk

Ah...the vent. The piece comes across as an expressive expulsion, and its got the furious energy of something that needed to be gotten out of you. The exact tenor of what it is that needed to be gotten out of you I couldn't speculate at. But I've been there, at least.

I like this vibe. Its one I'm all too familiar with. But it looks great - and thank you for sharing it.

Dying Season 9 - Too Scary

A spooky ghost and a terrifying pumpkin.
Happy Halloween, everyone.

#dyingseason #inktober #ghost #pumpkin #scaryart #terrifyingart #horrifyingart #thescariestthingyouveeverseen #ohgoditssoscarypleasestop #happyhalloween #happyhalloween2024

Dying Season 8 - Where Has The Time Gone?

"I thought it'd change when I got older
But the same year came over and over
And the only change that I could feel
Was the aging of my bones"

#dyingseason #inktober #drawtober #darkart #emoart #horrorart #goreart #bodyhorror #macabreart #aging

Dying Season 7 - Ramadan

A tribute to my favorite story from the Sandman series of graphic novels.

#dyingseason #inktober #drawtober #sandman #fanart #fantasyart #ramadan #morpheus #darkart #muslimart #vertigocomics #artoftheday #characterart #comicart #comiccharacter #neilgaiman

Dying Season 6 - The Malice of Orchids

Such beauty, such fastidiousness...such hunger.

#dyingseason #inktober #spooktober #drawtober #horrorart #emetophobia #creepyart #flowers #flowerart #monsterart #digitalart #artoftheday #art #orchids #beauty #hunger #pollen #allergies #decay

Dying Season 5 - Trepanation Garden
Each flower is a memory.
#dyingseason #inktober #drawtober #spooktober #darkart #horrorart #bodyhorror #macabreart #trepanation #garden

Dying Season 4 - On The Old Road They Found Redemption

Many fall in the face of chaos; but not these ones, not today.

Fan art for @darkestdungeon.bsky.social, by @redhookstudios.bsky.social.
#dyingseason #inktober #spooktober #darkestdungeon #fanart #characterart #horrorart #monsterart ss

Dying Season 3 - Chattering Infant
A monster I designed for my D&D campaigns. #mypoorplayers
#dyingseason #inktober #spooktober #darkart #macabreart #bodyhorror #monsterart #monsterdesign #dungeonsanddragons #creatureart #horrormonster #surrealart #artoftheday #art #characterart #creaturedesign

Dying Season 2 - Eden

Nature is all around us. To discern its true nature, all you have to do - is reach out.

#dyingseason #eden #inktober #darkart #macabreart #horrorart #spookyart #surrealart

Inktober comes again. But I'm bad at following prompts and Inktober is all about following the prompt.
So this year's exercise will be called DYING SEASON. For the season of passings.
Dying Season 1 - Aconite Garden
#dyingseason #inktober #parasiticplant #gardening #compost #aconite #hatred #art

Digital greyscale illustration, title at bottom: The Futility of Sorrow. A humanoid form sits slumped, their head a bare skull looking up with jaw open unnaturally wide. Their teeth are long, twisted tree roots flowing up in a mass beyond the top of the canvas. Their hands are resting in their lap, palms up and relaxed. The parts so far described are shaded with fine contour hatching. Their body is solid black. The background shows a large circle with viscous strands of thick black fluid (or sludge) stretching across it. The rest of the background is grey static.

- The Futility of Sorrow -
Compassion wanes as time and people go on.

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#art #DarkArt #HorrorArt

Hateful Summer 7 - Last Journey of the Shieldmaiden

Aldrei er líf að eilífu óbrotið.
No life goes forever unbroken.

#hatefulsummer #darkart #nordicart #surrealart #blackandwhiteart #bannersaga #norse #macabreart #emotionalart #imaginaryfeels #shieldmaiden #unbroken

Hateful Summer 6 - Nostalgia/Bezoar

Remember?

#hatefulsummer #darkart #surrealart #retroart #blackandwhiteart #horrorart #mangaart #bodyhorror #spookyart #art #artoftheday #goreart #creepyart #nostalgia #bezoar #remember