Cold Blood, Sweaty Palms

A quick concept sketch and poem beginnings on the theme of reptilian brain syndrome which appears to be taking over the world. Nice to focus on the monochrome and good practice-colour can often take an image somewhere else, I’m thinking eventually creating a little animation of the lizard crawling up through the palm, and transforming into flashing neons or something…..For now I want to get down the textures and the shapes and enjoy the contrast.

Sketched in Procreate using the default spray can brush (medium nozzle)

Weirdo music by me, recorded and mixed in GarageBand

Cold  thoughts geyser out

From our pores

Every pause

..........underscored with

Deregulated  ambition

To protect.

It is a

Thermostat combat

Hot mammal hearts

Beat silent, confined

To the rib cages of 

The armourless.

Shedding scales

Scaling lives

Hoping all our lizards

Can regrow their losses

Once the cold war cools off.