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A digital illustration of 14 stamps, each representing one of Smirke's 14 Fears from The Magnus Archives. They're all square, black, with rough textures and patchy spots to make them resemble actual hand-made ink stamps. First is The Hunt. A wide eyed hare stares out at the viewer from behind a dark frame, a single arrow cutting through its throat. Three drops of blood spread out from the exit wound. Second is The Web. The shape of a spider web is cut out in the negative space of the dark ink. Third is The Spiral. A simple swirl, like an optical illusion you'd find on a children's toy, outlined in black and white behind a black frame. Fourth is The Dark. There is nothing to see. Fifth is The Flesh. A framed diagram of an anatomically correct human heart. Sixth is The Vast. A grid slopes down the square, widening and darkening towards the bottom. It's not quite clear if the view is from the ground looking up at it, or from the top looking down. Either way, the opposite end fades out of view. Seventh is The Buried. Crumbling dirt spills down the square in dark pieces, ever so slowly filling the shape. Eighth is The Corruption. A simple dark background with a cockroach made of the negative space. There's a thin frame, but it's off-kilter, a little diagonal to the rest of the shape. Ninth is The Stranger. The Comedian and Tragedian theatre masks are set on a dark background, the edges of the masks peeking over the limits of the square. Tenth is The Lonely. A solitary rowboat sits on a dark ocean, empty. Fog drifts across the water. Eleventh is The Slaughter. A simple bright, clear blood splatter starting at the corner of a solid dark square. Twelfth is The End. A single gravestone sits in the center at the end of a hallway. It radiates darkness and contrasts the light background, pulling the eye to it at all times. Thirteenth is The Desolation. The bottom of the stamp has the appearance of a burned photograph, charred and jagged. What's left has the pattern of melting candle wax. Fourteenth is The Eye. A simple representation of a human eye in a square frame, with cartoonish eyelashes and a small pupil in the center.ALT

I wanted to mess around with stamp textures and now we’re here