"They take apart their nightmares and they leave 'em by the door."

Here's some studies for the protagonist of a future story of mine, tentatively titled "The Big Black". Click on the image to enlarge.

Like "Look Away!", this story will be based partly on a bad dream I had. It's also got a couple moments lifted from real life (well, hallucinations in real life). I'm still fuzzy on parts of it, though--gotta wade around in the thing and figure it out. Like most of my stuff, it'll be more focused on simulating a particular feeling than achieving a straight narrative structure.