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Scrimshaw 42
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Layered neon outlines trace and retrace a skull seen from the side, each color pass slightly offset so the form appears to vibrate against the black field. The crown reads less as decoration than as another restless loop, no more stable than the skull beneath it. A grinning unease comes through the bared-teeth bars and the mismatched, staring eye spirals, which refuse to settle into a single expression.
As the highest title number and last recorded creation in the owned Scrimshaw subset, this work sits at the current boundary of the collection. Its title neighbor Scrimshaw 41 shares the skull-and-teeth motif but uses denser black hatching rather than bright separated color loops.
Work 19 of 26 in Scrimshaw: Faces, Figures and Letters.
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- Artist
- scrimshaw.eth
- Recorded ink creation
- 2023-12-14T12:33:50-06:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 91
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 0
- Sampled points
- 14136
- Logical canvas
- 583.9499999999999 × 583.9499999999999
- Archived PNG pixels
- 583 × 583
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
Archived metadataOwnership & provenanceOriginal PNGNative SVG
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Scrimshaw 41
Both show skull forms with spiral eyes and exposed teeth, but Scrimshaw 41 buries its structure under heavy black cross-hatching while this work isolates each color line against open black space.
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Rawblocks #40
Both pack a round head shape with competing neon colors and bared-teeth bars, though rawblocks #40 fills the background with pink and cyan blobs while Scrimshaw 42 keeps its black ground empty.
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