/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3599870
sorry for bad england

Anxiety in behavioral psychology is defined as the response to -the possibility- of an unpredictable and uncontrollable danger. The higher the unpredictability/uncontr., the higher the response. For example, anxiety for a heart attack.

Now fear is the response to actually coming in contact with danger, like fire for example. You might be scared of fire but not feel anxious of it

In that sense, one could argue that good horror art depends on the feelings you're trying to evoke, on whether you choose to merely hint at something for its implications or to really depict it on its entirety.

Danger comes in many forms, and we (animals) are constantly checking for it everywhere we go. A bigger insect will always be scarier, same with a darker ambient. Anything that goes against our normal flow of perception and homeostasis means a threat. Things we don't understand, anything out of place and sudden realizations, especially when they involve what we already deemed safe, can elicit the state of fear and anxiety.

Now you have a few ways of translating that in a drawing through composition and the choice of the subject, and you just have to get some reference and try to understand them.