Toad Eye Open
Clark Padmore

Content Warnings: Flashing lights, horror, gore, violence, suggestive content, eyes, teeth, smoking.

Image Description: A forty-eight by twenty-four pixel art image rendered in a green palette. Two portraits depict humanoid faces, looking slightly away from each other. On the left is a man in a black mask, with a diagonal four-lidded eye. On the right is a pale-white man with oversized lips who is missing eyes and hair. End Description.
Image Description: A one-thirty-six by one-thirty-six pixel art image rendered in a four-color grayscale palette. A black infinity symbol is formed in the center, composed of four overlapping serpents with white lips, eyes, and neck markings, who are all eating each other. All four heads are located close to the center in an 'X' formation. The top two are slender-headed, while the bottom two are diamond-headed. They all wrap their tongues around each other, their mouths stained with various amounts of saliva. A gray outline of the serpents are repeated on the diagonal and vertical axes, creating a flower-like shape. A circle envelopes the whole image. End Description.
Image Description: A one-eighty-six by one-fourteen pixel art animation rendered in a green palette. Two portraits depict a humanoid man looking into a mirror, directly at the viewer. On the left is a man in a black suit and mask, with a diagonal four-lidded eye. On the right is a white man with no clothes and oversized lips. As the man on the left blinks, the man on the right bares his long, sharp teeth. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-eight-by-one-sixteen pixel art image with a grayscale and blue palette. A vertical image of a bright blue landscape floats inside of a thought. A gray boy with short dark hair sits on a cliff besides a purple boy with medium light hair. They are holding hands. Beyond them, a field of turquoise trees dot a blue field, split by a dark river in two directions which end at the horizon. A mountain of twin peaks rises to meet the sun, who is smiling at the world among the clouds. Below the thought of the landscape, a trail of thinking clouds leads to the gray boy as he actually is: sitting on the floor of a dark void, holding his knees, clasping his hands together, dreaming of a blue summer. End Description.
Image Description: A seventy-four-by-forty-seven pixel art image with a dark violet background. On the left side, rendered and bordered in lavender, a small, short-haired child sits with his shoes crossed, his arms wrapped around his knees. With a sadness in his eyes, he looks to the right. On the right side, rendered and bordered in white, a woman with long hair sits with her heels crossed, her arms wrapped around herself. With a sadness in her eyes, she looks to the right. End Description.
Image Description: A man and a small dark humanoid stand, looking at the viewer. It is easily observed that the small humanoid figure standing by the man in the middle is the same as the one from the drawing of the road, seen above. Next to the small figure, I stand with my hands in my pockets. I'm wearing black shoes, dark khakis, a black sweater, and a black mask with a cross-roads eye (a mercurial eye, if you will). End Description.
Image Description: A man and a small dark humanoid stand in the middle of a dark tile floor. Behind them, two walls of artwork converge; they are the collected Tumblr art posts of Clark Padmore from November 2021 to December 2022. It is easily observed that the small humanoid figure standing by the man in the middle is the same as the one from the drawing of the road. Next to the small figure, I stand with my hands in my pockets. I'm wearing black shoes, dark khakis, a black sweater, and a black mask with a cross-roads eye (a mercurial eye, if you will). In the top-right corner is white text. "Goodbye, 2022. Love, Padmore." End Description.
Image Description: A fifty-six-by-fifty-two pixel art image rendered in a desaturated orange and red palette with a dark border. An old woman with wild white hair in a robe and boots wears a large gray wing-like contraption on her back attached to a metal chestplate. The machine has three egg-shaped turquoise thrusters. Her goggles, the same color, obscure her expression. In her left hand, she holds aloft a robotic rabbit. Its torso is a swirl of orange and greys, but the top of its head is a bright red. In the background, an orange spotlight surrounds the rabbit. End Description.
Image Description: A thirty-four-by-forty-two pixel art image rendered in a desaturated yellow and red palette with a dark border. The sun, with its large eye, stares down at a pink man. Alternating light and dark concentric circles cover both the body and eye of the sun. From its bottom tendrils, its two arms reach down and grab the man's shoulders. The man has dark hair in a short bob. His features are dark and undefined. Only his shoulders are visible, but he is topless. He is clearly distressed and is sweating profusely. End Description.
Image Description: A hundred-by-hundred pixel art image rendered in a teal and blue palette with a white and dark border. A humanoid mammal creature sits on a beach, his right arm propping him up, his left leg poking up. He has large ears and large black eyes; he looks at the viewer, pleased. Large light spots cover portions of his white fur. He is only wearing swim briefs. In his left hand, he holds up a round glass of sangria, a wedge of fruit sticking out the right side. The sand piles up where he has disturbed it. In the background, the sky becomes lighter towards the horizon. White foam gathers on the dark, turquoise sea. End Description.
Image Description: A hundred-by-hundred pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white and dark border. A humanoid mammal creature sits on a beach, his right arm propping him up, his left leg poking up. He has large ears and large black eyes; he looks at the viewer, pleased. Large light spots cover portions of his white fur. He is only wearing dark swim briefs. In his left hand, he holds up a round glass of sangria, a wedge of fruit sticking out the right side. The sand piles up where he has disturbed it. In the background, the sky becomes lighter towards the horizon. White foam gathers on the dark sea. End Description.
Image Description: A seventy-by-seventy pixel art comic rendered in a green Game Boy palette, a white background, a light and dark border, and higher resolution text. Panel 1: A green blob with dot eyes and a flap mouth wearing a hard hat. Off-screen, a man says: "You are our best employee." Panel 2: A small, doll-like man with dark hair, black eyes, white blush, and a smile. He wears a simple dark dress. He continues: "Always on time; You never whine." Panel 3: The blob scrunches up, hearts floating around him. The man continues: "Here's my gift to you." Panel 4: A giant box labeled "MORE WORK!" crushes the blob. He looks surprised. Below, the comic is named "The Fruit of Labor", and it is comic number two. © Clark Padmore 2022. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-nine pixel art image rendered in a teal and blue palette with a dark border. An eye with a teal pupil rests inside a dark-blue and teal circle with three arrows pointing out of it: teal from the bottom, white from the top-left, and blue from the top-right, as well as a white semi-circle coming out the bottom-right. Behind the eye inside the circle are three additional eye shapes: seafoam green vertically, teal diagonally top-left, and sky-blue diagonally top-right. This symbol sits inside a textured rectangle that is light turquoise at the top and becomes a sky-blue towards the bottom. Surrounding the rectangle are seven horizontal stripes: the stripes of the gay men and MLM pride flag. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-nine pixel art image rendered in a monochrome palette with a dark border. An eye with a light pupil rests inside a black circle with three arrows pointing out the bottom, top-left, and top-right, as well as a semi-circle coming out the bottom-right. This symbol sits inside a textured rectangle that is light at the top and becomes dark towards the bottom. Surrounding the rectangle are seven horizontal stripes, which start as black on top and bottom, become lighter towards the center, and crescendo in a single white stripe. End Description.
Image Description: A forty-six-by-forty-six pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background and a light and dark border. A light ball-shaped creature sits on the ground with his dark feet splayed. Two dark, curly antennae sprout from on top of him. Large black pupils hug the inside of his vertical elliptical eyes. He has a white dot nose and a white, round, open smile. End Description.
Image Description: A twenty-six-by-thirty-eight pixel art animation rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a light background and a light and black border. A rotund humanoid pig in a dark suit, black tie, and tight black pants holds a cigar in his right hand as he looks to the right. He has square shoulders, wide hips, and skinny legs. His face is adorned with dark mutton chops and a dark nose; his dark eyes contain light slitted irises. Smoke wafts from his cigar. Periodically, he will bring it to his mouth. As he brings it back down, he exhales a circle of smoke. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a very dark background. It has a black and light border. Outlined in white is a black, decrepit Venus symbol with three crosses coming out the bottom, top-left, and top-right, as well as a mercurial semicircle out of the bottom-right. The top crosses have been chained together, and the bottom cross is chained to something below the image. Inside the symbol is a dark circle with a vertical eye inside. As it stares with its medium iris, it cries, two large tears forming on either side of it. End Description.
Image Description: A forty-nine-by-seventy pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a very dark background. It has a light one-pixel border followed by a second dark one-pixel border. In the corners of the image, four white sperm-like creatures with large light eyes look towards the center. The top two are curved in "S" patterns; the bottom-left is poking out of the ground; and the bottom-right is poking out the edge of the image. In the center, standing on the balls of his feet on the medium textured ground, is a black humanoid demon with a white outline, looking towards the viewer. He smirks, his eyes taunting. His right arm waves to the ground while his left arm points to the sky, his club-ended tail swinging to the viewer's right. Upon his head is a dark crown with a tall, bulbous front segment. He wears a strange garment: a dark curved monastic scapular that becomes a loincloth. Two ends wrap around his neck, before curving out at the pecs into circular segments. It then squares out at the waist, where a belt wraps around him. Finally, a long loincloth falls almost to the top of his ankles. A light symbol is woven into the circular pec segments and below. It cannot be seen clearly, although it is a circle with something inside of it. Three arrows come out the bottom, top-left, and top-right of the circle. The top arrows wrap around the circle, reaching into it, giving the appearance of pulling it apart. The bottom arrow is straight, and it reaches to his groin. End Description.
Image Description: A thirty-six-by-thirty-six pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. It has a dark one-pixel border followed by a second light one-pixel border. A boy in a medium striped sweater, dark shorts, and dark shiny shoes, faces to the left while holding a gun in his right hand. He has light eyes and dark, poofy hair. He stands with his feet shoulder width apart and his left arm thrusted out. Three small dark creatures with light eyes gather around him. Behind him is a skinny ghost. In front of him is a small spider and a larger ghost. The creatures are lacking in detail Behind everything, an outlined silhouette of a large, round creature looms towards the top-left corner of the picture. His head, almost circular, has pointed ears coming up from the sides of his head, starting around the light corners of his mouth. He has a large open grin, and his tongue is visible. His eyes are small, light crosses, and his nostrils are light. Two light lines come down straight from his scalp to the end of his forehead. End Description.
Image Description: A thirty-six-by-thirty-six pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. It has a dark one-pixel border followed by a second light one-pixel border. Inside of a dark cylindrical room, three giant eyes on the wall stare at two men standing in a spotlight. The eyes bulge out of the dark wall, their dark irises focused on the center of the room. The first eye, on the left, is vertical, the second eye is shaped like a cross diagonally, and the third eye is horizontal. A white outline borders the two men as they stand in the spotlight. The first on the left, a dark-haired man with light skin in checkered clothes, stands triumphantly, his arms raised on either side of him, as he stares at the vertical eye. The second, a man with medium-length dark hair and light skin in dark clothes and dark shoes, stands with his back to the eyes. His legs are crossed, his left foot perpendicular to the ground. He is bent over slightly, his face in his hands. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-by-thirty-six pixel art image rendered in a four-color palette of warm tans and browns. It has a dark one-pixel border followed by a second black one-pixel border. There are two images, separated by a black line vertically, of a light humanoid creature in a maid's outfit, holding a broom in his right hand. He has an undefined snout pointing to the right, possibly duck-like or reptilian, and two vertical eyes that are offset, his left eye higher than his right. His hair, a mix of dark and black, is tied into a large bun sticking out to the top-left. His outfit consists of a puffy-shouldered black minidress, dark tights, black heels, and black gloves. The dress is secured with a high-waisted dark belt with a white buckle. In both images, he is holding a broom in his right hand, handle-first against the floor. In the left image, he stands with his legs slightly apart and his feet pointing together, his left arm against his hip and his right arm propping the broom away from him. He looks at the viewer with a neutral expression. In the right image, he is standing away from the viewer, hips thrusting to the left, arms spread, his left hand open, as he holds the broom farther away to the right. Only his right eye is visible as he looks back towards the viewer with a half-lidded expression. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-by-thirty-six pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. It has a dark one-pixel border followed by a second black one-pixel border. There are two images, separated by a black line vertically, of a light humanoid creature in a maid's outfit, holding a broom in his right hand. He has an undefined snout pointing to the right, possibly duck-like or reptilian, and two vertical eyes that are offset, his left eye higher than his right. His hair, a mix of dark and black, is tied into a large bun sticking out to the top-left. His outfit consists of a puffy-shouldered black minidress, dark tights, black heels, and black gloves. The dress is secured with a high-waisted dark belt with a white buckle. In both images, he is holding a broom in his right hand, handle-first against the floor. In the left image, he stands with his legs slightly apart and his feet pointing together, his left arm against his hip and his right arm propping the broom away from him. He looks at the viewer with a neutral expression. In the right image, he is standing away from the viewer, hips thrusting to the left, arms spread, his left hand open, as he holds the broom farther away to the right. Only his right eye is visible as he looks back towards the viewer with a half-lidded expression. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-one-sixty pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. The view is of a road, stretching into the top of the frame. Two-thirds up, the sidewalk becomes visible as the road grows smaller in the distance. Content warning: gore and human corpses. Starting from the top, getting closer into view until a third down, are four human corpses. The farthest one cannot be seen clearly, a jumble of dark clothes, light skin, and black viscera. The second body is of a dark-haired woman in a black dress lying on her back. Dark blood can be seen coming from her arms and legs. Her knees are bent at unnatural angles outwards. The third body is of a person who only appears to be wearing a black shirt while lying on his face. White viscera and wounds appear around his face on the ground and on his legs. The fourth body is of a dark-skinned, dark-haired man, lying perpendicular to the road, his closed eyes and mouth visible on his face. Light blood covers the left side of his face, his white shirt, and his black pants. At the bottom, nearest in perspective, is a small black humanoid figure. He has small nub feet and short legs. Two thick horns, the same color as his skin, grow out the side of his head. He has large, vertical light eyes, with a tiny light mouth. He has a dark blush on his cheeks. He is wearing a pair of ragged shorts. As he looks up at the viewer, he holds a bloody crowbar with a light outline in his right hand, pointing it towards the ground. Surrounding the figure is the shadow of a broad-shouldered man with square hair and a stern expression. He is holding a gun in his right hand, pointing it downwards. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-one-sixty pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. The view is of a road, stretching into the top of the frame. Two-thirds up, the sidewalk becomes visible as the road grows smaller in the distance. At the same place, four splotchy patches of color lay on the road. The first two from the top are white, the third is light, and the last one is dark. The last splotch is more clearly the outline of a human body lying in the road, his eyes and mouth visible on his face. At the bottom, nearest in perspective, is a small black humanoid figure. He has small nub feet and short legs. Two thick horns, the same color as his skin, grow out the side of his head. He has large, vertical light eyes, with a tiny light mouth. He has a dark blush on his cheeks. He is wearing a pair of ragged shorts. As he looks up at the viewer, he holds a bloody crowbar with a light outline in his right hand, pointing it towards the ground. Surrounding the figure is the shadow of a broad-shouldered man with square hair and a stern expression. He is holding a gun in his right hand, pointing it downwards. End Description.
Image Description: A short looping one-sixty-by-one-forty-four pixel art animation rendered in a green Game Boy palette. A cat, similar to a minskin but fatter, lies on a table in a right half-profile, looking at the viewer while blinking and swinging her tail back and forth. She has patches of light fur between her eyes, on her front, on her belly, and in stripes on the end of her tail; the rest of her fur is medium. Her ears point diagonally from her head. Her eyes blink out of sync; her right eye blinks before her left eye. She has prominent dark claws at the ends of her legs. On the table, an upside-down triangle of white powder has been drawn around the cat, and three crayons have been placed at the points: the top-left is a light crayon labelled "Y", the top-right is a medium crayon labelled "R", and the bottom is a dark crayon labelled "G". The view is only of half the table centered in frame. The other half is cropped out, leaving blank space on the right side. In the background, a grid of medium and dark checkers moves towards the top-right corner, looping. End description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a palette of cool blues and reds with a white background. The same dark-blue humanoid creature from the third image, except its mouth of sharp teeth is now open, revealing a dark-red-lined mouth with a large pink tongue. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a palette of cool blues and reds with a white background. A dark-blue humanoid creature is looking to the right, his face and shoulders in half-profile. His large round head only has round shiny dark-red eyes, two small dark-red nostrils, and a big toothy grimace of triangular teeth with pink borders. Around his neck is a pink chain, which connects to another larger chain of dark-reds and pinks that falls down his chest. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background. The same dark humanoid creature from the first image, except its mouth of sharp teeth is now open, revealing a dark-lined mouth with a large light tongue. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background. A dark humanoid creature is looking to the right, his face and shoulders in half-profile. His large round head only has round shiny eyes, two small nostrils, and a big toothy grimace of triangular teeth. Around his neck is a light chain, which connects to another larger chain of dark and light colors that falls down his chest. End Description.
Image Description: A twenty-by-forty pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background. A small white anthropomorphic rabbit-man stands, leaning slightly to the right. He wears a light robe. The torso wraps to the left and extends past his hips. The legs reach just above his ankles and are darker than the torso. He also wears a pair of light sandals. His ears stick straight up from his head. His eyes, black sclera with lighter pupils, are curved in a trapezoidal expression of anger, and his eyes are looking to his right. His left hand holds a dark staff on the ground, the end pointing away from him. The end of the staff turns into a hook with a pike, similar to a halberd. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a green Game Boy palette. It has a dark, one-pixel border, followed by a second one-pixel border that is white on the left side and black on the right side. A nun wearing a Catholic habit stands in the center, her palms raised in front of her, facing towards the viewer. She has a neutral expression. Light shines on her left side, creating a distinction between her illuminated side on our right and her shaded side on our left. In the light, her eyebrow, eyelash, and pupil can be seen, along with a wrinkle running down the side of her nose and the edge of her lips. In the shadow, only a silhouette of her eye is visible, although the other half of her nose is lit. Below her coif hangs a small cross on a necklace. On her left palm is a dark Venus symbol. On her right palm is a light Mercury symbol. Behind her on our right, the background is white, and a stylized sheep's face and front body curves around the border of her clothes, its legs reaching downwards and its face looking towards the viewer. Behind her on our left, the background is black, and a stylized dove's head and wing curves around the white border of her clothes, its face in profile and looking to the right. End Description.
Image Description: A sixty-four-by-sixty-four pixel art image rendered in a blue four-color palette with a light-blue background. Two people stand in the snow. Small piles of snow are visible on the ground. On the left stands a short, round humanoid snowman, boots shoulder-width apart, smiling at the man on the right. The snowman is wearing a coat with the bottom button undone and a fur hat. A coal nose sits between his eyes, dark sclerae with light irises. As he gives a thumbs-up to the sky with his left arm, a white heart with a smiling face appears above him. The man to his right, shrouded in silhouette, is standing straight with his hands in his pockets. Even his shadow is darker than that of the snowman. He appears to be wearing a beanie, coat, pants, and boots. The only details that can be seen, barely visible against the darkness, are the middle of his face, the zippers of his jacket and pants, the openings of his pockets, and the laces of his boots. End Description.
Image Description: A short looping sixteen-by-twenty pixel art animation rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background. A pale, pear-shaped humanoid stands with his upper arms close to his torso and his forearms pointed outwards. He bounces on his feet, bobbing up and down. His hands and feet have a darker tint from the rest of his body. The only details visible on his face are his large eyes, small mouth, and blush. Two puffy, tinted appendages protrude diagonally from his head, waving up and down as he bounces. A heart symbol is emblazoned on his chest. Periodically, he blinks. End Description. Periodically, he closes his eyes and smiles.
Image Description: A short looping sixteen-by-twenty pixel art animation rendered in a green Game Boy palette with a white background. The same humanoid from the previous animation stands still. Then, he brings his hands together, clasping them slightly to his right. As he does this, he closes his eyes and smiles. The appendages on his head bounce slightly. The animation abruptly restarts. End Description.
Image Description: A vertical four-panel pixel art comic with slight animation rendered in a Super Game Boy palette of dark purple, red, orange, and pale tan. The primary art is 64 by 128 pixels, with the text written at 256 by 512 pixels. A pale man in a dark t-shirt sits next to a round table with his arms by his side. The panel is cut off at his chest. His dark hair is pulled into a quiff, and he has a solemn expression on his square-jawed, stubble-coated, conventionally attractive face. On his table is a large cup of iced coffee that is progressively darker towards the top. However, the cup is cut off by the man's dialogue. "They used to trust me; used to respect me as a man." He looks down, holding his left hand to his chest. "Now, all I get are shifty looks and people murmuring under their breath." The man raises his right eyebrow, gesturing forward with both hands. "I'm not a monster, y'know? I deserve to be treated right." There is bold emphasis on the word "monster." The last panel shows the head and upper-torso of a dark, furry creature holding half of a bitten sub sandwich in his giant clawed hand. His oblong head sports a long snout with two small nostrils, leading directly into a large grimace of stained triangular teeth. The back of his head is lined with bristles. His orange eyes contain large red spirals. Periodically, he slowly blinks, pauses, then quickly blinks twice. The watermark reads "© Clark Padmore 2021." End Description.
Image Description: A short looping thirty-two-by-thirty-two pixel art animation rendered in a game-boy palette with a black background. A boy with dark hair in dark pajamas stands in front of a closet with his back to the viewer. Every one-and-a-half seconds, a light flashes from inside the closet, illuminating the floor in front of it and casting a shadow behind the boy. It quickly fades, leaving only the boy's hands and the back of his head visible. Throughout the animation, six symbols are barely visible. They are placed in two columns beside the closet. Down the left side, there is an eye, a vertical eye, and an eye split both horizontally and vertically. Down the right side, there is a symbol of Mars, an inverted symbol of Uranus, and an upper-left aligned symbol of Mercury whose cross is replaced with a spear. End Description.