Goni Montes shows us the steps taken to create this piece on sleep paralysis, which he experienced as a teenager. “I thought I was being pinned down by something unearthly demon; I found out much later it was, in my case, due to physical exhaustion.”

“This piece took approximately 30 hours, admittedly, much more than anticipated. Most of my time went into these infamous inks. Sketching those mushrooms went faster than refining them with black linework.”

“By the time I started painting this, I had a solid idea of what the colors were going to be, only to find out that once all the colors were set, the little dude in the middle looked like a chupacabra…”

“Somehow, in my head (and probably only there) changing the color scheme made it look less like a chupacabra (this one’s just plain funny). So blue and gold was the final color scheme.”