Ted's Lines

05/31/2026

Art Beast -4.62" x 4.62", pencil on illustration board.
Fragile brain cells being torn apart,
The destination for creativity is art.
An animal with a mind of its own,
Its impulse is to propel ego alone.
Don’t attempt to tame its direction,
Ride it like some sexual perversion.
With lit fire at your hope’s core,
Take it by the horns and roar.
Art gives us mental purpose,
Offering a pathway for solace.
Turning thoughts into visuals is a fate,
Restraint ain’t the paint to being a saint.
Create.
--©TED

05/21/2026

Art Beast -4.62" x 4.62", pencil on illustration board.

Fragile brain cells being torn apart,
The destination for creativity is art.
An animal with a mind of its own,
Its impulse is to propel ego alone.
Don’t attempt to tame its direction,
Ride it like some sexual perversion.
With lit fire at your hope’s core,
Take it by the horns and roar.
Art gives us mental purpose,
Offering a pathway for solace.
Turning thoughts into visuals is a fate,
Restraint ain’t the paint to being a saint.

Create.

--©TED

05/07/2026

Gremlin in the Screen - pencil on illustration board 4.62” x 4.62”

The gremlin in the screen,
Is an allure to create green.
Saturation by the bandit-in-the-box,
Is propelled by media at a personal loss.
Pushing the Kool-Aid creates a cyber-bond,
To swell a gel for which we are conned.
Our lumo-eyes are pushed with smears,
Like a brick-wall crush to separate peers.
The ministry of marketing cultivates gang agendas,
With a smack to the mind to spark the end of us.
The gremlins scream a mean game,
Our responsibility is to not regenerate the same.
Understand views without the filter,
Or gremlins win and put us out-of-kilter.
Mind your head by being well fed.
—©TED

04/26/2026

The Crux - song title from Mastodon’s “Hushed and Grim”—4.62” x 4.62”, pencil on illustration board, finalized as a duotone.

04/22/2026

Perception of Peace - 4.62” x 4.62”, pencil on hot press illustration board.

The Beast won’t budge.
Reality versus perception.
Beast commands balance.
Conflict reaps wealth.
Commerce is comfort.
Balance is the myth.
In service to the Beast.
—©TED

04/07/2026

Rattling Bones -4.62" x 4.62", pencil on illustration board.

Tense and angry to a calcium core,
Externals pushing hard at your door.
Irritation from useless semi-sadistic meddling,
Those who get a charge from deadening.
You need to be calm sans brutality,
Aggravation is no cause for physicality.
Deal with the barbs as a remote,
Patience or perspective is the antidote.
Leave such issues to wait in queue,
For the bones which rattle may be in you.
--©TED

04/07/2026

03/14/2026

Atomic Gargoyle - pencil on illustration board. 4.62” x 4.62”

Belief is an instigation,
To war on another nation.
Authoritarian warmongers loom,
Poised to create the doom,
Augmenting friction with a threat,
The fire of the devil will be set.
Leaders look to tactics to deploy,
With loss of life as a balanced toy.
As the sentry takes atomic aim,
Fake mercy inflicts the most pain.
As watchers ignore the plight,
They know their piety is right.
—©TED

11/26/2025

Limited-edition prints available:

https://darkted.com/collections/featured-products/products/krampus-full-color-print

10/19/2025

If you like.