Dark blends · common

desperate

Out of options and reaching: fear driving through sorrow.

On the face
Wide pleading eyes in a falling face.
Ink recipe
disgusted 100 · surprised 55 · afraid 40 · happy 35 · sad 35 · suppression 25
Open in the mixer

More on being desperate

Desperate is fear driving straight through sorrow, the mood that makes people do the reckless, last-ditch thing. It shares a root with despair; this is despair that still has to move.

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