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Description
some basic sketch ideas I drew up for

Fig.1)
Slenderman standing beneath a lamppost at night, the first time Toby sees him.

Fig.2)
The ghostly children in Toby's nightmare when he's in the endless hallway. These children were taken by the Slenderman and as a result have taken on his appearance and have become a hivemind. These surround Toby in the hallway after his encounter with his sister.

Fig.3)
A mad, smiling face like the Cheshire Cat smile, which will soon be the appearance of Toby's mouth guard and goggles when he runs away from home and becomes a proxy. These smiles appear in unusual places and haunt Toby during hallucinations, and appear on different objects and surfaces in whatever room Toby is in.

Fig.4)
Toby's sister, Lera, as a phantom during Toby's nightmare. Unlike most of the other hallucinations and nightmares, Lera is the most disturbing and gory, and appears incredibly detail in how Toby remembered her body after the fatal car crash. Glass is piercing her skull and tore most of her skin, her limbs twisted and bones visible and her legs broken in odd angles, and her bottom jaw hangs by slithers of ripped flesh. She acts as Toby's conscience, telling him that her father wasn't there for her...

Fig.5)
The Slenderman appears to Toby by the bedside window, and even during his therapy session. I like the idea that it's not clear what exactly Slenderman is, whether he's a demon, a ghost, a faerie creature or some sort of extraterrestrial. I like the idea that he sort of acts like an alien when he moves and peers in the window, or at a distant he acts very ghostly, just standing there in mist and staring at Toby intensely.

Fig.6)
One of Toby's hallucinations from the story was him telling his mom he saw a shark in the sink. While it is very strange and a little humorous, I thought of the idea that Toby's hallucination becomes much more menacing and was brought on by visuals.
First he could be helping out with chores and is washing up dishes, and while daydreaming he sees the tip of a knife sticking out from the sink water. In his mind it looks like a shark's fin.
As he's washing, he could see something out of the window, perhaps a car or a truck that made him think of the car crash his sister died in. It could erupt with a loud noise as it sped past, and as Toby imagined the sound of the imminent crash, a large shark's head burst out of the sink, but instead of splashing water, it's the sound of smashing glass .

Fig.7)
Toby also claims to hear crickets under his pillow when he sleeps. This hallucination could just be brought on by insomnia and the constant sounds of nightcrawlers outside at night as he sleeps near his window. I could possibly see the crickets at one point, and I kinda like the idea that these were bizarre looking creatures that could either be hallucinations, or some kind of creatures relating to Slenderman, or perhaps strange visions brought on by Slenderman's presence.
The crickets could move in a jilted, disjointed way like in stop-motion animation, and have large bloodshot eyeballs to emphasise Toby's declining sanity and the jerky movements of the crickets to represent Toby's Tourettes, and how he sees himself.

Fig.8) Just before Toby kills his dad, there may be a final hallucination (or several sprinkled throughout the story) of Toby seeing his dad as a bloated rotting corpse, constantly spewing viscous liquid from his shrivelled mouth, a clear representation of how Toby sees his dad; a sad empty hollow shell being rotted away by alcoholic abuse, as well as foreshadowing his eventual demise at the hands of his own son.

Description
some basic sketch ideas I drew up for

Fig.1)
Slenderman standing beneath a lamppost at night, the first time Toby sees him.

Fig.2)
The ghostly children in Toby's nightmare when he's in the endless hallway. These children were taken by the Slenderman and as a result have taken on his appearance and have become a hivemind. These surround Toby in the hallway after his encounter with his sister.

Fig.3)
A mad, smiling face like the Cheshire Cat smile, which will soon be the appearance of Toby's mouth guard and goggles when he runs away from home and becomes a proxy. These smiles appear in unusual places and haunt Toby during hallucinations, and appear on different objects and surfaces in whatever room Toby is in.

Fig.4)
Toby's sister, Lera, as a phantom during Toby's nightmare. Unlike most of the other hallucinations and nightmares, Lera is the most disturbing and gory, and appears incredibly detail in how Toby remembered her body after the fatal car crash. Glass is piercing her skull and tore most of her skin, her limbs twisted and bones visible and her legs broken in odd angles, and her bottom jaw hangs by slithers of ripped flesh. She acts as Toby's conscience, telling him that her father wasn't there for her...

Fig.5)
The Slenderman appears to Toby by the bedside window, and even during his therapy session. I like the idea that it's not clear what exactly Slenderman is, whether he's a demon, a ghost, a faerie creature or some sort of extraterrestrial. I like the idea that he sort of acts like an alien when he moves and peers in the window, or at a distant he acts very ghostly, just standing there in mist and staring at Toby intensely.

Fig.6)
One of Toby's hallucinations from the story was him telling his mom he saw a shark in the sink. While it is very strange and a little humorous, I thought of the idea that Toby's hallucination becomes much more menacing and was brought on by visuals.
First he could be helping out with chores and is washing up dishes, and while daydreaming he sees the tip of a knife sticking out from the sink water. In his mind it looks like a shark's fin.
As he's washing, he could see something out of the window, perhaps a car or a truck that made him think of the car crash his sister died in. It could erupt with a loud noise as it sped past, and as Toby imagined the sound of the imminent crash, a large shark's head burst out of the sink, but instead of splashing water, it's the sound of smashing glass .

Fig.7)
Toby also claims to hear crickets under his pillow when he sleeps. This hallucination could just be brought on by insomnia and the constant sounds of nightcrawlers outside at night as he sleeps near his window. I could possibly see the crickets at one point, and I kinda like the idea that these were bizarre looking creatures that could either be hallucinations, or some kind of creatures relating to Slenderman, or perhaps strange visions brought on by Slenderman's presence.
The crickets could move in a jilted, disjointed way like in stop-motion animation, and have large bloodshot eyeballs to emphasise Toby's declining sanity and the jerky movements of the crickets to represent Toby's Tourettes, and how he sees himself.

Fig.8) Just before Toby kills his dad, there may be a final hallucination (or several sprinkled throughout the story) of Toby seeing his dad as a bloated rotting corpse, constantly spewing viscous liquid from his shrivelled mouth, a clear representation of how Toby sees his dad; a sad empty hollow shell being rotted away by alcoholic abuse, as well as foreshadowing his eventual demise at the hands of his own son.