Hey, not actually an art update, but something else I like to do – take photos! I’m making more of an effort to just take the camera and snap away at the things I see. Today was especially gorgeous as you can see here. The full set is at Flickr (click here to go there)
Walking Pictures
•December 9, 2009 • 1 CommentRough Tattoo idea
•December 4, 2009 • 6 Comments
basically a hodge-podge of sketches for the second tattoo I plan to get. I’ve sent this off to the tattoo artist, and given her a carte blanche to re-interpret the design into something better. Basically the same process I did for my first tattoo.
For your reference the awesome tattooist(?) is Nomi Chi!
Great Old Ones – X’chll’at-aa
•September 28, 2009 • 2 Comments
This sketch took quite a while to do, and I also did a couple other sketches in between so I wasn’t going to stress-out on trying to get this finished… Originally I was going to go for all sorts of effects like shiny-slimy skin & highlights, but I think that would’ve just muddied up the whole image overall. I rather like it like this….
Anyways, X’chll’at-aa, “Lord of the Great Old Ones, The Unborn God, Enemy of All That Live.”
X-rays of fetuses are already inherently evil-looking, so it wasn’t much of a stretch for me!
Cthulhu Statue
•September 23, 2009 • 3 Comments
Just a stab at drawing the crude little statue would look like… The actual thing would be far more horrifying, and beyond my ken to put to page… But I’ll try one day! After all, it WOULD be so cool to make an image that actually drove people insane to look on it longer than a hasty glance… Squeeze your eyes shut at the very instant, like when you were watching a scary movie as a child, there’d be a frame of that nightmare burned into your retina before blissful ignorance shuttered the view.
Yeah, I have way way way too much fun doing these, and yes, it is one of my goals to give Cthulhu his due in a terrible image.
Lovecraft – The Innsmouth Look
•September 20, 2009 • 4 Comments
While stuck on a much more compelx image, I decided to take some pressure off and “just do it.” So I whipped out a quick and dirty sketch of one of the locals of Innsmouth, yes, that fishing town of H. P. Lovecraft’s imagination…
Great Old Ones – Quachil Uttaus
•September 16, 2009 • 1 Comment
5th sketch for the 5th day – the 30-day Trianta challenge continues.
This was done at a local pub-bar, Subeez, where I met up with fellow artist friends and had a beer and got drawing/talking shit… It was a nice change of pace for me, not staring at a computer screen all night, and the linework on this was fun to do – I shall do it more often! Just used a non-photoblue pencil for the porportion-sketch, and a black Uniball ‘Vision’ fine ink pen.
This fellow is known as Quachil Uttaus, “The Treader in the Dust” – everything he touches turns to dust.. He’s described as a miniature wrinkled mummy with stiff claws, but I left out the ‘mini’ part as it’s just too goofy.
Great Old Ones – Mordiggian
•September 14, 2009 • Leave a Comment
The Trianta continues – and more Lovecraftian Elder Gods!
Mordiggian
aka “The Charnel God”,
“The Great Ghoul,”
“Lord of Zul-Bha-Sair”
Described as a great shape shifting cloud of shadow, I decided to add a bit more visual detail than just pure blackness emerging from a crypt.. I’m honestly ambivalent about the red lifeforce; but it’s done.
Great Old Ones – Aphoom-Zhah
•September 14, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Another one for the Trianta – this time the more elemental Aphoom-Zhah, aka “The Cold Flame” or “Lord of the Pole”. I went for the long dark of the Arctic night to really let him stand out… He’s described as being a vast grey flame, though for something casting light, it’s not possible to stay grey & translucent on a blue background (sure I could’ve done this in black and white but I find that color images get more views)
Bit of a faster image too, as I didn’t have to shade or highlight corpulent flesh this time around.
Great Old Ones – Chaugnar Faugn
•September 13, 2009 • Leave a Comment
For the Trianta (30 days, 30 sketches), I decided to go with a Lovecraftian theme – in which I take the names and rough description of the dark and terrible Elder Gods from beyond the stars, and do ‘em.
Chaugnar Faugn
aka “The Feeder”
“A bipedal elephant with a mouth on the end of its trunk.”
Great Old Ones – Arwassa
•September 11, 2009 • 1 Comment
For the Trianta (30 days, 30 sketches), I decided to go with a Lovecraftian theme – in which I take the names and rough description of the dark and terrible Elder Gods from beyond the stars, and do ‘em.
Arwassa
aka “The Silent Shouter on the Hill”
“A humanoid torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth.”
I could imagine that in some godforsaken land, stumbling around in the dark petrified forest, you’re lost, looking for civilisation… In the half-light of the corpse-moon you’d think you saw another person, walking towards you. But that animal ken that kept our ancestors alive for one more day would now be raising every hair on your neck, and start your heart hammering in your chest, before you’ve even begun to notice this new visitor just… Isn’t… Human.
