HOME | DD
TickleMeCthulhu — Notes on the Elder One
Published: 2011-08-19 21:19:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 802; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 18
Redirect to original
Description
My notes on The Elder One, from 'At the Mountains of Madness.' I really wish I hadn't traced the pencil line in ink.Related content
Comments: 4
It's so beautiful just like a marine invertebrate
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks! I really need to do a better version of this. Not that this was supposed to be a "version" at all, this page was originally just my notes- taken from Lovecraft's detailed description, measurements and all- to draw future representations of the Elder Ones.
I wasn't sure how the wings should look, but then I saw "Stygiomedusa gigantea" and I'm inspired: www.mbari.org/news/feature-ima…
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Many depictions of Lovecraft's creatures that I've seen tend to superimpose the description over a humanoid frame, even when it doesn't fit the given description. This is the sort of otherworldy invertebrate craziness that I imagine he was going for.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
The ones that bug me are the Cthulhus drawn with muscular humanoid bodies.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0