Further development on a font for my unfinished 2004 Sasquatch calendar. I spent some time looking for and photographing various interesting statues around Seattle for Sasquatch and the little troll to visit but, other than some further design work on this font and a few preliminary sketches, this project didn’t get very far.
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Great Race of Yith
I have a great time drawing creatures from Lovecraft’s ever expanding Cthulhu Mythos. With one exception. The Great Race of Yith, a species of time traveling entities, is just plain goofy looking.
The creatures in many of Lovecraft’s stories are only described vaguely. He usually only suggests what something looks like and then lets your imagination fill in the details. Two species that he describes in great detail are the Elder Things in At the Mountains of Madness and the Great Race in The Shadow Out of Time. I love the Elder Things. They have a wonderful fivefold invertebrate design that’s fun to work with. The Great Race? Gah. I’ve done illustrations of them that I like but I can’t seem to make them look cool. And scary? That’s beyond my meager talents.
Sasquatch Alphabet
I occasionally put together a calendar of original artwork. The last one was in 2002 for 2003. As 2003 started I also started thinking about what subject I could focus on for a 2004 calendar. I got the idea of doing illustrations of Sasquatch visiting various statues around town. He would be helping a little troll find a lost relative who had been enchanted into a statue somehow. (The relative would not be the Fremont Troll. That would be too obvious.) The Ss are my first attempts to design a font to be used for the words on the calendar.
Arrival
Another base sketch for an illustration for The Black Seal. The final illustration can be found here.
Look Up
These are the base pencils for an illustration that was done for The Black Seal #2. The final version of the illustration can be found here.
Fungi from Yuggoth
The Mi-Go are one of the alien races invented by H.P. Lovecraft. They’re a sort of sentient funguslike, crustaceanlike, extradimensional species. The Mi-Go, as they appear in The Whisperer in the Darkness, aren’t that interesting but over the years other authors have added to their corner of the mythos.
Humans and Aliens
I must have been thinking of world building when I sketched this page. I don’t know what the spiky demon thing at the top right is but along the bottom of the pages are heads for a dunak, a burrabb and a mi-go. And I obviously spent some time thinking about the clothes that hobbitty gentlemen in the top left is wearing.
Humans
One of my many sketches featuring different species of humanity. Species, not races. Any interbreeding would have result in sterile children. I’m fascinated with the idea that Homo Sapiens is just one of, perhaps, many forms of human beings. What would the world have looked like if the other species had not died out?
Surrounded
This guy really doesn’t look happy. Maybe he doesn’t like his company on the rest of the page.
Monkey Style
This young woman is holding a stance from monkey style kung fu. This is one of the sketches I did for the uncompleted Mandate of Heaven RPG game.
