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Serpent People, Part the Third
They call them serpent people but that’s a misnomer. Snakes are late bloomers on reptile family tree. And snakes couldn’t stand up even if they had arms and legs, their spines aren’t made for it.
Serpent People, Part the Second
More from the project that must not be discussed only alluded to (and then only in hints and whispers).
Serpent People, Part the First
Back in ’06 I did some brainstorming with some folks on an RPG set in the Cthulhu Mythos milieu. Over the next few days I’ll be posting the sketches I did. I ran across them recently when I was freeing up space on my art station and decided I wanted to share them. I don’t want to say any more about it in case the project ever gets revived.
Grandmother Hydra
In The Shadow Over Innsmouth H.P. Lovecraft introduced the deep ones; immortal ocean dwelling amphibians that traffic with humanity for dark, evil purposes. Over the years other authors expanded on Lovecraft’s mythology and the deep ones have shown up in numerous stories, games and even a film or two.
Grandmother Hydra here was inspired by the idea that deep ones don’t stop growing as they get older. I added the idea that old deep one sorcerers could mutate themselves by adding aspects of other sea creatures and then started sketching. Hydra seemed like she’d make a good adversary for King Roach.
Nightgaunt
Another critter from Lovecraft.
Cuddly Frogfishpeople
A little more Lovecraftian sketching. The fishfrog thing in the upper right is a deep one. In the lower right is a deep one / human hybrid in the process of transforming.
The middle thing is some sort of fire creature and the fellow in the bottom left is Lone Crow. (The profile in the top left is no one specific.)
Consorting with the Old Ones
These to sketches are tangentially related to the Flash animation series project. The old man version of H.P. Lovecraft was to be a minor character in one of the series. The series was to be set in an alternate America where creatures of myth and magic were part of everyday life. (Yeah I know, real original.) Lovecraft was to be head of the police resources and evidence archives.
The Wilbur Whately portrait was done for the fun of it.
Happy New Year!
Say hello to 2008. I’ve got another sketchbook’s worth of posts set up that should carry us into February. Life is still pretty busy but with the Holiday jams passed by I think I’ll have time to keep up a daily rhythm here again.
Today’s sketch was done this month. It was intended for a future issue of Worlds of Cthulhu for an article on gangsters. The editor and I had some miscommunication and the job for illustrating the article has gone to someone else. No biggie, he was needing more illustrations than I can provide at the moment and has assigned me to a different article.
Great Cthulhu
Not sure when I’ll have a chance to restart with the sketchbooks. Busy busy. Anybody want to borrow a twelve year old for a few days?
