This is the base pencil art for an illustration in The Black Seal #2. The article being illustrated was about a secret lab/containment facility run by PISCES.
Category Archives: mythos
Early Versions
These two characters should have a longer entry but at I’m having a fairly hard time getting going this morning. These are early sketches for a couple of fictional contributors to the Black Seal. The man is a nerdier version of Grant Emerson, a Delta Green friendly. The final, more rugged, version appeared in issue #2. The woman was to be a research librarian who would contribute various articles on world history and mythology with a Cthulhu Mythos slant. She has yet to be used in print. Her resemblance to Velma is no coincidence.
Wilbur Bromley
These are the base pencils for an illustration for The Black Seal #2. The character portrayed is Wilbur Bromley, an avatar of Y’Golonac.
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.
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.
Sketching the Ghouls – Viking Takedown
This is the last of the preliminary sketches for the Ghoul sourcebook that I currently have scanned in. Work still continues on the book.
Tomorrow I start posting from a sketchbook from 2002.
Sketching the Ghouls – In the Tunnels
If these guys are lucky the ghouls are well fed and only want to play.
Sketching the Ghouls – Mordiggian’s Dinner Table
If the ghouls don’t get you, Mordiggian probably will.
