Nyarlathotep is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s more active creations. He (she, it) has a multitude of avatars. He gets involved with humanity. He pays attention to what we do. He plays with us. The rest of the Great Old Ones take as much notice of us as we do of ants.
The finished version of this is in my Epilogue gallery.
This sketch is based on an illustration I did years earlier of a levitating witch. The witch in the earlier illustration was clothed in flowing robes.
When I was a kid I did an illustration of a camp of lizard people, their tents and their pack animals. I rendered it in colored markers and my mom liked it so much she had it framed.
In 2002, when I was thinking of scenes for the Sentient 39 series I thought I’d revisit the lizard people. This sketch is the result.
All finished in Photoshop. Rejected by Epilogue.net.
The Wirepriests revere the connection, worship the flow – of information, of electricity, of power. They seek to contain it and to send it out. They don’t convert others to their religion, there’s no evangelism, they wire you in whether you’re interested or not. And then they go looking for the next connection.
Tomorrow I’ll present the finished version of this sketch.
Every picture tells a story, so it’s been said. I’ll leave it to you to figure out what the story is.
It’s a sketch of a man wearing a spacesuit standing on the outside of a spaceship or spacestation. I’m guessing that the case holds tools but maybe it holds a picnic lunch and he’s on his way to meet his sweetie so they can watch the sun rise over a planet. Or maybe the case holds his prize collection of fingerpuppets and he’s going to duct tape it to a secret part of the ship.
Another sketch from the 2002 section of the sketchbook. Apparently this gentleman is summoning up something unpleasent. Whether the unpleasentness will be turned outward or reflected back I couldn’t say.
I’ve imagined that the burrabb were a more generally carnivorous species that humans but I’d have to do some research before I committed to the idea. The more specialized the diet the less adaptable the species. Human civilization grew out of agriculture. The burrabb might have developed agriculture in order to feed their food animals rather than as a way to feed themselves. With the farm comes the town. With the town comes space travel. I’m probably hopping over a couple of steps here but you get the idea. A space faring culture is less likely to arise from a nomadic herding culture than an agrarian/industrial one.
The burrabb have a social structure similiar to a lion pride – an individual of one sex is catered to by mulitple mates of the other sex. The first human analogy would seem to be societies where men have more than one wife. This would be a superficial analogy. In those societies the male sex has most of the public role and interacts with other males in running society. In a lion’s pride the women do most of the work. A lion’s pride is the society to the lions. Another pride in the same territory will result in a fight.
The burrabb have a society of “prides”. The smaller sex does most of the work. The smaller sex does most of the negotiation. Among some burrabb races and cultures members of the large sex are able to sit next to each other and have pleasant conversations. These cultures are the exceptions. In general, the larger burrabb sex finds it physically uncomfortable to be close to other members of its sex. Too much closeness will often lead to violence.
