Great Race of Yith

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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

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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.

Humans and Aliens

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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

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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?

Open Wide

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I love the turnipy sort of fellow on the right. I wish there was a story behind him. He just appeared on the page as is. Perhaps I’ll get around to making up a story for him one day.