Deep Ones by Astanael on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

_"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."_- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook from my Great Old Ones & Their Kin series for an upcoming Elder Gods Tarot project:

Rat-thing Zoogs Serpent-Men Tcho-tchos Elder Things Mi-Go, the Fungis of Yuggoth Hunting Horrors Leng Spiders Nightgaunts Dark Young

Dhole Cthonians Great Race of Yith Ghouls Animiculi Gugs Deep Ones Chakota Flying Polyps Shoggoth

The colour out of space Shans, the Insects of Shaggai Desh, creatures from beyond Stellar Vampire Shantak Byakhee Dimensional Shambler Fire Vampires Tindalos Hound Servitor God - Flutist