Ghoul face - Lovecraft Mythos by electreel on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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Published: Dec 8, 2013

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Part of my illustrative project featuring the creatures of Lovecraft's works. I was having trouble making the second illustration, so I couldn't submit the whole sheet.

“These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.”

“It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasn’t even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panic—not that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasn’t the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feet—none of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness.”

Pickman’s Model - H.P. Lovecraft

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After seeing this ,I noted the slight resemblance bet this and my chaaracters, and wondered how well they'd fit into human society. One of the reasons why I stopped cartooning ,,,