Artist's Thread!

[Genus Unknown]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! That's supremely awesome.

[Miskatonic Philologus]

Eric Lofgren,

I went to your site, it's great!

Thanks for the cool artwork.

[Bob Lovecraft]

Very nice, Eric Lofgren. welcome to the site.

Bob

[Eric Lofgren]

Hey, thanks guys!! As soon as I get some more time I'm going to be doing more. I'll be sure to post them up here.

[bear-shaped-ham]

Hey, thanks guys!! As soon as I get some more time I'm going to be doing more. I'll be sure to post them up here.

thank you so much for posting your stuff is awweeessome!!

heres a weeee nyarlathotep concept i just did

[bear-shaped-ham]

i really hate to double post buuuut i just took a go at drawing Cthulhu... i've tried drawing him soo many times and eveytime it just looks like a fat dude being attacked by an octopus and a bat...

again, kicking myself in the face for double posting

[Eric Lofgren]

Thanks, Bear Shaped Ham!

I love your Cthulhu. There's nothing wrong with him looking like a fat dude. HP sort of described him that way

[MartinRonnlund]

I think you should make him even more bloated.

[Brown Jenkin]

First post, aii aii teleki lei!

Lovely work in this thread, and some tremendous talent.
While I sometimes work in pen and ink media, I'm also a sound designer.
Put down that paint knife, folks -- it's just a different media!
I was originally working on this piece as a promo to a finished screenplay titled 'The Hop Yard' (shameless plug), and I was going to use it as background for voice-overs from the script. Then the thing just took on a life of its own, and sort of morphed into its current state.
To paraphrase, 'Do not summon up that which you cannot put down...'

For your enjoyment:

A Night in the Hop Yard
http://bluesun.name/Night in the Hop Yard.mp3

[bear-shaped-ham]

@brown Jenkin

i looove this audio!!

i think audio without visual can be a very creepy thing because it really does let the mind wander and make its own assumptions, I am not easily scared and yet the one thing which i remember and really drops something cold and fearfull into my belly is the audio loop from the movie "the strangers". The movie itself isnt that scary but the audio makes me curdle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjy1MP0MX0&feature=related <=

Is the creepy chanting based on anything because it does sound convincing indeed.

[Brown Jenkin]

Thanks Ham!
I'm liking your stuff as well--black pen and ink is really my favorite, and you've got that great sepia tone thing going... Some of you posters in here are totally working at the professional level (y'all know who you are)! From reading less than a dozen threads, I've seen enough collective talent in here to float the Bismark.

I didn't have a budget for this Lovecraftian Tone-poem, and didn't have time to do any original recording (which I much prefer), so everything in there is either from my private FX library, a stock loop, or clips I got from sound fx sharing sites. Lots of the FX I use are heavily processed to morph the tone, or give a different attack or decay or verb or something. Like the beast's wingbeats at the end, which had heavy bass EQ added, or the beast roar, for which I used a nice valley-sized reverb. The incantation came from a sharing site; I have no idea what he's saying, but it sounded suitably creepy, so I used it (took the original clip and chopped and cobbled and processed it out to fit the length). With a bit of extra time, I would have got a friend to narrate something in Latin or Greek, or maybe a made-up language.      

[Eric Lofgren]

I'm currently checking out that Night in the Hop Yard sound link



I forgot about this one. Probably because I'm unsure of it. I think a ghoul could be pushed a little more into nightmarish territory, where I think this one is really nothing more than a revised werewolf. I would love (seriously) to get some thoughtful feedback on this one, if anyone was into it. Just as an fyi, the unfinished aspects of it are intentional. I'm just experimenting with leaving brushstroke evidence, to see what the effect would be like. I usually render my paintings to the point of death.    

[Eric Lofgren]

Outstanding!! I loved it.

For your enjoyment:

A Night in the Hop Yard
http://bluesun.name/Night in the Hop Yard.mp3

[Bob Lovecraft]

Hey Eric Lofgren,

The only thin I might suggest for this to be a ghoul and not just a werewolf is something that I think most artists kind of miss and that is to include the moss and slime that is supposed to cover them. Remember that not only are the quite subterranean, but that their tunnels are described as just big enough to allow passage, suggesting that they are filthy from the earth in which they burrow. Also, as they are so often found disturbing graves, they are presumably in contact with the grave moss that grows on corpses, hence the moss and fungus that grows on the ghouls as well. Other than that, possibly some kind of ichor dripping from the mouth, perhaps.

Bob

[Genus Unknown]

What Bob said. Also, as far as the texture, you'll want to go for a kind of "unpleasant rubberiness," to use HPL's phrase. A sheen to the skin would also convey the idea of greasy nastiness, which is definitely in keeping with the ghouls.

Great work, by the way.