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Published: 2013-05-28 13:25:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 1365; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 13
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pencil and charcoal drawing by Dean Kuhta, 2013promo piece for the NecronomiCon H.P. Lovecraft festival in Providence, Rhode Island.
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I think you've caught both the likeness and (probably more importantly) the essence of Lovecraft beautifully....
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Thanks Dave! I'm real happy how this one turned out. I'm also happy about the fact that all the Lovecraft elite will be seeing this poster up all over the place!
The portrait was the easy part, but you're right, achieving the "mood" of Lovecraft was the tricky part!
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Oddly I was only talking about Lovecraft at work today....the demise of Guillermo del Torro's Mountains of Madness and why no really decent film of H.P's work has ever been made (Reanimator not counting as the stories on which it is based are very different to his usual works). To be honest though, although I acknowledge his massive contribution to the genre, I've never been a big fan of his, finding his writing somewhat dry and clinical...I much prefer Poe who really knew how to get inside a characters skin or Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft's great contemporary, whose writing leant much further towards SF and fantasy than out and out horror.
Still a great drawing though...and he certainly had the face to fit his job didn't he?
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Right! I only just learned recently that del Torro was thinking of doing a Mountains of Madness film. I read that Tom Cruise was considered to be in the running, yuck!
I'm a Poe fan as well (thinking of doing a portrait of him next!), but Lovecraft will always be my #1 one guy! His writing is certainly difficult to get through at times, but I still love how complicated he can make adjectives form a single sentence that's sometimes as long a page! The biggest impact Lovecraft's had on me is not even his writing per se, but the images and ideas his writings have put into my head and then come out through pen or pencil!
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What you say about Lovecraft putting images in your head is probably his enduring legacy...because as you also say, his writing can be quite clunky, laboured and difficult.
I can't quite work out the current trend for hating Tom Cruise, he's a very good actor and a really sweet guy. I think some folk can't separate the actor from the crazy Scientologist, which is the most terrible form of prejudice...imagine saying the same thing about Woody Allen: "I just can't get past the fact he's a Jew!"....Not that I'm suggesting that's you, it's an argument against Cruise I've heard before is all. I quite like him personally, saw Oblivion recently and enjoyed that and am looking forward to All You Need is Kill.
I'll have to give Lovecraft another try...I've got all the collections of his work...I could do with some new (?) imagery in my head!
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