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Published: 2011-11-19 00:05:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 6814; Favourites: 183; Downloads: 79
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Description As big as a house, a cadaverous, fungous obesity, rolling swathes of glistening moon-blanched corpulence. Bloated and gorged with nameless, insatiate gluttony...


Many and multiform are the dim horrors of Earth, infesting her ways from the prime. They sleep beneath the unturned stone; they rise with the tree from its roots; they move beneath the sea and in subterranean places; they dwell in the inmost adyta; they emerge betimes from the shutten sepulcher of haughty bronze and the low grave that is sealed with clay. There be some that are long known to man, and others as yet unknown that abide the terrible latter days of their revealing. Those which are the most dreadful and the loathliest of all are haply still to be declared...

From the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred
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Comments: 28

keys616 [2022-07-31 09:10:14 +0000 UTC]

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OleBlkBetty [2015-11-15 22:04:42 +0000 UTC]

No offense intended, and this may have been your intent, but that pic is bloody scary! However your description shows you to be a man of great intellect and vocabulary.

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Azathothblindidiot [2015-10-10 10:30:33 +0000 UTC]

Agreed very creepy and awesome. Where did you get the idea for this picture? It has many similarities with H P Lovecraft's Old Ones and Ancients concepts like Chthulu and Games Workshops Chaos gods. Really like it.

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dloliver In reply to Azathothblindidiot [2015-10-16 07:47:18 +0000 UTC]

I honestly cant recall where the original concept came from, I must've been feeling a little bit Lovecraftian that day
Thanks.

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Azathothblindidiot In reply to dloliver [2015-10-16 09:40:58 +0000 UTC]

That's ok. I like it. Keep em coming.

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AnonymouslyDark [2013-04-02 14:20:51 +0000 UTC]

Very cool and very creepy, it's awesome.

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dloliver In reply to AnonymouslyDark [2013-04-03 12:06:24 +0000 UTC]

thanks and welcome to DA

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hedgehogkween [2012-10-01 00:44:43 +0000 UTC]

sooooo... is this not Diablo 3?

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dloliver In reply to hedgehogkween [2012-10-01 16:23:52 +0000 UTC]

not as far as i know. ive never seen any of the content of that game.

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hedgehogkween In reply to dloliver [2012-10-02 00:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Hm... it's a cool game, you'd probably like it. It has a lot of stuff like this in it...

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Lyfers [2012-01-04 15:39:11 +0000 UTC]

Yummy~

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dloliver In reply to Lyfers [2012-01-08 20:57:37 +0000 UTC]

just dont lick it!

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FollowinTheBlackBird [2011-11-21 19:21:47 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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dloliver In reply to FollowinTheBlackBird [2011-11-22 00:22:43 +0000 UTC]

very kind Jon. Thanks

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XlegendariumX [2011-11-19 18:20:50 +0000 UTC]

!!INFAMOUSE‘‘

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dloliver In reply to XlegendariumX [2011-11-19 20:27:58 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Sch1itzie [2011-11-19 07:00:03 +0000 UTC]

I love those opalescent colors to it's flesh! Awesome work!

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dloliver In reply to Sch1itzie [2011-11-19 11:51:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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SiberiumAbyss [2011-11-19 03:32:55 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I love that literate description you wrote at the top of the artist's comment, there. Although from the looks of the creature, I figured it to be infinitely larger than a house. o.o

Anyway, this piece, like its predecessors, has once again earned my awe and admiration. I daresay that I've not seen anything like this before on Deviantart... Your shading, as ever, is soundly impressive, executed with such balance that it could virtually be deemed photographic in realism (Eugh, I overuse that term. >_> ), and the little scintillating dots of for the lighting effect give the skin an almost "scaly" sort of appeal. I can also see that you've applied a new texture technique in your works, to balance the moist look with a crusty, leathery dryness, and I really love the colours, here. While coalesced as a dazzling variety of opalescent colours, you've also proven that when utilized for a more morbid concept, it can result in a delightfully grotesque, bruised effect. And the folds of skin around the practically cystic arm and his ovate, worm-like mouth even sent shudders down my spine! Then there's the excellent, deformed anatomy of the creature - the sheer broadness of what appears to be his shoulders, and the scattered ripples of skin, give the look of something prodigious and formidable. Description or no, when I try to envision his size scale, I see him rivaling mountains! Oh, and is that the moon? o.o Wow... It makes this picture so other-worldly. Just... incredible!!

Well, I'd better stop rambling about every little detail, before this becomes a sea of text. xD But keep up the excellent work!

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dloliver In reply to SiberiumAbyss [2011-11-19 11:59:22 +0000 UTC]

wanted to draw something hugely obese... god knows why
My favourite aspect was the distended veins and the discolouration of the skin like a bloated drowned corpse (gee im such a nice bloke).
Struggled a bit with how to finish it off, as for several days the bottom half of the image was more or less empty. Eventually sketched the hand in. I quite like the saggy look of the hand but i wish i had made it more bulbous like the rest of the thing.
Figured that i should just leave it alone though, before i managed to make a mess of it

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SiberiumAbyss In reply to dloliver [2011-11-19 12:06:48 +0000 UTC]

I think it's fine, personally. Not many people draw the rolls of flab in that manner, so it's different, to say the least... and it's originality I like most particularly in art. ^_^

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GeorgieGanarf [2011-11-19 02:29:36 +0000 UTC]

Bravo!

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dloliver In reply to GeorgieGanarf [2011-11-19 11:51:47 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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GeorgieGanarf In reply to dloliver [2011-11-21 01:48:55 +0000 UTC]

You are most welcome my friend!

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dendril [2011-11-19 01:29:24 +0000 UTC]

Oohh wow, I really love the texture and shininess. It has such a wonderful pearly quality to it.

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dloliver In reply to dendril [2011-11-19 01:37:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Xyliaz [2011-11-19 00:12:50 +0000 UTC]

I saw this and instantly know who drew it, I didn't even need to look at the name. It is horribly awesome, as always. Could you imagine if this thing bit your arm or something? xD Oww.

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dloliver In reply to Xyliaz [2011-11-19 01:12:29 +0000 UTC]

most kind
started as a doodle, didnt have a clue how to finish it off until i sketched in the pudgy hand

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Xyliaz In reply to dloliver [2011-11-19 02:29:07 +0000 UTC]

Haha pudgy is a funny word. xD
You deserve every kind word I have.

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