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This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named Call of Cthulhu, which is based on the worlds of renowned horror master H.P. Lovecraft.
Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.
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Looks awesome! And I like the back-lite wings :thumbnail:
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Every time I see one of these, in a picture or otherwise, I always have to wonder what that particular Elder One had been doing when they were captured by film or paint or otherwise.
Like, they coulda just been meandering over to the Elder One commonhouse to talk about the economy or something. they look to their side and what the heck? What is this little bipedal thing, and why is s/he holding a flat stack of papers/strange device?
Elder Ones are people too! Said so in the book.
Great work by the way.
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Fantastic work ! Even with the description they are hard to imagine...
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If an Elder thing comes round, threatening to knock your sanity down, just show it your pet shoggy and watch the Elder thing run like a whipped doggy!
Looks great.
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Man, that was a long story, but I loved it. All your H.P. Lovecraft inspired pieces are very good and appriciated.
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I would try to describe how I like this, but it would drive the both of us mad.
I'm a Lovecraft fan, and so to see people create some cool visuals of his works is great fun.
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i think this creature is popular in graphic artist
very nice work
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Yeah, the Elder things have been illustrated plenty of times. I love this old-school look to creatues that Lovecraft would come up with.
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i think this creature is popular in graphic artist
very nice work
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I hate coming across Elder Things in Arkham Horror. *shudders*
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Awesome! I'm in the process of reading mountains of madness right now...
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I read it last year. Strange story, hehe. I'm looking forward to the movie version of the story that Del Toro is going to make, after he's done with The Hobbit. I do hope they'll add some elements from the role playing game, though.
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Peter Jackson will normally carry out the Dragon Riders of Pern movie or the first Temeraire is a literary saga fantasy mixed with science fiction I suggest you read them they are fantastic books create a saga known in the 70s The second is the history mixed with fantasy Peter Jackson is a fanstasy / dragon lovers like me. But he thinks tried Dragons Riders of Pern which is risky because the filmmakers tried a movie science fiction / fantasy are rare.
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I think he's angry because his pet seems to be getting away. 
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i don't know what that is.....but it looks awesome!!!
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Interesting to compare your version to Wayne Barlowe's:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Barloweoldone.jpg
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Yeah, there are quite a few versions of the elder things out there, and it's interesting to see how different all of them are, but still have the same features.
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Barlowe's is the only other one I can recall seeing. His looks almost like a plant -- some sort of f'ed-up cactus or something.
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hmm... a bit strange, but not scary
very well done^^
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He is little scary, but not very like a Kraken. He's not a sexy beast still.
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n'ah, they're cute lol
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lovecrafts work always disturbed me and now seeing some of it in art i can see why
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hahahaha this one is very entertaining, for my sense of humor at least. nice work
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i wonder how long these take?
you come up with some weird creatures my man
but its why i love you
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These usually takes one evening. Pretty face since they're only going on small cards.
The design for these was explained down to the last detail by Lovecraft back in the old days, so it's hardly my design. Just trying to visualize it as close as possible to how the old horror master would describe it
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ahh ok i see
still pretty cool concepts :]
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