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Published: 2017-10-04 18:11:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 2868; Favourites: 112; Downloads: 25
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Everyone's favorite bat-frog-blob-thing
Now in color!"He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes; and the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth."
Clark Ashton Smith, The Tale Of Satampra Zeiros
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The late John Glasby didn't use established guidelines. His general depiction of a mythos god, was some worse than formless horror that, upon your summoning or awakening it (from some book whose text is faded in many places...), grabs and EATS you !
He said , in some book lost for countless millenia, that winged limpet-like beings * bore him with them when they migrated to earth. There they built the insanely angled city of Yuth at the junction of two rivers,in a region now long overwhelmed by fire, quake and flood and is now undersea east of the Carolinas.
He was housed in the central temple. Even after the death of his worshippers (abominable ceremonies) he waits for prey.
* The writer does not describe said deities, but starts sceaming hysterically .
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Good that he got more creative
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I don't think so.
He did 2 stories that I did not read because I had become satiated with mythos fan-fiction and so did NOT buy the book on new such tales.
They were "The Dark Mirror" and "The Keeper of Dark Point". The former has been quoted from. Somebody is being dragged to the fire-god Cthugha. I know of him and his fire minions from Derleth's THE DWELLER IN DARKNESS set in Wisconsin where Nyarlathotep had his summer home. The story reads like a pot-boiler written just to keep WEIRD TALES alive a bit longer.
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A pic of him in Peterson's Guide to Mythos Monsters shows him as obese, mamallian in aspect (said to be a concession to earth standards of evolution) and with moobs. He is contentedly nibbling on a human femur.
His best friend had been Eibon.
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He is usually portrayed in a comedic manner, I went for horror instead.
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How did I miss this?! To be honest, I never cared for Tsathoggua because all renditions of it never peaked my interest until now. You are actually the first person that created him in a way that makes him truly scary, and so now I can see it can live up to its lore.
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Yeah! If you're going to draw a monster, draw a monster and the funny thing is, with this "thing" you succeeded where so many have failed.
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All Hail Tsathoggua, deity of gluttony and leisure, relentless acquisition of fine foods and treasures!! Almighty god of Feasts and Naps!!!
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Yup, the Ultimate Laziness Excluding One Of My Friends, who is actually more lazy xD
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UltraBizarre. I'd hate to be that piece of ground upon which he squats. And those rolls of fat - ich, perfect. Kinda reminds me more of a bat face than a toad, but well done. CAS would love it!
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I guess the skull is very toad-like while the soft tissues covering it lean towards bat side
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Tsathoggua is like the unofficial mascot of the Wordl-Of-Zothique channel. So many versions. ^^
But, I like this iteration a lot. I also think you've progressed so much in your coloring. This just looks great.
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Yes, due to his mentions in, much more famous, Lovecraft's works Tsoggy is the best known entity in Smith's pantheon
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Wow, this is really great! I love the face and the little hairs everywhere on his body. Really well done!
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Thank you very much
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Well, its definitely disgusting... but in a really cool way
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Would probably eat you
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W tak ziemistym kolorze jeszcze obrzydliwszy
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Już narysowałem, musi mi się zachcieć zeskanować XD Tyle że z książkowej wersji
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"To" też mam na myśli 
Akurat jestem świeżo po lekturze i też planuję narysować "To" - zarówno w formie Pennywise'a, jak i pajęczycy. Raczej nie czuję pociągu do narysowania wszystkich Jego form
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No ciekawy pomysl przyznaje
A co do innych form polecam film The Crawling Eye.
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The Crawling Eye? Nie wiedziałem, że ta forma pochodzi z filmu, kiedyś z pewnością przejrzę
Hah, szkoda że nie wzięli Freddiego, choć ten swoimi mocami trochę przypomina Tego, więc są trochę zbyt podobni. Choć teraz dostrzegam pewne akcenty w tą stronę, zarówno w formie napisu na kinie zwiastującego piątą część serii, jak i fakt, że w formie klauna-wilkołaka miał tylko jedną pazurzastą łapę - całkiem jak Freddy
Skoro to strachy lat 80. to slasherowy zabójca by się przydał. Choć to trochę mniejszy lęk, w tamtych latach popularna była też seria "Obcy", a zabawnie byłoby zobaczyć Tego w formie ksenomorfa
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Dlatemu wlasnie mysle, ze duzo lepszy bylby np. Jason
A nad tym sie sam zastanawialem. Niby nie powinien przezyc, ale horrory nauczyly mnie, ze antagonisci tak nie umieraja
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Haha. Goddamn. Funny as he is, I think this is one of the scariest pictures you've posted, and definitely enhanced by the coloring. All that wrinkly skin and hair, and those freaky eyes above that toothy mouth. And it's all dark. Freaky.
In "The Horror of the Museum," Lovecraft described him as shape-shifting from this form into another,
"Black Tsathoggua moulded itself from a toad-like gargoyle to a sinuous line with hundreds of rudimentary feet."
Have you considered drawing that creepy-crawly form?
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I didn't think of that, but maybe.
And thanks!
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