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Published: 2014-03-07 05:46:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1043; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 8
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"Oh, I'm no atheist. Gods exist, all right, but they're more trouble than they're worth on the vanishingly slim chance that a prayer might catch one's attention - it's wishful thinking, picturing a court of statuesque human or part-human beings with their aura of impossible or even terrible perfection, in the halls of Olympus or Valhalla or Cori Celesti or Heaven; gods exist outside our entire world, beyond time and mortal comprehension..."-Edmund Templeton, wizard; notably still living
Ancient Greek mythology goes full Lovecraft!
Mechanical pencil on white printer paper; old-paper effect added digitally
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Awesome, this thing could out-creep old Thousand Eyes Restrict.
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I don't know who that is but I will take that as a good thing 
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Truly amazing! This work emanates volumes of meaning. The description fits nicely with this piece!
The details are great; I especially admire how you executed the composition of the eyes!
Keep up the brilliant work!
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I've always been a bit of a sucker for creatures that turn the weirdness dial up to eleven. I love how, if you look at this thing long enough, you realize that it actually is symmetrical and could make biological sense. I can almost sort of see this thing sort of lurching around on its hind tentacles like a giant lumbering bullfrog, its posterior eye-covered appendage hanging over it like a scorpion's tail and its mass of long wispy tentacles extending out in front like cats' whiskers.
I kind of want to see this rendered in 3-D and moving. It would make a great boss fight I'd wager.
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Excellent piece. I love the detailing, flow, and style. The concept is well visualized. Great job with the various eyes in the composition.
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I've always loved the concept of alien-looking angels or gods (the actual descriptions of angels in religious texts are never humanoid; that's only the artists' inaccurate interpretations), and I think you nailed that here. Beyond time and comprehension. The image is a little chaotic but that's not necessarily all bad; you did a good job of blending alien freakishness with a weird semi-beauty. It's difficult and uncomfortable to think about something like this moving around -- let alone having godlike power -- so I'd say you accomplished your goal at any rate.
I can't really put my finger on what it is exactly that's bugging me about the piece... I guess I just feel this would be neater as a scene rather than a stylized framed thing like this. Maybe that's just preference because I like scenes a lot, but I guess I feel the creature's chaotic and insane enough that the rest of the piece doesn't need to be surreal at all and might distract from the god creature a bit, whereas putting the creature in a scene might provide contrast. Conversely maybe instead you could have blended him into the image more and made it hard to place what parts are the creature and what aren't.
I dunno. Small points; just my two cents. Awesome piece regardless! Favorited.
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There's actually a reason for the frame - with how all those Art Nouveau artists loved Greek mythology and especially peacocks, and with that style being popularized around when Lovecraft's stories are set, it just seemed like the right thing to do, eh?
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Ah, well with that in mind I can definitely see what you were going for.
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