Lesson Master

Ben Hutchings "The Lesson Master" for the Pulp Faction Sketch Challenge - I guess he is kind of an Angel - an Angel of Lessons!(click to make larger)

OK Go Staring Competition

OK Go are know for making their own music filmclips and staged this staring contest at the Webby Awards.

Angels - Ornamental

Ornamental angel drawing in pencil (colour changed in Photoshop) - stylistical strongly influenced by the works of Harry Clarke.

Angels - Gabe Woodcut

Tried doing a woodcut style pic - nicked stylistic elements from quite a few medieval woodcuts - I drew it in pencil and then cleaned up my erasure lines in photoshop and applied the "stamp" filter which smooths and blackens the lines making it look more "woodcutty".

Angels - Legion

Had fun doing the Lovecraft theme sketches so for the next week and a bit I might try angels theme sketches (guess I'll have to draw Castiel on Thursday, ha, ha). Any requests would be gratefully received as it means I don't have to think too much.

Above is a pencil sketch of Paul Bettany from "Legion" - didn't nail the likeness, and I mucked around with the tats and wings, but liked it enough to give it a quick colour job. "Legion" certainly wouldn't win any Oscars but I thought it had some nice creepy moments and some silly angelic shenanigans, so for a lower budget B movie I enjoyed it.

Babelcolour Rap

Dr Who vs Emimen vs Yakkity Sax - yep, that says it all really.
via Topless robot

Pigeon Impossible

Very cute animation short by Lucas Martell

Shuddering Sunday - Chthonian

Chthonian - the earthquake worms have always been one of my favourites.
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"Flowing tentacles and pulpy gray-black, elongated sack of a body...no distinguishing features at all other than the reaching, groping tentacles. Or was there—yes—a lump in the upper body of the thing...a container of sorts for the brain, basal ganglia, or whichever diseased organ governed this horror's loathsome life!"
—Brian Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath

Migo, the Fungi from Yuggoth complete with Brain Cases - this sketch needs fixing as the hind ermm... legs of the Migo should be larger and stronger and the brain cylinders are incorrect too. Should have read the description in "The Whisperer in Darkness" before I drew this.

Fiendish Friday - Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep for Scott

"And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude."
—H. P. Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep

I kind of like the idea that Nyarlathotep was based on Tesla so I put plenty of electricity into this one.

Chaotic Cthursday - Shub-Niggurath

Shub Niggurath for Louise

I usually do a bit of web search before I draw things just to clarify what they are supposed to look like and sometimes you end up finding gems
Propnomicon is a site dedicate to making Cthulian props (for Live action roleplay I assume) - like the HPL Historical Society some of the props are amazing detailed. It inspired me to give an old book page a go for this illo.
I was too lazy to "age" the paper myself so used a couple of the paper textures available on the net. I was a bit headachy due to moving furniture around most of the day, so the insane scribblings weren't too hard to do.

Writhing Wednesday - The Great Race of Yith

The Great Race of Yith for JB
"The members of the race took over the bodies of a dormant cone shaped beings. These beings were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by clicking or scraping huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast, ten-foot base".

Ooooh - creepy puppet Yithian

Tenticular Tuesday - Cthulhu

From the depths of his bath in great R'lyeh
Dread Cthulhu arises.....

A Cthulhu for Nik (drawn yesterday and coloured today).



Cyaegha - Great Old One

Mythos Monday - Gug

"It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. After it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally."
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Drew this Sunday night but was too lazy to go scan it in.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

A comic book movie that doesn't involve superheroes - based on the Adele series written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and directed by Luc Besson.

I'm a Marvel and I'm a DC - the musical episode

Their 100th episode.

Italian Spiderman Trailer

There are more episodes on YouTube - thanks to Jacen and his Italian Spiderman tribute for alerting me to this

Drawing Day - Last Pic

Superdeformed Shaun - of the Dead that is. Done whilst watching "Shaun of the Dead" - pencils roughly coloured in Photoshop.

Nyarlathotep Sketch

Guess this doesn't really count towards Drawing Day as I'd laid out some of this previously, but I felt like finishing it...sketch of Nyarlathotep the Great Messenger in one of his monstrous forms.

Drawing Day 2010

Here's a quick sketch of Mouse, who realised I was looking at her sleep and came and started rubbing against my drawing folder - very helpful.


Gave myself until the end of the "War of the Worlds - The Coming of the Martians" CD to draw something resembling a Martian war machine.I seem to be drawing off the ends of the paper at the moment so had to knit two pages together to make it fit.


An Elder Thing for John - damn I went off the ends of the paper again! This took one and a half Rammstein albums.
Also here is a fantastic depiction of an Elder Thing and an Elder Thing Papercraft I found when I was checking out what they were supposed to look like.