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The scenery comes completely out of my imagination, but I tried to do the design of the polyps as close as possible to Lovecraft´s description in "The Shadow Out Of Time" (see description below).
Acrylics on cardboard, 30 cm x 35 cm (and about 20 hours of work)


Here´s the description:
„The basis of the fear was a horrible elder race of half-polypous, utterly alien entities which had come through space from immeasurably distant universes and had dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million years ago....
...There were veiled suggestions of a monstrous plasticity, and of temporary lapses of visibility, while other fragmentary whispers referred to their control and military use of great winds. Singular whistling noises, and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks, seemed also to be associated with them.“

Well, concerning the "footprints" I´ve created a very loose own interpretation of that (but just think of alien polyps with feet with 5 toes - would look rediculous, I think :D)

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:iconurel75:
Awesome. I knew it was from Lovecraft before reading your description; it has that feel to it.

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:iconed1de:
That is awesome. AWESOME.

:D

I am a bit of a Lovecraft fanboy I admit.

That aside the picture is just well done.

Speaking of said awesome story, have you perchane ever heard of the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets? A Vancouver punk/metal/funk band that sings about Lovecraft stuff (mostly) and their 2007 album is called The Shadow Out of Tim and is a musical re-telling of above mentioned tale.

The track Chapter Nine: Ride the Polyps is demented as all hell, catchy and creepy.

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:iconeng0gnit0:
your lovecraft inspired stuff is utterly beautiful... even the kreepy stuff...

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:icongreenskins101:
I've said it once and I'll say it again you are a legend and a credit to the deiantart community. you keep pleasently surprising me with each new piece that you create.

I think lovecraft would like this one too.

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:iconshadow-trooper:
Wow, another amazing piece! I love the half-plastic-half-organic look of this alien badass, it's awesome.
The colors are also pretty unique - green usually emits a sense of relaxation and this is the complete opposite. Smart move!
Anyway, great work, :+fav:

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:iconlexidh:
Great work, but it still scares me.

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:iconskincarver462:
lovecrafts reads are creepy and they stick in your mind long after the read is done.you really visualized the source material in a very lovecraftian kind of way -in other words it looks good ;)

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:iconbellmoore:
Beautiful work once again

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:iconforlornexistence:
you have a very fertile imagination if not mind blowing! another amazing thing is very few people can express and paint what's within their mind,and you are one of them. I admire your talent ..congrats!

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