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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: einarolafson on April 11, 2012, 04:20:33 PM

Title: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: einarolafson on April 11, 2012, 04:20:33 PM

I have found this blog http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.co.uk/). I like a lot the drawing style of this man. Maybe it has been posted before, but just in case it hasn´t...

Cheers.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: Genialjim on April 11, 2012, 07:59:18 PM

Awsome find cheers for posting.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: tnjrp on April 12, 2012, 06:58:10 AM

It is nice enough a page and the artist does have a flair for the weird, but many if not most of his depictions are not in any way canonical. In fact, many can't possibly be that.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: styx on April 12, 2012, 01:33:58 PM

A great find, I like that it has some reference info in it that is helpful..

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: aggro84 on April 14, 2012, 04:48:45 PM

That was a cool find! Thank you for sharing.  :D

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: einarolafson on April 15, 2012, 11:09:53 PM

Thanks!! I like specially the strange creatures (fungoids, flying/floating things...)

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: Schrecksenmeister on April 16, 2012, 07:28:11 PM

I've discovered this blog some time ago. I like the concept of drawing the less known creatures, like the bug people mentioned in "The Shadow Out of Time" or the cat from Saturn, but, as already mentioned above, I don't think that some of those depictations shall be considered canonical, especially Shub-Niggurath or Starspawn. Aren't the Starspawn supposed to have legs, like Cthulhu himself? I believe a sketch of him Lovecraft did showed Cthulhu with legs, so his offspiring shall have them too.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: aggro84 on April 17, 2012, 02:39:43 AM

Schrecksenmeister,

I've read and reread most of the HPL stories a few times over the years but I am definitely no expert.
As far as remember the Star Spawn are never actually described. Shub Niggurath, Nug and Yeb are referred to a lot, but never described either.
The tree shaped Dark Young is actually a Robert Bloch creation, but he calls it a shoggoth in the story.
I've noticed that a lot of Chaosium additions to the Mythos are now seen as canonical.

Again, I'm no expert and these are just observations.  :D

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: achab on April 17, 2012, 03:50:44 PM

Just spotted some very cool concept art of HPL creatures here:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205990&page=3

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: aggro84 on April 18, 2012, 02:51:47 AM

achab, those are cool thanks for the link.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: Schrecksenmeister on April 22, 2012, 07:05:23 PM

Interesting designs, I like the ghast especially.

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: einarolafson on April 28, 2012, 11:30:22 AM

Quote from: achab on April 17, 2012, 03:50:44 PM

Just spotted some very cool concept art of HPL creatures here:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=205990&page=3

Thanks!!

Title: Re: Very nice blog about Mythos creatures.
Post by: Mr. Jape on April 30, 2012, 01:12:37 PM

Thanks for the links. Very inspiring stuff.