Cyclopean Madness

[tealin]

OMG IT'S A DRAWING!



Still picking my way through that Lovecraft book ... This is an attempt at capturing what looked, in my head, like a pretty cool scene in a movie, when the narrator and Danforth discover the ancient Antarctic city of the Old Ones* in their plane – though on paper it looks like the least amount of imagination possible went into it. If I had more time I'd have tried to come up with something more interesting for the architecture but this was the first impression in my mind, and I got a little preoccupied with trying to do values and atmospheric perspective in pencil, which didn't turn out terribly well either.

I wonder if Mignola and del Toro will ever get around to making this story into a movie, as they were rumoured to have been planning ... They'd do it right if anyone could. I'd love to see Mignola do a comic book of any of Lovecraft's stories because he has exactly the right aesthetic, which I'm sure is far from coincidence, but he seems to have lost interest in drawing lately. Sigh. (I bask in hypocrisy...)

*Not Susan Cooper's 'Old Ones,' though a crossover would be pretty hilarious...

Comments

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Only tangentially related to Lovecraft, but I was playing WoW the other day and found an NPC (an undead Alchemy trainer) called Dr Herbert Halsey.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

HAHA, sweeet. :D

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

I love it! The cracked towers, the slight atmospheric effect creating a sense of depth -- it feels like a storyboard for the lead-in to an epic movie.

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

No, I think this drawing is very effective at putting me in the scene (though... I honestly... can't tell what scene you're talking about... would probably help to read the book).

Ever since you mentioned the compatibility, it has become impossible for me to separate Mignola and Lovecraft in my mind.

[pooryorick.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very atmospheric, I really love the sense of scale you get here. Also, Mignola + del Toro would be perfect, in fact, the only ones I'd want to see making such a film.

And oh wow, now I can't stop thinking of a Lovecraft/Cooper crossover. Cthulu vs. Merriman?!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

YOU KNOW IT. MYSTIC FORCES SHOWDOWN. :D Who better to represent the Dark than a winged tentacle beast from the depths of space?

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I only familiarized myself with Lovecraft's work in order to parody it.

(Oh, and I'm debuting a new icon. :D)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

My, what a lovely icon you have! Where did you get it?

And Lovecraft is practically a walking parody so no hard feelings. :D It's all part of the fun...

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know. I found it... someplace. Just turned up one day.