Cyclopean Madness
Jun. 29th, 2008 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinOMG 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...
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...
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Date: 2008-07-01 01:01 am (UTC)And Lovecraft is practically a walking parody so no hard feelings. :D It's all part of the fun...
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Date: 2008-07-01 01:04 am (UTC)