Beach vacations conjure up visions of frolicking in the surf, building sand castles, and possibly even kayaking?
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| Hapless kayakers no nothing of the terror beneath the water! |
But what beach vacations most often mean is subconscious fear and dread of the hideous beast that lurks beneath the sea waiting to rise again, Cthulhu!
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| Cthulhu keeps on calling me! |
Well, maybe that's just what beach vacations mean to me? Anyway, I read a few H.P. Lovecraft stories while at the Outer Banks and decided to sketch a few Cthulhu concepts with the ultimate goal of creating a ZBrush model from one of the drawings. The colorized version above is what I decided to go with as the concept for the model. Here is this same sketch before the magic of Photoshop.
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| No matter what occurs, Cthulhu will find you! |
I came up with a few other concepts, some bordering on a Zoidberg-esque aesthetic, but none quite fit the bill.
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| Don't wake the Kraken! |
Stay tuned for updates on this sculpt, I figure the more ZBrush time I put in the better I'll get! Also, you can get the entire works of H.P. Lovecraft online at Cthulhu Girl's site.
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| 700+ pages of Lovecraft goodness for free! |