tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post8235324475648080123..comments2023-11-11T13:04:55.153+00:00Comments on Scribblings or Something: Cthulhu is not an octopus...Jerry Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15534511925764794495noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-41939607831368652782014-06-06T09:53:01.045+01:002014-06-06T09:53:01.045+01:00Yes, but - like I've said above - Lovecraft...Yes, but - like I've said above - Lovecraft's drawings tend to nail down certain details. This is what makes it different to drawings of angels, etc as we have a direction relation back to the author's vision.Jerry Boucherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534511925764794495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-86605389937516791002014-06-06T08:16:23.784+01:002014-06-06T08:16:23.784+01:00apologies, it seems the above paragraph is riddled...apologies, it seems the above paragraph is riddled with missing words and spelling mistakes. I shall list the corrections:<br /><br />as=is*<br />the=though**<br />'...and as long as they are NOT*** tentacles or hands...'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-82570392418269710842014-06-06T08:13:35.993+01:002014-06-06T08:13:35.993+01:00Jerry...Cthulu as a concept is a malignant force, ...Jerry...Cthulu as a concept is a malignant force, represented by images...this argument is like arguing over a drawing of an angel, or the devil, or similar entity of a thousand names. People draw or create the image people want to see, and when Lovecraft writes (as illustrated above) '..anthropoid outline', that implies at least a vague musculature. '..Octopus-like head' there's your octopus head, scaly tends to be a detail artists leave out, much to my annoyance, and the reduction in the number of eyes is also a common, the unecessary curtailing of Lovecraftian weirdness. Finally, claws are a must, and as long as they are definitely tentacles or hands, they work for me. :) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-83367916365388265432014-04-30T02:18:45.382+01:002014-04-30T02:18:45.382+01:00Yeah. I don't understand why super-muscles ar...Yeah. I don't understand why super-muscles are supposed to represent eldritch horror. <br />"Look at those pecs! They fill me with existential dread regarding my place in the cosmos!!!! That non-euclidean being from beyond the dimensional void must work out!!"michaeljpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980602292383937769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-68866102734014146992013-12-19T15:22:47.176+00:002013-12-19T15:22:47.176+00:00The sketch created by Lovecraft's (shown above...The sketch created by Lovecraft's (shown above) was done some 6 years after 'The Call of Cthulhu' was published. I think sometimes that artistic license simply veers away into showing Cthulhu as just another muscled super-villian, which IMHO is much less interesting the image conjured up by Lovecraft's sketch.Jerry Boucherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534511925764794495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-84996042909833114622013-12-19T15:06:59.184+00:002013-12-19T15:06:59.184+00:00It is still an attempt to describe something that ...It is still an attempt to describe something that is supposed to be beyond description. The drawing was probably a basic sketch so Lovecraft could have an image/doodle in his mind while he was writing. I do appreciate artistic license in the interpretation, as well as a more lovecraftian approach. Voidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05981499889493269613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-77080289450323242812013-12-19T05:20:43.390+00:002013-12-19T05:20:43.390+00:00But then again, if you look at Lovecraft's dra...But then again, if you look at Lovecraft's drawings of Cthulhu and use his text, it tends to narrow down the interpretations. That should be the main guiding force, in my opinion.Jerry Boucherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534511925764794495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-88491202043530450342013-12-19T00:36:33.524+00:002013-12-19T00:36:33.524+00:00I agree with you to an extent, however visually pe...I agree with you to an extent, however visually people want to see Cthulhu in different ways. For instance, have the muscular body is show show him in a powerful way because showing something abstract like causing madness requires more than just Cthulhu being in the picture. Also based on the research I have done on Lovecraft he doesn't strike me as one being stuck on one idea. Cthulhu could be interpreted in many ways as long as it is close to the text that inspired it. My Cthulhu paintings are always evolving and while I do base it off both his sketch and the text I do take artistic license and I don't think Lovecraft would be against it. I do agree that he should look more alien than just an octopus head though. Here is one of my most recent versions. http://ito-saith-webb.deviantart.com/art/Light-of-Cthulhu-255067041 Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613035339636503770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-26443830908369432792013-12-18T16:40:39.488+00:002013-12-18T16:40:39.488+00:00Post up the description from Lovecraft's story...Post up the description from Lovecraft's story, too!<br /><br />The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way clown toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06396716653936796350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2771056649679221185.post-34933954243216776462013-12-11T00:02:17.013+00:002013-12-11T00:02:17.013+00:00Promoted on my Google+ page -- good job!
Promoted on my Google+ page -- good job!<br />Liviana (SuccubaSuprema)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07191032294285487395noreply@blogger.com