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Flying Polypby ~Eclectixx

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Illustrations / Conceptual

This is a creature known as a "Flying Polyp", created for my illustrated Lovecraft bestiary. [The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks seemed also to be associated with them.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time"

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~ironsides11 Nov 21, 2012

Well done

!a-schlag Feb 21, 2012

very interesting concept

~Drombyb Feb 14, 2012

I support your idea of creating a Lovecraft bestiary!

~orcbruto Feb 13, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

AAAAAAHHHHHHH! This thing is scary!

~rpowell77 Feb 11, 2012 Digital Artist

Great work, mate! You def pulled off the gruesome Lovecraftian look here! I can see that you've spent quite a deal more time on this than some of your other stuff, and it turned out to make some very nice textures

~Eclectixx Feb 12, 2012 Professional General Artist

Thanks, I appreciate that! I figured that this creature was so alien and amorphous that the only way to get it to look creepy instead of just weird was to really make the textures look organic and ghoulish, so I took a cue from the master of creepy textures (H.R. Giger) and used the airbrush (or in this case the airbrush tool) all over the surface of the thing.

~Brainwronged Feb 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

cool pic, not how I imagined them at all so a pretty original design!

~Eclectixx Feb 12, 2012 Professional General Artist

Thanks! I always try to approach things from a new perspective if possible, especially when I'm not satisfied by any of the old perspectives.

~Brainwronged Feb 13, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

yes there are a great many mythos entities for which this is the case.

~GCARTIST85 Feb 11, 2012

Thank you for letting us add your Amazing work to our gallery!

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