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Submitted: March 3, 2012
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Shoggothby ~Eclectixx

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Illustrations / Conceptual

Shoggoths are large, amorphous and amoeba-like. They can form mouths, eyes, and various appendages at will. They were genetically designed by an ancient race of alien life on Earth. Originally aquatic in nature, the shoggoths learned to live on land and eventually destroyed their ancient masters.

“We were on the track ahead as the nightmare plastic column of foetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus; gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss-vapour. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us," -H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

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~niekitty May 16, 2013

aaah nice! so many pictures i see of shoggies just depict them as masses of black slime with mouths... this is lovely!

*hobbitshire May 5, 2013

Yep, that's definitely something that would drive one insane, espcially as you've included human figures to give scale. One of the best depictions of these ghastly creatures I've seen.

~randomeye713 Mar 31, 2013

I once jokingly thought about forming a Shoggoth Rights Committee
then I saw what they looked like and I changed my mind

~Bracey100 Feb 17, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Now that is one awesome shoggoth!

~Brainwronged Dec 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

sweet! i just lost D10 san!

~Wynterhawke07 Dec 4, 2012

~Dragonjek Nov 26, 2012

We try, in the vague and desperate attempts that sentient life must, to understand and see and describe the horrors before us. We attempt, driven by the human condition, to comprehend the sights that befoul our eyes, images that corrupt the very air they are conveyed by and that pervert the minds of those they infect like a cancerous and infected wound.

What you have drawn is not a shoggoth--it as an insane attempt to capture in art what is impossible to capture, to show an image that scratches at the mind and claws at the sanity in a wretched and horrific way.

I can hear it. May any blessed god that cares to listen to this save me, but I can hear it singing at me.