The Gug

This is the first finished piece for my Lovecraft mythos bestiary project. Read more about this project here: [link]

The "Gug" is described as a race of giant monsters 20 feet or so in height. They live in great underground cities. They have double forearms each ending in large hairy paws with sharp claws, a toothy vertical mouth, and pink eyes which protrude from the side of their head on bony ridges.

"It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. After it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally."
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath