HOME | DD
Eclectixx β Shoggoth
Published: 2012-03-04 05:41:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 97976; Favourites: 1853; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
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.βWe 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 trainβa 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
Follow the rest of the Lovecraft Bestiary project here: [link]
Related content
Comments: 128
Nice work! Is it okay to use your artwork on my website, theindiedragon.com? I will credit your name with the image and link to your Deviantart page.
π: 0 β©: 0
the best illustration of a shoggoth I've ever seen.
π: 0 β©: 0
I love the background storry and how it was maidΒ
π: 0 β©: 0
Curse you Prometheus for killing del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness".
π: 0 β©: 0
Now THAT'S what I call a Shoggoth!
π: 0 β©: 0
aww little shoggoth is so cute
π: 0 β©: 0
This is now what comes into my head whenever a shoggoth is mentioned.
π: 0 β©: 0
Would I be able to use this specific image as a reference to the Shoggoth on a wiki article?
π: 0 β©: 1
Sure- just please link back to me if possible.
π: 0 β©: 0
aaah nice! so many pictures i see of shoggies just depict them as masses of black slime with mouths... this is lovely!
π: 0 β©: 0
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.
π: 0 β©: 0
I once jokingly thought about forming a Shoggoth Rights Committee
then I saw what they looked like and I changed my mind
π: 0 β©: 0
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.
π: 0 β©: 1
Great unholy Azathoth this is awesome! Amazingly well done, especially with the "congeries of protoplasmic bubbles."
π: 0 β©: 0
This is nothing. You want real brain-twisting lunacy, you should see the Shoggoth with tits I found on Hentai Foundry.
π: 0 β©: 1
yup. You heard me right XD
π: 0 β©: 0
Only a Vogon poem could do it justice.
π: 0 β©: 1
That is a one of the best shoggoths I've seen! Love how IMMENSE you made It.
π: 0 β©: 0
Wow. This is great - it's very much like something by Rodney Matthews or someone like that.
π: 0 β©: 0
I seen a lot of Shogoths over the years and this one if one of my clear favorites, I really like the way you gave it lots of tentacles, eyes and other organic organs while retaining an realistic alien feel withouth making it look too comic bookish.
Great work on the background as well.
π: 0 β©: 0
yup .. THAT'S a shoggoth!!! brilliant
π: 0 β©: 0
Squamous and rugose in all the right places- a lovely work
π: 0 β©: 0
Tekeli li! Tekeli li! Ah man that is just pure mad genius, it's disgustingly grand.
π: 0 β©: 0
A lot of people have tried to draw Lovecraft monsters before, but this has to be the most successful attempt I've ever seen.
π: 0 β©: 0
VERY COOL work! And I'm presuming this is at the Mountains of Madness too! Awesomeness! (since there are three figures running I'm presuming as well that the other expedition wasn't put off by the good professor's tale! HA! 
π: 0 β©: 0
Holy fuck that 's awesome! At the mountains of Madness! Ahhhh I love this, I want it on my wall ._.
π: 0 β©: 0
wow O.O THIS IS INCREADLY GREAT 
π: 0 β©: 0
I love the finished artwork .... wonderful!
π: 0 β©: 0
Wow. 
π: 0 β©: 0
Really cool! I didn't notice at first,but the snow really makes the scene look all the more desolate.
π: 0 β©: 0
nice work! I like the slobbering bubbles. if I may say, I like less the background.
π: 0 β©: 0
| Next =>