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Box cover art for a new game announced by FFG at last month's GenCon! Detail shots and process over at the blog here !Open edition lithographs are available HERE !
Image Β©2014 Fantasy Flight Games.
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Thank you very much!
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Great art and all, but I don't really think "fight them off" is something you do with Lovecraft's creations, not even the Elder Things or Mi-Go. Wet yourself and run is a more likely approach
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Yeah probably not, but it wouldn't make for the most interesting game if "wet yourself" is the only ability available to you haha.
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"I roll D20 to not wet myself"
"You fail"
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Hahaha sounds like a good time.
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At the Mountains of Madness
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Absolutely great, i love it to bits!! So weird to see them in broad daylight!
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Thank you very much!
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Sorry took so long to reply was hospitalized for compound fracture I got sliding into 3rd Base( you'd think I'd know better @ my age!)his name Rawlik not Rawlins & the book( which is amazing) is "The Weird Company: The Secret History of H.P.Lovecraft's 20th Century" He also wrote "Reanimators"
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Oh cool! Sorry about your injury - I hope the recovery is swift! Thanks for coming back and sharing the info, though!
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Wow! great imagry! Looks right out of Pete Rawlins' 2nd Lovecraft novel!
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Thank you! Which novel is that, if you don't mind my asking?
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Fantastic work! Β Those creatures really look like the sort of otherworldly, reason defying monsters that haunt the mythos books. Β
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Thank you! Yeah, "reason defying" is a great description of Lovecraftian monsters haha.
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Elder Things!: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Thβ¦
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Ewww! They're ugly! Also, how the heck can they fly?! They're so BIG!
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Haha these are the mysteries to which only H.P. Lovecraft has the answers!
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He dead
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I wonder what these things sound like... Or what they smell like...
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I so want to do a modern era expedition story .
Mentally I already have too many ideas for special vehicles, a few team members.Β
Very nice work.Β
They were men.!
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As goofy as these things look, you really managed to convey how dangerous and fearsome they can be.
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Woah, nice artwork man!! 
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Thank you! Yeah, that was a big concern of mine when working on it - that the Elder Things they way they are described just don't seem scary to me. But I'm glad they come across at least a little threatening in the piece!
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I think it is because he describes the Elder Things as too bulbous and smooth.Β We wind up imagining a barrel with tentacles or something.Β All real living things push out ridges as they grow, comprising as much of the angular as of the curved.Β That is why you don't want your figure drawings looking too bulbous or smooth, and why you can simplify a head as ridged planes. 
Come to think of it, check out the ridges on Geiger's xenomorph as in the Alien shows.Β It is mechanical, but fluid and animate, smooth, yet also ridged and bone-like, utterly alien, yet vaguely human in form... that, and it plays on some human phobias.Β Geiger knew how to make a monster.
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Thanks! All good points. And yeah Giger is just the man when it comes to terrifying and wonderful alien design. Just awesome!
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Of course, now I go read the actual story.. and, I quote (the underline is mine), ...Objects are eight feet long all over.Β Six-foot five-ridged barrel torso 3.5 feet central diameter, 1 foot end diameters... the descriptions go on and on.Β Ridged.Β Ridged.Β With all sort of exciting wings and tentacles and toothy mounths and stuff.Β Guess I was wrong to criticize Lovecraft's creature descriptions on that point after all.Β May the Great (ridged) Elder Things trample me into the primordial wastes for my confounded ignorance!
I think the hardest thing with Lovecraft is visualizing the sort of horrors his imagination spawned.Β Depending on which story we are talking about, you need to be rather imaginative at fitting tentacles next to snapping toothy orificesΒ or you need to be able to visualize 4th dimensional mathematics and a spectrum of colors that doesn't even exist in our part of the universe.Β All good stuff, but you need an active imagination.Β And it is always rewarding when an artist succeeds in capturing one of those Lovecraft beasties!Β Just don't go as far as poor Pickman... Elder Things don't tend to fit well in an art studio, and they eat the easels besides.Β And occasionally the artists.
Yep, he was!Β Giger's vision will live on as long as people have eyes to see and a taste for the macabre.Β
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Very Cool! Reminds me of "The Call of Cthulhu"
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Thanks! The game is based on the story by Lovecraft, so that's probably why! It's nice to know that the feeling comes across though!
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You're welcome! I will always fangirl over your lovely art
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There was something about this story that felt slow and repetitive to me, but it's still enjoyable to see different interpretations of the creatures and environments depicted in it.Β Great work on this!
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Thanks! Yeah, I have to admit that I did fall asleep a couple times even listening to the audiobook version while researching for the piece. One of the tricky things about illustrating the Elder Things is how intricately Lovecraft describes them. It's like you want to do justice to the actual description of them for the sake of accuracy, but the description of them is just sort of....goofy. Especially if you have to show them in broad daylight hahaha!
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