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Description I gave it more centipede/ seal like appearance than it's typically given as, after all he's aquatic predator.


"There was an almost globular torso, with six long, sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggesting that it was a head. Most of the body was covered with what at first appeared to be fur, but which on closer examination proved to be a dense growth of dark, slender tentacles or sucking filaments, each tipped with a mouth suggesting the head of an asp. On the head and below the proboscis the tentacles tended to be longer and thicker, and marked with spiral stripes—suggesting the traditional serpent-locks of Medusa. To say that such a thing could have an expression seems paradoxical; yet Jones felt that that triangle of bulging fish-eyes and that obliquely poised proboscis all bespoke a blend of hate, greed, and sheer cruelty incomprehensible to mankind because mixed with other emotions not of the world or this solar system."

H.P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, The Horror In the Museum
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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to ??? [2017-11-07 08:02:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Xenovolve In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2017-11-07 14:53:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the awesome art 

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NOTOCORDADA [2017-06-28 15:17:07 +0000 UTC]

You have a lot of talent,this is amazing.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to NOTOCORDADA [2017-06-29 08:33:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. This is an old version though. I recommend you to look for the new one... from 2015/16 or so. It's executed better.

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NOTOCORDADA In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2017-06-29 10:32:24 +0000 UTC]

Could you send me a link?

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to NOTOCORDADA [2017-06-29 11:00:43 +0000 UTC]

kingovrats.deviantart.com/art/…

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EmmetEarwax [2017-04-28 03:02:06 +0000 UTC]

Rhan-Tegoth, the THING that walked sometimes on 2 legs,sometimes on 4, and sometimes on 6 !

Hand it an animal and be prepared for really atrocious table manners !

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to EmmetEarwax [2017-04-28 06:48:19 +0000 UTC]

The quote you've mentioned refers to Gnoph-keh

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EmmetEarwax In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2017-04-28 11:26:45 +0000 UTC]

Lovecraft was sometimes unclear about what was what, and was inconsistent about what happened.

I have concluded that the Gnoph-Keh were a people that preceded the voormis which preceded true humans. The Voormis groveled before Tsathoggua and the Gnoph-Keh groveled before Rhan-Tegoth.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to EmmetEarwax [2017-04-28 11:40:08 +0000 UTC]

According to the Horror at the Museum Gnoph-Keh is a creature with six limbs and horn or horns. My version is somewhat similar to a giant sloth. 

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RedlexDestroya [2017-01-01 15:54:13 +0000 UTC]

Incredible, looks like a giant alien creature which is venerated in another race of the same planet     

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to RedlexDestroya [2017-01-01 18:53:33 +0000 UTC]

Lovecraft - Rhan-Tegoth II  check out the new version then.

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Xhodocto385 [2016-01-23 20:39:04 +0000 UTC]

i love the tentacle "beard" of the creature which are actually multiple mouths

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Xhodocto385 [2016-01-24 20:26:34 +0000 UTC]

Yep. BTW.. another that deserves a new remake...

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whonwt [2015-04-07 02:05:13 +0000 UTC]

He looks a lot like a giant monster from " The Mist" by Stephen King...I meant the way they did him in the movie( 2007)

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to whonwt [2015-04-07 09:54:05 +0000 UTC]

I didn't see the movie but I know what creature do you mean... I guess the are some similarities indeed.

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whonwt In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2015-04-07 13:25:29 +0000 UTC]

And funniest thing that you got no credit whatsoever! I saw a movie again couple of days ago and immediately thought of us art...sue the bastards!

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to whonwt [2015-04-12 10:26:16 +0000 UTC]

I gues they are not so much alike after all

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whonwt In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2015-04-12 12:25:19 +0000 UTC]

Yeah...but THEY R!!!

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TSofian [2015-02-14 20:11:28 +0000 UTC]

Always one of my favorites from the Lovecraftian stable of inter dimensional horrors!

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to TSofian [2015-02-14 20:13:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. not my favourite monster but quite an interesting design to interpretate.

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GuesssWho9 [2014-07-15 07:03:45 +0000 UTC]

It just need wings to be a Slake Moth from Perdido Street Station

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to GuesssWho9 [2014-07-20 11:04:03 +0000 UTC]

I dn't know that one

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GuesssWho9 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2014-07-22 03:24:10 +0000 UTC]

Read China Mieville, he's wonderfully imaginative.

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andrewbig [2013-10-30 22:50:52 +0000 UTC]

Another great drawing from the Master

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to andrewbig [2013-10-30 23:07:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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OmegaZilla [2013-08-24 23:18:11 +0000 UTC]

One of the better interpretations of this one I have seen!

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to OmegaZilla [2013-08-25 19:12:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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GrasantTarcze [2013-06-03 04:54:08 +0000 UTC]

cóż, mnie Rhan-Tegoth kojarzył się z ośmiornicą o sześciu mackach(sześciornicą?). Aczkolwiek twoja wizja jest spoko(dobrze odwzorowane ssawki, rzeczywiście z początku podobne do dłuuugich włosów; tylko nie wiem, jak z takim ogonem mógłby szybko pływać )

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to GrasantTarcze [2013-06-04 04:02:22 +0000 UTC]

Hm. Długi ogon z rządkiem małych płetw po każdej stronie nada się raczej jako siła napędowa w wodzie, tak mi się wydaje. Myślę że to byłą do pewnego stopnia moja inspiracja: [link]

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Lilshawster2 [2013-05-21 12:12:46 +0000 UTC]

This is probably, and still the most accurate depictions of Rhan-Tegoth. Very nice.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Lilshawster2 [2013-05-23 20:39:25 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it.

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Lilshawster2 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-05-23 22:21:33 +0000 UTC]

Ooh. Have you drawn Quachil-Uttaus?

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Lilshawster2 [2013-05-24 06:27:05 +0000 UTC]

I never even heard of it. Who invented that guy? I currently read mostly only Lovecraft classic stories.

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Lilshawster2 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-05-24 23:25:21 +0000 UTC]

Both Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft created such a character. Quachil uttaus is mainly considered as an earth-attributed alien.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Lilshawster2 [2013-05-25 05:32:00 +0000 UTC]

in what story does it appear?

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Lilshawster2 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-05-26 22:13:37 +0000 UTC]

it seems that I have made a small mix-up. The character was firrst mentioned in Clark Ashton Smith's The Treader of the Dust. It has been a while since I have read about Quachil-Uttaus.

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Deyran [2013-04-17 14:19:59 +0000 UTC]

Tego też nie znałam! Aj, wstyd!
Stwór wygląda niesamowicie. Wydawałoby się, że byłby z niego zawet skuteczny drapieżnik, choć może niekoniecznie w wodach naszej planety. Bardzo mi się podoba ten skrót perspektywiczny ogona. Daje taki efekt monstrualnie długiego, nie-do-końca-ale-jednak-gąsiennicowatego cielska. Fajne.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Deyran [2013-04-18 21:36:58 +0000 UTC]

Ano wstyd. Hańba Ci!

Nie jest to najlepsza praca Lovecrafta, oj nie. Ale warto to znać.

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OblivionJunkey94 [2013-02-15 22:24:20 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome i rekon you could maybe make youre own planet up and fill at with mega wierd aliens that would be awesome

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-02-16 08:42:32 +0000 UTC]

Well maybe one day.

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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-02-16 09:28:44 +0000 UTC]

Come on man.....every one loves youre drawing style

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-02-17 11:34:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. While alien planet is unlikely, some sort of fantasy universe is much more probable...

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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-02-18 00:01:48 +0000 UTC]

Yeah i get you ive got one of thoose in the works btw have you played skyrim yet? Ther is a dlc revolving around hermeus mora the lovecraftian looking fellow its pretty fucking sweet

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-02-18 08:10:01 +0000 UTC]

I haven't played it but I know that guy from Oblivion.

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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2013-02-18 09:23:39 +0000 UTC]

Yeah well in the dlc you go to his realm and meet him but he looks a little like a mass of tentacles and eyes speading out of a portal

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-02-18 09:48:23 +0000 UTC]

Sounds sweet.

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Clone-Artist [2013-02-15 22:19:37 +0000 UTC]

Great stuff, as always.
Very nice perspective there, It seems that Rhan almost stretches into infinity.

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KingsOfEvilArt In reply to Clone-Artist [2013-02-15 22:24:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I really like swimming/flying serpentine creatures so I gave him that looong rear part imaginig him swimming through seas of Yuggoth.

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EmmetEarwax In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2017-05-02 11:55:50 +0000 UTC]

In the story, he has gills to breathe in the seas of Yuggoth.

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