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I was drawing this monster head for another painting and then decided it looks good on its own, so I added some more additional atmospheric effects. It kind of resembles a Deep One, one of the aquatic monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Here's a description of the Deep One in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth":

"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
H. P. Lovecraft

Deep One Artwork (C) Copyrighted to mmpratt99. Done in PhotoSuite and Adobe Photoshop. Jan. 23 2010.

Description
I was drawing this monster head for another painting and then decided it looks good on its own, so I added some more additional atmospheric effects. It kind of resembles a Deep One, one of the aquatic monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Here's a description of the Deep One in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth":

"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
H. P. Lovecraft

Deep One Artwork (C) Copyrighted to mmpratt99. Done in PhotoSuite and Adobe Photoshop. Jan. 23 2010.