mmpratt99 In reply to Scarouselle [2014-06-15 02:00:12 +0000 UTC]

I'm thinking of changing this to a much cleaner version.  Maybe if I get the time, I'll replace this.

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mmpratt99 In reply to richardtmyer [2014-06-08 05:26:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.  I guess he's getting ready to shed his skin.

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mmpratt99 In reply to ReSkull [2014-06-08 05:28:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.  I get more things done quicker with digital.

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mmpratt99 In reply to Dead-Opera-Star [2014-06-08 05:46:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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mmpratt99 In reply to DAZUMA [2014-06-07 23:25:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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aegiandyad In reply to mmpratt99 [2014-06-07 23:57:51 +0000 UTC]

"I think you may have to see a lobster specialist!" I want the lighting and contrast on the ragworm to match that on the sea anemone tentacles and sea mice, which would have been ambitious. The 'staircasing' is a bit of a distraction, although it does give the upper part of the piece a jagged edge. Basically it needed even more eldritch ghastliness. I know it has a lot, but does it have enough? You can't have too much eldritch ghastliness. Lovecraft and his editor and completer of his 'posthumous works', Derleth demand either something truly horrible or something dark and suggestive of hidden evils too vile even to be described in cold print, etc, etc. This is impossible to achieve, as can readily be seen from these failures aegiandyad.deviantart.com/gall… .

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mmpratt99 In reply to aegiandyad [2014-06-08 05:45:54 +0000 UTC]

So something more along the line of... like say The Thing from that John Carpenter movie?  That kind of has eldritch ghastliness.>

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aegiandyad In reply to mmpratt99 [2014-06-08 11:27:41 +0000 UTC]

Exactly! The evil in yours is too subtle and oriental in flavour. It needed some good old fashioned occidental grue. This is Arkham [or Dunwich, or Red Hook], New England territory we are trying to penetrate.

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mmpratt99 In reply to aegiandyad [2014-06-08 16:35:48 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I kind of have Lovecraftian monster  that sort of fits with your description in a story I'm working that takes 
 the form of the person it most recently eaten, although it's not a perfect guise (as seen in the lower panel)>

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aegiandyad In reply to mmpratt99 [2014-06-08 17:17:34 +0000 UTC]

Lovecraft meets Ray Bradbury... why had no one thought of that before? These are my Bradbury tributes aegiandyad.deviantart.com/gall… , pitiful, isn't it? I've not done much justice to the Master of Fall Nostalgia.

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mmpratt99 In reply to aegiandyad [2014-06-09 04:18:44 +0000 UTC]

My favorite's the October Country one.   I think you're being too hard on yourself; they're all wonderful pieces which captured the strangeness and uniqueness of this 'Midwest surrealist.'

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