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Published: 2008-03-25 12:54:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 4354; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 0
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A crop of another older drawing, pen and ink with a little ink wash. I am so crap at lettering.New ones on the way- I'm so chuffed to be drawing again.
Aside from Lovecraft's fictional translator of the dread Necronomicon of the same name, the real Olaus Wormius was a pretty interesting character as well: [link]
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I really want to redraw this some time, its pretty rough compared to what I can do now.. but thanks! (never heard of this of this Olias fellow.. will have to look him up!)
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Olias of Sunhillow is an album by Jon Anderson, better known as the lead for Yes.
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wicked !! I would ask "can you imagine?" but obviously you canΒ
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It's inspired by writing inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, so I can't take all the credit for imagination. But thanks, I enjoyed drawing it, glad you like it.
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He's that kind of guy.
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Is he nicer than brown Jenkin?
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... though it's hard to be nastier than the man-faced ratty, I do believe Olaus may be a tad more horrible.
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Worse than a creature that tunneled out a dudes gut?
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The pleasure is all mine.
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Thankyou very much. : )
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there's some books there i want to read. it seems that you have successfully combined pointillism, cross hatching and pencil shading. not easy. good job! :]
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Thanks 
I used to sooo overwork my pictures, until B.J. Stevens stuffed his own and Dave Carson's work up my nose until I got the concept of white space, lol. I like these cluttery old things, though, lots of happy memories. : )
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white space is the devil! it's all over my work and i hate it. not really. i guess you need to find a happy medium, like with all things.
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.. somehow, I don't find that at all difficult to believe.
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I'm going to try my best not to gush, but I just love the hatching, black space, and linear perspective... it's perfect, it fits
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good work, thats how a occult libary should look like^^. and hey de vermis mysteriis i would love to read that book.
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Thanks so much! And me too!
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I have other skills too, but none I like to talk about in public.
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do you consider lovecraft truly classic literature or just a guilty pleasure?
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PS: Actually, see latest journal.
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Now that's a very good question. I'm gonna think on that a bit, alright?
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You've freaked me out with your worm. Pretty cool. You sent me to Wikipedia twice. Once on purpose, with Ole up there, and second with 'chuffed.'
-Ark
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I SLAP YOU WITH MY LINGO, INFIDEL.
And thankyou.
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Infidel? I . . . oh . . . yeah . . . that would be me.
Where I come from, huffing means inhaling paint fumes. From a spray pint bottle. On purpose. So, you had me wondering for a sec . . .
_ARk
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OHHH. Yes. err.... paint fumes.
Wouldn't want anyone mistaking it for THAT. >>
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Great work!
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You're welcome Sal
TTFN
Me
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A wonderful composition.
And thank you for sharing the interesting writers' information.
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he resembles the house centipede i skooshed with cereal box two days ago. :/
i never would have believed in reincarnation...
(this all an indirect way of saying 'good job'.)
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OH UGH UGH centipedes! I was bitten by one of those huge red ones, five or six inches long, as a kid. SO painful. Cereal box?? UGH!
*cough* sorry. But ew.
And thankyou!
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Hehe, its a bookworm!
Not quite as cute as the name leads us to think.
You're right Wormius was interesting!
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He really was! I love reading about men like that (and women, but there's so few of those from that period, *sigh* )
And thanks, lol, I was sort of making a pun on 'bookworm' at the time. I have terrible sense of humour
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