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thedarkcloak — It was found in the depths
Published: 2005-05-23 03:33:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 2425; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 101
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Just a message...I always knew it was down there.
Yet, I had never clearly seen it.
Many had ventured forth into it's clutches, never to be heard from again.
Under the depths of a castle it lives. I know because I locked it down there.
I have often heard it slithering about, casting madness and poison, into the minds of all near by.
You asked for the whole castle, you asked for all the keys, I wanted to warn you, I wanted to keep them from you...
But we both know that would not be fair, and in itself, would lead to unrepairable dissolution.
Now, you've found it, and I only hope you have the courage and strength to not fall prey to it.
I'm tired of it dwelling under a castle that has been waiting for such warmth and peace.
Well, it shall live no longer... I venture forth down into the dark, wet, deepness of the caves at your side.
I shall not fear it, I shall not run from it... I refuse to be thwarted yet again by this abomination that has brought only ruin and pain.
And now it sits poised and ready to dare crawl out and threaten a garden of beauty unlike any I have ever seen before...
This thing that should not be.
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Crawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
Fallen city, living death
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Timeless sleep
Has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell.
- The Thing that Should Not Be - Metallica
I promise you... the end of it's days are near.
It's demise is at hand, don't you fear.
Though scraped and bruised, I'll be here.
For all we want, all we hold dear...
- me
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Comments: 33
looks like a tyranid, xenomorph, duriel hybid lol its fuckin sweet
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I love it! Your attention to details and your skill to draw a perfect atanomy entrills me.
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thanks! I really appreciate that, Jonas!
anatomy is that ever elusive subject for so many artists!
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Another great pic, and another top-notch piece of literature to go with it!
I do enjoy your writing, man.
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Of course.
It's a nice change of pace, to see writing combined with art. I should try my hand at it, sometime.
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Thanks man, I appreciate it.
Glad you got something out of the writing. 
If anything to me, it's 60% of this deviation.
The picture is only meant to compliment the whole.
Thanks again.
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perfect, i just think u should have coninued those plates on the head, because it kind of looks cut off... but it is top notch, I love the way you draw muscle structure... I bet if that creature existed, thats the way nature would make it look
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Hey thanks!
Glad you appreciated the anatomy.
Yeah, as for the plates, I really wanted to keep it all mixed up and inconsistent, which is why I went a lil all over with the head crown thing...
Thanks for the kind feedback.
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careful what you ask for.
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Heh, it may eat me a live, but it'll be cool
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Very imaginative mix of creatures too! Is that an ear-wig I spy? That human hand is awesome too!!!
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Hey you! 
ah yeah, It has two human arms but one is kinda hanging down menacingly on it's right side.
And yes, I threw in an earwig... the pincers, the idea of something that grabs you and hooks into you.
Repulsive is the idea, as well as crawly, something you just want to get rid of...
on a personal note... I've always hated centipedes, and growing up, I always imagined that when I had a pain inside (such as a sore throat, something scratchy and painful under my skin, etc), that if I could somehow pull it out, through my skin, it would look lots like a centipede...
a vile, wicked, centipede.
Well, I took that further and applied that to my emotions and insides of that manner.
I am glad you appreciate it.
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No problemo
I think that sounds a very plausible way to explain the pain you feel. Very imagnitive too! I cant stand either Centipedes or Earwigs.
I remember once we had this shed/outdoor house at the end of the garden that was carpetted. One day I noticed an earwig emerge from the edge of the carpet, I didnt think anything of it since it was the outdoors. Later another appeared, I decided to investigate and pull the edge of the carpet back and, Im not kidding you, the whole floor was moving with Earwigs!! Under the carpet was a carpet of Earwigs 
Anyways, as long as you still make work like this, I'll be making my way back to your stuff and commenting on it dont you worry!
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earwigs...
*shiver*
Oh man... carpet of earwigs... yeah... that would stay embedded in my skull for life I bet.
*cringe*
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GASP!
but... you did anyways! O.o
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The drawing is damn good. Very alienesque. The writing is even better and it is THAT that gets the fave.
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Hey, thanks man.
Yeah, the whole thing was done with the same intent behind it.
Poured out in a fury and rawness that I needed to vent into it.
I'm glad you appreciated the writing man, as that was very key and I tried to be very intentional in what I wrote for it, as well as other things that would strike hard on that (like the metallica lyrics).
Be well dude.
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ily.
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No, we aren't monsters.
The things that lead us to believe that we are will be destroyed, and the damage, pain, and insane poison they cast on us will be healed.
We'll give them hell in this uprising and break for freedom...
And it will be worth it.
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I appreciate that you read the description.
Yeah, I tried my best to be very intentional in what I wrote and the message I was trying to get across in that.
I'm glad you found value in it.
Thanks and be well!
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Cool design. Love his pincer butt.
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earwigs... *shivers*
Yeah, I kinda mixed in a bunch of stuff, but i definitely wanted a humanoid aspect to it as well...
a grotesque abomination of something which could be identified as human, only much much worse.
Thanks for the kind comment.
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The design works really well. I think the more human torso makes it particularly disturbing as a creature. Sort of Island of Dr. Moreau meets Dr. Frankenstein.
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Thanks Mike!
Just kinda poured it out in a fury, glad you like the beasty, even tho I despise the damn thing.
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