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Here's is my latest, 10x14" acrylic. Imagine waking up to this??

I was recently commissioned by Chaosium (publishers of the 'Call of Cthulhu' role playing game) to do an illustration for their upcoming 'Atomic Age Cthulhu' supplement. The illustration depicts Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg, a mythos creature created by Scott David Aniolowski.

Admittedly, this is one of the grosser things I have painted in a while. I think I know why, other than the obvious being it was part of the assignment. When I was just doing purely illustration I think I was experiencing some conflict between my own artistic urges and the requirements of the assignments. Now that there is a place and outlet for my own ideas, the illustration work can be more specific. In other words, I don't want to paint terrible things all the time- so as long as I have a way to express the other sides of myself the creepy stuff becomes more fun to do.

I'm not even sure what prompted what I did while painting this, but I occasionally take in-progress photos of my work. For some reason I thought to take a large number of photos- one at each noticeable step, and then put them together in a stop-motion animation. I was new to the process, but I am happy with my first go at it. You'll notice slight shifts in the values, sometimes this is my altering the painting, and other times it is environmental- the light gradually changing from my window. I've thought of ways to limit these variables, but I think it would make it far less convenient to paint.

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If you have a good internet connection, it can be viewed at a fairly high resolution and/or at full-screen by clicking on the youtube controls when you mouse-over the video. Please feel free to spread it around in blogs and forums, etc!

With kind permission, the music has been provided and © by 'JAS'. It is an excerpt from the song 'Hypno Time' from their CD "Live At Jerome's" [link] label: Gulcher [link]

EDIT: Thank you very much for the DD, what a hug surprise!! This painting seems to be about the fright of waking up to this creature.... but today I woke up to a Daily deviation. Aside from some brief confusion about why my account was so busy it's a wonderful way to start a day.
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Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg by ~nightserpent ( Featured by ^SylwiaTelari )
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*Korak-the-Mad 2 hours ago  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Well done. Lovecraft would be impressed.

I wish I found this image earlier in the year, when I made a commemorative speech about H.P. Lovecraft and this would have scared and possibly scarred a few of my classmates.
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~nightserpent 1 hour ago
Thank you! :) How I would love to go back in time and show him my portfolio to see what he thinks of my interpretations.

Sorry I missed your speech, it's a great topic!
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~MedelliaGray 5 hours ago
woow! I love it!!
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~nightserpent 3 hours ago
Thanks Medellia!! :)
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~PrinceOfFire 10 hours ago  Hobbyist Writer
Well, I was going to go to sleep, but...
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~nightserpent 3 hours ago
Sorry about that! :lol:
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Mood: Fear *kitgryph 11 hours ago
It makes me think we need to bring back DDT, for home use! And, thicker bedsheets.
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~nightserpent 3 hours ago
:lol: Yes, KEVLAR bedsheets!
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~darkanddefiant 11 hours ago
holy -
this would be a very good reason for bed wetting. :B
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