Dark-young

Acrylic - something in the neighborhood of 12x18"  I believe the painting has phased out of the material plane, there's no other rational explanation as to why I can't find it in a smallish apartment.

A close-up image can be found right over here:

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This was created for Chaosium's upcoming 7th edition Call of Cthulhu rulebook as well as the kickstarter page to fund it. The Dark Young were one of the first Lovecraft creatures to catch my attention back in high school, there was something so evocative about this lumbering tree-like mass of tentacles and mouths... but no eyes or other relate-able anatomy.  It's taken me this long to depict one, I'd attempted it in a personal piece some years back, but I wasn't happy with it's direction.  As with most other Mythos creatures, there is often something about them which make it a bit tricky to depict- and so sometimes there is a need to use some artistic license in order to provide something interesting and viewable.  So, the 'white lie' here could be that the environment is perhaps lighter out than it could/should be to summon this kind of creature.  I could have painted a black rectangle, but I'm not sure if it would be as satisfying!