This is my Crawling Chaos cultist, offering up his dark devotion to Nyarlathotep. Not sure if he's crazy or just wants to be eaten last... He has a yellow skin tone because he is from the Orient; I guess the Plateau of Leng is the best place from which to summon old Nyarly. Incidentally, the Cthulhu cultist has a darker skin tone because he's Polynesian. The skull mask is really hard to paint. I painted the mask using my super-thin brush on the next cultist, which I haven't finished yet. The robes have less of a pattern to them, although I added some highlights to the cloak. The eldritch design on the apron (?) came out pretty well - that was done in red ink. I like how the pages of the book look yellowed and have some appearance of individual pages. |
This is a Hunting Horror, which looks to me like a cross between a snake, a bug, and some bat-thing. I used the same painting scheme as for the Nightgaunt, layering black->indigo->blue highlighting. I tried to be careful with the shell segments so that the edge would be blue and the interior black. There are a series of pits running down the length of the head, and I have inked these in with red. I guess they are supposed to be eyespots or something, but the artist said they were intended to be thermal pits (like vipers) and the creature is eyeless. Meh. I felt that the Nightgaunt and the Hunting Horror were too similar to explore in different directions while maintaining the painting scheme. I pretty much wanted to move onto Shub-Niggurath and some warmer colors by the time I finished this piece. |
Each one of the polyp's eyes is different. The yellow one with the huge pupil is my favorite; I think it looks like it is beginning to peer over its own mound of flesh to see a tasty appetizer. The green cats-eye and the one with a cross for a pupil were fun too. The magenta bumps are skin growths or tumors (polyps on a polyp - get it?)
The dark blue-on-black makes me think of old comics trying to show black-on-black. It's the sort of coloring you;d see on Batman or the Dark Horse run of Aliens. It limited my palette but has a very dark appearance. if I weren't trying to link it thematically to the Crawling Chaos faction, I would have used a gross skin color.