"For it was only a penguin - albeit of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eyelessness."
"Their size reminded us of some of the archaic penguins depicted in the Old Ones’ sculptures, and it did not take us long to conclude that they were descended from the same stock-undoubtedly surviving through a retreat to some warmer inner region whose perpetual blackness had destroyed their pigmentation and atrophied their eyes to mere useless slits."
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains Of Madness
"Their size reminded us of some of the archaic penguins depicted in the Old Ones’ sculptures, and it did not take us long to conclude that they were descended from the same stock-undoubtedly surviving through a retreat to some warmer inner region whose perpetual blackness had destroyed their pigmentation and atrophied their eyes to mere useless slits."
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains Of Madness
been following your blog for a while now, you're gettin better and better with every one of these drawlins! awesome stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks man!! haha that's why I'm compelled to redraw so many of the old ones.
DeleteI amazed of your ability to transform cute animals that are often subject of kitch decorations to horrifying monsters, first the peculiar dolphin now this penguin. Excellent work!
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