"Without definite intention he was asking the PRESENCE for access to a dim, fantastic world whose five multi-coloured suns, alien constellations, dizzy black crags, clawed, tapir-snouted denizens, bizarre metal towers, unexplained tunnels, and cryptical floating cylinders had intruded again and again upon his slumbers."
"He was, as many a night before, walking amidst throngs of clawed, snouted beings through the streets of a labyrinth of inexplicably fashioned metal under a blaze of diverse solar colour; and as he looked down he saw that his body was like those of the others—rugose, partly squamous, and curiously articulated in a fashion mainly insect-like yet not without a caricaturish resemblance to the human outline. The Silver Key was still in his grasp—though held by a noxious-looking claw."
Here's another one from a less well known Lovecraft story. E. Hoffman Price originally wrote to Lovecraft expressing his love for his story The Silver Key and asked to co-write a sequel. Hoffman sent a draft and Lovecraft rewrote almost every word.
I'm happy with my original design for the yaddithian but, again, cleaned up the line work, color and anatomy. I altered the face a bit and used a saiga, a Mongolian antelope, as reference.
It was also only in researching for this blog post that I stumbled across H.R. Hammond's accompanying illustration in Weird Tales (July, 1934).
I'm happy with my original design for the yaddithian but, again, cleaned up the line work, color and anatomy. I altered the face a bit and used a saiga, a Mongolian antelope, as reference.
It was also only in researching for this blog post that I stumbled across H.R. Hammond's accompanying illustration in Weird Tales (July, 1934).
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