@SceneboyGROWL your comment is welcome of course :) well i read a lot of lovecraft must have missed the one where he says ctulhu has got a humanoid body. anyways it's an awesome drawing noone doubts that just not scary enough and like you said, a bit too cartoony (in my oppinion)
The only inaccuracy I found was the size of the wings. They were described to be rudimentiary, but this picture is still one of my favorites, and one of the most accurate.
It's a nice drawing of a fat green guy . . . I'm sorry but this ain't Cthulhu, it's a nice drawing but like it's been said already, the concept ain't good at all . . .
Cthulhu can look however you want him to. Try doing some other Mythos creatures and investigators in the same style. Hey presto! Arkham Horror the saturday morning animated show. At least it'd be original. Hardcore Lovecraft fans remember, HP barely described his creatures, the games companies did that for you.
HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIITTTTTT !!! AMAZING job men! Y had to say that, sorry :P Really, as many other say, cthulhu is suposed to be something different, but i really liked
I'm seeing a lot of dumb comments here and it just irritates me to the point of genocide. Its sad how people consider something "bad" or "not correct" if it isn't an EXACT copy of the original. That isn't art...thats just bad. Putting your own version with your interpretations and your own originality is far better than just copying something someone else did. I like it =)
I don't see the problem with this design. Looks fine to me. Nothing wrong with something looking a bit cartoonish. Problem with Cthuhlu is Lovecraft didn't give quite the description in detail that people really needed. Honestly left up to him it'd be just a dude with an octopus on his head.
It's a really awesome drawing, but I think it should look more alien. The humanoid, squid-headed Cthulhu is the one that most people draws, but the story actually says that Cthulhu BARELY looked like a humanoid octopus. I think that most people needs to draw it more alien-like. If it says, for example, that it's head looks similar to an octopus, then combine strange and unique characteristics not seen in any living thing on Earth and arrange them so that they look like an octopus.
@Necronomicon888 the oly time lovecraft used the word octopus once in his description of cthulhu in call of cthulhu if memory serves. the only REAL idea of cthulhu's head we get is that it is a "endless mass of feelers" which personally gives me the idea that he has no eye/nose/mouth, just the back end of a head and a face of nothing but tentacles, which is an extremely alien visual, as a face with nothing but feelers on a humanoid-ish body has yet to be seen in media, as far as I can tell.
Still a humanoid body is just too Earth-like to be alien. Maybe Cthulhu was in a possition that made him look like he had humanoid body, but it actually may have some sort of gelatinous, boneless monstruous body?
the thing is, although h.p.lovecraft was an EXTREMELY out of the box thinker, he was still from the 1900's, and this HEAVILY impacted on the things he thought of. though later writers would read his wierd stories and try and beat him in critter-wierdness, lovecraft himself was from a time when monsters were humanoid, and thus a great deal of his were as well. when he said anthropod, he meant anthropod, albeit veguely. if it was gelatinous, he would have said.(with WAYYY too much drama.)
If he would draw Cthulhu like Lovecraft descripes it we would go mad sooo i think this picture is good enough (indeed it is great) and we dont get mumbling and shaking around speaking obscure stuff
great skill, but can only agree with the others, he looks far too human like and not very impressive or horryfiyng at all, should be definetly a bit more... I dont know.
In the end your picture looks very nice. (wish I could draw like that)
Your drawing skills are nice, but i think the fans (i at least) would prefer a much-more deformed, alien, terrifying, abominable c'thulhu. This guy on the picture -though well made -with the human breasts, stomach, arms, thighs is not mystical and terrifying at all. C'thulhu, should be much less of an antropomorphic fat comic figure. keep on the good work though, i admire your skills!
dude, you misunderstood what i wrote. i think the drawing is amazing. but it's just not like h. p. lovercraft fans would imagine cthulhu, not at all. it's just not evil and alien enough, with the legs and belly and human chest. the artist put it on a public forum, thus agreed that he might get some criticism. i don't consider myself a jerk for sharing my thoughts.
i understand you perfectly, but in this depiction i think Cthulhu has a mystic yet aw inspiring depiction , thought in my depiction of Cthulhu, he looks like an absurd abomination with no logic at all :P so i agree with you on that, but i like the fact that he tried to represent Cthulhu as a "god" as the his cultist see him for example.
im just saying, most things said that start with dude, are stupid. its like "dude, your moms a bitch, and thats why i fucked her in the but like your dad never does lololololololol!!!! im so smart! i should write for a newspper or something lololol!!!". so yeah, your basically right.
For what it's worth, I'm not offended by criticism. Professional artists have to be okay with critique both favorable and harsh, and I strive for professionalism.
And yes, I am a Youtube post necromancer. RISE comments, and serve your new master.
You're right though. I think it's good, but I see him with a bigger, more menacing head. Less squid-like, and more aquatic (if that makes sense). He looks about as accurate as I imagine his followers depicted him in the stories. My main criticism is with the pose and scenery, it just doesn't do him justice. Again, great artwork though.
@xaositectz You should understand (this is at least for me) that Lovecraft wanted for everyone to have a different Cthulhu...this one is green, but in my head its pale green...for me Cthulhu is more of a mind being, something that plays with your head, and just drives you insane...so this is how this dude imagines Cthulhu, mine is different yours is different...get it?
@gorefinder this is true for any character in a book though (except the ones that are explained to every detail). based on this, i could draw something really bad and say "this is how i imagine it" and you should accept it :) to me, a common mistake in any kind of fantasy art, that the monster-alien characters are too anthropomorph- and as i've experienced, others dislike this too. imagine a dragon with human abdomen and chest :) i've seen it and it's just not fitting, even if amazingly drawn
@xaositectzYes you are right, all of the drawers tend to put something human in their art, and i like that, Cthulhu with this bear belly and large chest, for me that looks good,i appreciate more when there are human elements because it looks more realistic to me, i can relate to that, because my Cthulhu drawings have a lot of human elements: humanoid arms and legs, on mine there is a lot body fat because i imagine Cthulhu being hedonistic etc. im not going to change my opinion about that.
@gorefinder hehe okay i've got no problem with that at all :) when i draw monsters and stuff i try to make them as evil and misshapen as i can :) or insect-like
@xaositectz So the legs, belly, and human chest are the problem? Funny....Lovecraft himself drew Cthulhu with the same things....and described it as "octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature"....Human...soo ya you're not a jerk, just highly ignorant, which unfortunately for you is far worse. But you did a fine job on it svirgilio.
@xaositectz No that doesn't make you ignorant, the fact that you insist that the human likeness of Cthulhu is what makes this drawing "wrong" or whatever is ignorant. I mean it describes it as human in the book, have you even read the Call Of Cthulhu? I just don't believe you have because of things YOU have said and commenting on something you know nothing about seems pretty ignorant right? And actually that looks pretty close to Lovecraft's drawing, Cept the bottom, but meh I like it.
C'thulhu isn't a god... technically. Although, all I guess you would need to be a god, according to some, is to have power beyond mortals, and have worshippers.
If that's the case, then he can be considered to be a god.
Actually, he was originally stated to be a 'Great Old One'. Aliens from beyond our space and time.
As for his appearance, I've always had the impression that humans can only partially perceive him, and even that drives one to madness.
C'thulhu has, according to the story "Call of C'thulhu", a body like a great ape, with squalmous rubbery flesh, a head like an octopus, and great wings like a bat or dragon. so, paunchy is actually correct, if you've ever seen a gorilla.
From The Call of C'thulhu: "The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled."
The words "walked" and "stumbled" suggest legs. It also says he lumbers, but I'm not sure you can't do that with a snake's body.
@svirgilio "It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters."
The entire part BEFORE that specifically states that he is a physical impossibility, that his appearance is illogical. Legs are the opposite of all of those things, I get really sad when i see people ravage Lovecraft's things so badly. There is more reason to assume he has legs AND a snakelike body AND some tentacles AND some hands down there than assume any one of those things.
That's EXACTLY what I look like when I get up in the morning. [Stay out of my bedroom, Svergilio!]
VOLKHVORONOVICH 6 months ago
Great job. Ignore the fanboys and try a shoggoth.
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damnfinehorror 7 months ago
Nice drawing.
But you look scary O_O
th0mmiejh 9 months ago
@SceneboyGROWL your comment is welcome of course :) well i read a lot of lovecraft must have missed the one where he says ctulhu has got a humanoid body. anyways it's an awesome drawing noone doubts that just not scary enough and like you said, a bit too cartoony (in my oppinion)
xaositectz 11 months ago
Oh my, it's aquatic Buddha. ^.^
LordLoco87 11 months ago
Shit...
h4ck3rpunk 11 months ago
The only inaccuracy I found was the size of the wings. They were described to be rudimentiary, but this picture is still one of my favorites, and one of the most accurate.
porkcows 11 months ago
@Malkazar1000
This is definitely accurate to the description. "Of somewhat bloated corpulence"
Cthulhu is pudgy! haha
porkcows 11 months ago
I liked it a lot! awesome!
sapensenn 1 year ago
It's a nice drawing of a fat green guy . . . I'm sorry but this ain't Cthulhu, it's a nice drawing but like it's been said already, the concept ain't good at all . . .
AnonOf31 1 year ago
Why are there so many cthulu videos from 2008
?
RunoJohnsson 1 year ago
Very nice work!
ScooterOKC 1 year ago
Looks like Kthulu likes his Budweiser =D
lipoicacid 1 year ago
C'thulhu wouldn't be fat because he sleeps for thousands... of... years hm.
Valcien 1 year ago
great
spray32 1 year ago
Peace of shit.
WeirdAnonymous 1 year ago
Awesome. But should be more... well... creepy.
gutembergveloso 1 year ago
THAT LOOKS LIKE MY DADDY!!!!
alkaun123 1 year ago
nice finished piece.
666slink 1 year ago
Cthulhu can look however you want him to. Try doing some other Mythos creatures and investigators in the same style. Hey presto! Arkham Horror the saturday morning animated show. At least it'd be original. Hardcore Lovecraft fans remember, HP barely described his creatures, the games companies did that for you.
OnionMasterFlex 1 year ago
HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIITTTTTT !!! AMAZING job men! Y had to say that, sorry :P Really, as many other say, cthulhu is suposed to be something different, but i really liked
your concept of Him.
AWESOME job :)
BATTOUSALEM 1 year ago
Im very jealous of your talent m8, keep up the good work :)
+1 for music
seth83pl 1 year ago
I'm seeing a lot of dumb comments here and it just irritates me to the point of genocide. Its sad how people consider something "bad" or "not correct" if it isn't an EXACT copy of the original. That isn't art...thats just bad. Putting your own version with your interpretations and your own originality is far better than just copying something someone else did. I like it =)
ZyioScalebane 1 year ago
very good, but that is not cthulhu
madtrashmax77 1 year ago
I don't see the problem with this design. Looks fine to me. Nothing wrong with something looking a bit cartoonish. Problem with Cthuhlu is Lovecraft didn't give quite the description in detail that people really needed. Honestly left up to him it'd be just a dude with an octopus on his head.
AugustusOxy 1 year ago
@AugustusOxy O rly? Google "H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu sketch" sometime
ZyioScalebane 1 year ago
bravo!well done,BRAVO!
GanarfGeorgie 1 year ago
he went back home like Elvis did?
gayjuggalo 1 year ago
very impressive drawing, I like it very much! :D
though I'd like to know the name of the program in which you painted it if it's not a problem :)
KisEx 1 year ago
I love the picture, not sure about the bellybutton, though, always imagined THEM to be more of an egg-laying species :-)
apart from that: this is what I thought it looked like
yippieh123 1 year ago
Cthulhu cthucks
NonPC66 1 year ago
Awesome 5/5!!
Peter7Paul 2 years ago
Music sounds like DIablo.
OiOlli83 2 years ago
Very good drawing skills
Very good taste of music
Very cool beard
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5/5
seth83pl 2 years ago 11
(ran out of space...) but yes, this is still an awesome picture. pretty damn good.
therex55213 2 years ago
god who give a shit if it looks squishy or if it looks too huminiod, it still a fucking kick ass drawing
matthewisapanda 2 years ago
Sanity hath been shattered
Turtawz 2 years ago
It's a really awesome drawing, but I think it should look more alien. The humanoid, squid-headed Cthulhu is the one that most people draws, but the story actually says that Cthulhu BARELY looked like a humanoid octopus. I think that most people needs to draw it more alien-like. If it says, for example, that it's head looks similar to an octopus, then combine strange and unique characteristics not seen in any living thing on Earth and arrange them so that they look like an octopus.
Necronomicon888 2 years ago
@Necronomicon888 the oly time lovecraft used the word octopus once in his description of cthulhu in call of cthulhu if memory serves. the only REAL idea of cthulhu's head we get is that it is a "endless mass of feelers" which personally gives me the idea that he has no eye/nose/mouth, just the back end of a head and a face of nothing but tentacles, which is an extremely alien visual, as a face with nothing but feelers on a humanoid-ish body has yet to be seen in media, as far as I can tell.
therex55213 2 years ago
Still a humanoid body is just too Earth-like to be alien. Maybe Cthulhu was in a possition that made him look like he had humanoid body, but it actually may have some sort of gelatinous, boneless monstruous body?
Necronomicon888 2 years ago
the thing is, although h.p.lovecraft was an EXTREMELY out of the box thinker, he was still from the 1900's, and this HEAVILY impacted on the things he thought of. though later writers would read his wierd stories and try and beat him in critter-wierdness, lovecraft himself was from a time when monsters were humanoid, and thus a great deal of his were as well. when he said anthropod, he meant anthropod, albeit veguely. if it was gelatinous, he would have said.(with WAYYY too much drama.)
therex55213 2 years ago
Ia Ia!
LovecraftNewsNetwork 2 years ago
Amazing work! Great artistry!
JoeVialFilms 2 years ago
nice...........now do Nyarlethotep
lol
gman47097 2 years ago
amazing art work
KINOPRAVDA23 2 years ago
crúps´awahg se´payyqum.......i´m already speaking obscure stuff.....i´m doomed O.O
snakeintheshadow 2 years ago
If he would draw Cthulhu like Lovecraft descripes it we would go mad sooo i think this picture is good enough (indeed it is great) and we dont get mumbling and shaking around speaking obscure stuff
BebbelB 2 years ago
Basically, the actual Cthulhu would be a walking M.C. Escher painting, Yog-Sothoth even more so.
Hedhnter 2 years ago
great skill, but can only agree with the others, he looks far too human like and not very impressive or horryfiyng at all, should be definetly a bit more... I dont know.
In the end your picture looks very nice. (wish I could draw like that)
MajorCoolD 2 years ago
nice drawing, but i don't like the concept. c'thun shouldn't look like a fat humanoid alien from a japanese cartoon
xaositectz 3 years ago 2
Thanks for the feedback. I'm getting the sense from the comments here that fans of Lovecraft's work would prefer a more realistic depiction.
svirgilio 3 years ago
Your drawing skills are nice, but i think the fans (i at least) would prefer a much-more deformed, alien, terrifying, abominable c'thulhu. This guy on the picture -though well made -with the human breasts, stomach, arms, thighs is not mystical and terrifying at all. C'thulhu, should be much less of an antropomorphic fat comic figure. keep on the good work though, i admire your skills!
xaositectz 3 years ago
cause you know humans are green/have wings and have multiple tentacle things coming out of their bodies
Gerbillfury3 2 years ago
dude its awesome leave it at that, the fact is, if you see Cthulhu you go insane so you can draw him any way you want.
MortosSoulStealer 2 years ago
dude, you misunderstood what i wrote. i think the drawing is amazing. but it's just not like h. p. lovercraft fans would imagine cthulhu, not at all. it's just not evil and alien enough, with the legs and belly and human chest. the artist put it on a public forum, thus agreed that he might get some criticism. i don't consider myself a jerk for sharing my thoughts.
xaositectz 2 years ago 14
i understand you perfectly, but in this depiction i think Cthulhu has a mystic yet aw inspiring depiction , thought in my depiction of Cthulhu, he looks like an absurd abomination with no logic at all :P so i agree with you on that, but i like the fact that he tried to represent Cthulhu as a "god" as the his cultist see him for example.
MortosSoulStealer 2 years ago 2
that is one of the smartest things that ive seen written that started with the word dude.
zaengo 2 years ago
maybe because most people who argue on youtube think the best arguement is insulting the other's family ;)
xaositectz 2 years ago
im just saying, most things said that start with dude, are stupid. its like "dude, your moms a bitch, and thats why i fucked her in the but like your dad never does lololololololol!!!! im so smart! i should write for a newspper or something lololol!!!". so yeah, your basically right.
zaengo 2 years ago
For what it's worth, I'm not offended by criticism. Professional artists have to be okay with critique both favorable and harsh, and I strive for professionalism.
And yes, I am a Youtube post necromancer. RISE comments, and serve your new master.
svirgilio 2 years ago 2
You're right though. I think it's good, but I see him with a bigger, more menacing head. Less squid-like, and more aquatic (if that makes sense). He looks about as accurate as I imagine his followers depicted him in the stories. My main criticism is with the pose and scenery, it just doesn't do him justice. Again, great artwork though.
KingofMarks91 2 years ago
@xaositectz You should understand (this is at least for me) that Lovecraft wanted for everyone to have a different Cthulhu...this one is green, but in my head its pale green...for me Cthulhu is more of a mind being, something that plays with your head, and just drives you insane...so this is how this dude imagines Cthulhu, mine is different yours is different...get it?
gorefinder 1 year ago
@gorefinder this is true for any character in a book though (except the ones that are explained to every detail). based on this, i could draw something really bad and say "this is how i imagine it" and you should accept it :) to me, a common mistake in any kind of fantasy art, that the monster-alien characters are too anthropomorph- and as i've experienced, others dislike this too. imagine a dragon with human abdomen and chest :) i've seen it and it's just not fitting, even if amazingly drawn
xaositectz 1 year ago
@xaositectzYes you are right, all of the drawers tend to put something human in their art, and i like that, Cthulhu with this bear belly and large chest, for me that looks good,i appreciate more when there are human elements because it looks more realistic to me, i can relate to that, because my Cthulhu drawings have a lot of human elements: humanoid arms and legs, on mine there is a lot body fat because i imagine Cthulhu being hedonistic etc. im not going to change my opinion about that.
gorefinder 1 year ago
@gorefinder hehe okay i've got no problem with that at all :) when i draw monsters and stuff i try to make them as evil and misshapen as i can :) or insect-like
xaositectz 1 year ago
@xaositectz It works for me, and i really dont care about someone elses opinion about MY taste.
Btw: dragon with human abdomen and chest :D that looks gooood :D
gorefinder 1 year ago
@xaositectz So the legs, belly, and human chest are the problem? Funny....Lovecraft himself drew Cthulhu with the same things....and described it as "octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature"....Human...soo ya you're not a jerk, just highly ignorant, which unfortunately for you is far worse. But you did a fine job on it svirgilio.
ZyioScalebane 1 year ago
@ZyioScalebane okey so if i think cthulhu shouldn't look like this = i am highly ignorant? okey c u wise one
xaositectz 1 year ago
@xaositectz No that doesn't make you ignorant, the fact that you insist that the human likeness of Cthulhu is what makes this drawing "wrong" or whatever is ignorant. I mean it describes it as human in the book, have you even read the Call Of Cthulhu? I just don't believe you have because of things YOU have said and commenting on something you know nothing about seems pretty ignorant right? And actually that looks pretty close to Lovecraft's drawing, Cept the bottom, but meh I like it.
ZyioScalebane 1 year ago
@svirgilio The problem is there aren't really any descriptions of Cthulhu by lovecraft beyond 'indiscribeably horrible'
Your drawing is pretty impressive, not quite how I see the eldritch abomination that is Cthulhu but a damn good job all the same.
Gargruk 1 year ago
@svirgilio Not entirely. I am a huge Mythos fan with a collection of Cthulhu likenesses, ex... I happen to really like your depiction.
inlife9 1 year ago
@svirgilio this song has always been one of my faves but I LOVE the orchestra addition! Now the artist is one of my faves as well!:)
sheilatx 1 year ago
I think all this art is great, but I think C'thulhu is so indescribably hideous that a human would go completely insane if they even looked at him. .
superdrugs 3 years ago 2
Yeah but it's virtually impossible to draw something that would make someone go insane.
Advancedgod 2 years ago
COOL!!!
=°°=
dmblade007 3 years ago
Phn'glui mglw'nafh Chthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn
torintoto 3 years ago
Regarding C'thulhu being a god.
C'thulhu isn't a god... technically. Although, all I guess you would need to be a god, according to some, is to have power beyond mortals, and have worshippers.
If that's the case, then he can be considered to be a god.
Actually, he was originally stated to be a 'Great Old One'. Aliens from beyond our space and time.
As for his appearance, I've always had the impression that humans can only partially perceive him, and even that drives one to madness.
Numinous123 3 years ago
C'thulhu has, according to the story "Call of C'thulhu", a body like a great ape, with squalmous rubbery flesh, a head like an octopus, and great wings like a bat or dragon. so, paunchy is actually correct, if you've ever seen a gorilla.
TiwazTyrsfist 3 years ago
...Great Job with the Picture...
dumoktheartist 3 years ago
C'thulhu is not what you get when you cross a Catholic with a Zulu, that would be "Dark Young".
formless777 3 years ago
is Cthulhu supposed to have legs or is his body under the torso supposed to be like a snake's?
wishofthedawn 3 years ago
From The Call of C'thulhu: "The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled."
The words "walked" and "stumbled" suggest legs. It also says he lumbers, but I'm not sure you can't do that with a snake's body.
svirgilio 3 years ago
@svirgilio "It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters."
proof that Cthulhu has feet and is fat :)
RandomEncounterFilms 11 months ago
@svirgilio
The entire part BEFORE that specifically states that he is a physical impossibility, that his appearance is illogical. Legs are the opposite of all of those things, I get really sad when i see people ravage Lovecraft's things so badly. There is more reason to assume he has legs AND a snakelike body AND some tentacles AND some hands down there than assume any one of those things.
OlagHai 4 months ago
Amazing! Absolutely amazing!
wooki33man 3 years ago
Hey I'm a Lefty to :D Sweetness
Arnfinnur 3 years ago
Very cool!
Eudaimonist 3 years ago
Best Cthulhu drawing i have seen!
MortosSoulStealer 3 years ago
Amazing work!
ddecesaro 3 years ago
Another Master Peice!
SiNz77 3 years ago
Amazing!
rinofang 3 years ago