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SciFi and Fantasy Art: The Other Gods

And now Atal, slipping dizzily up over inconceivable steeps, heard in the dark a loathsome laughing, mixed with such a cry as no man else ever heard save in the Phlegethon of unrelatable nightmares; a cry wherein reverberated the horror and anguish of a haunted lifetime packed into one atrocious moment:

'The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!'

- H.P. Lovecraft: The Other Gods

[crayons, 64x45cm]

 

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The Other Gods - SciFi and Fantasy Art by Maija Pietikäinen
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Categories: [Landscape, Nature, Panoramic] [Magic and Sorcery, Spells, etc.] [Man, Men] [Wizards, Priests, Druids, Sorcerers...]
Techniques: [Crayons]
Inspirations: [H.P.Lovecraft]
DateNameComment 
26 Sep 2003:-) John R. Toohey
A valient attempt at Lovecraftian illustration. You've captured the mood of the story and have illustrated it with great technical skill... Your sense of art is mighty. Why waste all that time and money going to school when you can do better art then 90% of the people there anyway?

Oh yeah.. I don't feel particularly scared by this. It lacks some fundamental forbidden knowledge aspect which Lovecraft was so good at hinting at in his verbose, adjective-riddled paragraphs of unending horror...

(alas they Do end though and after reading everything he's done several times i get jonzin' for some more)

I really really like your art and will continue to comment on your incredible work.

Peace
5 Dec 200345 Coconut
Theres some one in the laser!

Came by on the get lost tour

gret picture
22 Dec 200345 Eowyn of Rohan
Anonymous in reight, there IS only one God, but this pic's still cool. the guy in the foreground looks kinda like a hobbit. kinda. don't know how. mabye it's cause i'm thinkin about hobbits alot to-day. i saw ROTK last night, so........
ALL LOTR FANS SHOUT "ALL HAIL LEGOLAS!" *giggles*
26 Dec 200345 Lavidia
ALL HAIL LEGOLAS! And I love the pic- great job!
11 Jan 200445 Faye
*points at the comment somewhere above* umm, this means there is only one god and it's Legolas?
12 Jan 200445 Anonymous
This is really good! The mist doesn't look silly!! I wish I could do that.*sigh*
1 Oct 200545 Cedric
I've browsed Elfwood on and off for a few years now, and I must say, ever since I've found your user profile, I have been tempted to join a number of times. I have your profile in my favourites just to show you off =D You have amazing talent and a beautiful, unique style. I've never seen anyone match your skill with crayons. CRAYONS of all things. I wish I could pay you for some of your art, but I'm only a student, and don't have paypal or a credit card 14

I really just left this post as insipiration. Keep it up! Hopefully, someday in a few years, I will find this bookmarked profile in my favourites on my old hard drive, and take up my old lust for you pictures. I will have money then, though =D
1 May 200645 Siv
firstly thought it was lotr, but well... can't be right everytime... anyways... there ARE different opinions on gods... personately not sure of their or his or her existense... well tolkien IS a god, but i don't know if that counts... well all the same, got taken away from the world... but it's what-so-ever brilliant... and finally... good colors... (heaven queen cover me in all that blue... wooooops nightwish-ing again)
9 Jul 2006:-) Cassandra Verrett
O_0 r u freaking serious?!?!? U USED CRAYONS FOR THIS?!?! THE DETAILS AND THE CHICK IN THE LIGHT BEAM AND THE GUY HIDING AND ALL THE DETAILS IN THE EVERYTHING AND U DID IT IN CRAYONS?!?!

*FAINTS*
3 Sep 200645 Anon.
Tulzscha? Aivan loistava..
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