Gingerbread Skellington
Posted on December 14th, 2011
Gingerbread Skellington sketch by Amy Crook
I don’t know if you’ve seen these awesome cookie cutters, but I couldn’t resist sketching a little homage in some poor unsuspecting soul’s coloring book. It’s like holiday cheer, really!
Categories: Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Tentacle Monster Sketch
Posted on December 13th, 2011
Tentacle Monster sketch by Amy Crook
I saved this guy for Tuesday for obvious reasons. I’m not sure if he’s Lovecraftian or just really creepy, but he was fun to draw, like a Van Gogh sunflower gone very, very wrong.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Tentacles
Tags: coloring book, lovecraft, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Evil Wreath Muppet Thingy
Posted on December 12th, 2011
Evil Wreath Muppet Thingy sketch by Amy Crook
What? They can’t all have awesome titles. It’s been a busy weekend of coughing up my lungs and selling coloring books on Etsy, so you’ll be getting more coloring book sketches for the foreseeable future. Enjoy!
Categories: Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Elder Thing sketch
Posted on December 10th, 2011
Elder Thing sketch by Amy Crook
Another little coloring book sketch! This one is a proper Lovecraftian beastie, the Elder Thing, which is symmetrical along five sides instead of bilaterally. I didn’t really look up all the details, so I’m pretty sure I got some of the bits not quite right, but I don’t really mind. He looks beastly enough like this.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, lovecraft, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Cuppa Shoggoth?
Posted on December 9th, 2011
Cuppa Shoggoth? sketch by Amy Crook
I’m still not feeling well, so I’ll just let this little coloring book doodle (that is, one of the sketches I usually draw in the inside front cover whenever someone buys a Cthulhu Coloring Book or Monster Heart Coloring Book) speak for itself.
Or something.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, cthulhu, lovecraft, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Rhymes With Orange
Posted on December 8th, 2011
Rhymes With Orange by Amy Crook
Another orange piece! Two in one week! It’s madness!
Or, perhaps I did them on the same day? Well, I suppose it could be so.
The salt pools on this one are colored by salt that was used previously to create texture in other watercolor pieces — I chose a range of warm colors from orange to yellow, and then put in the swirls and spirals to match.
Rhymes With Orange, 7″x5″ salt and watercolor on paper.
Rhymes With Orange, detail 1, by Amy Crook
Reusing “dirty” salt is always a risk, because sometimes the paint doesn’t distribute very well in the salt, as on the left, and sometimes it gets so diluted you can’t see it at all, as on the right. But either way, the salt always seems to retain its sparkle.
Rhymes With Orange, detail 2, by Amy Crook
I thought the black frame really brought out the brightness of the orange. I might try it in a warm brown, too, just for variety.
Rhymes With Orange, framed, by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: for sale, orange, salt, watercolor
SnowCthulhu
Posted on December 7th, 2011
SnowCthulhu by Amy Crook
It’s a snowman! It’s Cthulhu! It’s… SnowCthulhu!
Tiny, delicate pen work makes up the stick tentacles, arms and wings. This demanded careful, slightly messy watercolors to paint in the sticks and blue snowy shadows on him. His coal-black eyes have little hints of blue and purple in them just like real coal. Basically, he’s just awesome.
He may or may not become a holiday card this year, but he’ll definitely star in next year’s lineup. I was just feeling seasonal! And, you know, Lovecraftian. Because Christmas and unspeakable horrors just go together.
SnowCthulhu, 7″x5″ pen & ink and watercolor on paper.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: cthulhu, for sale, lovecraft, pen and ink, snowman, watercolor, weeble
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