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"After a moment something about the size of a small horse hopped out into the grey twilight, and Carter turned sick at the aspect of that scabrous and unwholesome beast, whose face is so curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars." "...the ghasts, those repulsive beings which die in the light, and which live in the vaults of Zin and leap on long hind legs like kangaroos."H.P. Lovecraft, Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath
For my Lovecraft Bestiary project: [link]
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His eyes...are the most terrifying+ spine...and teeth, of course
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looks like gollum had a bad hair day. excellent portrayal, mind you. pretty much precisely how i imagined them.
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Yes, it was primarily done in Mypaint with some work done in GIMP.
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Okay. Thanks for replying
Is cost or preference for opensource the reason for your choice?
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It's sort of both. When I first started doing digital painting, I had a laptop that just didn't run Photoshop or Adobe very well- it simply didn't have the processing power. I found that GIMP and Mypaint worked just fine on it, though. Now that I have a much more powerful computer, I have gotten used to Mypaint and GIMP and actually prefer a lot of the features they offer. I also love the idea of open-source software and the communities that form around them, improving them and making them more powerful and flexible. I will probably start doing more in PS if only because the industry expects a certain familiarity with it, but the brush dynamics leave something to be desired IMO.
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Thanks for the detailed answer.
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Creepy but wonderful detail. it looks like a genuine creature. I always wondered what a creature without a forehead looked like. Nailed it!
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I hope you are considering making this project into a leather-bound (flesh like) book for sale? I will buy a few copies for sure. Something like the necronomicon from Army of Darkness.
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If there are any publishers interested in doing something like that, sure. At the very least I will publish this as a book in some form of hard copy.
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Eerie! Spot-on with the description in the book as well, almost exactly what I pictured when I read it.
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When you say bestiary do you mean those that are not referred as Great Old Ones and Outer Gods?
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Pretty much anything that is a creature type, of which there are multiple members, rather than an individual (like Cthulhu or Nyarlethotep or Brown Jenkins for instance). I will probably make a compendium of Lovecraft mythos deities at some point as well, though.
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that spine is so disturbing- yeeesh!! 
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Great ghastly creature, really nightmarish enough for the Dreamlands
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