See, Call of Cthulhu was my gateway drug to the world of roleplaying games, and over the years my love for the game and the genre never lost its lustre. A month ago, Chaosium asked me if I'd include some art for the interior of their newest adventure supplement, Secrets of Tibet, and I jumped at the chance.
Here we have a pleasant canoe tour of a remote Tibetan river; a wonderful place to make new friends.
This assignment afforded me a great chance to evoke mood and depth , and I thought it would be perfect as a chance to work in this graphite technique I've grown so fond of. All the images here were underdrawn with graphite on vellum Bristol, with compressed carbon shavings laid down and smeared with tissue first, in order to get darker values.
Here are a pair of cephalopoid beings, looking none too happy that you interrupted their hyperdimensional meditations. I learned the Riley method of sketching while doing portraits, so mucking about adding growths and tentacles on a couple of otherwise unremarkable human frames was pure joy.
According to Lovecraftian lore, those interstellar monsters the Mi-go prefer high mountain ranges for their outposts, and it doesn't get much higher than Tibet. Here we have a party of explorers encountering a friend after he's undergone the radical surgeries for which the Mi-go are known. I wonder if he's happy to see them?
More to come!
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