Astanael

Tag: monster

  • Cthonian Egg

    From the belly of Shudde’Mell
    Comes eggs of stone and molten earth
    Hot as lava, burning like hell
    Beware of the cthonian birth !

    Ink brush doodle on A6 sketchbook

  • Roaming Ghoul

    “It was not any mere artist’s interpretation that we saw; it was pandemonium itself, crystal clear in stark objectivity. That was it, by heaven! The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all—he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well-established horror-world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. God knows what that world can have been, or where he ever glimpsed the blasphemous shapes that loped and trotted and crawled through it; but whatever the baffling source of his images, one thing was plain. Pickman was in every sense—in conception and in execution—a thorough, painstaking, and almost scientific realist.”

    – Pickman’s Model, H.P.Lovecraft

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook / Commission for Paul Baldowski

  • Happy face

    We’re told that appearances are deceiving.
    We think our decisions are based on reason
    So why do we put our fake smiley face on
    instead showing our true dark feelings ?

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook.

  • Guts Elemental

    Lurking inside and waiting patiently, the little lump started to grow, started to feel.
    Soon it took over its host, making its own thoughts, nerves and organs.
    And then, one day, it shed up the useless skin and rearranged the bones.
    Strong enough, hungry, ready to assimilate more. It hunts.

    Ink brush on A6 sketchbook

  • Worm and teeth

    Gnawing through the earth, strong and slow.
    They came from the magma below
    Very deep underneath our feet
    One day they will surface our streets

    (not really, that’s just a sock puppet)

    Pencil doodles on A6 sketchbook

  • You cut my tree

    Why did you cut my tree ?
    It was mine. I planted it.
    I watched it grows.
    You cut it.
    I will cut too
    I will cut you.

    Pencil doodle on A6 Sketchbook

  • Faceless horror

    At the court of Azazoth, Sultan of Demons
    Many gods are now nameless
    Some of them are faceless
    Thus cannot be looked upon

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook

  • Just a maid, Ep.15 : Cooking

    Josephine is good at cleaning. Too good, in fact. The floor has never been so free of dust, spots, twigs, stranded leaves, carpets and cats. Her constant oozing melted the varnishes all around and even her recognize that eating the laundry was a mistake.  

    So now she’s in charge of cooking. She’s very fast at it, working with all of her hearths. The quality had dropped a little but service is quite remarkable.

    It was only natural to grant her the position of chief since she ate the last cook.

    Pencil Doodle on A6 sketchbook for Just a Maid, a story about Martha, maid in a strange house

  • The horror in the cave

    I’ve discovered news of an incoming game name carrion where it seems you’re playing a kind of shoggoth.

    https://carrion.games

    Reverse horror they said. That’s new. I like that

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook

  • Shrimp Eye

    Forget human technology and look at the wonders of the mantis shrimp eyes :  

    “They have up to 16 photoreceptors and can see UV, visible and polarised light. In fact, they are the only animals known to detect circularly polarised light, which is when the wave component of light rotates in a circular motion. They also can perceive depth with one eye and move each eye independently. It’s impossible to imagine what mantis shrimp see, but incredible to think about.”

    Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.html

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook