Rhapsodies

Either I’ve finally run out of lame suggestions or the gods of Inktober are beginning to smile on me because today I got to draw the big guy himself, Cthulhu!

Though fun as this is it was also a bit of a poser. I’ve got a lot of friends who are Lovecraft scholars and I’ve been in lots of discussions about what Cthulhu actually is that what most people base their take of it are actually from the two depictions of it described in the story and that it’s real form is completely inconceivable to human perception. (My personal head cannon is that we never actually see Cthulhu in the story and what attacks the sailors is either a facet of it’s subconscious or some sort of automated defense system.) Anyway, I’d already done the “traditional version” before and wanted a challenge. 

I decided to try to show it as something we couldn’t perceive and exists in multiple directions.

Whether this is still recognizable as Cthulhu remains to be seen.