Necronomicon Art Journal: The Great Race of Yith

This week’s journal entry was first introduced in HPL’s, The Shadow Out of Time, and is the Great Race of Yith. Check out the awesome cover art from the first publication in Astounding Stories!  I absolutely love the detail of the linoleum floor.

These creatures are fictionalized as a prehistoric civilization that flourished during the Cretaceous, deriving their power from the ability to travel through time, until destroyed by a race of flying polyps.  Cuz that makes sense.

Despite my love of this universe, it is sometimes difficult to write about it like real history.  Onward.

In The Shadow Out of Time, the Great Race of Yith are described as, ‘enormous, iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves. These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and sometimes extended to any distance up to about ten feet. Terminating two of them were enormous claws or nippers. At the end of a third were four red, trumpet-like appendages. The fourth terminated in an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference. Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. The great base of the central cone was fringed with a rubbery, grey substance which moved the whole entity through expansion and contraction.’

So nothing different with process this week other than the fact that I used my bucket o’ dirty paint water to color the background.  I feel like I should use a different material set once in a while, but I really enjoy working the Inktense and Distress Inks so much, that it’s really hard to look for something else.

Since I’ve not yet mastered the skills, I think repetition of materials is okay 😉

So that’s the deal for this week.  I hope that next week finds me better prepared and I get out my journal entry on Hastur in a more timely manner!