Marie WheelerHastur is also known as the King In Yellow and was first introduced by Ambrose Bierce in ‘Haita the Shepherd’ and is noted in that piece as a god of shepherds. The character was then co-opted by Robert W. Chambers trilogy ‘The King in Yellow’ as both a character and title of a play that turns the reader insane and is most noted in the first of the trilogy, ‘The Repairer of Reputations’. Finally, the character is part of an ‘honorable mention’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Whisperer in the Darkness’:
“I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connexions—Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum—and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the Necronomicon had only guessed in the vaguest way…. There is a whole secret cult of evil men (a man of your mystical erudition will understand me when I link them with Hastur and the Yellow Sign) devoted to the purpose of tracking them down and injuring them on behalf of the monstrous powers from other dimensions.”
So Hastur basically starts out as a nice guy and gets more evil as time goes on and has he gets passed from author to author and more recently as seen in the with games like Arkham Horror and The Elder Sign. Good times.
This weeks sketch shows a little bit of progress, though decidedly lacks some nuance of perspective. I need to get that figured out. I am starting to apply some of the techniques I’m learning in my Craftsy course (more on that later!) and was stoked to use my new Micron pens! I feel like I’m progressing despite the fact that there are some essential components of good art that are missing…like perspective. Also, goats are clearly not my forte.
See ya’ll next week! I’m going to try my hand at Mi-Go, the Fungi from Yuggoth! Fun!
