Flying Polyp Sketches

Fantasy Fighting Airships

Some pencils for future pieces.

Nautilus Shrimp

What if there was a species of shrimp with limbs so jointed they were like tentacles?

Cthulhu in the Depths

Another quickie Photoshop illustration of the C-man. (from 2008)

Third update: better color:

Second update: went with single sigil:

Update: I colorized this today, and added my late friend Greg's sigil floating over his paws.

Hound of Tindalos

Update: total rework of image :

This was from H. P. Lovecraft stories, as elaborated by Brian Lumley in his Titus Crow novels.

Update: I added color:

Aerial Dreadnought

Sketch for new image. Here's my little descriptive blurb:

"What a ripping scene! Hull holed, dorsal vanes shredded, the RAS Recalcitrant emerges from the cloud wrack over the village of Much Nadderby to bravely reengage the invading Brungarian aerial dreadnoughts!"






OK, here's an image in progress... Still need to do foreground bad guy and village and landscape below.












Final image: (update, added aerial  shell bursts)

I added a second, larger airship in the background, the RAS Steerpike:

Skull Spider

I never really liked any of the skull spiders I've seen others do. No effort made to use real spider anatomy. I thought  this turned out nicely nasty. I love the eyes as 'teeth.'

Update 2: I added more babies to the original.

Update: I did this as a fake 'Chilling Tales' cover.

Pencil sketch: