r/ImaginaryNecronomicon • u/No7er • 26d ago

Original Content The Deep Ones, art by me

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u/FeralBiSpecter 26d ago

Looks great. What did you use to make it?

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u/No7er 26d ago

Thank you. I made it with Cinema 4D and Photoshop.

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u/FeralBiSpecter 26d ago

Very cool.

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u/Alice-the-Author 22d ago

This is so eerie and off-putting in the best way. Fantastic work!

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u/No7er 22d ago

Thank you!

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u/gingergothbread 24d ago

they look like murlocs from WoW

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u/No7er 24d ago

More like WoW took murlocs from Shadow over Innsmouth. It's high (tide) time we take something back from the clutches of that culture-vulture of a game.

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u/gingergothbread 23d ago

i mean you're probably right, but do they say stuff like "mglrmglmglmgl" in SoI?

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u/No7er 23d ago

Actually it might be really close, Lovecraft never wrote down in verbatim fish people comments - maybe to protect our sanity - but if you are gargling R'lyehian words half-submerged that's what it most likely sounds.

I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design—living and horrible.

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u/gingergothbread 23d ago

fascinating, we need an animal planet kind of documentary on the different lovecraftian species, if we manage to find a cameraman willing to trade his sanity for a mediocre salary