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Deep One, "Gurgle gurgle, oh ya gettin some tonight"!

I think their predominant colour 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.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth



The backstory of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" involves a bargain between Deep Ones and humans, in which the aquatic species provides plentiful fishing and gold in the form of strangely formed jewellery. In return, the land-dwellers give human sacrifices and a promise of "mixing"—the mating of humans with Deep Ones. Although the Deep One hybrid offspring are born with the appearance of a normal human being, the individual will eventually transform into a Deep One, gaining immortality—by default—only when the transformation is complete.
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*RedWingsDragon Nov 21, 2012
Awesome work here
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*Ito-Saith-Webb Nov 23, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
thanks
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~Jazon19 Oct 23, 2011
"Ill take this! YOINK"
Brilliant depiction!
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~madvisigoth Jul 2, 2011
Nicely done. Have you read 'Neonomicon' by Allan Moore? It's the first thing I thought of when I saw your work. Mr. Moore is trying to put the sex into Lovecraft's ideas.
Keep up the good work.
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~madvisigoth Jul 2, 2011
Nicely done. Have you read 'Neonomicon' by Allan Moore? This painting meshes nicely with Moore's vision. He wanted to put the sex into Lovecraft.
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*AngelicAdonis Apr 17, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thats both amazing and terrifying!
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~DARKBABY67 Apr 14, 2010
This is Awesome! Great work! :love:
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~blind-dancer Apr 12, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
hmm strange, I thought Deep Ones and humans actually chose to mate together... consensual stuff you know, benefits them both...
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*Ito-Saith-Webb Apr 12, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
Ever see the movie Dagon?
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~blind-dancer Apr 12, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
yah I did, but I didn't understand why they made them mate like this... It's not something I want to see, and also, it didn't fit with the original story... I was under the impression it was made only to show some skin on tv.
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