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Project Description
A personal illustration for a potential book cover of H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu. Working on this project, pushing my creativity to new limits and exploring ways to visualize the author's cosmic horror has been very rewarding.
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Sketch and Inks
I wanted the composition to be mind-bending to match Lovecraft's obsession with things beyond human understanding. Cthulhu's tentacles, the sea setting and Lovecraft's head are here to make the cover recognizable. Yet the comics-like panels "nested" within each other (with the darkness bursting out of their boundaries) is what truly makes this composition pop.
An epigraph by Algernon Blackwood in the beginning of Lovecraft's story captures the idea perfectly:
“Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when . . . consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity . . . forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds. . . .”
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Book Cover Mockup
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Thank you!
