Featuring the artwork, musings and sketches of Brisbane-based artist Kat Johnston, who is also known as Sanura Sakai or Sanu in Second Life.
Dimi, I blame you for this. I just want you to know that. That aside, this cthulhu is super-cute!
That is all. I won’t bore you with a round-about post this time, since I’ve already done two of those so far today. Last cthulhu today, I promise. Oh, and the site will probably return to a semblance of normality sometime soon. In the meantime, it is a make-over for cthulhu madness.
Ok, So I’ll admit it – I had awesome fun adding a teensie bit of colour to this sketch. I know that a smart person would redo the sketch to be perfectly suited to the digital form – outlining things again with the pen tool, and getting awesome, crisp lines… but sue me. I’m lazy, and as if you can’t tell, I love seeing my working marks on sketches!
So anyhow, this is a little extra bonus pic for the night. Cutie-cthulhu, with a little bit of rough colour! I’m going to get back to my real life for the evening now. I have some wonderful music playing, I’m bopping along happily, and I’m allllmost tempted to go see what gorgeous wines we have lying around. That is just how awesome tonight is.
In fact, it is so awesome that I did up another brand new banner for the site. It’s just a bit of silliness, but still… a lot of fun for me! Hope you like it!
Is there such a thing as a cthulhu who is also a girl, or at least ‘of the female persuasion’? I suggest that there is. I have not seen a picture of one before (not that I have gone searching, mind you), but I think that there should be. Perhaps if there were not, there are none for good reason. Perhaps if there were girl cthulhus, they would actually be prolific breeders, and the Earth would be overrun by them. With that entirely said, I have not read H.P. Lovecraft at all. For all I know, the breeding habits of the common cthulhu is expressly outlined in detail within the first paragraph of ‘Call of the Cthulhu’. You know… right by that bit where they explain exactly how to pronounce the damn word.
After going through the Wiki for Cthulhu, it would appear that Cthulhu might actually have reproduced to create, uhhhh, mini-cthulhu (otherwise known as ‘star spawn’)… possibly without the aid of a female. I’m sure somebody can correct me properly, so that I don’t get it wrong.
Wait, was this meant to be a blog about art? About sketches and inspiration? Boy I’m posting some random things, recently…
I am lucky, I suppose, that I have a part of me that stops me from ranting on in a big way on my site, since I know that invariably it will be backed up somewhere, and someone may just well use my words against me in the future. Despite all that, I have to say – I have completely had it with my real-estate agent, the owners of the property I live in, and every builder they have had through these doors. I would love to name and shame them all, but I could just imagine that landing me in trouble. Despite that, the desire to do so is quite strong, because I would hate to see anyone affected in the same way by these morons in the future.
Ok, anyhow, lets put aside talk of real-estate agents… it makes me angry, and I’m really, really trying not to be! Instead, lets have a look at today’s picture. It just happens to be a real-estate agent eating cthulhu. It likes to chomp on the bones of agents who ignore the RTA and real-estate law, making sure that there is nothing left with which to terrorize helpless renters whose homes, privacy and time have been invaded, destroyed and imposed upon without concern or seemingly reason. Oh, and it is good at chomping on the bones of thoughtless, moronic contractors with combined IQs approximately equivelant to a newt’s (with a learning disorder, mind you), too. It has a lot to keep it satisfied – that is why it looks so cute and happy!
Just another picture of rabbit ears… They’re fun.
You know, some days, I feel like an utter fake. The pictures I put up here, they are just two second sketches, in most cases. Then I go browsing some of my favourite blogs (and a few new, as well), only to find people using their web spaces to display the most beautiful works, in progress and completed. Meanwhile, my little corner of the internet is chock full of things drawn on scraps of paper. Now don’t get me wrong, I like things drawn on scraps of paper, but I feel soooo inferior compared to some out there!
What is even more frustrating is this. After over 6 weeks of construction, of builders in and out of our house to fix things at the instructions of the owners, I still have a studio filled with boxes because parts of our house have had to remain free for the builders to come in and tear down walls and ceilings and paint and so forth. I am just so sick of it. I couldn’t even navigate my way into that room if I tried and it is driving me nuts. Throw into that the fact that we have been paying full rent while they come in and disturb our lives to this gigantic degree, and I’m at the end of my tether. For a job that was quoted ‘five days’, this is dragging on way too much… and the disturbance to our lives is above and beyond merely intrusive. Bah!
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