Friday, October 14, 2011

The Dwellers in the Depths

Wesley Remory has been doing some amazing work putting together a hand illustrated tome. His latest pages feature the Deep Ones. Because of the amount of work required creating a tome from scratch is probably the pinnacle of Lovecraftian propmaking. Sculpting a Cthulhu idol comes a close second, but dozens of artists have done that. Complete tomes? There are vanishingly few of them, and the majority were done by professionals for film work.

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6 comments:

  1. Robert OlmsteadOctober 14, 2011 at 4:59 AM

    I really love this one!!!

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  2. Jason McKittrickOctober 14, 2011 at 5:23 AM

    Nice work. I can personally attest to the amount of work it takes to create a tome. The Necronomicon I made took two months.

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  3. MarkusOctober 15, 2011 at 1:09 AM

    It looks really fantastic, and it´s quite obvious how much work it was to create a whole book in this style. Funnily the illustrations are somewhat reminiscent to the ink drawings of Walter Moers in some of his books.

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  4. CoastConFanOctober 15, 2011 at 5:33 AM

    A complete textual work is very difficult. You have to map out each page, determine textual content, let up artwork and make sure it is fairly consistent though out. A lot of work is a euphemism to say the least. If the whole book is of this quality, I am very, very impressed with the effort of the author.

    The only thing I might add is that most hand written books prior to fast inks had huge margins by modern standards. I think it was partially due to the possible smudging effect of handling books with carbon inks and natural mineral inks. The margins are also great for marginalia and comments in different hand. Hand written books took a lot of effort and money to create and scribes knew how to make a tome that would be preserved for hundreds of years. This is just a suggestion to makers of books out there.

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  5. PhilOctober 16, 2011 at 12:18 AM

    Beautiful work!

    I admire anyone willing to take a stab at illustrating their tome. Mine has been finished for months, but I have yet to work up the courage to take pen and ink to the interior.

    If anyone asks, I tell them the inside contains knowledge not meant for human eyes.

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  6. Dr. NothingJune 17, 2012 at 2:17 PM

    Fantastic work! Amazing attention to detail. Kudos for efforts well spent!

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