a Santa!Cthulhu

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Lovecraft, in a way
Characters/Pairings: Cthulhu
Media used: charcoal, chalk and black pencil on gray paper
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: This is a bit late, but I guess technically Christmas season sort of lasts until the 6th, yes? This sketch was inspired by the "Santa Cthuluclaus" LJ v-gift I've seen on other people's profiles, an idea which I found cute, only the clipart looks nothing like Cthulhu, not even the jokey cute renderings, but instead looks like a sad octopus with a santa hat, which for some strange reason is carrying flowers and a pencil. Which is just odd, even if you make a sad octopus stand in for Cthulhu. I've done cute Cthulhus before, but I doodled one with a santa hat this time. You probably shouldn't count on this one delivering any of the presents though...
Preview:

Comments

[yhlee]

Here by way of cofax7. Wow! This fills me with evil, squamous glee.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad glad you like the Santa!Cthulhu. :)

[zing_och]

I have no words for how awesome this is. Heh!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[rheanna]

Fabulous! The Santa hat is... a particularly disturbing touch (in a good way).

[ratcreature]

Heh. I'm sure there is a perfectly harmless reason why Cthulhu has a Santa hat. So Cthulhu may not have eaten Santa to get your presents or anything. *eg*

[gramina]

It is Very Clear that Cthlulhu ate santa. At the very least, he at a shopping mall santa, which may I suppose have been a service. But I am Not Convinced by the suggestion that no santas were harmed in the making of this scenario.

... It's lovely. ;)

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

[slybrarian]

This is awesome!

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I'm glad you think so.

[omens]

Awesomely creepy! He's going to devour those presents.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! And I guess he might. I mean at Cthulhu's size even a Santa and some reindeers don't last that long, so the presents are the next step.

[omens]

NOM NOM NOM :D

[iamza]

Once there was a Christmas
Where Cthulu was the Claus;
He ated all the presents;
The kids were all, like, "Naws!
You cannot do that, Cthulu,
the presents, they were not yours!"

No goodies for the good kids,
No lumps of coal for bad;
It was a quiet Christmas
for all the kids were sad.

But the Ancient one from beneath the sea,
grinned wildly in the gloom
For sadness, you see, to one such as he
is the veriest bestest boon.

[ratcreature]

Wow, I got a poem! This is awesome! Thank you. I'm happy my Cthulhu inspired you.

[gnatkip]

I love his ragged wings!

Here's wishing a very dank and slithering joyous and contented new year to you. <3

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

And a happy new year to you as well.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

This is awesome! The tiny little red hat just makes the whole picture XD

[ratcreature]

Glad you like it and that the red works for you. At first the santa hat was b/w, but that just didn't look right, and then I thought I could just as well go with the traditional red chalk in addition to the b/w for a highlight. And it had to be tiny, because really, where would you get santa hats in Cthulhu's size? ;)

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

OMG! Love it love it love it!! K'hai epnigh flur'h or'ei R'leyah!!!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. (Though please no waking of old ones in this journal...)

[sholio]

ahahaha, that really should not be as adorable as it is. :D (I agree with ileliberte, the little splash of red and the very tininess of the hat is the perfect finishing touch to make the whole thing!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
that really should not be as adorable as it is.
I'm just the wrong artists to make a truly gruesome Cthulhu rendering.

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Why is that so cute? How did the santa hat get there? And can I print this and put it in my little brother´s bedroom? :D

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like it. All slanderous rumors that Cthulhu has the hat because he ate Santa are just speculation. There is no proof of that. ;)

And sure you can print this. Though the web version is rather low-res, that would print only to a small size. I can send you a hi-res file via email if you want to print it decently, I just don't put the print resolutions files on the web in full b/c of the art theft risks that come with high quality files that can be utilized for all sorts of things.

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Yes please! If you could send it to coba_ak at hotmail dot com, that would be wonderful.

[ratcreature]

Sent. It's a big jpg, roughly 3.8mb.