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October 12, 2006
monster month - 3
by sven at 8:00 am
Further sketches, contributing to Jeffrey Roche's "Monster Month" event.
It is a putrescent slug, wallowing within its own mass. Opaque white eyes puncture the slimy surface sporadically. And yet, there are traces of the human in it... An ear, a toothy grin worthy of a Cheshire Cat... Waxy spikes protruding from its "head" in an obscene imitation of hair. My, but the arrogant, unblinking thing seems pleased with itself!
The bull-devil butcher brandishes a meat cleaver and commands its damned wards to the chopping block. Beneath a crown of burly horns, the unreadable face is minimalist: dimly glowing eyes pasted to an anonymous sphere. That, and what might be a nose, or a beak -- the sharpened point of an abstract sculpture. It walks on hooves, and has long rubbery forearms like neoprene gloves. The executioner is all the more unnerving for its lack of details... The sense that this being was summarily created by some other more potent force, which animated the servant without granting even the small mercy of animal features.
posted by sven | October 12, 2006 8:00 AM | comments (5) | categories: bestiary, sketchbook
Comments
he looks like he's dancing disco! ;)
Posted by: gl. at October 12, 2006 10:53 AM
That's one disco I wouldn't want to enter!
Sven, I am soooo gonna hire YOU to describe my art when it's done! Damn, man, you can talk real purty.
Posted by: shelley Noble at October 12, 2006 11:04 AM
@gl. -- Heh. Perhaps he's a refugee from that infernal disco in Bruce Bickford's mental cosmos (ref "Monster Road" film).
@ms. Noble -- Thanks! I sorta feel like the third head on a torso shared by the talking skulls of H.P. Lovecraft and Edward Gorey... And we're all commentating some sort of insane, alien wildlife show. Like Marlin Perkin's Wild Kingdom -- but with more tentacles.
Posted by: sven at October 12, 2006 3:50 PM
Macho macho Pan, yeah... I want to be.....a machoooo Pan....:D
I'm lovin' your sketches!
Posted by: ubatuber at October 12, 2006 11:07 PM
(Macho Pan? Ugh.... :-P )
Glad you're liking. I've got more pictures accumulating, too, for after this first ten day stretch. :-)
Posted by: sven at October 13, 2006 10:27 AM