Cthulhu revised image

after the persective pictures i wanted to go through another route and after looking up some other pictures of cthulhu i found a few that i felt inspired by, mostly tshirt designs and graphic illustrations.

so i took the sketches i had done earlier in the month and picked my favourite depiction which was the middle one with the horizontal eyes

 I then started to block out the colours, painting over the the top of the sketch in different shades to show the density of the bust, working my way down to almost black with his suit.

 finding a google image of a cameo brooch i picked out the one i thought represented best with the curls and scrolls, also the nice accent at the top and bottom.

using the circle select tool i carved away at making the cameo

 separating it into parts as i went along

 desaturated his nose as it stuck out too much
added in spooky friendly skull types around the boarder
added the summoning sigil at the top commonly found on the necronomicon
the dots at the top under the boarder are there to make sure everything is aligned

I was unsure wether to have light eyes are black eyes, making comparing screenshots, i sent them out to a few friends, who agreed the darker eyes looked best

Here i noticed that the front two tentacles were weirdly shaped, so i added definition to the start of them as lumps, and screen shot them both to compare and sent them off again to friends for inspection

The bumps above the face tendrils the bottom sets proved a better success then the flat edge in the top sets.
also adding little wings used up some of the space within the cameo background which i personally thought went well with the whole look of the piece.

Finally having found a good balance with the cameo and cthulhu himself i moved onto looking at colour combos to help separate the two  yet still have the harmony.

• I started with the top left, working with a dull toned yellow to green to brown pallet, and for the cameo, a beige to pink to purple dusky pallet.
• they really worked well and gave off an eerie tone, nothing too dark and nothing too bright, it really brought the whole design together.
• then i shifted the hues left to right +100 and -100 to get the blue version and red version, both were met with positive opinions but the first example was still by far the most liked.
• then i decided to saturate it to bring out the colours more, which worked beautifully, but for the subject, its too much
• and lighten it, which gave out a cute but creepy pastel pallet

all of these including the greyscale version are suitable for tshirt designs, bringing together different colours suited for different people

i especially love the gradient detailing to the skulls at the side and the abundance of eyes, not to mention you dont seem to notice the fact that there is the face of HP lovecraft hidden there.

the reason why i have watermarked everything i deemed possible to steal is becuase i dont want people ripping my images from the internet and using them to make any sort of profit, as i rather quite like this design and ive worked hard for it.

Here is my final render of the image, done in a vectored style perfect for posters, prints, T-shirts and other popular media