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The tattoo is nothing awesome to behold, yet its sheer beauty lies in its simplicity. Its location: smack dab in the center of the lower back, in the hollow, in the shallow hanging valley above the crevasse. The tattoo glows when caribou migrate in the frozen wastes of the north, but not when you give talking cats a bowl of heavy cream during a blue moon.
I should know because I inked it, and the person who commissioned the work is now lying on my living room floor: dead.

I look out the window and suddenly realize that I am out of ink. No one knows my plight better than the mice and cockroaches that dwell with me. I t

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from Call of Cthulhuby ~squidink

Traditional Art / Drawings / Macabre & Horror

©2006-2013 ~squidink

“A mountain walked or stumbled. God! What wonder that across the earth a great architect went mad, and poor Wilcox raved with fever in that telepathic instant? The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.”
----from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

The call was too strong...

Pen and ink with Pigma brush pen.

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~AlithiaofNorgannon Jun 22, 2008

Im sure H. P. L.'d have liked it, and so do I. great detailed and highly artistic piece of work.

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!samanosuke Jan 5, 2007

Impressively astute in all it's detailed originality, nicely done.

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~squidink Jan 10, 2007

Thank you very much!

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Mood: Zest

=teddybearcholla Aug 23, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Outstanding drawing, love the detail and the depth WOW!!!

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~squidink Aug 27, 2006

Thank you very much and thanks for the

too! I truly appreciate it!

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=teddybearcholla Aug 29, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

You're very welcome!!!

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Mood: Joy

*Silvermoonlight Aug 19, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Beautiful depth and detail.

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~squidink Aug 21, 2006

Thank you very much!

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*Tomoran Aug 17, 2006 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Absolutely stunning--seriously, I'm in awe of the detail. Reminds me of my favorite pen and ink artist, Glenn Chadbourne. INCREDIBLE work.

Tom

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~squidink Aug 17, 2006

Thank you very much! I've always liked Chadbourne's work; his texture work gives me a standard to look up to.

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