SPN Eldritch - We are the Monsters art masterpost

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Eldritch number two is a totally different flavour of strange - AndThatWasEnough's charming and quirky alternate vision of what the bunker could have been. You can read the story HERE on AO3



I had a wealth of interesting creatures and scenes to choose from, but in the end, I settled on this one, because who can resist Witchy Sam?
Sam's companion is one of this bunker's residents, Amenhotep.



So, to get from there to here, this is what I did.
I had a big list of ideas and research, and collected a bunch of references that I put into a sort of mood board. As you can see, not much of this material survived into the actual art!

Work in progress on both Eldritches - inking the Sam pic. Amenhotep is drawn from photos of the mummy of Amenhotep III. He really does have reddish dreadlocks in a kind of bun.

Starting to watercolour

Drawing for the head in the jar - coloured pencil and fine liner inking.

Digital magic - imported the above traditional paper-based pic into Affinity, layered on top of a gouache of the bunker tiled wall, splashed on textures and decorations, before adding the jar and text.

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