Cthulu Jeebus of the Sacred Heart

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

[Sibling Chatty]

The cover for Swato's hymnbook.

Seriously.

[Aphos]

I have SEEN the light!!!

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

This is why I love dA.

If we ever did a real monastery, this should TOADALLY be one of our windows.

[Swatopluk]

No, thank you. Stained glass window with Old One, yes*. Sacred Heart, NO!
Should I turn terrorist it will be blowing up chapels and churches centered on that kind of tasteless "Holy" art** (Alt-Ötting, you will be first!)

*Could you find more of that? The person I wanted to draw the cover has not answered yet.
**There are very tasteful pictures of Jesus and/or Mary around, and I am not an iconoclast per se but there are few things I find more nauseating than certain kinds of religious kitsch and the mentality that goes with it

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Certainly. I can dig around dA for you and find some more stuff. They're usually pretty cool with people using their stuff, too, if you ask permission and give credit, of course.

I thought the sacred heart bit was hilarious--but then, as a recovered catholic (IE-no longer), it amused me.

[Opsa]

I can only speak as a recovering Unitarian (whatever THAT means!), but I thought the sacred heart kitchiness was fabulous. Could've been gushing out some green blood, though.

[pieces o nine]

I also grew up with the exposed hearts, sad accusing eyes (when they weren't being displayed on plates *cough*St Lucy*cough*) and various other images (*cough*St Sebastian*cough*) which would have been Strictly Forbidden if not for the halos. 

That said, this image brought tears of fervor to my eyes! Thank you!

Although, it doesn't quite measure up to one of my all-time favorite stained glass windows. It featured the IHS monogram, cunningly wrought in green, white, and gold glass, so that it appeared to the undiscerning eye as a giant $.

[Opsa]

Hah! That's great.

Maybe Swato's would need some squidling cheribum squinching about in the background, drinking rum and doing various other cute and mischevious acts.

[anthrobabe]

I sort of like the flames shooting out of the top of the heart.

and who's going to get the squidlings to sit still for the glass maker to sketch them-- not me-no way, last time I went into a room with them they stole my shoes and buried them in the compost heap.

[Opsa]

If we let the squidlings into the rum supply again, maybe we could take their little passed-out bodies and position them appropriately. JUST KIDDING Professor Swato! I would not harm the squidlings.

Ya know, with the flames and all, the heart looks more like some sort of misfiring engine part, wrapped in barbed wire.

[Swatopluk]

I can never remember, whether the Old One has 3 or 5 hearts.
As I said, stained glass would be perfect but my own abilities are too limited to do it myself or to fake it believably.
If avoidable no external coyprighted material even with consent of owner.

[Opsa]

I believe you are right about that, Sibling. We have some awfully talented people here who might give it a go if you wish to collaborate.

[Darlica]

I have drawn the Star spawn before and I have plenty of reference material right next to me.
*looks at the pile of RPG books hasn't found their place in the new bookshelf's*    

I'm a bit swamped and most of my things; pens, pencils, scanner etc. are still buried in boxes, but as long as I can take my time and work on it on my free time I think it could work.

Hit me with your ideas about the cover and I'll see what I can do. My main medium is watercolour, I also work in Photoshop and Illustrator. If any one else think they can provide the Stained Glass look (better PS skills than I have) but doesn't feel like doing the composing of the picture I can do the sketching part.

[The Meromorph]

I have something that might do as a stained glass window effect, so we can try it whenever...

[Swatopluk]

Thank you siblings!
I tried my luck yesterday evening to get something out of googled images and my "skill" with MS Paint.
Better than I thought but still far from perfect. It's a wee bit difficult to hold a score sheet with a tentacle. Also the Cephalopod is drawn 3-dimensionally while the old Akkadian is strictly 2D.
So, at least I have something provisional while I wait for the professional
b/w has the added advantage not to suffer in print.
And there may be a second volume (currently working on a few new songs).

Btw, has anybody here mp3s for
"Take me home, country roads" (Denver)
"Kingston Town", "Angelina" (Belafonte)?
Quality does not matter provided it covers at least one full verse and refrain.

[Darlica]

It looks to me that like the Cephalopod is made with dot technique, tiny dots in ink on paper or plastic drawing sheets. The technique has been used for scientific pictures for almost 200 years and is still used since a picture made with this technique can keep its proportion and accuracy no matter who you abuse it, scaling it up or down, copying it on bad bad B/W copying machines etc. 

I do this technique and I love it but it takes ages and unless one is extremely steady (brain surgeon steady to quote one of my teachers) on the hands 2,5- 3 hours of effective work time a day is the maximum one can expect if trying produce a high quality picture.


Now, if I get this right you would like a choir of Cephalopods and a Akkadian choir leader?

How realistic/detailed do you want the the picture?

[Swatopluk]

I worked a bit on the score sheet and the tentacle holding it. Updated picture attached.
A chorus of different cephalopods would be ideal (octopoi, squids, calmars...) with the Akkadian conductor, i.e. with my avatar's head (Naram-Sin or Sargon, google results overlap on that). Semi-realistic (like the one I used*)

*I did not draw that myself but downloaded a googled image and manipulated one tentacle with MS Paint

[Darlica]

I'll see if I can start sketching when I'm away but most likely is that I'll get to it when I'm back.

Things will move along much faster if you PM me (or just post them here) links to sites with good cephalopod pictures and to pics of Naram-Sin or Sargon. I'll bet you have better Google Fu than I have.