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About this Artwork
This was a commission piece for Dark Wisdom magazine. They published an article outlining some of the many faces of Nyarlathotep, of which I illustrated two. This piece and Set the Destroyer. Both pieces were sketched out in pencil, then colored in Photoshop.
This incarnation of the Crawling Chaos was taken from the following passage:
It was Mersu who still steadied me when a deafening roar burst forth
from the deepest recesses of the crumbling edifice. Together we watched in fearful
awe as a mammoth four-legged animal extracted itself from the ash and fire of
Nyarlatophis' lair. It was, I knew, the transformed sorcerer Himself, but I
could not immediately determine what form of horrific creature He had become.
The behemoth boldly strode from the fiery wreckage, causing us to retreat even
further. We found ourselves facing the deformed image of a colossal lion, this
new form surely born of Nyarlatophis' dark familiar, the black lion He had brought
with Him from the desert. But it was the head, framed within the striped folds
of the beast's headgear, that defied all logic, for the lion wore the face of
Nyarlatophis Himself! The monster's vile appearance mocked that of the great
stone Sphinix that guards the gateway to the Great Pyramids of Lower Egypt.
It even sported the false beard of that archaic, monumental sculpture.
- Stanley C. Sargent, "Nyarlatophis, A Fable of Ancient Egypt"
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