Cthulhu concept art

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The Hunting Horrors are creatures mentioned in Howard Phillips Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Main article: Hunting Horror/Gallery

This concept is my version of what Cthulhu would look like. I liked the idea that Cthulhu is a massive larger than life creature, so enormous that it cannot be understood as a living being, but almost as a landscape. For a 1km tall being, a neck is a very fragile structure that would easily collapse, specially considering the amount of tentacles that hang from his head. I considered the body as a big fat mass of flesh, and a little head reinforces the size of the rest of the body. I thought…

Cthulhu, on ArtStation at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9EGXDR