Genuinely creepy far realms/lovecraftian art?

[Eldan]

I'm looking for art for a horror campaign with a slightly lovecraftian influence. My problem when looking around is that most lovecraftian stuff I can find online tends to be "let's stick some eyes, mouths and tentacles on some goop", but not very impressive or scary at all. So I'm wondering. Has anyone found any art that makes the eldritch look actually intimidating, alien and scary? Real horror art? I'm looking for both full-scale monsters and the only slightly eldritch-touched.

[Strigon]

Well, if you'll accept aquatic entries, these two I find... unnerving, especially at night or when I'm alone.

This one is more crude, but still makes me feel on edge just looking at it.

[Temperjoke]

The problem is, it's impossible for the human mind to properly conceptualize far realms/lovecraftian concepts into art, because the artist usually goes insane in the attempt, and if they manage to finish their work, viewing it drives the observer insane. If it's properly done, anyways.

[Strigon]

The problem is, it's impossible for the human mind to properly conceptualize far realms/lovecraftian concepts into art, because the artist usually goes insane in the attempt, and if they manage to finish their work, viewing it drives the observer insane. If it's properly done, anyways.

Aye; I think that's what keeps many people away from the genre. The idea that you simply can't imagine it. For some people, boring - for others, horrifying.

The best you can do is come up with things that just look like they shouldn't be here, or shouldn't exist.


It's a shame Terraria has such low-fidelity graphics; I've always thought The Crimson was suitably disconcerting.

Edit:
Never mind; there's fan art.
(Okay, so that last one was Legend of Zelda. It's still creepy.)

[Sith_Happens]

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[Telok]

Try this blog.

[Nifft]

The juxtaposition of "classic" monster elements with human or cute elements is often a good creepy inducer for me, even relatively silly stuff like this: http://tomoran.deviantart.com/art/Ba...ulhu-119172693

[Grinner]

H.R. Giger, full stop.

Edit: Oh, hey. You probably live close enough to visit his museum.

[Eldan]

I've been to the museum, actually. It's quite nice. A lot of his stuff is quite good, except it's a bit too technological for what I'm aiming at here, sadly. Also, perhaps a bit too well known, which might be distracting. (I.e. players going "Oh hey, that's Giger" instead of "thats scary".)

[Vereshti]

Check out Wayne Barlowe. His illustrations for Expedition are genuinely strange aliens, and his depictions of Hell and its denizens are quite eldritch and creepy.

[Eldan]

Oooooh. Those are magnificient. What a wonderful gallery of demons. Not quite as weirdly grotesque as some medieval work, but more grand. Not exactly creepy, but magnificient. I'll have to see how I can fit a demonologist into the adventure, now.