Tim Morris' Art and Project Blog

 Hello again, Recently, thanks to some discussions with my close friend Mette Aumala, I had a few ideas for Lovecraftian interpretations of demons and angels from more traditional doctrine. The idea is to make more visceral and discomnforting-looking demons or angels, compared to the traditional iconography, and for this the obscenity and fleshy nature of Lovecraftian entities seems apt. -   This first is an interpretation of the Biblical Ophanim as some sort of invertebrate-based flying Lovecraftian monster. Ophanim are described as flying winged sets of wheels set about with wings, and here I have loosely applied that shape to a multi-finned, Ctenophore-jelly-like creature. The "eyes" in this instance may instead actually be light-producing organs.   This next one is a Demon that is tasked with tempting mortal men. I didn't have a traditional demon from iconography as a basis, but the Cthonic Roman deity Priapus suits this one fairly well. This demon is drawn as a serpe...

Hello again, As another expansion for my Lost Land setting, I had a good think about speculative critters again, then an idea struck me. The Lost Land is a place where organisms are thrust from disparate parts of Earth's timeline, into a new frontier where all these various creatures have managed to attain a kind of balance. We have creatures from the past, present, and future, but what about the idea of non-linear timelines? If earth's fauna had taken different turns based on other circumstances than what we have now. So that formed the basis of me adding 10 new speculative creatures to the setting, as seen here. -   A chimp-sized predatory Omomyid primate, from a timeline where primates did not become extinct in North America. A primate-like, intelligent Phalangeriforme  marsupial which is common in Australia. From a timeline where the Miocene cooling never happened, and Australia/Sahul remained covered in Rain-forest. A 2.5 ton sapient, civilization-building species of Elep...

 Hello again, As you may know, I have been working on my prehistoric-media pastiche-style fictional setting recently, adding new creatures and whatnot.  The list of constituent fauna-and-flora can be found here: https://www.deviantart.com/boverisuchus/art/My-Prehistoric-Setting-884965025 And the more-speculative, fictional creatures inhabiting this setting, can be found in this previous post: https://tdmimages.blogspot.com/2022/11/prehistoric-media-pastiche-contemporary.html  - And just now I came to a decision to add another dimension to it. Seeing as this is a pocket-universe-style earth-like planet, where time-rifts import various creatures and even aliens, that gave me an idea. What if far-future humans, and some of their associated fauna-and-livestock managed to colonize and visit an area of this world? So I decided to add a few creatures to the setting that bear this idea out. - Some groups of technologically-and-intellectually advanced humans managed to carefully ...