― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Perhaps Lovecraft was on my mind when I drew this piece - after all, I channeled him directly in one of my other works, CTHULHU MONUMENTS - he is one of my favorite authors!
However, this time I like to direct your attention to my work that I finally uploaded just a few days ago to EasyZoom for everyone to delve into the most minute details of it (I link to it further down). This is not a paid plug, I am just enthusiastic about having found this site a few years ago after Microsoft just dumped Zoom.it - which to my surprise, just checking now, has been resurrected. OK, so much for that, the last one I will have to check out again and see how it works. EasyZoom is free to use with a maximum limit of 2GB storage space. You want more, and some more bells and whistles, then you would have to go pro and pay for it.
Here is my drawing in web format:
SHEPHERD OF THE SPHINX - graphite drawing on paper, 1983
Also seen on DeviantArt and prints etc. are available as well on my Pixels site. These print offers have been updated with the professional scan by Digital Laut in Vienna, so are of the highest quality possible (should you happen to be in Vienna, I highly recommend them - in his time, Professor Ernst Fuchs had his work scanned there).
But now to the high resolution image on EasyZoom - it is unfortunate that on here embedding does not work (as it would on my own website), so I show a screenshot with a click link below - and for best viewing, I recommend to go full screen. The icon for it is top right.
click image above to go to the site - there is also a share button below where you can find the embed code as well
use the mouse wheel to zoom, up to its maximum size, which is about half of the scanned original size
Four years ago I had posted it on Steemit when I first joined the blockchain. Back then, it didn't generate much attention. I surely appreciate being on PeakD/Hive now and particularly the various Communities (such as this one) to post my work to.
Being inspired by Lovecraft is about as Alien as it can get, so I think this community is a good home for my post.
While the main characters of this drawing are entirely from my own mind, I took some clues for the background from my artist friend De Es Schwertberger's early work
Unlike some artists, I do not hide my sources. De Es has become a dear friend of mine over the years, we are both part of the "Second Wave" of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Together with @gric we were among the 5 founding members of the FREIMALER group.
I hope you enjoyed my discourse that described some of the backgrounds to this 1983 drawing of mine. At that time, I did not know anyone personally from the Vienna School, other than Rudolf Hausner whom I visited in 1980 in Vienna, and who had helped me then with documenting the aforementioned essay of mine about the Vienna School, which at that time was presented as a paper at my alma mater, the University of Lethbridge Art Department.
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This is a truly amazing and epic piece of art. I absolutely love it and it goes really well with the Lovecraft quote. Maybe he channeled you from the past and this artwork to draw inspiration for that portion of his story! hahahaha
Thanks for sharing a bit about your art history and experience as well. I don't think many realize how fortunate Hive is to have an artist of your caliber here on the platform! Amazing work Otto! Cheers!
Thank yo my friend for the accolades - I really wish I had the patience and perseverance of my old days again. Sporadically I do, but not as steady as in the past, when I produced so much within a few short years. This work is in a private collection in Austria, but had been loaned to me for exhibitions (and for getting it properly scanned). Currently I am working on resurrecting a 'lost' work in a newer version, but it is going very slow. Maybe I am too ambitious, since I upped the format 4x from the lost original (only a bad photo of it exists).
I know how you feel. I just posted some art that i worked for a couple of weeks on. In my younger days i would have banged it out in a long all nighter. I think i am overthinking everything these days instead of letting the art take me away. Well, as long as we are aware of it then perhaps we can get back to the old ways when it's needed. Until then, we will just have to get by! hahahaha
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Ammmazing!!!!!
This is an incredible piece.. You painted that guy in an exceptional way.. really cool!
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Wonderful work :-)
Truly breath-taking the detail @thermoplastic and certainly we artists are forever inspired by one another, even your artist friend with whom you borrowed his landscape surely was inspired by Bosch and on and on goes the inspiration. I think Time for artists is sometimes like a circle and we can just traverse it like a merry go round being inspired by the past present and sometimes glints of the future.