A Lovecraftian battle WIP

There's a problem with translating some of Lovecraft's words into images; where they're used less to describe something and more to suggest the inability for humans to comprehend it. If a color is impossible to describe then how can you possibly convey it in an image using known and possible methods? What does a structure of non-Euclidean stone look like when drawn onto a flat Euclidean surface? The best you can do is bend the rules without breaking the illustration.

I didn't do much in the way of bending rules in this one though. The view is almost sideways and very wide angle, enough that perspective is very distorted in the corners. So I covered two corners with amoebic mass to make the distortion less apparent(the bottom left already had the monster thing).

It was tempting to give all the iconics equal real estate but it makes for a boring composition if all the characters are the same size. Plus hiding Merisiel out of the focus and further away just makes so much more sense. I didn't notice when I first drew her in like that but shes actually running down the underside of the tentacle, what with the tilted perspective. This needs more dwarves, it could use a couple Harsks. I still want to cram more iconics in there...

Coloring in digital is something I've found I don't care much for, though I know that's in large part because I haven't done enough to get used to it. I may just paint it in oil, there's still much left to do before that happens.