Art work Challenge

[JD]

There was a pic of a Cavewight here in the Abulm section under Memberslist and the pic is titled Drool Rockworm..

[Loredoctor]

I'm working on an Ur-Vile picture myself now. It's okay to upload it the member galleries when it's done?

[Seafoam Understone]

Aye, do so... it'll help should my script-in-progress gets finished and bought... heh

[Zephalephelah]

Ok a couple of questions. Satansfist, is the Illearth Stone is it embedded in his head? The Cavewights and Ur-viles. What do you think they look like?

The Cavewights are described as having large hands. You get an idea that they are humanoid and ugly, but strong as hell.

The Ur-Viles interested me much more. They are described as having no eyes, dark skin, large wet nostrils, and sharp teeth. In my mind, I see them as having long, thin slit-like nostrils that begin high on their faces in the center and extend toward the edges of their large mouthed-lips, but not quite in either width or touching their lips. The slits would be flaring out in the lower middle. I suppose that upsidedown female genitalia would go a long way to expressing the shape. At any rate, the places inside the nostrils that are visible, especially at the flared out areas would appear to be wet or have a sheen that implied wetness.

The teeth of the Ur-Viles wouldn't appear broken or jagged, but rather they would be curved and sharp and well cared for. The cavewights might have bad teeth, but the Ur-Viles are more intelligent and probably very organized and methodical in everything they do. I would suspect bony white long curved fangs lining their gums from side to side. This isn't because it is well-suited for tearing muscle or for any real reason at all, but just because they are monsters and a good monster should have teeth like that.

Their skin is dark, like the skin of the blackest black man you've ever seen. But even then, it has a grayer hue, as if the creature lacks any color whatsoever. As if everything about the creature is colorless, joyless, empty of the goodness of the land, and all that remains is the cunning intelligence it has within a mind that has no morals and no ethics at all. It isn't evil in the way that we would think of evil. It does not betray. It does not lie. It knows its place in the scheme of things, accepts it, and uses its resources to obey the will of Lord Foul. It requires no reward. It doesn't care about punishment. It is single-minded in its cold, empty, emotionless life.

When they combine into triangles, I imagine that they place their hands on the shoulders of the Ur-Vile in front of it, so that 4 Ur-Viles place their hands on 3 Ur-Viles before them, and those 3 the 2 before them, and those 2 the one before them. I imagine seeing a dark-light emanating from their hands, like a cold power. Each rank causing the cold power to be stronger, with smoke-like tendrils drifting away from those close to the front.

I think that when a person reads a particularly good book like the Covenant series, that they should read the action parts once through, then read them bit by bit, putting the book aside & thinking about how it might have looked, and finally to read it in their mind like a movie; only now you have a very richly detailed movie. At any rate, I believe that some people just have vague impressions of what things or people look like & that's just ashame. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong in your imagination as long as your imagination is very specific so that you get more out of it than the casual reader.

[UrLord]

interesting...I always thought of the nostrils as starting low in the center and rising toward the sides of their faces...other than that, I mostly thought of them in the same way.

[Zephalephelah]

I guess I can see them that way if I'd like to. It would give an illusion of eyes if you drew them out far enough.

But I think in the end, I would like to have it so that the place where eyes should be is just blank. Plus, I like the idea of seeing them with mucus dripping around their toothy mouths and dropping off of them from both sides of their face.

YUK!

[CovenantJr]

I seem to remember a discription of the Ur-Vile that attacked the wraiths as having mucus trailing back along the sides of it's head. Bleurgh

[Zephalephelah]

There ya go. They go from middle to outside from top to bottom. Yummy.

[[Syl]]

I just always pictured them like a cross between Geiger's alien...

...and the isz from The Maxx. More like the alien, though.

[Loredoctor]

Aye, do so... it'll help should my script-in-progress gets finished and bought... heh

Ok thanks, Dromond. I'll get it done for you soon.

[Seafoam Understone]

Aye, do so... it'll help should my script-in-progress gets finished and bought... heh

Ok thanks, Dromond. I'll get it done for you soon.

err Dromond is the OTHER Giant on the group... (kinda like Goodyear and Goodrich!)

looking forward to seeing it

[Dromond]

YEAH!

I'm the OTHER guy!

[Loredoctor]

Aye, do so... it'll help should my script-in-progress gets finished and bought... heh

Ok thanks, Dromond. I'll get it done for you soon.

err Dromond is the OTHER Giant on the group... (kinda like Goodyear and Goodrich!)

looking forward to seeing it

LOL! sorry - it's the bloody ship images that confuse me!

[Fist and Faith]

Heh. Just be happy Seafoam changed his (hmmm... hers?), because he originally had the same one!

[Seafoam Understone]

Heh. Just be happy Seafoam changed his (hmmm... hers?), because he originally had the same one!

Aye, that I did...now if you'll notice Dromond is coming and I'm going... for more diamonddraught ..... yeah pretty loopy I admit

Anyway have you done em? huh? HUH? have ya?

BTW Fist... I'm a his...err a he..a him... a three legged giant... whatever!