Some nice new free 3D writing accessories for the free DAZ Studio 3D figure rendering software. Thought not historically exact they have the correct feel and look for H.P. Lovecraft, and offer his preferred simple black as a colour.

The Meshbox / Miyre H.P. Lovecraft Poser figure has now been updated to also work with DAZ Studio, and there’s now a free pack of 24 Expressions for Lovecraft 3D.

If you want real digital inks, as a simple starter I can recommend the free Dave’s Inker Set 2013 for Photoshop. They don’t look much at all, and there are only two brushes, but they’re very nice smooth ‘speed inkers’. They also scale up very well, by which I mean that even when the brush size is made a lot bigger they don’t lag on a big 4k canvas.

New on Archive.org, Revista Planeta #01 (1964) from Buenos Aires, with an article on Lovecraft by Jacques Bergier in what I assume is Portuguese translated from French. Pages 84-85 of the journal are missing, presumably having having had another facing full-page picture of Lovecraft and thus been removed and framed at some point. One such remains…

Bergier credits Lovecraft with knowing Zulu and other African languages. Lovecraft might well have discussed it with the likes of Edward Lloyd Sechrist, and thus known a few phrases, but I suspect he did not have the patter…

In order to follow this path, Lovecraft began by absorbing much of human knowledge. I never corresponded with such an omniscient being. He knew an untold number of languages, including four African languages: Damora, Swahili, Zulu, and Zani, and numerous dialects. He wrote with identical scholarship on mathematics, relativistic cosmogony, Aztec civilization, ancient Crete, or organic chemistry.

Bergier’s article is followed by a Portuguese translation of “Hypnos”. This is illustrated by Pierre Balas…

Guillermo del Toro has pitched a smaller-scale rewrite of his movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness. If picked up it could be made by Netflix with an “unknown cast”, and he told a recent podcast…

I can go to a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version of it where I can go back to some of the scenes that were left out. Some of the big set pieces I designed, for example, I have no appetite for. I’ve already done this or that giant set piece. I feel like going into a weirder direction. I know a few things will stay, I know the ending we have is one of the most intriguing, weird, unsettling endings for me. So there’s about four horror set-pieces that I [still] love in the original script.

Shortly after Lovecraft died, the Great Flood of 1938 brought a ship into the heart of Providence… “In downtown Providence, the bowsprit of the ship Ganges inflicted damage as high as the second story of the Washington Insurance Building.”

The fine new Creative Commons digital painting “Passenger” by Mgenccinar, at DeviantArt, evokes this and adds H.P. Lovecraft to the mix.