#space squid

[humansarespaceorcsforeal]

I need more scary space hazards that are based on sea creatures.

Giant Angler fish with lights that mimic the nearby space station.

Massive space jellies with the wreckage of ship caught in its drifting tentacles.

Space squid that have an ink that scrambles scanners and blots out the stars.

Just, creatures living out in the ether. I think space is more terrifying and wonderful that way.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

COLOR OUT OF SPACE 

by Carlos Eulefi

[dougielombax]

Shrike, my beloved!

Seriously I adore this chaotic idiot.

[shadoweclipex]

It's April 1st and ever since 2017 instead of some prank or joke I decided to draw a picture to celebrate Aprio's creation. I experimented a bit more with pose here as well as colored lineart for this drawing.

[voidboxshop]

Mira the Giant Space Squid!! I adore how she tuned out and is like 80cm from left to right! Shes currently flying across the high seas to her new home!!

[pandagirl45]

Steve: *staring at the ceiling*

Tony: what are you looking at?

Steve: that *points up*

Tony: *sees a space squid on the ceiling*...huh

Steve and tony: *laying on the floor staring at it*

Bruce: what are you looking at

Steve and tony: that *points up*

Bruce: *looks up* huh... *sits down watching it* is it nesting?

Steve: I think so

Tony: you think we can feed it?

Bruce; maybe

[rachaelmayo]

This is an early Cthulhu piece I made way back in 2003.

I've been a fan of Lovecraft and his seafood anti-passion for ages. My grandmother introduced me to his work when I was about thirteen. I've branched out into all kinds of related weirdness since then, from both HPL's contemporaries and modern horror/thriller/weird fiction authors. Occasionally, somebody plants the art bug in my brain, and out pops something fun like this.

This is Prismacolor pencil over India ink, I think. The ground might be a mix of ink and watercolor/salt. But the color work is definitely all Prismacolor.

[savagium]

space squid oc! (inkling and penguin)

[thestitchingsquid]

I made this giant squid from this blog! It was fun, and also a bit challenging because I am a masochist and made it with microfleece which slipped around a lot. Overall great post and tutorial, and a very fun project.

8-foot giant squid pillow.

You’ll need:

2 yards of felt

1 yard of patterned fabric (I suggest a polka dot-type pattern so it looks like suction cups)

1 medium piece of black felt, 1 medium piece of white felt (for the eyes)

white thread, black thread and thread of the same color as the felt you’re using

pins

about 5 lbs. of stuffing

a couple big sheets of paper to draw your pattern

First, you need to draw out your patterns. Here’s a basic template to get you started, although most of the measurements are reasonably fudgeable. If in the likely event you don’t have any four-foot-long pieces of paper lying around, just tape a few pieces together.

Once you’ve drawn out your eight patterns, it’s time to cut the fabric. Pin the pattern to the fabric, laid flat, and cut out the following, leaving a half an inch or so of extra fabric around the edge of the pattern:

FOR THE ARMS: 8 felt and 8 fabric cutouts of piece 1

FOR THE, UH, LONGER ARMS: 2 felt and 2 fabric cutouts of piece 2

FOR THE BODY: 2 felt cutouts of piece 3

FOR THE FIN: 4 felt cutouts of piece 4

FOR THE HEAD: 1 felt cutouts of piece 6

FOR THE EYES: 2 white felt cutouts of piece 7 and 2 black felt cutouts of piece 8

So now you’ve got all your pieces ready, it’s time to start sewing them together. I did mine by hand because my sewing machine is busted and I get a kind of Zen buzz from sewing by hand, but if you have a non-busted one I recommend that you use it as it will be MUCH EASIER. You’re going to be sewing everything with the nice side of the fabric facing in, then turning it inside out to stuff it.

THE ARMS: (To make a quilted pattern that looks like suckers, see this other post). Pin together one patterned fabric piece 1 and one felt piece 1 (with the nice sides facing the inside). Sew down around the U-shape and back up, leaving the top open. Then turn the arm inside out, stuff it (it’s easiest to do both of these things if you sort of scrunch it up like you’re trying to put on a pair of tights, excuse the non-dude-friendly reference) and sew the top closed. Do the same for the other seven arms and rejoice in the fact that this is the most tedious part. Same deal with the two long arms, they’re just harder to stuff.

THE FINS: Pin together two of your piece 4s and sew together the curvy outer edge. Turn the piece inside out, so the seam you just sewed is on the inside, and start sewing up the other side, stuffing gradually as you go along. You should end up with a triangle-ish puffy thing. Repeat for the other two piece 4s.

THE BODY: Put down one piece 3, then place the two fins you have down with the point up and the curvy side pointing in, then make a sandwich by putting the other piece 3 down on top. Pin it all together and sew around the edges with the two fins still inside, as shown. Turn it inside out and move on to…

THE HEAD: So take piece 6 and the ten arms you’ve already done. Lay the arms, fabric side facing you, out with the arms’ top seams in a line half an inch from the top of piece 6. The order should be arm arm arm arm BIG ARM arm arm arm arm BIG ARM. The legs should be almost entirely covering piece 6. Pin them in place and sew a straight line through the individual legs seams to attach the legs to piece 6.

When you pick up the other side of piece 6, you now have something resembling a really weird untied hula skirt. Sew together the two 9-inch ends of piece 6 with the fabric side of the arms on the outside, and keep it inside out for the moment.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Fit the open end of the body through the arms (still fabric side facing out) and pull the edge all the way through the felt cylinder so it’s even with the edge that DOESN’T have arms attached to it. Sew around the diameters of the head cylinder and the body cylinder to attach them, then pull the legs down over the head and you’re almost done!

Stuff the body, then seal it off by sewing piece 5 over the open end (even if you do have a functional sewing machine, you’ll probably have to do this part by hand).

THE EYES: Sew the black circles on the white circles and whipstitch the eyes onto the head. You do this last because you can’t tell where they’re going to end up on the end product if you put them on before stuffing the body.

[skeleton-squid-boy]

you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.

[appaeve]

that’s a wrap!

[desmirai]

Robots and Computers???

[dougielombax]

Thinking about alternative costumes for Shrike Sanchez.

I mean aside from his red suit and jacket.

Maybe different colour suits and different jackets for a start.

Different shoes (or lack thereof idk), maybe even different acccessories.

Yeah this was inspired by my earlier post about him being a shittalking court jester.

[shadoweclipex]

Aprio was feeling kinda left out since some of his friends had cool suits, so he begged Eclipex to make him one too. And dispite the fact that Aprio powerful and sturdy enough he didn't need a suit, Eclipex decided to humor the little space squid and made him what ended up being a human sized Mech suit.

[voidboxshop]

GIANT SPACE SQUID!!

[ai-doration]

Favorite image of all time