Red Sea Rising

I have a love of all things Lovecraft, especially Cthulhu.
This image was initially sketched in Manga Studio or Clip Studio as it is now known.
The colouring was all done in Photoshop. Initially I was just doing it in B&W then I decided to rework it in colour.

The final artwork

initial sketch for Cthulhu design done in Clip Studio

More Clip studio work adding wings

Close up on face details

Sea and sky added, this is now in Photoshop. Sea was a photograph that was desaturated then postarised to reduce colours down to a more comic style.

1st experiment in adding some colour