Octopi and squid from Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904) by Ernst Haeckel.
Celebrate Darwin’s birthday by looking at Ernst Haeckel’s wonderful prints.
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A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
No doubt this provides some of the inspiration for your squiddy illustrations to Jeff Vandermmeer’s City of Saints and Madmen
Oh, indeed. I’ve shamelessly plundered poor old Ernst’s pictures on many occasions, most notably on the Yuggoth picture in HotD:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/haunter/yuggoth.html
That was a photocopy collage that I later tweaked a bit in Photoshop. In my defence, I’m not the first by any means. Alan Moore copied those gorgon-headed starfish for his cover picture on the Hexentexts CD and there’s a painting by Salvador Dali that features one of Haeckel’s radiolaria.