Fiddling With Cthulhu: Creative Platypus

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I'm playing with enhancement, filters, and color saturation this morning. I've taken my Blake-Geiger Cthulhu and run it through the basic Windows 10 editing software to give the drawing a more cosmic feel. Now we can imagine the priest of the Elder Gods winging his way through the voids of oblivion whose soul and messenger is the Creeping Chaos, Nyarlathotep.

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