And the results are now in...
 
Actually, for the third section there is really only one real contender:
P's 222 - 223:
Inside the tunnels, Mira removes her helm and some plates of armour (I wonder if we;'d be surprised it it was a breastplate?) in true 'Maryr' fashion in front of Maansonyagger with the 'Butterfly' flayed body hanging in the background.
 
Just thought you'd like to know.
 
Now, it's beginning the long series of sketches in between the comic strip...
 
Input on either of you chaps vision of both the armour and the Mansonyagger, welcome.
 
(Yes, I know it's 'beetle-like' and has an array of probes, arms and sensory devices and, yes, I'm assuming the 'Armour' is somewhere between C16 armour and plated spacesuits with straps, lens-like eyepieces and a hint of the 'Cyber' about 'em. Further 'impressions' welcome)
 
 
And the Watcher?
As Andy says, it's background scenery.
Drawing the noumena might take more time and money than any of us have.
 
Fun. Fun. Fun.
 
Best:
Smuzz
----- Original Message -----
From: Brett Davidson
To: Andy Robertson ; SMS
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 7:50 PM
Subject: RE: Night land : Sea of images: Plan 'A'.

I do agree; just thinking out loud, really, sieving the possibilities.  

The weirdness of the Watcher is what Lovecraft so often strove to suggest by offering fragmentary contradictory descriptions before declaring that the whole was ultimately indescribable in any human terms.  There's one story whose ultimate horror is the revelation of a gigantic elbow and no more, another in which a monster is revealed to be merely a toe, though the greater beast is left concealed from the reader.  The labyrinth might be its "fingerprints" or wrinkles in its skin, but really it's more the convoluted eddy that it makes in spacetime... OK, I'm rambling again... Anyway, I was thinking by the end of my ramble that the gleaming surface of the eye would be enough.

Again, I'll always accept any decision.

Now is the Watcher partly rugose and partly squamous then? :)

From: pinlighter@btconnect.com
To: bidavids@hotmail.com; eira.sms@virgin.net
Subject: Re: Night land : Sea of images: Plan 'A'.
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:52:30 +0000

On drawing the Watcher: I agree with SMS.   I can't see how
what is actually an altering reality can be trapped in the narrow focus of an illustration. 
 
There is too much to do in one picture - show Palin, show Meyr, show their relationship,
and somehow also indicate they are on the skin of a gravity- and time-warping entity too
large to picture. 
 
This doesn't rule out drawing Meyr and Palin on the Watcher, of course: it's just that the
Watcher can't really appear except in the form of a tiny fragment backgrounding the action.
 
(I hate it when people second-guess my thought processes, but I wonder, Brett, if you are
not perhaps applying some of the rules of film to this different medium?? But OTOH this
background fragment of the Watcher may be close to what you are suggesting in your last)
 
 
One point that is probably made irrelevant by the above is that I've always regarded
Fabian's illustrations of the Watchers and particularly the South Watcher as canonical:
so far as that can be meaningful in a much later era when they have developed such
force they can no longer be directly viewed by human beings.   Just a referent for things
like images seen on background viewscreens, etc.
 
On drawing the Watcher: I agree with SMS.   I can't see how
what is actually an altering reality can be trapped in the narrow focus of an illustration. 
 
There is too much to do in one picture - show Palin, show Meyr, show their relationship,
and somehow also indicate they are on the skin of a gravity- and time-warping entity too
large to picture. 
 
This doesn't rule out drawing Meyr and Palin on the Watcher, of course: it's just that the
Watcher can't really appear except in the form of a tiny fragment backgrounding the action.
 
(I hate it when people second-guess my thought processes, but I wonder, Brett, if you are
not perhaps applying some of the rules of film to this different medium?? But OTOH this
background fragment of the Watcher may be close to what you are suggesting in your last)
 
 
One point that is probably made irrelevant by the above is that I've always regarded
Fabian's illustrations of the Watchers and particularly the South Watcher as canonical:
so far as that can be meaningful in a much later era when they have developed such
force they can no longer be directly viewed by human beings.   Just a referent for things
like images seen on background viewscreens, etc.