Black Dog by Emryswolf

wait so...my dog is a demon??? no wayy

Doggo iz triggered

Old Shuck!

looks sorta like the Strider CreepyPasta  

Amazingly scary its now inspired me to try and make my own scary hell dog 😈

Love it!!! I own a business called black dog and I'd love nothing more than to have your permission to use it as my company logo. It fits so well and its so cool. Please get back to me. Thank you! Very nice work!

So I saw this portfolio years and years and YEARS ago (Freshman in High school, maybe) and it made an intense impression on me (I don't remember anything else in the 'folio so my guess is that this was far and away the scariest) for SOME REASON, unbidden, the memory of this SPECIFIC illustration came to mind about 3 days ago. Then this morning by sheer coincidence it appeared, uncredited, in a blog post someone had linked to on FB and I just spent half an hour trying to find it.

All of that to say *thumbs up* still scary as hell, and apparently it's haunted my mind for YEARS now. 

very good art this is a nice piece

no really knose what the black dogs look like, there are many story about them but all of the stories are the same and the black dog is know by alot of names these are some of them,

• The Gurt Dog ("Great Dog") of Somerset is an example of a benevolent dog, Barguest  is one of them  but there are more, Oude Rode Ogen ("Old Red Eyes") or "The Beast of Flanders" ,"Dog of Darkness", Black Shuck or Shug,  Barguest  you see all are the names the one dog the black dog
  

awesome

whoa i love it! Kinda looks like my dog Smikey in the winter ^_^

Smile.dog, eat a snickers. You're not you when you're hungry.

It's sucking out my souuuulll...

sinister and grotesque and love every hair on it! i love that the front paws are that of a human and the back are that of a dog. Eerie.

OMG
a while ago, my sisters, cousin and i were on the way home from the movies, it was like midnight, we were driving on a road with no houses for quite a long ways and all of a sudden my sister says to my cousin,(who was driving) to slow down because she had a funny feeling... then all of a sudden, there was a freaking black dog standing right in the middle of the road just staring at us!! we almost hit it!my cousin swerved around it and missed it, i then turned around to see it in the same exact position, with its head turned to watch us leave! and we're all animal freaks, when there is a dog in the road we usually stop and see who it belongs to, but we were so creeped out by this dog!! so then after that we see some kid walking like a zombie down a secluded road.. it was a really scary night... absolutely no joke!!

That would scare anyone I think... but I like it

Its a hell hound they are only seen by damned souls and demons

Isn't like the Grim from Harry Potter?

i remember hearing this legend at camp o.o;

Very nice.

Damn dude I just got chills... Awesome job!!! The eyes are super scary...

I love this. 'Black Dog' sometime refers to depression, as a sufferer this image certainly reflects what I feel stalks me sometimes.

ahhh. i just love how those EYES ARE SO HAUNTING!

Is it the "HELLHOUND!"

It reminds me in a legend from here in Tyrol: Centurys ago, when they fought over the fortress of Kufstein, a man betrayed the soldiers of the emperor. For this he was changed into a black dog (looking very similiar to this here) who appears here and there ate fortress until today. He is called the "Klushund" (hermitae dog).

Amazing job! This is exactly as I pictured it as I was reading that story!

IT'S THE THING!!!!!

OMG alll of your Work is Amazing !!!

Brilliant realization of a classic legend. Very well done pawprints. I love the matted, unkempt hair and the glowing red eyes.

One of the best padfoots/guytrashes/shucks/black dogs I've ever seen!

this reminds me of the okuri inu (: lol

i had this as a desktop wallpaper when i worked midshift and it always creeped me out. i love this!

It's the cover to The Barking Ghost all over again.

I feel like I'm going to fall over dead just by looking at this picture.

I'm gonna tatoo this dog on my back! Epic.

creepy

This sent chills down my spine!~ Just looking at his eyes does that. I think red eyes has been a fear for me since I was little. But this is a really nice interpretation on the Black Dog.

whoa i just looked blackdog up and i got some creepy answers.....creepy...thats why i like it

god thats creepy....but awesome! one day.......death dogs will RULE mwahahahhahaaaa

So amazingly scary. Instant fav!

OMG! (and I don't say that often cuz i hate sounding like a girly) I had a nightmare of a hellhound in a hole in my wall(for some random reason XD) and it's face and eyes looked like that! o_O Holy crap! But that was almst a year ago. So I don't the legend is real (Thankfully/Hopefully! I'm rootin for thankfully at this age XD)

Don't forget that also a story of the Black Dog for truckers. It's said that if a trucker, at any point in time, sees a black dog (which usually it's like a rotty or something of the sort, and it's only a glimpse then it's just gone) they're to quit driving forever...it's almost like if they don't, imminent (sp?) death is soon to be found.

aaaaaa. thats. ahhhhhhhh. scary its really good but it will give me bad dreams.

i thought it meant sadness? nice work! very evil!

Isn't it amazing how just giving it human-ish teeth makes is so much more horrifying?

this is like something i see
in my dreams. very simple yet
very creepy. applause. =]

Very nice work.

Where did you do your research for this? Google turned up some interesting things, but I'd like to know more. If you have something specific elsewhere, would you mind sharing?