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Call of Cthulhu Statue

One of my goals for this project was to portray Cthulu's initial description while having a base set from reality, but the closer you look, the more things don't seem right.
I also had limited time with the Z brush before it ran out and I wanted to test myself in trying to make a hard surface model of a soft-body creature work as a statue.

My initial thinking on why I added extra muscles was that this thing is based upon such a massive creature. It needs more muscles to move and it's immense the fact that it is not from this world.

References & Progress

The original illustration of the statue found in the Call of Cthulhu.

A modern adaptation of the cosmic bean that we are more familiar with.

A picture of an actual octopus used as a reference.

Sculptures from the first season opening of Arcane are used as references and inspiration.

I sketched out quick concepts of how I could have the head or the wing and the anatomy to go along with it.

Something I want to point out is that the wing muscles are based on human arm muscles, and I had to sketch out how that would interconnect with the neck and the other arm muscles.

Another octopus reference.

Another deep-sea creature that I thought would help with the design. I like the little tentacles, my thought is that Cthulhu would use them for more delicate and precise things.

Many times, dragon wings are described as bat-like, like so I just went to that source.

Something I want to point out is see you can see on the bat reference. Bat wings are like tiny hands and you can see slight finger muscles.
The way I translated that into Cthulhu was more giving it human calf muscles instead of more slender muscles. My reasoning, that it’s such a massive creature. It needs the strength to lift itself.

When deep-sea creatures get taken from below into a lower-pressure area, they expand.

On the back of the bottom part of Cthulhu's head, he has an area that was inspired by the mosquito's tail in this picture.
It’s not that easy to notice, but if you do, it opens up to bigger implications.

Great resource.

I was thinking giving it gills next to where the lungs would be on a human. Helping give aquatic attributes all over instead of just on the head.

It’s meant to be a sculpture of a large being and larger animals tend to have thicker legs at the base to support them standing.