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Published: 2008-10-24 15:19:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 52715; Favourites: 596; Downloads: 0
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Meet Corinne the centauress. Ain't she cute?I've been working on this picture for what seems like ages now, and today I finished off the last few details, mostly involving the shading on her lower half. I started this picture because I wanted to show a modern-day centaur girl in a dress, all cute and spunky, looking back over her shoulder at the camera, and I wanted it to be a good enough picture that it'd work well on my front page. So here she is.
I have no idea how much time was involved in this (40 hours? 50 hours?), but it's 100% vector-art-with-a-mouse from start to finish: No bitmaps were harmed in the drawing of this picture
This was loosely inspired by Akino Arai's song Follow Me, for those who are curious, and inspired more by the sound and feel of the song than by the words (though the title obviously was involved).
(This is the G-rated Disney-fied version; if you want the anatomically-correct version, there's one posted in my private gallery .)
You can see a closeup of this picture here , which shows all the detail in the print.
High-quality prints of this are available in the store!
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Iβm bad at keeping up with centaurs so... the only way to keep up with you, is to ride astride you. Hold on.
*places saddle on centauress, and mounts*
Letβs ride, milady.
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Such a cute centaur! Would follow her anywhere~ Love your art!
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Corinne: Oh, you like what you see? How about you follow me? But I must let you know, you're gonna have to...*flicks tail*...keep up.
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cute I love this. could you make a story of it? plesea
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could you make another one of this only it has connie as a full human and it doesn't say follow me
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First, her name is Corinne. Second, why would I do that? She likes what she is, and so do I.
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okay i mean like she probobly could have a backstory where she used to be human and got turned into a centaur
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She's too cute to say no to. Of course, you'd have to be able to keep up!
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I don't know, it could beΒ a trap, to centaur women rape men? I mean according to Greek Legend that's what the men do to women.
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So would we all
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I just broke in my new shoes. Sure I'll follow!
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Unless your shoes are made of metal, she's probably not going to be interested
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They're suede.
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Great. I ruined the joke. They're not blue. I'll still try to follow her.
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Ever played Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder? Dora was my favorite character. She brings back some good memories.......PG 13 of course!
Great pic!
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I did, in the arcades: Sadly, the home-console version didn't include her. But yes, I rather liked Dora myself
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I read some of the comments above... I agree with you. We use to think on centaurs as distant creatures, but they could be like us... An excellent pallette of colors, I must say. Also the pattern of the background.
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I don't see why they couldn't be exactly like us, or even made from us. I really like to think of them as just people with a unique shape, and that opinion colors almost everything I draw and write about them.
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You did a very excellent job with her.
I think you managed to make a modern centaur fairly well. Is she looking for new converts? (gets in the centaur transformation line)
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There aren't a lot of people drawing centaurs in modern society; you either get the ancient-Greek variety, the medieval-magic-sky-worshiper variety, or (rarely) the distant-future variety: There aren't that many people who seem to want to depict them today, just doing normal things and being people, and that's the kind of stuff I like best. This is a very girl-next-door kind of picture β with extra legs. The world needs more like it, I think
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Oh I agree. That's why I like your character Ally in "The Wotch." She's cute.
I've written a few centaur transformation stories that take place in modern day, so I understand your interest in having centaurs in a modern setting.
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Really? Are they posted anywhere online?
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Check your PM.
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Cute is right! That has got to be one of the most beautiful Horse Girls (or Female Centaurs) I have ever seen!
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i know your no longer a deviant but the correct term is centauress
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Oh, she's lovely. Great job making the two anatomies look like they belong.
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I like half-humans to look well-blended. Normally, I try to match the colors and lighting and pose as best I can; but in this case, I went one extra step and took sheets and looped them over pillows in a vaguely centaur-ish shape so that I could see how her dress would hang too. She's a centaur through-and-through, and proud of it!
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brilliant! i love how the body turned out.
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Thanks! I do too
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I have to say, she is darned cute.
The dress colour works perfectly with the fur colour of her horse half. I also love red hair so giving her red hair makes her all the cuter to me. Well, it looks red to me anyway.
Definitely love the expression and question. It could suggest that she wants to play, go on an adventure or perhaps be a little naughty. All depends on the viewers imagination.
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I like this work... I like how you combine the girl with the Pegasus... so it becomes like an anthro art.
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Um... that's a horse. Pegasi have wings. But, uh, thanks anyway
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I do like the details and posing this one, Inker, but there are two things that are bugging me. Namely that her tail looks truncated a bit and the eyes are way way way too close together. >.<; On the bright side, it look like you spent a lot of time on her (human) back, what with the liberal amounts of folds in her clothes, and aside from the aforementioned eye issue, the proportions are excellent. ^^
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The tail is intentional; it's supposed to look like it's been cut short, just like her hair: The styles are supposed to match.
As for her eyes, some people have suggested they're too close together, but that's really the style here; I wanted to try a different style of anime, so I looked at reference pictures from anime series I haven't watched much of before. I found a girl with very similar facial features and loved how it looked, so I drew a face that matched it. In this series (whose name I forget), the eyes of all the characters were much closer together than in some others, and bigger and rounder, and I figured I'd give the style a try.
In short: She was supposed to look like that.
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Man, I think I remember her from an 'incomplete' rendition I saw a while back. Definitely worth the wait on this one. I still maintain you draw some of the loveliest centaurs on deviantART. 
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Thanks! Yes, you saw this in black-and-white before, and it's progressed nicely since then. Thanks for the compliment, and I'm glad you liked it!
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she's such an adorable centaur^^, the colors are great, also, I noticed her eyes need a li'l more gap from each other, but over-all, WOW^^
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It depends on the shape of the character's face; some need the wider-spaced eyes, and some don't. It all varies depending on the style. When I first drew her, she had slightly different eye shapes; I changed the eyes, because I wanted different ones, but I left the spacing the same. I think the result is still quite good; it gives her a unique, exotic look without making her appear alien.
Glad you like it, though!
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ur always welcome, you used photoshop right^^
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I neither own nor use Adobe Photoshop. This picture was entirely created as vector art, with a mouse, in CorelDRAW.
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I see, I also use Corel but only flat colors and tracing them using pen tool^^
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