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Published: 2011-09-01 05:10:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1779; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 30
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More scorpion man ([link] ) variants, these based on uropygids (whip scorpions) and amblypygids (whip spiders). I'd like to do many more, to explore the human variations as much as the arachnid ones--I haven't even touched on the myriad African possibilities, like Bambenga and Masai!TOP LEFT: Corpulent Polynesian uropygid man. This guy could be a good template for a Samoan warrior, a sumo wrestler, or even a debased Roman senator or slovenly Egyptian overseer. (He almost looks like an old-school Victorian pugilist, in retrospect!)
TOP RIGHT: Plains Indian amblypygid. The asymmetry isn't intentional, but I don't mind it. I named this guy "Ghost Spider."
BOTTOM: Definitely my favorite of the three, an amblypygid gladiator. There's just something about scorpions that fits so well with the Romans for me...I want to see these guys at the crucifixion of the scorpion Christ!
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What I like about the bottom creation is the way the armour helps to pull the human part back into the arachnid and vice-versa.
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:snaps fingers: That's it, you nailed it! That's why the "Roman" thing seems so natural to me, I think--the arachnid exoskeleton dovetails perfectly with the segmented Roman armor style, so the cultural aspect, with all its related associations, carries over into the morphological. Works particularly well with the Romans' mystique of "refined savagery," I think...I mean, samurai armor would be a natural fit from an aesthetic perspective, but I don't think it would "feel so right" to me from the perspective of cultural psychology. If that makes sense!
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I get you.
I was going to include something witty and insightful but it has vanished from my head. grrr
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Words can not express how much I want to see an incecto-man gladiator battle to the death...........
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O man, same here!
Thought you might get a kick out of this one, by the way:
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MAN!!! That's so freakin' neat! By the way, any chance we might see any(strictly theoretical, so don't feel imposed) Ribofunk art from ya? :3
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I have to be honest with you, I'm not sure that will happen any time soon...I've got enough of my own ideas competing for time and energy (and dying on the vine in the meantime, I might add!). But I can assure you that you'll see more GE soldiers in the future, as well as diverse other genetic chimerae and oddities...Hopefully these will be enough to satisfy your hunger for Ribofunk-ish weirdness in the short term!
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I quite like these! (whip spiders are among my favorite animals)
I must say, however, that the limbs of these individuals are rather thin, and spread far too far apart to support the weight of the human sized torso, and the considerable size of the body if these are human scale beings...
the amblypygid gladiator is supreme!
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Oh, didn't I mention? They are tiny: [link]
Just kidding! Yeah, I'm totally with you--it's a common design flaw in many of my creations, both biological and mechanical, due to my fondness for arthropod proportions and limb architecture. But it got me thinking about the conditions under which a large animal really could function with that body design. How about an internal volume filled with hydrogen, or even weakly contragravitic compounds...? [link]
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Scorpion Christ... he died for our stingers?
Seriously I love these designs. Such wonderful concepts keep pouring out of your noodle.
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Hah, thanks buddy! By his sting we shall be saved.
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Great idea! May favorite is the fat one, but that may just be because of those big volume-filled circles. 
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Oh man, that's a good question, but it's REALLY hard to explain without showing you on the drawing(s). What I can tell you is that apparel takes the form of wraps and harness-like affairs meant to loop around the body without inhibiting the limbs' range of motion. The Samoan guy is almost entirely nude except for that sumo "diaper"/girdle affair (he could also conceivably have a sari-like wrap around his abdomen/prosoma, I guess); the other two individuals are largely clothed. Legs are mostly exposed, except for partial fabric or leather wraps. The "gladiator" is the most heavily armored...The long club-like extension of the upper forearm, mimicking the raptorial limbs on the lower body, are a gauntlet-like armor piece. The abdomen is clad in segmented metal armor. The Indian guy's abdomen is likewise swaddled in some sort of buckskin wrap; if you look closely you can also see some buckskin fringe at various points on his body. That's about the best I can do without showing you in person (or doing a clearer drawing!).
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Oh, I like that very much. Most of the people who draw centauroid human-animal combinations leave the animal half unclothed, which really makes no sense. THEY don't see themselves as half-human-half-scorpion. They see themselves as one body, and that body should be clothed.
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Thanks, Daniel! And yeah, I agree with you, 100%...I mean, I totally understand where people are coming from with "fantasy centaurines," I think--I assume they're going for the obvious symbolism of duality, human versus animal. But as you say, these guys wouldn't perceive themselves as hybrids or chimerae, simply as "people," and therefore there would be a uniform treatment of the body in terms of their adornment and acoutrements (something that should carry over into their other cultural artifacts as well, I'd imagine).
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Argh, these are so creepy ... they seem somehow more plausible than the other scorpionmen you were doing!
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Thanks, Ben! I agree with you, and I'm not sure why. Maybe I was more in "the zone" this time?
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The #3 is my favorite too :3
How long did these take you to draw?
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1500 hours!! Just kidding. Hm, that's a good question, actually...I'm not sure, I don't usually keep track of things like that. An hour, maybe?
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I want to see a video of you drawing sometime :3 To see how the magic happens!
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Hah, it probably wouldn't look too magical if you actually saw it happening!
But thanks, I'm flattered.
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