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Ebonyleopard — Extinctioners Character Ref2
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Character Reference for Vespa, Eduardo, and Macus, the Bloodscale game from Extinctioners issue 16.Related content
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Excellent! Scalies! interesting approach on these guys. I think they're much more animalistic than your cats and foxes with larger heads and shorter limbs. Makes them more menacing.
How long did you think on the best way to do the snake? I spent a while thinking about them and decided to make them all the same level of anthro so arms and legs were necessary as well as other common human/mammilian features such as breasts and external genetalia. Anything other made them so alien by comparison that it would be hard to imagine them living in the same societies.
I'd love to see you draw some more female scalies with the attempt to make them attractive. These guys seem fit only as villains and are really almost more like monsters.
I do love the snake. Why only three digits though?
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My attempt when making various anthro animals is to make them so uniquely alien to humans that there don't get the "Humans with animal heads" label because that sorta is the point. They aren't animals, they aren't humans, they are their own thing (humanimals). When making a snake I knew from the start it can't have legs because let's face it, the minute a snake (a unique animal that has zero limbs) is given legs, it becomes a lizard just like any other one and if it's not a cobra, with the hood, then you couldn't tell a normal snake anthro from any other type of reptile.
As for the hands, The reason I draw them the way they look, I sorta picture them as 3 tails on the end of their would be 'hand'. Didn't want to give them a full digits because, well, they shouldn't have hands at all.
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So you chose a middle-ground between the two? I wrote a role-playing game that used all anthros and had snakes with no limbs at all. They just used their tails as best they could which became quite prehensile. Still, they were at some disadvantages to be sure.
I see your point about snakes with limbs becoming just more lizards but I had to go with the idea that if some power, be it myself or gods or whatever, took all the animal races and remade them in the general shape of humans, they would be given arms and legs at least. Without that much effort, it would seem like they weren't worth the same amount of effort as the rest of the species. At least to me.
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I don't know. You ever see a snake move? I had a garden snake one year pop out of a flower bed I was working on 2 years ago and that sucker could book. I figure the naga styled snake would be a heck of alot faster and incredibly stronger than most 2 legged anthros. Tnink about it not only could they wrap around you and crush you, they can use their hands to chock you or bite you too. It'd be fighting one large slinky that could subdue you in multiple ways.
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well, by disadvantages I mean with fitting in with everyone else. They'd have their own advantages I'm sure but things like elevator doors, revolving doors and other things designed for bipeds would constantly be pissing them off. Kinda like being handicapped but not so.
Is there a term for the body style of humanoid upper torso but serpentine lower body?
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Naga. And that's what the side door is for. Heh.
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