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Published: 2013-09-24 15:37:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 8657; Favourites: 257; Downloads: 94
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A big, fat, messily-drawn and not always correct guide about drawing spiders.Related content
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"The mouth is here" I assume there is supposed to be a line pointing to between the pelican spider's pedipalps?
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Yes, but I think without it it's still understandable that the mouth isn't up on the "head". This guide is a mess in general.
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Still gets the job done, thank you for making it.
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i mean i love spiders thinking of making spider like adopts .
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Do it, spiders are so underrepresented on art sites.
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Well, maybe because most of people are scared of spiders But not me, so i am going to do them justice and draw some! Thanks for this tutorial to make it possible. Β
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Oh man, this is pretty much exactly what I needed. I've been wanting some reference material for spiders lately, but I can't look at photos or videos of actual spiders or I will go insane. For some reason, drawings and stylized images of spiders don't trigger my phobia (much), but real life images are completely out of the question.
So, thank you! Very much.
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Weird. Maybe look up scientific articles, they work with schematic drawings a lot instead of photos.
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Yeah, that's pretty much how I've gotten most of my reference material so far. (Which isn't very much...) But I will persevere.
Thanks again.
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ohhh this brings some memories of my only time drawing a detailed spider DX but very nice job and very helpful! not many people really know the anatomy, but i was lucky enough to have some spider skin as reference that we have kept after our last mexian red toe tarantula died 
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So complicated. o_o
I don't know a lot of these terms. "opisthosoma", "chelicerae", etc - i know "pedipalp". that's about it.
Very useful, thank you.
Super fluffball hairy spider is adorable.
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A lot of it is explained in the text or the parts labelled are recognizeable on the drawings.As for the non-explained parts:
Apodemes are depressions in the exoskeleton that have muscles attaching on the inside.
A stigma is the opening that leads to the tracheas, a system of tubes to bring oxygen directly to the tissues.
Sclerotisations/sclerites are hardened areas of an exoskeleton.
Tapetum (full name: tapetum lucidum) is a reflective layer behind the retina. It's what makes cats' eyes glow.
The ungulitractor is a small segment at the end of a spider's foot.
Orthognath spiders are explained in the text, labidognath (typo in the text) spiders have smaller, downwards-facing chelicerae that move against each other.
A colulus is just a rudimentary cribellum.
Laterigrade means the legs are oriented sideways.
Ontogeny is the process of growing up in an individual.
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This is excellent. I've struggled with drawing spiders for a while now and this really helps! Thanks!
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Retarded harvestman and superhairy spider are oddly cute.
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You don't know how much this has just helped me.
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this is very useful and I'm glad you're sharing this with us. I learned quite a few things that I'll definitely keep in mind
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Wow. I knew it'd be a good thorough guide
So the lungs are derived from legs? That's new to me... oh, I love the don'ts, they look so silly to me now. You taught me well, master.
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Yes, it's documented in the horseshoe crabs, which have book gills on the exopodites of their abdominal appendages, and sea scorpions, where the book gills are moved into pockets. In land arachnids, it only needed a bit of stabilisation to become book lungs.
The don'ts are supposed to be silly. Especially clusterfuck mouth and retarded harvestman.
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You made it to Facebook 
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Great, now my fave list will explode even more. Dat frequency of favourites gets creepy.
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You deserve the extra attention
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Still, totally unprepared for over 100 faves in about 24 hours.
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I so love you for this, thank you for sharing! *3*Β
I wish I can understand what all those smart words mean >__<
P.S. I remember blue spiders from Arx Fatalis game, they had mandible with animal teeth. It supposed to look scary, but it looked wrong instead :/
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Usually Google or any other search engine of your choice can help. I would have explained all of it myself, but then the file would have to be even bigger.
It seems most people have no clue what a spider really looks like...
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