SciFi and Fantasy Art: Another kind of Pegasus

You know, mountaing dwelling pegasususus (my plural form) wouldn't necessarily need to lose the hooves: look at mountain goats. They're just as agile (if not more so) on the sheer walls than any toed animal. Mind you, their hooves are quite different from horse hooves. Not that I'm critisizing your design (I think it looks pretty cool), it's just a little thought on my part.

I like the pegasi creature in the background. You are rather correct on it. The huge breast muscles I mean. I learned in class the other day, that if humans were to have wings, in porportion to our height, our chests would have to extend several feet in front of us to beat the wings... this is if we used them in the manner birds do... more of a circular motion... Or something along those lines. I really do like the creativity of this work.

Hehe, this is nifty. They're like... the prehistoric ancestor to modern (?) pegasi...

WOw! IUt's certa9inly original! I like it. but I do have an argument. Pegasi aren't acctually held up by their wings in the first place. the wings are for a sympathetic magic effect. they are held up by magic, the wings just sort of channel it) Anbyhow, I DO like this picture a WHOLE bunch, and it's absolutel;ywonderful. just one daydreamer reafirming magic

Very nice, I do like it, but if you wanted to recreate their build to that of a flying creature, the most important thing would be aerodynamics. Look at the most natural example, the bat; they are basically flying rats, but how did they evolve for that to occur? Not feathers, no beak, but their muzzles became either small, or long and thin, and their bodies became slightly squished.

sypatheticmagic nothing....what book did you read that in things with wing use them to fly.

Artist's comment: Not everything. there's ostriches, penguins, emus, and quite a few other creaturs that have wings and don't use them for flying.

I tend to aggree with what patric said above - what's with horses anyway - not that they arn't cool and everything - but you'd think to read some modern fantasy the horse was the only animal known in medeval times - nothing could be further from it of course - anyway i like your critter - a griffagasi? - j/k - maybe a beak like horn like hardened upper and lower lip to break off tougher vegitation (but would that have as much food value?) and still a set of grinding teath inside to masticate it - of course lots of things with wings don't neccessarily have feathers either - there's an alicorn like creature from my own world who'se wings are covered with a kind of soft downy fur ... With those claws and that beak he might even be omniverous ... ~

I think that anything plural that ends in an s should end in a y, don't you?