"A sleeping centauress" by Alina Nesterova

You are great a drawing centaurs.

I know centaurs are fantasy animals and it is impossible for them to exist and all, but there is a reason horses don't sleep on there sides. Their body weight will literally crush them. Horses don't sleep standing up anyways. They only rest like that. They sleep laying down, just not on their sides. You are a great artist though.

Replying to anonymous - Speaking as a horsey person ... actually, it's more like the other way around. The majority of horses sleep standing up, and although I'm told some to sleep lying down I've only come across horses that have little naps on the ground. (Mostly old horses)
Horses also sleep on their sides, but this is a foal trait that is only very occasionally carried into the older years. I imagine that the latter could be make it harder to breath and might be uncomfortable, but I don't think they'd be crushed by the weight - vets putting horses on their sides for operations, etc, certainly don't have that trouble. Remembering that horses are flight creatures, the standing up sleeping posture would be the safest option. The time taken to get up from the ground could be the difference between life and death in the wild ... and if you were lying on your side it'd take even longer to get up!

*ahem*

Aaaaaanyways ... I like the picture a lot, your grasp of both human and equine forms is admirable and the pose is very original. She looks decidely seductive! She must know that fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go 'round. XD

awesome peaceful drawing!!

anonymous, horse DO nap on their sides and they most of the times sleep on their feet, occasionally napping in that position too.




that was just bugging me...



awesome pic!!!!!!

I think that you did a brilliant job!!!!!!!

You are an awesome drawer, love all ya work, and also i agree with the other 2 anonymous, i have seen some horses sleep on their sides and that but yeh

NAUGHTY!

i think this is realy GReat but ... you should make the boby pointing up more and not so sytraight

i never knew that

On the whole sleeping thing, both the above have parts right. Horses doze standing up, they enter true REM sleep lying down. If deprived of REM sleep (by being stabled in such a way that they can’t lay down, or they don’t feel secure enough to lay down) for a long time, they will actually collapse into REM sleep involuntarily. But they have fairly simple brains so only require a couple hours of REM sleep every few days. The crushing their organs when laying down is a myth, though. They have very hefty rib cages, so this wouldn’t be a problem, unless it’s for a long time. The larger the horse, the bigger an issue this (and getting back up) is. Since a centaur would have a brain of a human, though, they’d require more REM sleep than a horse. The horse part would also be on the Shetland Pony side, size wise (assuming the proportions in the picture) so sleeping laying down is completely logical and wouldn’t be overly hard on their insides. I can point you to many, many pictures of healthy horses laying on their sides. Though what is shown here looks more like rolling on the horse part, because the two legs are in the air. If it were truly sleeping, they’d be on the ground as well, like so: http://tr.im/khOo