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"Centaur Anatomy" by Daniel D. Copeland (the Naked Celt)

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SciFi and Fantasy Art Centaur Anatomy by Daniel D. Copeland (the Naked Celt)

Well, it’s like this... A while ago, I was surfing through Elfwood, and I saw this picture by Ursula Vernon. And I left some comments on the question she asks in the description — “Where do centaurs keep their lungs?” And other people left comments too, and I decided to figure out just how the bits of a centaur connect. And here’s the solution, although, as you can see, I haven’t answered the lungs question. I’ve left the ribcages as schematic diagrams, my motives being about 50% not wanting to clutter the composition and 50% inability to be bothered drawing all the ribs in. The oddness about the faces is intentional; I’m afraid the oddness about the hoofs is because I need to sit down some time and learn how to draw hoofs. Pencil drawing, enhanced in PhotoStudio 2000.

Date	Name	Comment
11 Apr 2004	Kristina 'Aryana' Siers	Loading... first comment jig It's fantastic! I thought about centaur anatomy some times, but I never could have drawn it!
12 Apr 2004	Dunstan Blay	Loading... The hooves and face look fine by the way.
12 Apr 2004	Dunstan Blay	Loading... Great study. This is my favourite of all your pieces; definately something quite refreshing and different. Your line work is very clear and steady. Sir, i salute you.
12 Apr 2004	Lucius Appaloosius	Loading... Xaipe! Excellent study... Having pondered the same problems, I've found useful some of the suggestions (or suppositions, if you will) made by S. Lianne Waelder. One idea is that, to provide the flexibility usually portrayed at the human/equine juncture, the centaur's vertebrae should be made more like a horse's neck than a human lower back, with a pronounced 'swan's neck' bend. The musculature would pretty much correspond, gradually changing to something more like a human abdomen.... What we need, I suppose, is someone with the combined talents of Vesalius and Stubbs to produce a truly comprehensive anatomy.....Could prove to be an interesting project. 7@=e
14 May 2005	Sara Melissa Bean	Loading... [here via LJ] Nice work indeed -- a good anatomical rendering.
15 Jun 2005	Ami Nichole Thompson	Loading... What the...okay, the above comment didn't link to my gallery. Sorry for double commenting. =X
15 Jun 2005	Mavis A. Irwin	Loading... OUCH!!! I wrote a long, long comment and the site lost it! Well...eh...sigh Outline: sometimes more beauiful with fewer ribs...they can be a little messy!! concerned about back muscle's flat appearance here. With the sharp change of the backbone spinal, I am betting that a lot of thick muscles in the lower back of normal humans have to be redirected. Thus, I sort of think the centuar's backside will have thick muscles like those on the back of strong human necks. *I answered the lung question in detail (modeling after bird lungs)...well...let me answer it again after I write all about it in my livejournal. Silly site, losing it all. 9_9 Daniel D. Copeland (the Naked Celt) replies: "Basically, what I did with the muscles was to have the upper end of the horse's trapezius muscle originate from the human's dorsolumbar fascia, while the anterior end of the horse's serratus anterior merges with the human obliquus internus abdominis."
6 Nov 2005	Anonymous	Loading... Upper arms, too short. The fore-shortened arm of the blond one it just not there. The front legs of the blond one are wrong--lock at where you drew the bones. Now look at the shape of the legs. You have the closer leg in a position to be going up, but instead you drew both legs the same, just with the closer one shorter. You also have his hoof on that side landing directly on the other's back leg. Also on the other one, the hind quarters are too light to be a horse.
16 Aug 2006	Sabrinames	Loading... The really interesting question would be: where do they have their womb? At least I wondered how a pregnant centaur would look like. I guess it makes more sense to have it in the horsepart, but you never now Now for the picture: WOW! That's it. On a genral note, I think a lot of your pictures would look really awesome if you inked them. Or pretend to ink them by using some kind of fineliner.