Dragaera

More Dragaera Art, Pro and Amateur

Joy Jennifer Nicholson jjnichol at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 10 16:17:01 PDT 2005


Don't jhereg have 4 limbs, not six?  These sketches give them legs,
"hands", and wings, while I think that they actually only have legs
and wings, which they sometimes use in an approximation of hands.
 
> On 10/10/05, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Rocza & Loiosh (cover for /Issola/):
> >
> > http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17036702/
> >
> >
> > While I think the above are both very well executed, I just fail to
> > understand the jhereg-wings having all of those holes in the second
> > one. I mean, why?
> >
> 
> Are they holes or natural coloring? I agree that this one is well-executed
> and looks nice; perversely, I particularly like that it makes the jhereg
> look like fairly disgusting scavengers in their scrawniness, snakelike
> bodies, lumpy heads.... The natural setting makes them look better, but in =
> a
> city they'd just look gross. Which probably explains how humans react to
> them.
> 
> Max Wilson
> 
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