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My first digital painting, inspired by a novel of Frank Herbert named DUNE.(no pen tablet)
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This looks really awesome . Could be a tribute to the original sand-rider.
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Well done, thats the size I always imagined the great worm would be
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That's actually much too small to be a sand worm of Dune. A baby one, to be sure. The sand worms of Arrakis can eat a harvester in one gulp. A harvester has a crew of almost 30. That thing's mouth isn't large enough for two men. Much less thirty and the giant machine they rode in on.
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Good point. Its a worm, just not an adult. It was always a bit of a stretch for me to believe the fremen could ride the giant makers using the hooks
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You know, I've wondered that too. How can something large enough to eat a Spice Harvester have its scales peeled back by a person with a hook? You'd think the scales would be much too heavy for them.
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I agree. The worm would be too large to even care its scale was pulled back a few inches even if it was possible. I loved the book but the Fremen just cound not tame the adult makers.
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Ah yes, but with all of the other amazing things Frank Herbert put into that book, we must overlook such a small error.
Or maybe, there's something we're missing?
(Dun dun DUUN!)
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It was a minor detail and the whole concept of how it was done was a bit vague. It was just always a bit of a stretch for me. Not an error
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I think it's likely that the Fremen spent hundreds of thousands of years riding the worms, to the point where they might have shared some sort of psychic link with the worms. The book is very clear that psychic potential exists within the setting, so who's to say that the Fremen don't have some sort of mental link with the worms? If that were the case, the hooks would merely be for holding onto the worm, or possibly a way for the worm to know one of the Fremen were there.
As Uber says, the actual method of maker-riding was left pretty vague. There are many possible explanations as to how the riding is possible, though few of the plausible ones directly involve the hooks as anything but ways of hanging onto the worm.
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Hooks work as long as we believe they work, I just wish Herbert came up with a better idea then this
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I thought the books stopped being worth reading after the first. Second and on are awful. Though I do like the prequel books (so far) by his son.
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That is an extremely small sandworm. About the size of one they would use for the making of the water they use for preseisnce(spelled wrong).
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prescience*
And I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that!
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Yeah, that worm looks a bit small to be able to support his weight. A baby one, the ones used for creating the Water of Life, can be held down rather easily by just two people, so I doubt a worm that small could support his weight.
It's still a nice picture, though.
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2 things. It would be more epic if he was not holding the knife out, and I always imagined the worms with really hard rings.
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Very nice. I actually just started reading the second dune book actually.
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Judging by the date of your post, I'm afraid I'm too late to stop you.
If you have any plans for reading any more, stop. Don't. Leave it alone at the first book. The second is awful, the third is worse, the fourth is worse than the third, and it continues down this pattern until they finally end.
Though the prequel books are pretty good, so far as I've read.
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Word ! I tell people much the same
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Ha you`re right
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I only read the first book. It's just not Dune anymore if it's not on the desert planet of Arrakis, rather than a lush forest planet that happens to be of the same name. Without sand, what would happen to the sandworms?
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The actually go extinct but then after a couple 1000 years they return. Seriously thats what happens in the 4th book if I remember correctly.
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Thing is, it's not even possible for a desert planet to be converted into a lush forest world. It's just not. It would have been better if there were patches of forest among a planet that was still mostly desert.
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Well it wasn`t the entire planet but most of it. Also I think it took over a 1000 years to transform it.
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I just doubt a desert planet could become mostly lush. I'd say it would gain a water table and some patches of lush forest oases, but would remain desert for the most part. You couldn't make that much lush forest without offworld assistance, and I believe they didn't have offworld assistance for that.
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I can`t remember how they did it exactly. Its been a few years since I read that book.
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Man's a bit big on that worm (they're, like, two kilometers long! According to the book) but this looks really cool. I especially like the lighting and the . . . maw. Of the worm.
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The later books (Children of dune, God Emperor of Dune) both give greater detail for Sandworm size Especially God Emperor...
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They actually got smaller over time, as I recall. :0
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due to planet transformation yes but first book they could be massive. In God Emperor there is only one left and its psudohuman but still massive
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I always thought if they were too giant they could not be steered with a hook under their skin. In the book it was kept vague and in the movies they were way to large
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This is so amazing! *___* I loved the movie especially for the sandworms!
This picture also looks like a closeup of this one submitted just a month earlier: [link]
XD
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It's a very good picture 
But I like the fremen's clothes
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Yes that's true, but when I drew it I had not read descriptive passage yet.
Sorry for my poor english :/
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Your English is ok and your interpretation is also interesting
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very nicely rendered. has a good feeling of size and movement. good job!
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