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Published: 2010-03-20 08:13:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 2699; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 36
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My interpretation of the mythical Blemmyes, cannibalistic (according to some sources) men with their mouths in their bellies and their eyes in their shoulders ([link] ). While none of these really look like what I had in mind, the original idea is probably best represented by the top image, while the two shark guys at bottom demonstrate how the hinged jaw swings upward to leave a gaping opening in the middle of the body. (What impact this has on the spine is anybody's guess.) I wanted to try different phyletic variations, so these guys display a mix of porcine, crocodilian, shark-like, and quasi-simian characteristics. I was also thinking that different forms of these creatures might overlap with other mythological beings, so the "crocodile man" could also be interpreted as the African Mamba Mutu. (Note the Helicoprion-like snout, and also the "mid-body jaw" that may actually be a labret-like prosthetic.)The middle three are obviously rougher sketches, and for that reason if no other I will Scrap this soon. (Sorry, Ben!)
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to them, EVERYTHING is twice as tasty and half as filling
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And thus they are insatiable!
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HIDE THE SNACKS....and the children i guess if theres room......
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I commend your order of priorities!
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children are supposed to be a future.....but what future is there in these chest-mouth invasion times?
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These are the very most spectacularly fantastic monsters I have ever seen...to put it lightly
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Holy cow, thanks so much! Thank you also for the faves...I'm flattered!
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This.... I adore this. I worship this. I save this to desktop. I save this to desktop SIX TIMES and on SIX DIFFERENT COMPUTERS.
The mass balance possibilities and creature dynamics this thing gives, it's AMAZING.
They must look funny when pooping, though. XD
I tried to rip this idea in several sketches with varied results, will return to it some day... it's AWESOME awesome!
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Wow, I wasn't expecting anybody to be quite that enthusiastic about these!
Thanks man, I'm really glad you like them!
I'm thinking their poo just vanishes into some alternate dimension.
(Much to the chagrin of its native denizens, I'm sure (though who knows? Maybe it's populated by dung beetles).)
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I really love these, they fit right into my idea of creaturedesign. First of all, it's a sentient specie. Second of all, it doesn't have any fancy stuff like razors, lazors, wings or other 'supercharges' - just plain old redesign that changes the form and leaves the function. Or, rather, multifunctionality that comes from simplicity and lack of singular specialization of human body.
They're not that fancy kind of aliens that roam about with farts and lighters and wear spandex and shoot death rays. Or kill people and, uhh, kill people, and piss acid? They're the 'usual' guys. Seeing them eat a pie would be an experience in itself.
If you stuff the digestive tract in the top part, they could poop like birds of prey do 
Also, oh shit, interdimensional symbiosis
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re: interdimensional symbiosis--you might enjoy the ideas Newt and I were batting around under ([link] )!
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I used to love the Medieval drawings of these in our history book at school.
Anyhoo great drawings! Dog-headed men next?
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Hah, I'll have to wait and see! Thanks.
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Well come to think of it they're not really enough of a challenge for a guy like you... not enough room for invention.
What would be cool would be the Navigators from Dune - basically men (d?)evolvled into fish-like creatures. Or have you something like that already up? Something tells me you might...
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Closest thing I can think of is these guys, though they are closer to the David Lynch movie version than the description in the books:
[link]
And of course some of these guys are marine-/aquatic-adapted, but not exactly fish-like:
[link]
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Hmm yeah i love these, every one of them is my faves - but i'm curious to see what a human would look like when it didn't really require any great mobility anymore. The limbs would atrophy and devolve i think and i wonder about facial structure when sexual and social cues would end..
Maybe not Navigators from Dune but just permanently space-faring creatures...
A friend of mine who speculates a lot about future human evolution (though he doesn't draw) had this idea about men evolving into big blobs of flesh hard-wired into their spacecraft and living a looong time... but i think that was a bit much! I would like to see something a bit more relateable i geuss...
Ah well i best have crack at it myself because i'm sure you have about a 1000 ideas of your own you want to draw!
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Kind of eerie that you bring up the "space-faring blobs" scenario--it's something I've been thinking and even dreaming about the past couple of weeks. Humans adapted to zero-G environments and almost totally insulated from the physical constraints of planet-bound existence...I picture something like Jason Hopkins' bizarre biomorphs ([link] ), though maybe a little more mobile and symmetrical. Of course if they are hardwired into their ships, as your friend suggests, even considerations of mobility would be obsolete.
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Well i haven't had any actual dreams about it (wich is cool btw) but i think it's a natural thought after being into sci-fi for years and reading terms like "Spacer"...
Those morphs make me think more of my friends imaginings than my own. They sort of look like the first stages of one those beings before they get "implanted" into their ships and intertwine perhaps with semi-organic tech.
I have been thinking about mobility in zero-grav: would a flipper (conjoined legs perhaps, sort of a space-mermaid 
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Rather spooky, are they hollow all the way through? I like the little diagram at the bottom! So cute :3
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All the way through, from front to back!
Thanks! I'm sure he'd think you're cute, too...Good enough to eat, even!
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Just as long as he cuddled first.
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Impressive!
Transdimensional stomachs? Oh, and thanks for showing us how to keep them at bay (4th sketch from the top). Apparently, a confused Blemmye is a harmless Blemmye... ^_^
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re: transdimensional stomach--Come on, what did you think D&D's Bag of Holding was made from?
Hah, too true! But hey, they've still got those wicked arms.
"The better to rend you with, my dear!"
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There's something I really love about the bottom one. I'm not really sure what it is, but I love it.
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But can you *CATCH* them all??
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It will be a challenge.
But I hope so...
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No worry Citizen!
They shall stay in freedom
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Haha, sorry I nag you
These also go hand-in-hand with your hox-gene stuff! Is that what you were thinking?
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Hah, no problem!--I'm actually glad you do, as it keeps me from becoming too "anorexic" about putting my stuff out there. Though I have to say, so far these guys are going over like a cheap cigar in a two-man submarine, so I think I'll Scrap 'em now. : /
No relation to the Fhox and kin!, though I think I was probably coasting on the conceptual inertia of those ideas when I came up with these guys.
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