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Centaurby *GENZOMAN

Digital Art / Other / Fantasy

An old illustration from the beginning of the 2011, hope you like it

was done in a Livestream session, maybe you where there

. This time the half horse, half man dude, the centaur. My favorite centaur is Motaro from MK XD aahg, this guy scared me a lot the first time I fight with him. love stop motion.

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In Greek mythology, a centaur (from Ancient Greek: Κένταυροι, Kéntauroi) or hippocentaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings (see below), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele (inserting an additional generation) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.

Centaurs were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia.

Centaurs continued to figure in literary forms of Roman mythology. A pair of them draw the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family in the Great Cameo of Constantine, which embodies wholly pagan imagery.

~4polio Feb 10, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

it has peaked my attention that some of your art lack abdominals. It makes it look as if those are sucking in their stomachs or going on starving. make sure you include some abs and external oblique muscles. sorry for the critique it has been bothering me for some time. Im grateful that you have such artistic skill.