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Surprise surprise, 
wittyills came asking the most unexpected of commissions: a follow up to the anthro wolf leg study I did a few years ago as part of my old webcomic "The Synetai Chronicles". This is picture 1 of 4 of the commission showing the anatomy of the Synetai wolf arms and hand.
Back at the time I had given a lot of thought to the anatomy of those wolves and I've been surprised to find out I still remember almost every detail I had invented, even about the body parts I never depicted in detail. I had been reading a lot of essays by S. J. Gould and other evolution scientists, so instead of just designing a "perfect" anatomy I tried to put believable flaws and evolutionary accidents into it. Thus the weird and possibly fragile configuration of the feet bones, the vestigial finger of the hand and other details which will be shown in the following studies.
The original study of leg muscles and bones done in 2006:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/108883/
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....g_muscles.html
The webcomic as two zip files in case anyone is curious:
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....icles01eng.zip
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....icles02eng.zip
Be warned it's very NSFW (a lot of nudity in weird situations including cub nudity, malformations, touches upon some disturbing topics) and it's hard to read due to terrible English. It was a very experimental and chaotic comic with notes scribbled inbetween the scenes as I invented stuff along the way. The second episode is unfinished as I had came to realize it was way too difficult for me to draw a whole comic that way. :-P
And special thanks to wittyills, this was a real blast from the past.
wittyills came asking the most unexpected of commissions: a follow up to the anthro wolf leg study I did a few years ago as part of my old webcomic "The Synetai Chronicles". This is picture 1 of 4 of the commission showing the anatomy of the Synetai wolf arms and hand. Back at the time I had given a lot of thought to the anatomy of those wolves and I've been surprised to find out I still remember almost every detail I had invented, even about the body parts I never depicted in detail. I had been reading a lot of essays by S. J. Gould and other evolution scientists, so instead of just designing a "perfect" anatomy I tried to put believable flaws and evolutionary accidents into it. Thus the weird and possibly fragile configuration of the feet bones, the vestigial finger of the hand and other details which will be shown in the following studies.
The original study of leg muscles and bones done in 2006:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/108883/
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....g_muscles.html
The webcomic as two zip files in case anyone is curious:
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....icles01eng.zip
http://www.alessioscalerandi.com/te.....icles02eng.zip
Be warned it's very NSFW (a lot of nudity in weird situations including cub nudity, malformations, touches upon some disturbing topics) and it's hard to read due to terrible English. It was a very experimental and chaotic comic with notes scribbled inbetween the scenes as I invented stuff along the way. The second episode is unfinished as I had came to realize it was way too difficult for me to draw a whole comic that way. :-P
And special thanks to
wittyills, this was a real blast from the past.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Miscellaneous
Species Wolf
Size 927 x 1280px
File Size 559.3 kB
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He definitely is for this kind of pictures, I prefer the rough look of his anatomy studies to the precise look of more modern anatomy studies. Besides I don't have enough knowledge of anatomy to a super-precise illustration. It would take at least 4 picture to completely list the muscles of a limb: surface layer, middle layer, deep layer, and then a last picture with the tinier muscles and details of the deep layer...
Thank you! I'm very happy that as a med student you find this believable. The thumb thing was in fact inspired by the real case of the panda, which has an opposable "finger" with an even weirder evolutionary history (it's not an actual finger but a modified sesamoid bone - which also gave me the idea for the false heel in the Synetai wolf leg). I think turning an index finger into an opposable finger wouldn't be difficult at all as most of the muscles are already in place, though I don't know the finer details of hand anatomy for now so I have no idea which muscles exactly would have to change.
Your Synetai Chronicles lore stuck with me the first time I laid eyes on the comic years way back. A story of a wolf's existential crisis mixed with Da Vinci quality anatomy-diagrams and handwritten notes on the body languages of the cultures. A brilliant conclusion at chapter 1 where Ade's hand shape changed into its proper anatomy and though Ade didn't seem to notice he appeared at peace. The events of the comic was more like looking at the most entertaining documentary.
I hope that the other comics have not been lost to time; The Black Fanged Deer who caused all the wolves to smell each other like deer - a young fox attending a trial regarding a deer who might have been murdered by mercury poisoning - a scarred deer who could bend air - a llama (I think) who discovered he had an illegitimate half brother of a sub-sapient species thought to be genetically incompatible - A lion trying to discover why the meat of their prey have become poisoned - and a deer who was pinned by a wolf and thought she was going to die, but he only wanted to feel her shape so he could carve a likeness out of her.
I remember each and every one of them, and I hope some day or another you'll find the time to present the comics again. Though they are old, they really are too precious to become lost to time.
I hope that the other comics have not been lost to time; The Black Fanged Deer who caused all the wolves to smell each other like deer - a young fox attending a trial regarding a deer who might have been murdered by mercury poisoning - a scarred deer who could bend air - a llama (I think) who discovered he had an illegitimate half brother of a sub-sapient species thought to be genetically incompatible - A lion trying to discover why the meat of their prey have become poisoned - and a deer who was pinned by a wolf and thought she was going to die, but he only wanted to feel her shape so he could carve a likeness out of her.
I remember each and every one of them, and I hope some day or another you'll find the time to present the comics again. Though they are old, they really are too precious to become lost to time.
Sì, solo che la base della prima si è spostata un po' più verso il polso (e tutte e tre si sono accorciate un poco rispetto al dito opposto, come nel nostro pollice).
Poi a proposito di pollici non guasta mai ricordare il caso famoso del falso pollice del panda...
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evoli.....cle/analogy_06
Poi a proposito di pollici non guasta mai ricordare il caso famoso del falso pollice del panda...
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evoli.....cle/analogy_06
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