Fuzzy naga!!

issa nagamew!

Need more of us Nagamew around, that is for sure.

Asside from the lack of guardscales this is basically what a 2 armed Shozi'Anto could look like if they had the mutation that removes their spinal ridges and gives them non-clawhands (each relatively common mutations, having both would not be strange).

Hey, chinny, do you mind if I offer some critique on the posture, based on my understanding of snake behavior and climbing tactics?

Sure, go for it! From the snake references I observed, she would realistically be gripping the trunk closely rather than loosely looped around it - but I decided having that horizontal shadow from back-light filtering in on either side was too visually pleasing to pass up. Also her tail tip would definitely not be sticking out like that were she climbing, but that space in the composition needed something. Whups putting aesthetic above reality, I do that sometimes. >_> I kind of figured "eh she's purposefully pin-up posing this will look nice w/e". If you have thoughts beyond those two things, let me know for future snake learnings! I was already aware of those though. XD

okay, wonderful! I"m glad you were at least ware of them, but beyond the tail-tip un-anchored, and the coils not snugly looped about the trunk. if you think about it there's really nowhere on her coils that are supporting themselves, so....this is sort of like balancing a teakettle by it's faucet....oh, and it's made of soft clay. it's not gonna balance, and even if you could get it to, it couldn't support it's self. now, if there were some cleverly placed branches, I could see, the two aspects you wanted to be included, with a more of a "carefully draped" approach, but as you have it, to my eye it looks very....impossible. adorable, but being the realist I am, it honestly distracts me from the aesthetics it provides.

so I guess the bottom line, is if you want to have the tailtip swishy about, you can use strategic "brace points" and well placed supportive branches, to help give the positions you want, while still having the body be supported. snakes are very versatile climbers, I bet there are some interesting videos, and pictures that show how snakes DO climb, and repose on branches, and the like. one other point, is that snakes who share a body porportions similar to this nagamew, as in girth to length ratios, tend to NOT be very arboreal, or only occasionally hang out in trees. for example, Ball pythons are pretty stocky, and have a fairly "triangular" cross section, a wide belly, they're...really not arboreal, and that's not to say this lovely nagamew isn't "just hanging out" in a tree, rather than living her whole life up there.

I guess I"m being long winded, but I hope my thoughts have been useful to you, chinny, I love your art.

Murrrr.... fuzzy noodle!

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