queen of the bongo, queen of the bongo...
curious foot shape. :) but I guess it would work. ^^

Yes she is. I just love those spiral-horn antelopes (Tragelaphini), there are many little-known, cool looking species there, and they tend to have cool native names too: bongo, nyala, sitatunga, kudu...

I think we talked about this foot shape before. It's not exactly my own invention, I've even seen a name "planti-hoof feet" being used. The actual implementation I have here is a result of a little artistic research I made, even taking the structure of actual cloven-hoof foot of a roe deer into account. The unexpected end effect was that I even "converted" Kalahari to use this design.

I probably should make some sort of detail closeup sheet (or whatever to call it) for her, but that's for later. I need some more inspiration for that, and I'd like to get the basic ref sheets done first...

I found the web page of some big-game-hunter's magazine somewhere where they stated all the local names for any animal in a list. some pretty interesting names... (lost the link, though)

sounds like a plan. maybe a skeleton/inner structure view?

I didn't plan as much as skeleton... But some close-ups of details such as hands, feet, horns, maybe mouth, etc.

Interestingly, I was never into researching these bone & muscle structures for art, yet I think I get the anatomy mostly right. Maybe it helps that I have some biology-related education, so these matters of physiology and anatomy somehow stayed with me.

all the way to make our critters more believable. :)

somewhere out there is the image of an old steel print showing the skeletons and general muscle structures of human and lions compared... for whatever reason. it does show the many similarities in the skeletons.

I think I've seen it, or something similar at least. And yes, the basic internal structure of mammals is surprisingly similar in many aspects which are not even always apparent on the outside. Often it's just a matter of sizes and relative proportions, this part is longer, that part is smaller...

Great sheet.

Thanks!

You're welcome.