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digital painting practice-my D&D character
More practice as I get more comfortable adapting to a style that doesn't depend on line art at all. This picture is finished FOR NOW, but in the future, I plan to add more characters and visual effects... but for now, it's done enough to act as my character portrait for my own D&D character, Kina Shirehoof, centaur monk.
Oh, I see you noticed those two big details.
Okay, so, it's not JUST because it's what I'm known for around here. After doing some thinking, (probably TOO MUCH thinking) I realized that centaurs just wouldn't have the ROOM to do all their business in the rear. Hear me out on this.
MASSIVE RAMBLE WARNING. D&D NERDS ONLY FROM HERE ON OUT.
See, the human brain is the hungriest organ in the body. When we eat, something like 70% of those calories are being burned to fuel our brains unless you're REALLY muscular, but the standard 2000 calorie diet? That's brain food. Now, add onto that the sheer amount of muscle that would come from having a horse body and two extra limbs to contend with. Centaur brains would need and even MORE advanced nervous system to control 6 limbs, which would mean more calories that the brain would demand. Add ONTO that the fact that the horse body would need to house a secondary pair of lungs for long distance running, a secondary heart to assist in pumping the blood needed for limbs as powerful as a horse's, another secondary pair of kidneys, and a massive, multi-chambered digestive tract to squeeze every last calorie out of food, and you've crammed the horse parts so full of organs that really, the only place that could house a baby is up front. So, centaurs would need to have front-facing reproductive organs rather than putting them in the horse parts.
What's that got to do with Kina's giant boobs? I'm getting to that!
This would mean that the babies would need to be small to be able to be squeezed out through whatever connective platform connects the human torso to the horse parts. We're talking, no bigger than a human baby, but that baby would need to grow at an incredibly fast rate. This means milk, a LOT of it. Yes, the mammary glands aren't that big on a HUMAN, but humans don't need to produce as much milk because humans don't grow that fast. Centaur women would need to be BIG, and they wouldn't have the same troubles as humans with proportions like that because of the way horses run.
If you watch how a horse runs, you notice one thing in particular; the head and body don't move all that much. When humans run, we basically bounce along and use our arms to both counterbalance and propel ourselves. A centaur wouldn't need to worry about that, so they wouldn't be bouncing all over the place. There would probably be SOME bouncing, but not as dramatic or pronounced as a human.
That said, the way I rolled Kina's ability scores, I basically made her ... well, a Clydesdale centaur. She got nearly the maximum score for strength, but only above average dexterity and constitution. So, she can't run as fast as other centaurs, but she can pull and lift like nobody's business as well as being a fair bit chunkier than your average centaur, as you may have NOTICED.
Kina's ability scores:
STR: 19 (Centaurs get +2 to str and +1 to wis) DEX: 15 CON: 13 WIS: 14 INT: 11 CHA: 13
Oh, I see you noticed those two big details.
Okay, so, it's not JUST because it's what I'm known for around here. After doing some thinking, (probably TOO MUCH thinking) I realized that centaurs just wouldn't have the ROOM to do all their business in the rear. Hear me out on this.
MASSIVE RAMBLE WARNING. D&D NERDS ONLY FROM HERE ON OUT.
See, the human brain is the hungriest organ in the body. When we eat, something like 70% of those calories are being burned to fuel our brains unless you're REALLY muscular, but the standard 2000 calorie diet? That's brain food. Now, add onto that the sheer amount of muscle that would come from having a horse body and two extra limbs to contend with. Centaur brains would need and even MORE advanced nervous system to control 6 limbs, which would mean more calories that the brain would demand. Add ONTO that the fact that the horse body would need to house a secondary pair of lungs for long distance running, a secondary heart to assist in pumping the blood needed for limbs as powerful as a horse's, another secondary pair of kidneys, and a massive, multi-chambered digestive tract to squeeze every last calorie out of food, and you've crammed the horse parts so full of organs that really, the only place that could house a baby is up front. So, centaurs would need to have front-facing reproductive organs rather than putting them in the horse parts.
What's that got to do with Kina's giant boobs? I'm getting to that!
This would mean that the babies would need to be small to be able to be squeezed out through whatever connective platform connects the human torso to the horse parts. We're talking, no bigger than a human baby, but that baby would need to grow at an incredibly fast rate. This means milk, a LOT of it. Yes, the mammary glands aren't that big on a HUMAN, but humans don't need to produce as much milk because humans don't grow that fast. Centaur women would need to be BIG, and they wouldn't have the same troubles as humans with proportions like that because of the way horses run.
If you watch how a horse runs, you notice one thing in particular; the head and body don't move all that much. When humans run, we basically bounce along and use our arms to both counterbalance and propel ourselves. A centaur wouldn't need to worry about that, so they wouldn't be bouncing all over the place. There would probably be SOME bouncing, but not as dramatic or pronounced as a human.
That said, the way I rolled Kina's ability scores, I basically made her ... well, a Clydesdale centaur. She got nearly the maximum score for strength, but only above average dexterity and constitution. So, she can't run as fast as other centaurs, but she can pull and lift like nobody's business as well as being a fair bit chunkier than your average centaur, as you may have NOTICED.
Kina's ability scores:
STR: 19 (Centaurs get +2 to str and +1 to wis) DEX: 15 CON: 13 WIS: 14 INT: 11 CHA: 13
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It is neat to think out the nuts and bolts of some of our characters biology or just how they get on in life. I'm often thinking too hard about how my bat anthros would deal with everyday life having huge membraned wings taking up half their hands and things like that.
So I know I'm late to the party here but I just wanted to tell you this is to me by far the best female centaur ever done. Not just in visual appeal but in how well thought out she is. I love how her human body is thicker and sturdier to more match the equine part. Her strong arms and firmer jawline showing her innate strength and I for one really like how her busom looks in that cinched top.
I hope you had a lot of fun playing her and got to play her during the pandemic over virtual tabletop at least.
I hope you had a lot of fun playing her and got to play her during the pandemic over virtual tabletop at least.
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