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The main trouble I had with Flippy was that she wore only a loincloth. I thought that constantly trying to figure out how to strategically place objects in front of her bosom would end up being difficult and silly-looking after a while. Hence, I created her more modern descendant Falypti GeRishaan.
I was never really satisfied with parts of this drawing, like the vest and her left paw, but was unwilling to just abandon it. So I just said, "Heck with it," and converted into a color study. That'll show it.
Among my modern-analog leptics, Falypti is wearing about a normal amount of casual wear clothing for the females. Although they lack any taboos about revealing their bosoms, it's not uncommon for them to wear vests and haltertops both to tease and for support to make them look more attractive. Falypti's primary excuse is that she needs pockets to hold her spectacles. The loincloth of her distant ancestors is now a common decorative element of shorts and pants, its length varying according to rules on formal wear.
Attitudes towards their bodies is opposite that of humans so, while Falypti would have no problems running around topless, her younger brother would be ashamed to be seen in public with anything between his shoulders and upper thighs uncovered.
I was never really satisfied with parts of this drawing, like the vest and her left paw, but was unwilling to just abandon it. So I just said, "Heck with it," and converted into a color study. That'll show it.
Among my modern-analog leptics, Falypti is wearing about a normal amount of casual wear clothing for the females. Although they lack any taboos about revealing their bosoms, it's not uncommon for them to wear vests and haltertops both to tease and for support to make them look more attractive. Falypti's primary excuse is that she needs pockets to hold her spectacles. The loincloth of her distant ancestors is now a common decorative element of shorts and pants, its length varying according to rules on formal wear.
Attitudes towards their bodies is opposite that of humans so, while Falypti would have no problems running around topless, her younger brother would be ashamed to be seen in public with anything between his shoulders and upper thighs uncovered.
Category All / General Furry Art
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dmfalk would agree with you, methinks. There's a lot of interesting prehistoric mammals out there besides the leptics (although few are as cute) and the more commonly drawn species like saber-toothed cats or thylacines.
Why only saber-toothed cats and not the dirk-tooths, the scimitar-tooths, the false saber-toothed cats, and Thylacosmilus who are marsupials instead of cats? Where's the Macrauchenia and other litopterns? Or chalicotheres, creodonts, or indricotheres? How about all those names that mean little to readers?
True, the three elephant species today are a mere shadow of those in times past. Deinotheres, gomphotheres, mastodons, and mammoths (who weren't mastodons, actually ) all made the ground tremble. Shovel-tuskers, twisty-tuskers, top-tuskers, bottom-jaw-tuskers, both-jaw-tuskers, when it came to tusks, elephants really experimented around.
When it comes to woolly mammoths, I can't help but think of the Transformer known as Big Convoy, a Maximal with a mammoth beast mode. How could I top a transforming toy when it comes to mammoths?
When it comes to woolly mammoths, I can't help but think of the Transformer known as Big Convoy, a Maximal with a mammoth beast mode. How could I top a transforming toy when it comes to mammoths?
Ah, now I remember a possible character of mine who exists in my Tales of the Winterfur world. She was the Ancient Tusk, the last of the woolly mammoths and who had been surviving for millennia by stealing the life energies of other people. Eventually, she would encounter and be defeated through weaselly cunning by Baksrit of Albes (who would be a creaky, old ermine wizardess by that time).
I have made a start with two excerpts from Isen's Bane, the sequel to Winterfur. They're Coyote Folk Song and The Woodcarver's Geis.
Considering Baksrit is 19 during Winterfur and 20 during Isen's Bane plus the fact that she ages two or three times slower than others of her people, her encounter with the Ancient Tusk would be over 150 years in her future. However, a number of the non-sentient mammals in her world are based on relatively recent prehistoric mammals. The horses and donkeys of her world are skoits and plunkeys, based on South American ungulates. Nandys are provisionally chalicotheres. Wargs are non-anthropomorphic wolves – dire wolves that is.
Considering an old world-building story set in that world mentioned "cat-bunnies" (they weren't not cabbits!), I'm very strongly tempted to include leptics as pet cat or ferret analogues despite their being older than the other species I mentioned. Another possibility is to make anthropomorphic leptics a contemporary part of Baksrit's world. My original thought was some sort of djinn created the anthropomorphic ones from fossil DNA and was guiding their development until they could be successfully integrated with the more modern peoples of that world. However, as I wrote this very paragraph, I realized I could recycle a fan idea of importing Sarah Davis' Mousekaroos into Baksrit's world (it was a great idea in need of the proper species rather than someone else's creation) and use leptics in place of Mousekaroos. I also ramble a bit much.
Considering Baksrit is 19 during Winterfur and 20 during Isen's Bane plus the fact that she ages two or three times slower than others of her people, her encounter with the Ancient Tusk would be over 150 years in her future. However, a number of the non-sentient mammals in her world are based on relatively recent prehistoric mammals. The horses and donkeys of her world are skoits and plunkeys, based on South American ungulates. Nandys are provisionally chalicotheres. Wargs are non-anthropomorphic wolves – dire wolves that is.
Considering an old world-building story set in that world mentioned "cat-bunnies" (they weren't not cabbits!), I'm very strongly tempted to include leptics as pet cat or ferret analogues despite their being older than the other species I mentioned. Another possibility is to make anthropomorphic leptics a contemporary part of Baksrit's world. My original thought was some sort of djinn created the anthropomorphic ones from fossil DNA and was guiding their development until they could be successfully integrated with the more modern peoples of that world. However, as I wrote this very paragraph, I realized I could recycle a fan idea of importing Sarah Davis' Mousekaroos into Baksrit's world (it was a great idea in need of the proper species rather than someone else's creation) and use leptics in place of Mousekaroos. I also ramble a bit much.
Not that I mind, really- It just means you're comfortable enough to share such ideas with someone you think appreciates it. :) And to be honest, I think you've got good, workable ideas. :) Seeing these ideas form and bear fruit will be interesting, as you bring your stories online. :)
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(It's too bad FA does NOT support ePub uploads....)
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(It's too bad FA does NOT support ePub uploads....)
It may be a while before this leptic idea bears fruit, though. I need to review what I came up with for the fan story, figure out how and what to alter for the leptics, and then doing something with it, much less continue working on other projects. I've been lacking in ambition a lot lately. I guess there's nothing to do but wait and see, just like always.
That's not stopped dinosaur-lovers.
Actually, prehistoric mammals were popular before the dinosaur craze clamped down on the throat of popular culture like a tyrannosaur on a triceratops. I think much of the problem is that we're pretty much unaware of many of these beasties in the first place (and that includes many other prehistoric critters, from reptiles to amphibians to fish). I think the only way to get people to know about these animals is to get them out there where they can be seen, like what
dmfalk is trying to do with leptics.
Actually, prehistoric mammals were popular before the dinosaur craze clamped down on the throat of popular culture like a tyrannosaur on a triceratops. I think much of the problem is that we're pretty much unaware of many of these beasties in the first place (and that includes many other prehistoric critters, from reptiles to amphibians to fish). I think the only way to get people to know about these animals is to get them out there where they can be seen, like what
dmfalk is trying to do with leptics.
Do a keyword search for "leptictidium" or "lepti" (you'll get slightly different results) here on FA for the few lepti submissions posted here, as part of my quest to give the lepti some furry recognition I think it deserves. :) When I started pestering others to draw leptis, there were NO anthro leptis here or on dA-- CyberCorn was the first to draw one for me, in response to a comment my character Amy made in a certain webcomic forum. :) I've been responsible in one way or another for every single lepti submission here on FA.
I prefer using the term "lepti" while Cybercorn prefers "leptic" as a shortform for "leptictidium".
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I prefer using the term "lepti" while Cybercorn prefers "leptic" as a shortform for "leptictidium".
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I use "leptic" because I'm a stick in the mud. I suspect DM's variant is more likely to catch on. That's why I use "lepti" among the keywords instead of stubbornly sticking with "leptic" at all costs.
Truth be told, I did come up with an anthropomorphic leptic independently of DM, but it was DM's interest that actually got me to do develop it into an uploadable picture. In that respect, he is very much responsible for my leptics. If I qualify as their parent, that probably makes him the midwife.
Truth be told, I did come up with an anthropomorphic leptic independently of DM, but it was DM's interest that actually got me to do develop it into an uploadable picture. In that respect, he is very much responsible for my leptics. If I qualify as their parent, that probably makes him the midwife.
The first dino craze hit in the first half of the 19th Century, but yes- There were more interest in saber-tooth cats and woolly mammoths prior to the first dino finds, mostly because at the time, it was thought geologic history only went back several thousands of years to just a few million. So to them, smilodons and mastadons were contemporaries to the dodo, which had just been found, then become extinct in this period. The dinosaur was the first real challenge to traditional notions of the age of Earth, and by proxy, the Universe.
Today, only a handful of prehistoric mammals still survive, like the platypus or solenodon, but these are species that have lived far longer than the typical lifespan of a species (about 1 million years for a species, or about 10 million for an immediate family of species). Leptis were one such "average" species, except for the notable lack of descendants, despite being relatively common in its era, and the wide distribution between Europe and America (mostly Europe, though).
(The solenodon is closer in appearance to the elephant shrew than the leptictidium was, in that leptis were true bipedal furs, rather than quadrapedal.)
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Today, only a handful of prehistoric mammals still survive, like the platypus or solenodon, but these are species that have lived far longer than the typical lifespan of a species (about 1 million years for a species, or about 10 million for an immediate family of species). Leptis were one such "average" species, except for the notable lack of descendants, despite being relatively common in its era, and the wide distribution between Europe and America (mostly Europe, though).
(The solenodon is closer in appearance to the elephant shrew than the leptictidium was, in that leptis were true bipedal furs, rather than quadrapedal.)
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And we missed so many interesting species by so little time. We missed ground sloths by at least 500 years, mammoths by 3700 years, Flores man by 12,000 years (maybe), and so on. Yet, who knows what's still out there, from mokele-mbebe to yetis to Britain's alien black cats?
According to present theories, leptics went extinct because of grass. As the climate dried, grasslands replaced the forests leptics lived in. They couldn't adapt and died out.
I'll admit I entertain fantasies that modern descendants of leptics still survive deep in mostly unexplored forested areas like in Borneo, central Africa, the Amazon, and southern Asia. It's possible, though I personally doubt it.
According to present theories, leptics went extinct because of grass. As the climate dried, grasslands replaced the forests leptics lived in. They couldn't adapt and died out.
I'll admit I entertain fantasies that modern descendants of leptics still survive deep in mostly unexplored forested areas like in Borneo, central Africa, the Amazon, and southern Asia. It's possible, though I personally doubt it.
...Or more plausibly, the forests of northern Scandinavia, still largely untouched..... :)
As for Flores man, considering what we keep finding in Indonesia (particularly in Borneo), these tiny 3" human relatives *could* still be alive, somewhere.....
Lord knows there've been some recent discoveries of previously-thought-extinct creatures, primarily in Indonesia and Thailand.....
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As for Flores man, considering what we keep finding in Indonesia (particularly in Borneo), these tiny 3" human relatives *could* still be alive, somewhere.....
Lord knows there've been some recent discoveries of previously-thought-extinct creatures, primarily in Indonesia and Thailand.....
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Or even in forests not so untouched. Heck, the forests of North America have been tramped all over by humans yet there's reports of large primates undescribed by present scientific literature. Considering that finding a new mammal species in the leptic size range isn't the once-in-a-lifetime event popular media makes it out as (I think there were at least five new mammal species recognized in Europe alone during the past ten years), it's not impossible leptic descendants exist. Unfortunately, it's still highly unlikely. (I still wonder if they would have been easy to domesticate.)
Orang Pendek (Sumatra), Ebu Gogo (Flores Island), and a whole lot more names. That's why I said "maybe". It sure would be great if a lot of these unidentified cryptids turned out to be real species.
Orang Pendek (Sumatra), Ebu Gogo (Flores Island), and a whole lot more names. That's why I said "maybe". It sure would be great if a lot of these unidentified cryptids turned out to be real species.
Not sure if they could've been domesticated, either, given they were predator-prey, much like the solenodons that survive today, but I had a dream a couple months ago, where I was given the chance to be the first human to ever see a living leptictidium....in modern days. The poor creature looked totally lost, but did let me pet it.
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Not bad- Some improvements over the '07 Flippy pic.... :) Perhaps I should get you to draw my lepti character [url=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3607598]Ilene[/i] someday. :)
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