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Practice piece for a project I started a while ago, because insect mouths; how do they work? :O
It turned out okay.
There aren't enough invertebrates in vore or anything really. Sad. :c
It turned out okay.
There aren't enough invertebrates in vore or anything really. Sad. :c
Category Artwork (Digital) / Vore
Species Mantid
Size 1280 x 1174px
File Size 136.2 kB
Listed in Folders
They are extremely difficult to work with in character design, insectoid traits seem to be the opposite of those friendly anthropomorphic expressions, and everyone has different preferences to how many of those they want. The thing with insects is that adding expression and anthropomorphism seems to remove more of the core traits that make the creature "insect", moreso than with a canine or feline or anything with a common mouth and eyes. XD
Great looking alien/monster maw, that seems to me to me more of a reptile "mimicking" a mantis rather than a mantis itself. I think the main reason why there is so little invertebrate vore is because it is almost exclusively "hard" vore, in that the prey is always shredded to bits by the mandibles, so the prey is never going to be swallowed alive by an insect, spider, scorpion, crab, and even most molluscs with their chitinous beaks and radia. Yes there are worms and some snails that ingest prey alive, but I cannot think of a single creature with an exoskeleton that has a body capable to do this. But like your artwork, it is common to make composite "bugs" that actually eat more like reptiles, most memorable being the one in the original Men in Black film.
Kelenkenwithfangs I would love to hire you! Though when do you plan to reopen again?
Their mouths are absolutely insane to work with. I took a couple of creative liberties, mostly with the excessive gape of the "jaws", but for reference I used this and this.
However, THIS was instrumental in helping we understand how all the bits fit together, at least for a mantid, but I'm sure a lot of these mouthparts show up in other species too but with different specialisation.
However, THIS was instrumental in helping we understand how all the bits fit together, at least for a mantid, but I'm sure a lot of these mouthparts show up in other species too but with different specialisation.
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