
While doing the other meme, I found this one which has been sitting half-done on the hard drive forever. Wolfed-out James this time.
Original by :iconrudethefox"
(sorry, Rude, I had to tone down that pink - it was burning my eyes)
Original by :iconrudethefox"
(sorry, Rude, I had to tone down that pink - it was burning my eyes)
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Monkey
Size 1000 x 700px
File Size 257.8 kB
It looks to me like the changes are very minor in configuration as if only the facial features and hair/fur do most to alter the Lycanthrope's appearance. Now, does the size of the brain case decrease, and the Saggital ridge get higher and thicker? (It's the ridge where some of the jaw muscles attach.) To me, this is probably one of the most "Logical" approaches to Lycantropic transformation I've seen yet. Now to take on the challenge of drawing Mr. Thaddius Foxx's and Millie Mink's skulls.
Yep, most of the changes take place in the cartilage and the thinner areas of bone in the skull, and along the fusion lines. The braincase actually remains the same size, but the sagittal crest, zygomatic arch, orbit and facial bones in general get larger, so it looks smaller in comparison. I tried to make the varg as close to "realistic" as possible, and I don't think there's a way to compress the brain any.
This was based pretty much on a gorilla skull, this is why my werewolves get called monkeys all the time XD But that's what they are, a sort of temporary evolutionary u-turn, what hominids might have looked like if they evolved to directly compete with lions and hyenas instead of using tools.
This was based pretty much on a gorilla skull, this is why my werewolves get called monkeys all the time XD But that's what they are, a sort of temporary evolutionary u-turn, what hominids might have looked like if they evolved to directly compete with lions and hyenas instead of using tools.
Intriguing... I think you've mentioned before that your character likes music, and this got me to wondering how our culture would be if we had to compete directly with lions and hyenas instead of using tools. Would we develop abstract thought? Would we be able to develop writing, mathematics and art? Would agriculture be developed even if it's easier to just go out on the plains and kill something to eat? So may questions from a small drawing of a skull.
Abstract thought might not be so much of a gradual adaptation as a lucky mutation. Assuming it might spontaneously develop, the other things would eventually follow. I think agriculture would develop eventually, for example, if only to feed the herd animals, and a lot of things would come from that. It's really hard to say - I'm not an anthropologist, i just like reading about it. I hesitate to recommend it because the author has been exposed as a plagarist, but Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" is a really fascinating book about the vagracies of history and how they caused different cultures to develop. Also I have to recommend Clare Bell's Ratha series, it depicts a society of predators who are at a very basic stage of developing a culture. They already herd animals, and the lynchpin of the first book's plot is one figuring out how to control fire. Other inventions along the way include domesticating animals (lemurs), rope, bridges, rafts, saddles and corrals.
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