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Gryphon Skeleton by ~RacieB:iconRacieB:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Fantasy

©2005-2009 ~RacieB
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Gryphons are, anatomically-speaking, really bizarre creatures to think about. If this is an animal made of an avian and a quadruped, then what you'd think of as the gryphon's front legs are technically hind legs. This means to fit together believably it's either got to have two pairs of shoulders (wings/front legs) or two pelvises (front legs/back legs.) Because cramming a bunch of shoulder blades together probably wouldn't work very well, I fused the two halves by extending the avian tailbone into the quadruped spine, melding the two ribcages into one, and giving it two pairs of hips.

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!pinkechidna Apr 13, 2005, 4:00:58 PM
WOW! I love mythical animals! That is truly awesome! Very well thought out. :claps:

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!pinkechidna Apr 13, 2005, 4:01:37 PM
WOW! I love mythical animals! That is truly awesome! Very well thought out. :claps:

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!pinkechidna Apr 13, 2005, 4:02:10 PM
Oh sorry for the double post.

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*Sifyra Apr 13, 2005, 8:52:05 PM
Very well done! You did a great job on this. Very well thought out.
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~RacieB Apr 13, 2005, 9:49:24 PM
Thank you ^^ I sometimes use it as an anatomy reference for when I draw live gryphons, so it's pretty useful.
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~Magenta-Moop Apr 7, 2006, 2:41:50 PM
I've often thought that it'd work better to have a second pair of shoulderblades for the wings BELOW the ribcage. This would make room for all the needed muscle structure, and then all the lift would come from the center, instead of having the lift coming from the front with the back end just hanging and creating drag.

I dunno, I like your idea too. Very cool drawing...

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Mood: Adoration ~Madeira-Alajia Mar 10, 2008, 5:02:51 PM
Interesting way to solve the hexapedal problem :)
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=RoseRaptor Apr 14, 2008, 8:57:17 AM
you make a very interesting point there, i actually never thought about how weird a gryphon's body is XD

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~bronze-dragonrider Sep 21, 2008, 7:08:18 AM
HOLY CRAP. This is absolutely brilliant. I have been slaving away trying to figure out the anatomy for dragons, and it's a very tricky business with two sets of shoulder blades. I had toyed with the idea of the shoulders having a hip joint rather than shoulder blades, but I couldn't figure out a plausible way to do it. But you have it pinned, very good thinking!

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