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I was pretty disappointed looking back over the Flamingape yesterday, so I decided to keep working on the basic concept until I'm able to get on paper something closer to my original image. These sketches are part of that process--obviously, I'm still just hybridizing various simians with flamingos. Top/left is primarily based on a bonobo (pygmy chimp), while bottom/right owes more to a mandrill (which I'm aware is not an ape). I'd still like to do a more successful version of a gorilla hybridized with a right whale, which is closer to the original concept. We'll see how it goes. And Ben--there ARE full-body studies on the way, I promise!

The title here is pretty much meaningless; I'm just tired of trying to come up with wacky-but-appropriate names, especially considering they don't work half the time anyway. (Public schools have failed to provide me an adequate classical education!) Also, both sketches are loosely based on photos of flamingos with their heads inclined, which struck me as rather "penitential," I guess.
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StickyRice43's avatar
teehee, at first glance, i thought it was a man with a long beard xD but i see what it is now xD it either looks like a gorilla with a beak, or banana shaped mouth xD heheh