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About Me Premium Member Self-proclaimed Genius Jeffrey Alexander Malcolmson20/Male/Canada Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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  • Current Residence: #10 Aspen Dr., Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada, Earth, Milky Way, Reality
  • Interests: I think my favorites list makes my interests quite apparent.
  • Favourite movie: The Fifth Element, TRON, Fight Club, I <3 Huckabees, Demolition Man, Total Recall, Totoro, more
  • Favourite band or musician: KMFDM, Rammstein, Nightwish, Daft Punk, Beatles, CLUTCH, ELO, Kevin Manthie, Goldfrapp,White Stripes
  • Favourite genre of music: Techno, Trance, Fantasy Metal, Opratic Metal, Thrash Metal, Hard Rock, Dance, Punk, Rock, Orchestral
  • Favourite artist: Jhonen Vasquez, Danny Antonucci, Tim Burton, Ryan larkin, Walt Disney, Maxwell Atoms, Hayao Miyazaki
  • Favourite poet or writer: H.P.Lovecraft, Jhonen Vasquez
  • Favourite photographer: =Shy-Too-Shy
  • Favourite style of art: Graffiti, Vector Art, Photo Realism, Generic Toon, Sci-Fi, Anime, Impressionism, High-Contrast, more
  • Operating System: Windows, sadly.
  • MP3 player of choice: My 4-gig RCA Lyra Jukebox.
  • Shell of choice: I like crab shells. I mean, they have armor on thier eyes, even!
  • Wallpaper of choice: None
  • Skin of choice: Mine, but sometimes I wear other peoples'.
  • Favourite game: A lot of really obscure things.
  • Favourite gaming platform: SNES and Genesis
  • Favourite cartoon character: WAY too many to list here.
  • Personal Quote: "I would rather go to hell as myself, than go to heaven as a pawn for a book."
  • Tools of the Trade: Sharpy marker, Bic 0.5mm mechanical pencil, 0.5mm Uniball Vision pen, 0.05mm pen, GIMP

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Heeey, thank U sooo much for the favs!!! :hug: :cuddle: :woohoo:
I'm not familiar with TES;Oblivion, but I do agree that nagas/lamias have awkward anatomies.

I'm still trying to figure out how their posture is supposed to be and whatnot.
I'm really having a lot of trouble figuring out how they balance. They're generally depicted having their bodies raised similar to how a cobra lifts it's head. But cobras don't move around like that very much, only when there's something to strike at. And their head/neck portion only makes up a small portion of their body length, giving them more than ample counter-weight. But with most naga designs, the tail portion usually doesn't exceed 1.5 the length of normal human legs. That isn't much counter-weight to work with, when most of it is laying flat at a 90 degree angle to your waist. This means that a naga's tail section would either have to be extremely long, (Making them very difficult to work with, art-wise) or somewhat shorter and quite thick. It raises questions, like, do they move around with their body raised, or do they more crawl along the ground? Do they hunch over in an 'S' like a cobra, or are they more upright? How do they fight? Can they jump? Can they swim? If so, how? Most land snakes swim by throwing themselves across the surface of a shallow spot, hoping they reach the other side before they sink. Do they use their arms as part of how they move around, or do they avoid touching the ground as such? Do they slide smoothly along the ground like real snakes, or do they propel themselves by coiling and zigzaging? A lot of naga drawings give the impression that their body is sort of floating, while the tail section simply drags along behind them. This makes sense if you interpret them as deities, but I'd prefer to think of them as animals, or at least mortals of some sort. I think these ones got it really close to right:

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Oh yes, I do think that nagas need to be heavily built and quite long to support all the muscle and bones.

Since they have human-like torsos, I've always wondered how their organs would be arranged, considering their extra "space".

How they move perplexes me as well - I can somewhat imagine a naga sliding like a sidewinder though. That would be pretty cool.
Oh, shoot! Organs! I didn't even think about that! And, come to think of it, what about the skeleton?

I watched Monster Rancher as a kid. That's where I first saw a naga. In that show, the naga moves TERRIBLY. He's animated so poorly, it's just awful. But, then, Monster Rancher had so little to do with the actual games, it's a wonder it even turned out to be at least decent.

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