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"The beast Tlalascua is found in South Erdasia. It is said to be as tall as a man and just as wide, thirty feet long in all. From head to tail it is covered with scaly armor that no spear can pierce, and its rotund body is covered with sharp spikes which are longest on its flanks. Two horns grow out of its head and at the tip of its tail it has two spikes, longer than those on its body, which are curved like the horns of a bull. Its legs are short and wide, and whatever it tramples underfoot is crushed."
-- Deirhestres of Alzarath, The Nature of Beasts
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Zilora redesign retouchedby ~Osmatar

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I was looking at my gallery a few days ago and wondered why I had posted one of the ladies from MOTU Redesign Challenge #98, but not the other. Well, turns out the reason was simple: it was awful. Done with the old dim & dark CRT monitor it just looked unforgivably bad on an LCD screen. So I went back to the original PSD file to tweak things, only to find that when I rushed the piece to make it to the deadline, I had not saved the final tattoos on the unflattened unresized version and lots more important touches were lacking. I tried my best to fix things to make this thing presentable but, well, you be the judge.

Also, I guess I should mention a bit about the character, Zilora of the Snake Clan. A not too well defined one-shot character in a time-traveling episode from the old 80's He-Man cartoon. You can see her original look here assuming the link works. Since she's supposed to be from the distant past and a leader of a snake-centric culture, I went wild with her looks, throwing in details from different old Earth cultures and making her look like a jungle warrior queen/priestess. Perhaps I went a little overboard with all the snakyness, I dunno. It was my vision and I'm sticking to it.

*BrandonSPilcher Dec 22, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I like it! I get a Mesoamerican vibe from her design.

~Osmatar Dec 22, 2012 Traditional Artist

That was definitely the intention.

There's a bit of Egyptian and Chinese in there too.

~Dark-1-75 Dec 21, 2012

Very nice!!!

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