I like the left one, interesting concept to and actually not all that creepy for bein an xray of sorts

Thanks! I kinda like the left one too. =)

I prefer the deer type, for the original specie! Instant fav, it will help me in future unicorn submissions X3

Many thanks! I'm very happy if these will be of some help. I'm not an expert in skeletons, though... I'm always making pretty wild guesses about where the bones ought to go. ^^

WOW you did a good job :)

Thanks, Garr! *hugs your big dragon tail*

*he smiles as his tail hugs you back*

I love non-standard unicorns. I love the idea of a dear like unicorn. Great job dear!

My kindest thanks! <3

Btw, judging by your avatar I'm guessing that you read this one webcomic called Order of the Stick. Your drow is very spiffy! ;D

No problem dear! You need to be told when you've got a great idea!

And yep! I do love me some OotS. Elan is my baby! /giggle. And I got my favorite D&D character made into an avvie by one of the awesome people on the forum. Maybe they are still doing it. It would be worth checkin out. :) (Good eye... only 3 people on this enire site have figured it out. lol )

I am a OOtS too, but I didn't se your icon until just now. *cheats*

"ever feel like you just failed you spot check?"

>^..^<

lol. That was one of my favorite pages. With all the ninja goblins staring at them in disbelief. /snortgiggle XD

i'm thinking i still like the horse skulled one best. but the deer body maybe. i don't know. i'd wanna see a unicorn with a moose body, why must they all be so fragile? this is really awesome charha. it'll def. help in the future.

A moosicorn? Rofl! That'd be great. But yeah, I agree... I've never been a great fan of sugar-coated unicorns. I think they should be at least partially fierce and nasty. Preferably bad-smelling too.

Oh, and thanks for the fave, btw! I'm flattered to hear that these silly bones might actually be of some help. ^^

I like the deer-like one, it looks like its prancing along and its cute... as far as skeletons go anyway X3

Thanks. I think I did better job with the deer-unicorn's ribcage in comparision to the other one. I found out that it helped to use a bigger piece of paper when scetching. =P

I love mix'n'matching unicorns.

They are made of win. Unless they're just pointy horses. Then they are not win.

I often draw unicorns with a horse's body... with the exception that I try to make them look more medieval by adding a lion's tail or a chin beard and cloven hooves, of course. =)

That I don't mind. What I do mind is the Unicorn they used in Narnia. With superglue and some spare plaster of paris. Insta-corn!

I've never trusted unicorns. It's a horse with a huge fucking horn on it's head.

It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

I really like the deer type one.

I think I might like the horsie-one a bit more... Dunno, I'd kinda like to draw a pig-shaped unicorn sometime. XD

Now that would be interesting. XDD Well, european visitors to Africa thought rhinos might be unicorns, so it's not as far off as you might think.

I like both really ^_^

I've drawn the deer type ones before and actually really like them interpretted that way. SImply because it works nicely with the forest dwelling and daintiness ^_^

Thanks for taking the time to comment, hon!

The deer type certainly fits well in pastoral forest scenery. Then again the horse one is a bit more powerful... I've personally always liked fierce and badass unicorns. =)

I definitely like the deer one better. Simply because it's closer to the original unicorn idea (the medieval kind, with the deer body, horse head, lion tail, etc). I think those are awesome, and a lot more interesting/creative than just plunking a horn on any ol' white horse.

Yeah, that's true! The western unicorn has a beautiful history in art ranging from medieval tapestries to those romantic and puffy 19th century paintings. The deer shape is closer to the original, but I also like the strong build of the horse... Though even then I often give the unicorn a chin beard, cloven hooves or a lion's tail for that medieval touch. ^^

You do? *is going to have to review Charha's gallery again* Cool, much better than just the taped-on horn look.

Eh, well, currently the only unicorn I have in my gallery - besides these two - is a bit kitch. He does have a chin beard, but otherwise he's not very original... I wasn't very happy with how it came out. ^^;;

The deericorn is cuuuute~ I rarely see unicorns with deer-like anatomy, even though I read somewhere that that's what they're actually based on o_o

+ Your anatomy is quite luvly <3.

Yub, the deer-like anatomy is definitely closer to the image of a medieval unicorn... Then again these days unicorns are mostly depicted with a horse's body. Both versios have their pros and cons, I guess. =)

Thanks for the compliment, btw! ^^

I've always loved the more deer-style 'corns. :)

Thought you might be interested in this . . . not sure if they have Breyers in Finland but I was psyched when they came out with this model, I'm going to have to snag one.

http://www.breyerhorses.com/product......php?item=1228

Oooh, nice! This looks useful. Thanks for the url! =)

I am totaly loving the deer-a-corn. and I think you've done a great job on these.

>^..^<

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Hey thanks! I'm very glad you liked the pic! ^_^

ooooohh preeettyyy instant fav it i wish they could have a museum holding mystical animal bone it be very education and spark imaginations as well hehehe your art a prime exabple of it

Thanks! =D

If there was a museum like that, I'd definitely visit it regularly.

Unicorn experts and I agree that unicorns are shaped like anorexic gazelles. :3

Fine work, though!

The unicorns you see in some of those sugar-coated fairy poo posters are really awful!

To be honest, I'm guilty of drawing those myself - but never consciously! The kitch elements just sort of... creep in. You decide to add just one star and next thing you notice you've drawn a rainbow as well.

My dear, that's the power of the unicorn. It brings out the child in all of us. As the legend goes, unicorns are attracted by people of great purity in spirit and innocence.

I'll try drawing a unicorn the way the experts and I envision it to be. :3

Nice technique on these. I couldn't draw something like this, but I do have some knowledge about veterinary anatomy, so here goes:

- Horses usually have 18 ribs
- There is something wrong with the shoulder blade of the one on the left. (looks like it was turned inside out)
- There should be 7 neck vertebrae
- The front part of the pelvis (the ischium) on the one on the left is strange (there shouldn't be a "hook" pointing down & backwards)
- The pelvis-spine-junction is off - the pelvis should be placed higher up and more to the front.
- The sacral bone is missing on the left one.
- The patella is missing on the left one and both patellae set too low on the right one.
- There should be only one metacarpal bone on the front right leg on the one on the left
- The costal processes of the lumbar vertebrae are missing

Don't take this the wrong way - I think this is great from a technical point of view, but since you asked about anatomy, I felt compelled to comment ;)

Many thanks for the information! It's indeed muchly appreciated, even though the names of the bones sound pretty alien to me... Especially since English is not my native language

When doodling this I used a pretty poor-quality ref that didn't show the horse in the position I was trying to draw. It was standing still and stiff and facing a crucially wrong direction. I'm fairly sure I counted 15 ribs, but it seems I indeed missed some.

Ah, excuses, excuses... You always gotta have excuses! ^^;;

Anyway, you sound like you really know horses. I had this friend who used to know everything there was to know about horses - and I mean everything! She moved to England later on, but every now and then she pays me a visit. Thanks to her advice my horses don't look like dogs anymore... But they're still far from being anatomically correct. =)

What's your native language then?

I used to be a mounted army officer and still am a vet, so yes, I do know a little 'bout horses ;)

I speak Finnish. It's quite a complicated language even for us Finns.

And a little, eh? I think you know more about equines than I could learn in a lifetime! I've never even seen a horse from a close distance, but I'd very much like to try and ride one someday. ^_^

Sorry, I'll have to pass then - Finnish is a language that I'm completely unfamiliar with. You'll have to find the translations for yourself.

As for riding, it is a lovely pasttime if you are so inclined, and the only way to find that out is to try it. There are probably some "riding farms" or "riding schools" around where you live that rent out the equipment (boots, trousers, helmet etc.), where you could go and try to see whether you like it. Have them give you an older, calm horse for starters and see how you like it.

I will look for some better refs in the future. ^^

And I'll definitely gotta find out if there is a riding school somewhere nearby. I've heard that riding lessons can be very expensive, but for me it would be an interesting experience just to brush a real horse's mane.

Yay for deer unicorns! Love the detailing in the bones ^^

Thanks, hon. Basically I just scetched something what I thought would with good luck look like bones. X3

personally I prefer qilins, they look like a cross between a gacele, a dragon and a lion, anyways they are both beautifull =) the horse one looks so gracefull and the deer one looks adroable ^^ love the way you made the vertebrae (sp?) and the hip bones =)

Qilins? I've never seen a picture of a qilin. That sounds very exotic!

they are allso known as Kirins, they are chinese/japanese unicorns =) truly pretty =)

Oh, I see. I know kirins! I just didn't recognize the first word you used. =)

hehe it's their chinese name =) they're a bit different in China and in Japan, in Japan they are more lion-like and in China they are more like deer or cows O___o

very pretty where did you get such clean referances for the skeletal structure?

I like both

You can find pretty good refs for horses with a google search. Here's a pretty good pic, I think. =)

http://cavanaughc.tripod.com/Horse_Bones.gif

As for the deer, I have this book about comparative anatomy. It mostly just contains very detailed studies about separate joints and knuckles... But there were a couple of good pictures too that showed the full skeleton of the animal in question.

Well, your attempts at skeletons are much better than mine! Though mine I only use for concept and would never, ever show anyone :D. The only off-the-bat anatomy relating to skeletons that I can remember is that the necks of all mammals have exactly 7 bones.

I quite like the deer one, though mainly for idea as I like both sketchs alot.

I was always pretty bad in biology. I recall some studybook saying that your average human has about 300 bones, but I have no idea how animals are constructed. I just make wild guesses and hope that most people are as clueless about this stuff as I am. =D

Seven neck bones... I gotta keep that in mind.

I wanna see a zombie unicorn

Lol! Me too, now that you mentioned it. o_o

Do you have any idea what cool tattoos these would make?

Hmmm... Now that you metion it, some talented tattoo artist might make one helluva design from a rampant skeletal unicorn. Might be pretty kickass. =)

Deer unicorns are traditional, actually. Just pop a lion's tail on there, and you have a "real" unicorn.;)

Yeah, now that I think of it you're absolutely right. For some weird reason I never came to think of the medieval unicorn as a deer, more like a badly drawn horse... But I guess they in fact really were the deer type. =)

I like them both actually.

I think the deer unicorn's bones are a bit more accurate. I'm not very good at horse anatomy although I try hard. =)

I've never really dug on A style unicorns. I've always preferred them to look more like the really old medieval ones, what with the cloven hooves and lions tails. Basically exactly how they're described in The Last Unicorn. :P Like a horse, but more delicate and slender. Longer neck, smaller head, etc.

I LOVE the idea of a unicorn deer, though. Have you ever seen white deer? They're amaaazzing.

Beautifully rendered skeletons btw @_@

I think I like the horse type more because even though it's not "historically accurate", I like fierce and aggressive unicorns and it's easier for me to picture a fierce horselike unicorn than a fierce deerlike unicorn. Hmm... but how about unicorns with the build of a mountain goat? They could have a long beard, very curvy horn and hairy cloven feet. =)

Oh, and thanks for the compliment! The skeletons itself are a bit wonky, there are bones that shouldn't be there and the ribcages were a pain... But at least I tried. =P