im digging the bg between the panels on the last few uplaods. it's a nice touch

i think that bionic arms make the things interesting sometimes.
they secure high force, if is the case of a powerful arm(you can limit th force used to make the arm realistic, despite that is mechanical assisted)

What can I say? People enjoy 'magic hands'... If you know what I mean *wiggles my paws* >;D

Something tells me bionic arms to an extent started with Star Wars when Luke got his hand cut off and replaced,I can't think of any older reference.

Earliest references to bionics I can find is the novel called Cyborg by Martin Caiden, published in 1972, which was adapted to the series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1979) and its spin-off The Bionic Woman.
But Luke's hand is the most well-known reference to bionics.

Mmm...bionic commando much?

Also it's the only somewhat viable limb replacement in Shadowrun. :v

Well, bionic legs can be too easily concealed by normal clothing unless you're wearing shorts, and a bionic head...well, not sure you can really bionic the whole thing and still be bionic, but bionic eyes are also popular. The arms are also more used and seen extremities, which makes the bionics often that much more noticeable. Which is kinda funny really, as when it comes to limb loss, I think the legs are amputated/lost more than arms, though I haven't researched the matter.

Combine the two and you get a Metal Gear Solid fan character!

Wow Strype, those are awesome.

"I never asked for this"

I hope someone gets that joke

xD yes!

What a shame...

What a rotten way to die...

I see nice busts indeed.

My dog! This is just awesome. I love tecnhology! *_*
I know I repeat myself but you have so much talent.
But still, your technology is much less advanced than ours. >=D ... Yes I know there is only one drawing showing no technology but patience. x)

Probably because bionic arms are a quick and easy way to say "This character is a badass". Not always, but a fair bit of the time. Y'know, 'got an arm blown off and didn't even care'.

Not that that's a bad thing, of course. I know I'm plenty guilty of it in my own sci-fi character roster, where two of the biggest badasses do, indeed, have bionic bits (A High Admiral with a bionic eye/skull-mounted LAZOR-BEAM, and a Commando Commander with the right arm of 'wrecking all yo shiz', heh)

Love the details on this, especially the chaps arm and the girls clothing. Dem folds.

And more....CYBORGS!!! <3

gotta like the lion. he is awesome.

the left looks confident, while the right looks uncertain. Was that intentional? If so, its a good choice

Aye. All the refs I found of Psyner suggested a confident and playful personality, whereas Jess is more of a lover. Teckly suggested she'd be more of a gentle warrior.

well conveyed ^^

I vanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime.

awesome work on this :D

Jax from Mortal Kombat fame had bionic arms as well

Transhumanism is where it's at.

combining 2 things that are inherently awesome: Arms and technology. Also the thought of not having to worry about your limbs, because they'd be easily replaced.

I'm fond of Fullmetal Alchemist's depiction of artificial limbs: while fantastic enough to serve as an escapist fantasy, they're still depicted as having major disadvantages.

mmm she looks dangerous

One of my OC's is supposed to have a bionic arm and a bionic eye.

Very bad ass. I wonder what it would be like to have bionic arms. I'd punch through walls all the time. XD "OH YEAH!"

Thanks again for this! Your prices might be up there, but it's definitely worth it! (^ᄌ^)

I love it beautiful art

Incredibly late to this conversation, but came across your pictures while researching conceptual prosthetic designs as i'm designing a pair of arms to mod my character, and looking up other ideas to riff off on FA.

So far in my investigation, I think the idea and motivation behind arms being the most common cybernetic enhancement in conceptual ideas (closely followed by legs, then eyes, not including combinations of the aforementioned) is fourfold; for strength, for progress, for aesthetics and for the pure kinkiness of it.

Firstly, the arm muscles are arguably an area of self-perceived weakness in the real world. Most people I know aim to build better upper body strength, and arms in particular are seen as a prime area for muscle development. So building on that, I can see how people would project that desire onto their characters in the form of cybernetic limbs. After all, steel beats flesh any day!

Secondly, there's the futurism aspect. Technological innovation in the real world means that were fast approaching a point where cybernetic limbs will match, or likely exceed their flesh counterparts. There's already a strong culture of transhumanism around the planet, and a core component of this is that when the technology is ripe, it's plausible people will start to choose to have body parts amputated and replaced with superior, mechanical augmentations. (after all, from a theoretical perspective and given the right standard of technology, I know I would)

Thirdly, there's a definite aesthetic element in the choice of cybernetic arms for most characters. After all, they're a permanently visible component of any character, plus they look badass. I also think the amount of media surrounding advanced prosthetics means it's easy to be made aware of ideas, and then imagine them as a part of a character. (Things like for example Star wars, Six Mil Dollar man, Deus Ex, and tangentally Iron Man, among countless other examples) And on top of this, there's an opportunity to add glowing bits, and glowy things and furries are so easily appealed to by glowy things to add to character design! (Myself included- glowy things rock!)

Fourthly, and perhaps most controversially, there's those that are into the idea not so much of augmentations for replacement, but are instead appealed to by the process of loss (of the limbs in question) that leads up to it. I'm fairly sure already that i've come across a few individuals of this persuasion on furaffinity, and based on my observations so far i've also noticed a strong underlying 'submissive' trend accompanied throughout the other art in their gallery. I think the two are related, since an argument could be made that limb loss can be interpreted as the most permanent form of bondage, but since this area was beyond the scope of material I was looking for, and far, far into the realm of esoteric pursuits such as amputee fetishism rather than transhumanism, I discarded my search into this area there.

Anyway, tl;dr Freudian ramblings aside, the artwork and design in these images really is excellent! I think I'm definitely going to have to watch you!

The future looks awesome!