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karabbackilla
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8/12/06 5:19pm
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Oooh, who are you on DA? I love a good mystery.
Rouge Follower, I used watercolor and ink for the piccy. It seems to be my favored medium right now.I like that sawfish! Reminds me of one I saw at Seaworld. That sucker was about 7 feet long, and was just laying on the bottom of the tank like a lazy @$$!
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Rogue_Follower
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I find sawfish to be very interesting, mostly because of their shape and size. Some can get pretty big, up to 12 feet or more.
Now that I think about it, your depiction of the shoni reminds me of the goblin shark. A rather ugly species, though the mophology is fascinating. 
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TheEmpireStrikes
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karabbackilla posted:
Oooh, who are you on DA? I love a good mystery.
Lord Gothmog..... I don't comment you very much, but one of your older pieces is in my Deviation Favorites. It amuses me that you are actually a very minor contributor to canon.
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karabbackilla
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Oh Hi!!
Yeah, I never even HEARD of the word 'canon'until a little over a year ago. I have discovered that some people are rabid canon followers and get pretty pissed when people deviate from the 'written in stone' stuff! I myself pick and choose what I like, because I dont like to be confined, and am a big advocate for creativity. Fan based or otherwise.
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Biddybot
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And here, perhaps, is another fun addition to that elusive 'canon'... Those of us who are fanatical sticklers have no doubt noted that the Yam'rii or Huk were portrayed as brown mantid creatures in one of the Grievous articles that have been discussed in this thread, yet a couple of readily available entries posted elsewhere about the species still show them as green jobs. That's fine in of itself, I should say. Humans come in different colours too, after all. Kinda too bad we didn't have more visual reference on those nasties, though, whether green or brown...
But just yesterday, I found the loveliest new picture of a Yam'rii, and the photographer, Andrew Williams, after learning (much to his surprise, I'm sure) that he'd inadvertently captured on film a terrific rendition of one of the Star Wars races, agreed to provide a link to share his prize. Here he/she is then, for the second time (just provided this link on the Grievous Club thread too), my pick for a representative portrait of a Huk as a young imago:
http://www.photoportfolios.net/portfolio/pf.cgi?a=vp&pr=38446&b=up&st=1&la=81&ph=6&sid=18841&pi=APASTRON&u=18841
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Rogue_Follower
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Nice picture. 
Real life mantids can have different colors over their life cycle, and there are many different colored species, so there's really no problem with the idea of green and brown Yam'rii. Also, its very possible that they can change colors, since some sources show Kitik Keedkak as being green and others show her as being brown.
I'm still waiting for my pretty pink 'n' white Huk... 
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Biddybot
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Heh, I always figured that Kitik alternated colours depending upon which part of her reproductive cycle she was in. Heaven help the idiot who got it mixed up and tried to accost her when she showing the 'wrong' colour...
That 'Huk' photo actually came to my attention on an insect site I post on. Since you seem to like Mantids, you probably already know it's a Chinese Mantis, and the uncommonly dark eyes, according to another poster, are due to the Mantid ability to alter the characteristics of their eyes to improve night vision, which leaves them looking darker than normal. Sure enough, that photo was taken at night...neat, eh?
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Rogue_Follower
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Yep. Mantis eyes are pretty neat, especially the way they appear different depending on the lighting and where you're viewing the bugger from---most of the ones I've seen have a black dot in their eye that looks sort of like a pupil, though it isn't. They look curious, the way they turn their heads to follow you.
We always get an adult praying mantis or two in the garden at my house every year, and they're fun to watch. Invariably, we find their egg-cases attached to sticks and tables, and the next year we get a swarm of babies crawling all over. Not that many survive, though...
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Barriss_Coffee
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Rogue_Follower posted:
Not that many survive, though...
What did you do, tear their legs off? Did you get a certain amount of satisfaction watching their poor, defenseless bodies cower with fear under the light reflected through your magnifying glass? I bet you cheered once you discovered that you and Grievous had something in common.
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Rogue_Follower
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Its nothing like that. I'm a nice guy, a loveable fuzzball, a precious pitten. 
The thing is, the babies are so small that they can get eaten by pretty much anything. And then there's the fact that mantids are cannibals...
They lay so many eggs precisely because so few of the young survive. Its the shotgun approach to infant survival---the odds are against all of them surviving, but a few will.
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8/20/06 6:29pm
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Abel you freakin ROCK!!!!! OOWW!!!! 
(sorry guys..I just felt the urge to do that)
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Speaking of swordfish, there's a huge public park in Changsha that has a balloon shooting stall (I bet Qymaen was good at that game and won many stuffed animals) and one of the prizes is a yellow swordfish. I immediatly thought of Grievous.
I think Kaleesh change color in different reproductive stages too. But that's just fangirl thinking for my femme!Grievosu bunny.
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I sort of imagine the Kaleesh as having a face sort of like that of a predator, but a little more close to human, yet not too much....
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Baby mantids really are pretty damn cute.
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karabbackilla posted:
Yeah, I never even HEARD of the word 'canon'until a little over a year ago. I have discovered that some people are rabid canon followers and get pretty pissed when people deviate from the 'written in stone' stuff!
 That was quite refreshing, karabbackkilla.
Biddybot posted:
But just yesterday, I found the loveliest new picture of a Yam'rii, and the photographer, Andrew Williams, after learning (much to his surprise, I'm sure) that he'd inadvertently captured on film a terrific rendition of one of the Star Wars races, agreed to provide a link to share his prize. Here he/she is then, for the second time (just provided this link on the Grievous Club thread too), my pick for a representative portrait of a Huk as a young imago:
Hey, nice! Thanks for that Biddybot!
wari posted:
Abel you freakin ROCK!!!!! OOWW!!!!
YOU rock, dude. 
Sauron_18 posted:
I sort of imagine the Kaleesh as having a face sort of like that of a predator, but a little more close to human, yet not too much....
I kinda get that feeling too, due to the tusks, but for that very reason, I'd probably like to see something more original underneath the mask. Can't out-Predator the Predator, after all.
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