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Bob Greenwade wrote on Sun, Mar 31 09:54 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 07:45 PM:

The fact is that if you remove the horse's head, there is nothing more left than what I kept.

That's why my suggestions don't do that.

This also is the main criticism that I have with your Centaur, Jean-Louis. (It doesn't help that it appears to be backwards in most of your renderings -- this most recent being an exception -- which makes it harder to recognize.) It's why it doesn't look easily recognizable as a Centaur to me.

The idea that I had of the helmeted figure with four horseshoes does seem to be* the most effective idea to date, even if my execution was weak. The horse-headed, helmeted humanoids that Fergus posted is another good compromise; I particularly like the second one on that row (if my style was a bit less abstract, I'd try for something like it myself), or the middle horse-helmeted knight on the last row.

*Emphases on this phrase; I'm not 100% satisfied with it myself.


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