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Bendy Satyrby *Yuni

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / People / Fantasy

This is a gift for my good friend ~Kombanwa because I thought
of her art a lot while drawing this! ^_^ The character was
designed by me but he reminded me very much of her art! And I also
came up with a story for this species:

For unknown reasons, satyrs can make some of the world's best
contortionists when trained with care, they even have a special
class of dancing contortionists called kerhori, they're trained at
the temple since an early age and always take part in the
Sun-worshipping rituals. Because of their flexibility they can be
taught to be able to curl the body up into a nearly perfect sphere
that is seen as the symbol of the Sun which is their highest
deity.

During a ritual a kerhoros would be allowed to hold onto a special
golden bar in the temple which allows to balance while holding the
posture depicted above and this bar is designed specially for this
purpose. The golden bar can be held by only one satyr at a time
and it's sort of a special privilege. Usually rituals are combined
with an intense training session for all trainees in the temple
and all other kerhori except the chosen one would be simply tied
up to the ceiling with silky ribbons, they don't leave any bruises
and just help to hold the spherical shape during the ceremony.

It's not unusual for little orphans and beggars to end up in the
temple to be trained as kerhori dancers in exchange for food and
shelter. However, not all of them are orphans and some of them
have families where usually their parents also were kerhori in the
past because kerhori would often fall in love with each other and
make families. Needless to say how proud they're of their young
daughters and sons learning to assume those wonderful postures!

ps. The picture actually started without the ribbons and was going
to be named "Dancing Satyr" but I thought that my viewers would
keep pointing out that he'd lose his balance like that, so I added
the ribbons but they also made me think of this story, so it's all
good ^-^

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~apocalypsedub Mar 25, 2013 New member

damn that is so crazy the anatomy is so correct love it

~gymnosophist May 28, 2012

~redig76 May 2, 2012

Too weird for my taste. Not the satyr part, the "bendy" part.

*Yuni May 2, 2012

~Tariray May 2, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

augh so beautiful - his digigrade legs are perfect!!!

*Yuni May 2, 2012

So glad you liked it!! ^__^

~Caravaggia May 1, 2012 Professional Artist

*squeeeee* I just LOVE satyrs and this lil' one is so cute ! I love his grumpy/stubborn face, like you know you might get a hoof in your mouth if you displease him ! Adorable ! ^^

*Yuni May 2, 2012

Wah!! I'm so very glad to hear that you like him/them XD And I bet you might get a hoof in the mouth indeed if you tried to tickle him, hahah! XD I better not even imagine!! Anyways, I'm very happy to get a comment from you, thank you so much!!

~Caravaggia May 4, 2012 Professional Artist

Oh, no problem tha'ts normal, your art is always so cute ! ^^

~Essence4life May 1, 2012

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Awesome i love your work as usual. just amazing and love the description excellent job

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