Female spacer tickled by leotaur (feet)

[scavenger]

It's been a while since I posted some art here, but I've been terribly busy with other things in life lately. Nonetheless I did found some time to do another piece of tickle art.
This one is yet another drawing set in the "Tee-pod universe", a world that was fleshed out by Sablesword in his exellent sci-fi stories "Secret Military Experiment" and "The pacification of Ilene Li".

I already did a drawing of a tickled girl being observed by a Kraken (one of the races of the Squidcat Alliance), and so I just HAD to do one with a Leotaur (the feline, centauroid aliens that form the other part of the Alliance).

Hope you guys like it! 🙂

 

[Low_Roads]

The late relative scarcity or your artwork makes any new Scavenger painting that much more precious when it does arrive! Another wonderful piece of tickling art, cleanly unified yet rich with telling detail! The Leotaur's aspect is cunningly predatory: his crafty, intense glare, his ready hero pose and the casual functionality of his weapon and armor bespeak a being built for war. The torment of his captive is rather casual... he hardly seems distracted, as though indulging in a light snack between battles. The victim, on the other hand, is obviously in the deepest of extremis, her fists flailing, her face fixed in a howl of happy agony! The unmerciful gun-metal gray of the mist and riveted metal hints of the recent conflict... could our heroine be raider's booty, perhaps, or a luckless captured enemy? In either case, let's hope that repatriation is practiced by the Leotaurs... otherwise, she's in for a looooong war!

 

[44blues1]

I think Littlebighead covered everything, so I am just going to agree with him. Awesome work!

 

[DarthGrinn]

*looks*

ooo four arms... kinkeh! XD

lol Scavenger, you da man 🙂 You have the kind of tickle work I would print out and put in one of those expensive frames to hang on the wall in the lobby of my tickle dungeon... and when I finally have one built I just might do that haha.

 

[Paulie1]

Beautiful.

 

[Violetta]

Wow! Looks great, kiddo! I doubt she'll be getting away from him anytime soon. n_n I totally likey.

 

[BigNorm]

yes! scavenger's back! and with another grand pic! as Mr. Burns from the Simpsons would say: "Excellent!"

 

[The Bandito]

Wow - great pic Scav.

I really love the way you draw feet. They always look so soft and plump 🙂 I also always love the ambiance of your art. It always has such a powerful "feel" to it.

Another wonderful piece to put in my Scavenger file. Thanks, as always, for posting!

Bandito

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Lol great one!
Any chance of a WH40K one?

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Blargh. Posting after an LBH review is like congratulating a scientist on a discovey after said scientist is awarded a Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor for that discovery. It's just not worth it. 😛 That aside, I shall do my best...

Superb work, Scavenger, but then you ALWAYS do superb work. Your mastery of the art of eyepatches is displayed once again, as is your skill with shadows and simple yet perfectly fitting backgrounds. An excellent job on that weapon (I suppose I'd call it a pike of sorts), and I especially like the little tough with the toungue on the Leotaur. Splendid job! :happy:

 

[Sablesword]

Excellent pic. Glad I could be of help in inspiring it.

This isn't at all what I envisioned the leotaurs to look like, but it's enough better than my version that I'm adopting it.

My original version was leotaur = lion centaur. Four-legged cat body with a cat-featured humanoid torso (w two arms) in front. Like the classic horse-body centaur, only cat-like. Google for "leotaur" (w/o quotes) in google image search and you'll see what I mean. I thought the name "leotaur" and the brief description of them as "cat-like centauroids" in my stories would nail down their appearance, but apparently not.

OTOH "centauroid" aliens are something of a cliche in written science fiction, and Scavenger's four-armed cat-aliens are both cooler and make a lot of sense. So I'll retcon the ones in my stories to be his version.

BTW, did I mention what an excellent pic this was?

 

[scavenger]

Thank you all, guys! 🙂
Littlebighead: I love reading the thorough comments you write. Thank you! Actually it really was my idea to to make it look like the girl is a the "booty" the leotaur has collected on a raid.
rtl: Oh, If you'd ever print out my work and put it in a frame, I'd be honoured! 🙂
Bandito: thanks! I'm quite pleased myself how the feet turned out in this particular drawing. I'm glad you like them too!
Darth Vegeta: there's probably going to be another 40k one sometime (I'm a real big fan of wh40k) but I haven't made plans for it yet...
HDS: Wow thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
Sablesword: I knew there was a possiblility of misinterpreting your story version of a leotaur... I've read lots of sci-fi material where "centauroid" just means "six-limbed", so the mental image I had of a leotaur while reading your most recent story is that of a big (humanoid) four-armed cat. I'm glad you liked it anyway! 🙂

 

[Featherdemon]

Great pic Scav, it is good to have some of your art back work with us! 🙂

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Thank you all, guys! 🙂
Littlebighead: I love reading the thorough comments you write. Thank you! Actually it really was my idea to to make it look like the girl is a the "booty" the leotaur has collected on a raid.
rtl: Oh, If you'd ever print out my work and put it in a frame, I'd be honoured! 🙂
Bandito: thanks! I'm quite pleased myself how the feet turned out in this particular drawing. I'm glad you like them too!
Darth Vegeta: there's probably going to be another 40k one sometime (I'm a real big fan of wh40k) but I haven't made plans for it yet...
HDS: Wow thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
Sablesword: I knew there was a possiblility of misinterpreting your story version of a leotaur... I've read lots of sci-fi material where "centauroid" just means "six-limbed", so the mental image I had of a leotaur while reading your most recent story is that of a big (humanoid) four-armed cat. I'm glad you liked it anyway! 🙂

Tnx i'm looking forward to it already 🙂
Perhaps something involving the Daemonettes and Black Legionnaries?
Or an Eldar Warseer of Biel Tan?

 

[Sablesword]

Sablesword: I knew there was a possiblility of misinterpreting your story version of a leotaur... I've read lots of sci-fi material where "centauroid" just means "six-limbed", so the mental image I had of a leotaur while reading your most recent story is that of a big (humanoid) four-armed cat. I'm glad you liked it anyway! 🙂

That's interesting - all the sci-fi material I've ever seen used "centauroid" to refer to the specific body-plan of four legs and two arms, and not just six-limbed in general. I have seen material with four-armed/two-legged aliens, (e.g. Weber & Ringo's Mardukans ) but I've never seen them called "centauroid." Maybe it's a non-english-language science fiction thing?

What I'd really like to know is how many other people see "centauroid" as including the 4 arm/2 leg types vs being the 2 arm/4 leg type only.

 

[rajee]

Awesome Scavenger!😀

 

[scavenger]

thank you, Rajee and Feathers!

Darth Vegeta: That's a really cool idea: a female Eldar farseer tickled by daemonettes with Abaddon himself watching the scene (and drooling 😉 )...totally awesome, I keep that one in mind! 😀

Sablesword: well, the Tyranid alien race in warhammer 40k is described as being centauroid, but only the "gaunt"-genus of this race resembles the typical body lay-out of a centaur. The other genuses are evolved to that degree that they mostly walk on their hind pair of legs, and thus have four arms to carry weapons.
Perhaps leotaur society consists of different castes who have evolved differently from eachother (interbreeding between castes could be forbidden, thus preserving each one's unique genetic traits).... well those are just some ideas to fit my drawing into the universe you created in your stories... just me rambling 🙂

 

[Sablesword]

No, no leotaur castes; it's better that they're all four-armed sorts.

All I need to do is handwave the term "leotaur" - and inaccurate or misleading names for things aren't unheard of, so this might even add a touch of verisimilitude.

 

[Sablesword]

Oh, and I now have a story posted, based on this painting. Here.

 

[Darth Vegeta]

thank you, Rajee and Feathers!

Darth Vegeta: That's a really cool idea: a female Eldar farseer tickled by daemonettes with Abaddon himself watching the scene (and drooling 😉 )...totally awesome, I keep that one in mind! 😀

Sablesword: well, the Tyranid alien race in warhammer 40k is described as being centauroid, but only the "gaunt"-genus of this race resembles the typical body lay-out of a centaur. The other genuses are evolved to that degree that they mostly walk on their hind pair of legs, and thus have four arms to carry weapons.
Perhaps leotaur society consists of different castes who have evolved differently from eachother (interbreeding between castes could be forbidden, thus preserving each one's unique genetic traits).... well those are just some ideas to fit my drawing into the universe you created in your stories... just me rambling 🙂

Aaah Abaddon my favourite WH40K hero. 🙂
Or villain depends on your side. But as i'm a Black Legion player... he goes in the hero category (;

 

[LonelyKimiko]

I like it a lot 😀 . I read one of the stories last night coincidentally too. Very nie job Scav ^_^ .

 

[scavenger]

Why, thank you, Kimiko, that is very kind of you! 🙂

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Any time for you mister Scav ^_^ .

 

[Timewarp]

So are they Russian or.....what?

Is the from the Soviet Union? Didn't think they still exsisted.