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Homage to DaVinci for "The Journal"
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~der-freischutz Feb 21, 2011
it's realy well drawn, very didactic ... but the heart muscles shouldn't be that large, it has no beating...
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*DanielGovar Feb 22, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
This was a a little pet project trying to define the inner workings of a vampire - how their anatomy has altered. The design held that they had evolved to a point where they no longer "drank" blood, but that their fangs were like suctions that pierced then drew in blood directly to the heart, which then distributed it throughout the body. The idea was that as they no longer fed as we think of, their organs such as the stomach and intestines no longer functioned. The heart was to be a sort of engine that drove them, but could be shut down when inactive - like sexual organs. - Make sense?

Thanks for the kind words are the artistic merit :)

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~der-freischutz Feb 22, 2011
the biology of fantastic creatures is something really interesting since we'll never have the oportunity to open a dead body or study the etology of a living (or undead) being... your theory reminds me the function of crocodiles stomach during an state of great activity (a pump that provides fast responses)... but I think that the power of the vampire lies in its neurologic system... if a mere human can be cured by placebo effect (o rly) a vampire with centuries of no-life has an extremely powerful mind that can move tissues, organs and glands... and there we have a problem with the need of blood... since the neurons function depends on the amount of glucose in the food... my guess is that new vampires are only humans that starts to feel different needs and with years, decades and centuries their whole biology changes... a vampire like dracula would be a new species in the Homo genus while a vampire with decades would be a subespecies of Homo sapiens.
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~Codeyellow07 Sep 10, 2010
What's leading into his fangs? nerves? ducts? can you explain how a vampires anatomy works?

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*DanielGovar Sep 11, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
This is part of a project that is told from the standpoint of an observer of vampires, and the observer is a bit like davinci in his approach to the study - sketching what he sees, speculating...

The idea I had was that an vampire's anatomy would alter the human anatomy over time - mutating it to something more hardwired for blood intake. In this image a stage 1, if you will, the vampire's main fangs are almost like conduits for blood being fed directly to it's own heart, and it's heart, containing more chambers than that of a human's, is geared to pull blood in like a suction, from the fangs.

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~galsan Jul 27, 2010
"Vampire Anatomy"? that's like my dream comes true.
I always wondered about it and now you even illustrated it very nicely! thank you

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*DanielGovar Jul 27, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks! I have to give credit to da Vinci though, as his sketchbooks were much of the inspiration for doing these...

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*HtBlack Oct 30, 2009
Wow, indeed a wonderful comparison. The detail is breathtaking. :)

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~JackJersey Oct 29, 2009
Oh god I did a still life that had a book open to the corresponding Da Vinci page one time, pain in the ass. This is a great rendition of it, fun study.
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*DanielGovar Oct 30, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks! Yeah - his sketchbooks are nuts. I hope my sketchbooks stand the test of time the way his have. (yeah right?! :))

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