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Manticore — Description
The Manticore

Finally I pulled myself into doing something more for my Bestiary Gallery, so enjoy it.

Extract of the legend found in Wikipedia

The Manticore is a Persian monster whose name means "Man-eater", it has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it shoots poisonous spines to paralyse and kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind.

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So here you have a Manticore

Since it is a persian monster, not greek as many think, I wanted to give him a very oriental design, mostly arabic, so I looked for jewelery and tapestry designs, mostly persian, and ended up giving my monster some clothing and complicated patterns all over.

For the face, I went into giving him two mouths, one that works for speaking and one using for eating, like two sides of the same monster, one wise and eloquent and one wild and brute.

Well, Hope you like it, and wait for more of this, I'll try to make more