babakinkin:

Been working on these slowly for the past 2 months at the start/end of my streams! 
I didn’t annotate them on the sheets because my handwriting is baaaaad, but I’ll add design notes below:

- Ladies are generally taller than the fellas.

- Prospitians have smaller eyes, Dersites have bigger ones.

- They don’t shed their carapace, it grows in similar to skin and they have to maintain it by buffing it down, though it grows in a lot slower than skin unless they have an injury that’s healing.

- Toe pads are like cat toe beans in that they’re more arched and have a bigger pad.

- Most of the carapace has gradients between skin and tough carapace rather than harsh edges. There’s less chance of things getting jammed up or them accidentally catching it on anything.

- Their faces are more fleshy and gradient up into carapace along what would be a hairline on a human.

- Tummy and back plates are soft enough to stretch and twist.

- Prospitians have black teeth

- Size of the sclera in relation to the iris/pupil is similar to cats and dogs, you only really see the sclera when they look off to the side.

- Bifurcation down the middle of any plates that wrap around to allow for expansion and contraction. This is true of the torso and also the upper forearms and calves, but the carapace fuses along the seams around the wrists and ankles where there’s less muscle movement and bones would be closer to the ‘skin’.

- Zygomatic and frontal bones are pulled back at the side to around the centre of the side of the head. Zygomatic arch circles back around into the temporal line making the circular swoop at the side of the head.

- No nasal structure, so the Maxilla joins up to the frontal bone between the eyes.

Thank you for attending my Carapacian lecture, I will be taking questions after class. And yes, all of this will be on the test.

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