#but spiders breathe through their skin so i couldnt just use book lungs | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

phantompeaches · 1 year

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What a nice and normal drawing to post after vanishing for 2 and a half months. I'm sure there was no weird and unhinged process for figuring this pose out that entailed inventing organs that all occurred in the space of around 10 hours or anything.

#my art #original character #oc #oc artwork #oc art #I had to extend her sternum for her third set of arms #because i needed her collarbone to attach to it #but shes a contortionist and that limits movement #so my totally normal solution was making it segmented so it can move like a spine #but that means her organs are at risk of being damaged #lucky for me spiders have book lungs #which are thin air pockets which blood runs through and thats how gas exchange occurs #but spiders breathe through their skin so i couldnt just use book lungs #so i took the structure of book lungs and adapted that to human lungs #so her lungs are layered but still have the exact same function as human lungs #but her heart was also a problem because that could be damaged too #so my solution was a weird combination of octopus heart where they have a heart that pumps blood around the body and one per gill #and snake hearts where they move them to keep it safe when feeding #so she has two hearts #one that pumps blood through her lungs and one that pumps blood through her body #and because her rib cage is longer they have a small amount of room to move so they stay unharmed #i really want to look into how this will effect medical equipment like pacemakers next #as well as how limb differences will present in the multiple arms #it also means that any lung issues are less likely to be deadly as quickly because if one layer is damaged or sick it can be removed easier #anyways so I started meds yesterday and this is a direct consequence of that ♡

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