What's a goat-spider? What's it do? How'd it come to be?
They're this centauroid thing in 2022 when I was deeper in the spec-bio community. Here're the only two gs characters I drew back then, Show-off (left) and Fencer (right).
I did a soft re-design in 2024, with fewer eyes and a smaller torso in the front. They never felt right, though, so I've tried (and failed) to redesign them several times since. Now that I'm drawing one for a sophont group picture, I'm trying my hand at them again. It's funny how the firmest grasp I have on their design is specifically for their earliest, lobopodian-esque ancestors in the top-right corner of the left pic↓. Everything after squiggly noodle stage just feels off.
I now realize I've shrunk them down to the size of like, an Aussie. Look at how tiny Fencer's gotten!
Anyway if you want to follow me suffer through this process, you can always come check out [ → my server ← ] which is still very very small and quiet
