- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Stewart Stansfield"
<stu_stansfield_at_h...> wrote:
> > I've been trying to sketch a convincing Nasobeme for a couple of
> days now
> > without any success. Has anyone out there got any hints or tips to
> what thewy
> > might look like. I'm stuck in a kind of Robert Crumb/Erol
> Otus/Dobysky nightmare
> > where everything looks a bit silly. What I want is to be able to
> picture a
> > Nasobeme as Luise Perrin, or Frank Frazetta might paint/draw them.
>
> Bravo, Keith! I applaud your dedication to nasobemology! Perhaps
> Issaries should run a 'Draw a Nasobeme' competition?
>
> As an artist and nasobeme-fetishist myself, I would suggest one
> concerns oneself less with anatomical correctness, but more with
> *sheer nasal dynamism*... and implied proboscial menace (if remotely
> possible). Apart from the sensuous mouth, of course, though that may
> require frequent cold showers. Indeed, those strangely-shaped beasts
> made out of balloons by strange men at children's parties probably
> provide a good artist's model.
I remember a ways back I came across a "fictional natural history"
about nasoblemes called "The Snouters" (Dr. Harald Stümpke. The
Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades. Translated by Leigh
Chadwick. The Natural History Press (1967).) Which described the life
history of the various kinds of snouters, of which the nasobleme was
just one. For some drawings from the book try:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tall-tales/pacific-islands.html
There is a picture of Stümpke's nasobleme there... There are also
sufficient pics of nasoblemes at:
http://www.geocities.jp/dg_tokiwa/hana/nazo_b.html
for even the most hardened nasobleme fetishist...
Cold shower time!
Yak