I do plan to eventually reduce the number of images, and with that in mind, I suppose using comments has the advantage of keeping the images around for reference even if I do decide against some of them later. So first I'll post the new images here for reference, and then I will remove some from the page:
For a more compact piece that would work well with Staunton pieces, it helps to move away from a literal representation of a centaur and instead portray the bust of someone with both horse and human features. In a literal sense, this might be a reverse centaur or a were-horse, but at least it gets across the idea of a centaur better than a more human-like bust of a centaur would. Here are a few pieces generated with this kind of depiction:
Along a similar vein, we may have a horse wearing a helmet.
Or taking inspiration from the knight in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, we could use a knight in a horse-shaped helmet.
I do plan to eventually reduce the number of images, and with that in mind, I suppose using comments has the advantage of keeping the images around for reference even if I do decide against some of them later. So first I'll post the new images here for reference, and then I will remove some from the page:
For a more compact piece that would work well with Staunton pieces, it helps to move away from a literal representation of a centaur and instead portray the bust of someone with both horse and human features. In a literal sense, this might be a reverse centaur or a were-horse, but at least it gets across the idea of a centaur better than a more human-like bust of a centaur would. Here are a few pieces generated with this kind of depiction:
Along a similar vein, we may have a horse wearing a helmet.
Or taking inspiration from the knight in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, we could use a knight in a horse-shaped helmet.