So apparently there's been this film called Pan's Labyrinth...

Yeah, I've no idea and don't much care. But in a DeviantArt search for "faun", between that film, the Narnia film, the occasional zomg|vulnerable|bishie (way to miss the point), cutesy fuzzy-behinded girls¹, mature-rated pics (no thanks), cosplayers and people who can't spell "fawn"-as-in-baby-deer, about 99% of the results that come up aren't of any use to me. It's the leg references I'm after, not badly hewn bois hugging/yiffing random male or female animorphs. (Although, y'know, there are even a couple of drawings of Fantasia fauns on there. Roly-poly funny.)

Here are a few nice ones I did find:

Nothing special, but cheerful... and bonus bracers and recurve bow. (My character has similar, so hurrah.)

Cute and bloodied, how I like my goats... or, rather, I like the movement here.

Only a sketch, but the artist seems to 'get it'...

Unbelievable, an honest-to-Pan picture of a faun with a nymph

This one's for sheer glee at seeing someone else with an Oberhasli faun. What're the odds?

Disney's Hercules sort of style, with quite neat results

I don't dislike Tumnus particularly, got nothing against cowards 'cause I am one, but damned if this isn't hilarious.

And a random thing because I like the movement or something...

I've slogged through more than a gross pages of search results and am stopping. The rate of payoff's too low. I leave you with something that is totally superb (not deviantart). I can't get anything off this fellow's facial expression—am autistic like that—but those toemarks in the bank and the hand on his horn speak volumes. Mr. Satyr doesn't want to go swimming!

¹ And before anyone chews me out over the gender thing, I'm not SO much of a mythology purist that I start hoofing turf over someone drawing some cartoony, chronically unshaven hoofed chick. Whatever floats your goat. It's just that in the mini-mythos I'm working in, there aren't girl fauns. Or boy nymphs. Ergo, not interested.

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