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Constructing Triaformica part IIby *WolfPearl

Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Conceptual

Part I: Head
Part II: Torso You are here.
Part III: Limbs
Part IV: Sexes and reproduction
Part V: Growth and development
Part VI: Colors and markings

Aaand the series continues! I just had a week long vacation, and this is pretty much all I managed to do. (Besides playing through Uncharted 3 and watching the entire Samurai Champloo series with my brother, but that doesn't count.)

Mostly an excuse for myself to get more used to draw them (and my first time drawing a toilet seat!) by digging in a bit deeper in their body structure and exploring a bit some different body builds. Just a little.

Their windpipe is behind their gullet unlike on usual earthycreatures, so if you ever have to strangle a tria for some reason, you're going to need to put some effort in it. _{(I admit, having the top most bit of the throat grind connected to spine was kind of a panic resolution when I realized having your windpipe between two hard bones, one of which was kind of loose and unsupported, to be kind of bad evolutionary strategy. By the way, their vocal cords are probably behind the throat cage.) Retconned! When designing alien creatures, panic resolutions don't work.}

The little blood pump that-is-not-a-heart thingy is a mark left behind by their alien side's evolutionary ancestry. It's not vitally important, and about 10% of all triaformica have it really small or in some cases even completely missing. This condition doesn't affect the tria's life. Now wasn't that a completely useless bit of info!

Oh, and also doodled this while on vacation: [link]
Trying out some anatomy things. Also, I'm looking for a word, worth of common and casual use, to use for the X-type of triaformica. Using mathematical letter codes might sound nice, but I get them mixed up all the time, and the things need some sort of living culture. So far the Y are called crested and the Z are twinklies or twinks (or sparklies or showoffs depending on who you're asking). Suggestions welcome.

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~falyn4god Mar 15, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

i can't help myself....so they basically grind chests to reproduce? i'm so comfused! isn't that a bit odd if you accidentally fell onto someone? you'd be like "oh, so sorry" and they'd be like "WHATCHU DOIN'???" cuz you'd, ya know, be sexin' on em....O.O
i'm putting WAY too much thought into this....

*WolfPearl Mar 16, 2012 Student General Artist

Oh, no, there is no chest grinding involved. It goes like this: [link] That's harder to do by accident.

~falyn4god Mar 16, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

it all makes sense now! thankya!
it's so cool that you get into such detail with this. a real inspiration! thank you!

~Schatten-Drache Mar 8, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

one question to the last pose - does he try to stick his head in his ass? Oo

~RinaCath Mar 7, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Still totally fascinated with these things. I want to see more about their reproduction, too. I know you explained it before briefly, but I'm curious about the details now...

~Thorunn Mar 6, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I love how details your design is! You've really thought this through

~HuntressLight Mar 5, 2012 Professional General Artist

I love how this is shaping up :3 Are those really vestigial legs back there on the abdominal range of the tail? Can they do stuff?

~Zerox-Z21 Mar 5, 2012

Yes, but also having the windpipe at the front leaves you open to, well, strangling and other such. In humans, the windpipe is stiffened and strengthened by cartilage 'rings' (they are still open at one end to allow some stretchiness and flexibility: like a 'C' shape). Perhaps due to the windpipe perhaps being somewhat squashed by bending the neck or something, maybe additional or thicker cartilage rings would help ensure the windpipe stays open? At the very least it's separate from the gullet.
I always saw the larger X's as being grey coloured, so maybe "Grey's"? I suppose they wouldn't always be though, if at all. The pronunciation sounds like it suits it to me somehow.

~skyblueink Mar 4, 2012

What about calling the X types bulls?

!alonawolf Mar 4, 2012

I don't know either...

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