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Description
This thing's been sitting on my hard drive for a while, so I decided it was time to post it.

Originally, this creature started out as an assignment for my AP art class. I grew to love its design, so I decided to refine it, ink it, and color it so it at least looks somewhat natural.

(Yes, it only has three legs! It's a tripedal animal!)

Here's the specs:

Species: Triaph
Height: 18-22 hh (72 to 88" tall at the shoulder)
Weight: 1,000 - 1,500 lbs
Versions: Triped (pictured) and Quintaped

The Triaph lives in a very dark ecosystem; the planet it lives on has such dense cloud cover that the light rays from the nearest supernova can't penetrate the clouds. The flora and fauna have to create their own light instead via bio-luminescence.

Their unique build makes them very clumsy in any environment that isn't almost completely flat. They can, however, run at about 45 miles per hour on even terrain.

While base coat color varies among darker neutral colors, bioluminescent parts of the pelt can be any bright neon color in any geometric pattern (circles, triangles, rhombi, etc). Bioluminescent color is also carried into the skin in the ears, eyes, hooves, and mouth.

Triaph feature a highly-curved body type which better facilitates their springy gate. While the tail seems too thin and ill-equipped to help keep Triaph balanced, the vertebrae are actually very dense and allow for a wide range of motion.

The front leg on a tripedal triaph is thick-boned and has a slightly concave foreleg to minimize stress on the knee joint. The front foot is about two times larger than the back feet.

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Triaph are mine!

Description
This thing's been sitting on my hard drive for a while, so I decided it was time to post it.

Originally, this creature started out as an assignment for my AP art class. I grew to love its design, so I decided to refine it, ink it, and color it so it at least looks somewhat natural.

(Yes, it only has three legs! It's a tripedal animal!)

Here's the specs:

Species: Triaph
Height: 18-22 hh (72 to 88" tall at the shoulder)
Weight: 1,000 - 1,500 lbs
Versions: Triped (pictured) and Quintaped

The Triaph lives in a very dark ecosystem; the planet it lives on has such dense cloud cover that the light rays from the nearest supernova can't penetrate the clouds. The flora and fauna have to create their own light instead via bio-luminescence.

Their unique build makes them very clumsy in any environment that isn't almost completely flat. They can, however, run at about 45 miles per hour on even terrain.

While base coat color varies among darker neutral colors, bioluminescent parts of the pelt can be any bright neon color in any geometric pattern (circles, triangles, rhombi, etc). Bioluminescent color is also carried into the skin in the ears, eyes, hooves, and mouth.

Triaph feature a highly-curved body type which better facilitates their springy gate. While the tail seems too thin and ill-equipped to help keep Triaph balanced, the vertebrae are actually very dense and allow for a wide range of motion.

The front leg on a tripedal triaph is thick-boned and has a slightly concave foreleg to minimize stress on the knee joint. The front foot is about two times larger than the back feet.

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Triaph are mine!