Yamaha and Comics

The Yamaha project bike, an XJ750R SECA, finally has a tail on it again! This is the first thing I did today in the garage after a 15 month hiatus from working on the bike. I'm very excited to have finally gotten the tail hoop of the frame done (almost) after the first two attempts were so horribly wrong and were scrapped. The hoop mimics the shape of the gas tank and has a slight kick-up in the rear to allow room for the tire if the suspension bottoms out, and it looks pretty snazzy too. Also, because the frame tubes (one from the footpegs going up to the tail, and the other running along the bottom of the seat area) on either side were stacked on top of one another, I did some funny things and tapered the top tube into the bottom. This makes the sides of the tail look like oval tubing, and also reinforces the frame waaaaaay more than stock, and the rear part of the tail is regular round tubing like the rest of the frame. It is strong enough to grab onto an lift the whole bike by the tail, I am so giddy with my welding :)

Also, I had a weird dream a few months ago and it was extremely vivid. I told a few friends about it who said I should make it into a story, as coincidence would have it, I then had an English class at school with our final assignment to be writing a short story. The other class members seemed to be pretty intrigued, and after talking with a few of them they wanted more. So I talked to more people and got sold on the idea of doing an independent comic book :) I have the storyboards done, the writing and rewriting is where I am now, and soon I'll start sketching and making up some page layouts. I want the artwork to be fairly special, a little different than normal books on the market today. In the eyes of a publisher, I'm not sure if this would help or hinder the work, but I need this to be a very emotional and grabbing piece, so every panel is going to be treated like it's own solitary piece but also made to match up with the rest of the story, and without effecting the pace of the story. Should be interesting to say the least!

I'll post up pictures of the Yamaha project and get some more sketches up as well once they're done-ish :)

More Vultures

Two more studies for the vulture in that dream. I may do a few more for the body and the wings, but I gotta move on to some other subjects soon. Between work and school I haven't had much time for art, so I've been putting off some stuff to make time.

The new studies will be up soon :)

Updates for Stuff

I have weird dreams a lot and decided to start illustrating them. This turkey vulture was in one of my more recent dreams and played a pretty significant part so I've decided to do a few studies to get the head and the body down before I go nuts with drawing it for real. There will be more studies soon, I'll post them up here with notes and maybe some color soon.

Another thing that might interest you guys is this Study of a Ram Skull illustration. I put it up for sale yesterday in my Etsy store. It's 11x14 inches and comes framed in a solid wood, semi-flat black frame, behind glass. Signed and dated in the lower right corner, "Kyle Yarrington '11". I set the price at $40 USD. Here's the link.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I have a big problem with doing artwork, mainly that i like doing it but i can't wait to see it done. So in some cases I get a little impatient and give up, and in other cases I get into a weird manic mood and just work til its all done.

Today was one of the latter situations. There's a group on Deviant Art called "Battle Artist", which is kinda of an online jam format. Artist Jams in the past have generally been two artists on a stage in front of a crowd have the same theme but have to come up with their own interpretations, and based on a panel of judges or audience applause, a winner is decided. Battle Artist does the same thing, and you have one week for the kind of battle that I typically enter. So legally I can't make any money off this because I would be blatantly ripping off DC Comics, but hey, I like my Saturday morning cartoon characters :D here's what i had to do this week...

Zombie pic FINISHED!

I'm sure everybody knows this, but you can click the picture and it'll goto a full view page (should be 800 pixels wide by 1000-ish tall)



Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

So I stayed up for a bit last night and finished doing a few thngs like adding buildings, fire, clouds, a moon, drawing in a few gestural details, and removing the blue tape. I really like how this thing came out and the vignette is actually a lot lighter than you would normally see, but it's kinda cool, has a sort of foggy effect to it.

I'm really happy with this and can't wait to get it up all over the interwebs and see what kind of a response it gets, and the new owners of this little piece I think will be super happy with it, they're all into this sorta thing. So cross your fingers!

Zombies!

so this is what i did today, woot! it's a zombie pinup slayer girl person fighter for a friend, it took long enough to do but i wanted to make sure i got it right since they need it for this sunday... apparently going slow and doing things right the first time helps a lot lol

that is all... as you were :)

Comics... the other other dork thing

I like comics and that style of artwork. I always have since I was little and it just appealed to me. Probably because the idea of being able to do super things sounded cool, or that being such a badass that no one in their right mind would call you a sissy for wearing spandex... personally, I'd do without the spandex, but to each his own.

About a year ago I though of an idea for a story, and since I draw everything anyways, I figured why not make it a comic book. So I started drawing pictures last December and then dropped it... fast forward to last week when I couldn't sleep. I thought about the comic book again and started writing a script, and an outline, character information, storyboarding, the works. I'm going to get this done dammit, even if it never sells, no one ever reads it, has any interest, or cares about it except me. So HA! Take that brain! You thought of something and now I'm going to do it so you'll be quiet! MWAHAHA!

*Ahem* I did manage (somewhere throughout my inner dialogue) to get done with an ink drawing of the bad guy in the comic... don't laugh, it's cliche to the max power all right, but it's mine and I like it. This guy is also up on my dA site too. I know it looks lame right now but once I add color it should be just groovy...