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I am fairly sure that this was from the follow-on story to 'Mr. Popularity', which my fading memory wants to say was called 'The Wasteland' or something similar. Again, characters were written by James Charles Lynn, I just got called in to illustrate them because bats were involved and back in the day, I was sort of 'the batman' in the fandom...Or as Eric Blumrich repeatedly suggested, the Clive Barker of Furry Fandom. Possibly because back when there were maybe a hundred people in the fandom and a few dozen artists, I was doing all the vampire bat illustration for stories with torture scenes, critters with non-sexy, scary-looking piercings, etc. Damned if I know.
Anyhow, this was some little interplay on a perch in a city built with a population that was at least partly flight-capable. Not much beyond the 'Everything alright here?' sort of beat cop routine. Trying to design something resembling a ballistic vest/helmet for a flier was a trick. I was being less hardass about the 'extra fingered' wings around this point, and not finicky about the anatomy of how the fingers were attached, either, much to my chagrin.
Arissa still shows as muscled, plump and pug-muzzled, but here she's a fairly attractive plump and pug-muzzled. If I remember right, she was designed to resemble a barbastelle bat, while the other fellow is clearly some sort of flying fox. This incomplete piece got dropped because of issues with misbehaving paper while I was ink washing.
Anyhow, this was some little interplay on a perch in a city built with a population that was at least partly flight-capable. Not much beyond the 'Everything alright here?' sort of beat cop routine. Trying to design something resembling a ballistic vest/helmet for a flier was a trick. I was being less hardass about the 'extra fingered' wings around this point, and not finicky about the anatomy of how the fingers were attached, either, much to my chagrin.
Arissa still shows as muscled, plump and pug-muzzled, but here she's a fairly attractive plump and pug-muzzled. If I remember right, she was designed to resemble a barbastelle bat, while the other fellow is clearly some sort of flying fox. This incomplete piece got dropped because of issues with misbehaving paper while I was ink washing.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Bat
Size 998 x 1280px
File Size 188.9 kB
I know someone who'd rather enjoy this pic! Anyway, great work here and rather inventive with the anatomy, apparel, and posture. Being someone who draws too many canines but wishes he was better at other types of animals, it's good to see someone attack the challenge with a good deal of expertise.
Feel free to show it to them! XD
Well, a decade and a half ago I was doing a lot of muddling with bats. Unfortunately this isn't my favorite wing anatomy, but that never progressed beyond a sketch. I should probably try to redraw it sometime. It was sort of a super-polydactyl hand, seven-fingered plus thumb, so if you imagine your palm extended further around in a sort of arc towards the outside of your wrist, and had three more long, strong wing-fingers...Kind of like that.
These are just sort of 'stuck on' at the wrist. I'm happy you liked it though. Nowadays I'm more proud of the apparel and posture than the anatomy. At least the wing anatomy...
Well, a decade and a half ago I was doing a lot of muddling with bats. Unfortunately this isn't my favorite wing anatomy, but that never progressed beyond a sketch. I should probably try to redraw it sometime. It was sort of a super-polydactyl hand, seven-fingered plus thumb, so if you imagine your palm extended further around in a sort of arc towards the outside of your wrist, and had three more long, strong wing-fingers...Kind of like that.
These are just sort of 'stuck on' at the wrist. I'm happy you liked it though. Nowadays I'm more proud of the apparel and posture than the anatomy. At least the wing anatomy...
Well, until I started drawing again about five-six weeks ago, I had not drawn anything for a period of around a decade.
And so I am still trying to recapture what meagre skill I had. The good news is, now that I've passed the point where I want to just throw away every sheet of paper I scribble on, I am getting back a fair bit of ability fairly quickly.
For most of a decade I've been unable to draw more than ten-fifteen minutes without becoming disgusted with how much my skills had decayed, and then shredding the unfinished piece.
And so I am still trying to recapture what meagre skill I had. The good news is, now that I've passed the point where I want to just throw away every sheet of paper I scribble on, I am getting back a fair bit of ability fairly quickly.
For most of a decade I've been unable to draw more than ten-fifteen minutes without becoming disgusted with how much my skills had decayed, and then shredding the unfinished piece.
“Learning to Fly”, part three, by James Charles Lynn, frontispiece illustration by Zjonni—appeared in Yarf! issue twenty-eight: frontispiece, page forty-two; story, pages forty-three through fifty-one.
The patrolman is Tristam Williams, who met her after “pulling her over” in the previous chapter for a violation of flight traffic laws, shortly after she moved to the city. The scene depicted is from the opening of this section, in which she’s brooding on the perch, essentially the equivalent of a sidewalk bench, after yet another day unable to find a job. The card he’s handing her has the name and address of a bar called Mikey’s, where she finally is able to get employment.
The patrolman is Tristam Williams, who met her after “pulling her over” in the previous chapter for a violation of flight traffic laws, shortly after she moved to the city. The scene depicted is from the opening of this section, in which she’s brooding on the perch, essentially the equivalent of a sidewalk bench, after yet another day unable to find a job. The card he’s handing her has the name and address of a bar called Mikey’s, where she finally is able to get employment.
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