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Work is about to start on this beastie. It's a GSXR1100 engine in a 'Hard Up Choppers' Wormburner custom built frame. Running gear and front forks are from the GSXR, though the exhaust system most definitely is not. This bike is road legal, but has a 'seriously' throaty exhaust note.
I had various ideas for the artwork on this bike. Initially I was going to do a design based on Japanese 'Yakuza' tattoo artwork in fine etched silver leaf.
Then I thought about doing a film themed design on it. Films like Terminator, Lost Boys and Lord of the Rings sprang instantly to mind, but I didn't really want to go down the same route and style of graphic work I tend to do on the guitars on this bike. So in the end I decided to just do a basic straight forward play about job with the airbrush. Next to no masking, just drawn out where necessary with a paintbrush and white paint and airbrushed, simple and comparatively quick. Anyway..............here we go........
'The Rear Fender'
Okay, so here we're starting work on the rear fender. This is obviously going to be done in pretty much the same way as the tank, so the first thing to draw in was the basic outline of our hopefully, sexy lady to be.
Once the figure is marked in place using a paint brush and white paint, it's time to start filling in some of the detail that'll be filling in the scene. Here the start of a crumbling church is roughed out.
After a little bit more work it's looking a bit better.
Time to leave the church at this stage and start marking in the other parts of the overall design. I should really draw all these various parts out and plan where they're going, but I tend with jobs like this one, to just draw them in as I go along and see where it takes me. Here the first stage of one of the demons is roughed in.
Bless her, she had an itch .............. so what's a lecherous demon to do but scratch it for her!
Here the second demon is starting to take shape.
And here the various sections of the scene so far are just starting to knit together. There's a long, long way to go with scene before it's anywhere near all in place and the proper painting can start, but it is taking some shape here.
With a bit more work done on the rear fender.........
It is starting to look a little more complete.
Still got quite a bit more detail work to paint in at this stage, but it'll soon be time to bring the airbrush into play and the then it should really start to work.
Short day on this project today so not a lot changed. I would have been masking some of the foreground detail off today and starting to put some of the airbrushed background sky in, but the masking film I have is quite old stock and is leaving residue behind after it's removed, so I'm hoping some new stuff arrives tomorrow and I can get on again.
So today, changed the sexy ladies lower leg and shoe as she was altogether too frumpy before, much better now. And seeing as I couldn't get on with what I wanted to do, I started playing about with the large demons hands, well, you wouldn't expect a demon to have smooth hands and perfect skin now would you? So our demons hands are getting all scaly. Done one this afternoon (takes a while), got the other one to do tomorrow, by which time my new masking film will hopefully be here and I can get on with some airbrushing.
Well, my masking film didn't arrive after all, but some new masking fluid I'd ordered di, so I thought I'd have a play with that instead in combination with some normal masking tape.
Here all the main foreground detail is masked out and there is also some secondary 'soft masking' (basically some bits of roughly torn paper very loosely fixed in place with some screwed up bit's of masking tape). Soft masking allows some of the airbrushed paint underneath the edge of the mask, giving a slightly softer edge than with hard masking)
Anyway, here the basics of the stormy sky are being marked out.
With a bit more work it's starting to look a bit more stormy!
With the first stage of the background airbrushing done, the masking was then removed. This is where the design starts to develop a bit of depth.
Time to do just a little bit more detail work now, prior to the first sealer clearcoat.
Here a little bit more detail has been added to the decrepit church. It's not until other sections are painted in that it sometimes becomes more obvious where else in the design needs tweaking to look right, and to be able to get the tones and contrasts right. More to come with this tomorrow and the first sealer coat should be going on tomorrow too. Then the next stage of masking and airbrushing can be started.
Jumping a few stages here, but here are some pictures of the rear fender of the 'Wormburner' after a bit of work with the airbrush.
Most of the artwork on this section is now done .........
This now has to be clearcoated to seal in the new paint...........
The clearcoat will then be rubbed down with wet and dry and any final touch up's that are required will be done.
Then it's basically a case of spraying over the white with a transparent red to match the tank, and finish as the tank was finished so that the two match. The idea is that the big demon hands are the hands of the demon face on the top of the tank .................... hopefully when the bike is all back together again the design will work and look as it's meant to.
Not great pictures, but these are with the fender clearcoated after being tinted red. The high gloss finish (and this was before buffing), and curved shape of the fender made it almost impossible to photograph without reflections.
Hopefully once the beastie is back together again, and hoping we soon get some decent weather, I'll be able to get some better pictures.
But these do give some idea of the near finished article. Watch this space.........
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