Taral Wayne
Frozen Fur and Flesh
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ORIGINAL ARTWORK ON THIS PAGE IS COPYRIGHT © TARAL WAYNE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, AND IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION. (IF I COULD BE POLITE ENOUGH TO ASK, SO CAN YOU.)
Good news, everyone! After several weeks offline, FurAffinity has finally been restored, so the links to Taral’s FA pages will work OK, barring the odd teething trouble with the new servers. You still need to be a member to view Adult content there, but registration is free and relatively painless.
At Taral’s request I’ve removed a couple of images which had revised versions. I’m aware that these pages stll involve a lot of scrolling, and I’m looking into splitting the section into smaller pages and possibly using smaller thumbnails as well. Stay tuned.
Taral Wayne, writing about himself, says that he is a middle-aged artist who has resided all his life in Toronto, Ontario. Mainly known for his “fannish” art rather than pro, he has been associated with science fiction and fantasy, comics, and furry fandom since 1971. He was nominated six seven times as a fanartist for SF’s highest award, the Hugo. Seven losses, no wins. In a suprise move though, he was selected recently to be the Fan Guest of Honour for the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. Nevertheless, he’s worked in book and magazine illustration professionally, and continues to work now and then in comics. (His own book, Beatrix, ran only for three issues before the black & white comic implosion deflated the field. Since then, Taral has had a number of short subjects published in other comics.) While he has done what he prefers to call “niche” art (rather than “fetish” art) for quite a long while, it has only been appearing in public over the last three or four years. A new addition to the WAM art in his Wamserver gallery (and also his Downunder Gallery), Taral is introducing this year a new “niche” -- this petrifaction or statuephile page. The artist cautions viewers that the vast majority of the drawings in this gallery are mere sketches or doodles drawn in spare moments for his own amusement, though some have been touched up in Photoshop at a later date for uploading. The gallery doesn’t select from anything Taral thinks of as his “serious” work. For a glimpse at some of that he suggests viewing his gallery pages on Fur Affinity, and now also on DeviantArt, where he keeps a wide assortment of styles and types of art.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Most of these images were supplied by Taral himself, or posted on his various gallery pages as noted above; the Furry Perils Returns Yahoo! Group; or Fchan (NB pages on Fchan come and go, so there’s no point posting a link to them), while a few others were finds. I’ve arranged them into categories and added notes on some of them. These notes entirely reflect the opinions of myself (Leem), and not necessarily those of Taral Wayne.
RECYCLE!
In these environmentally-conscious days we are all encouraged to recycle, and of course artists like Taral are no exception. Several of the poses on these pages were recycled from (or to) other pieces of art, and I’ll point out as many as I can find.
STONE
SAWYER CAT (including one from the Metal section)
Sawyer is the star of Cats Don’t Dance, an animated film set in the 1940s which has apparently influenced numerous furry artists over the years, but which Your Humble Editor has somehow contrived to miss. OK, so it’s now on my “To View” list. Taral has also drawn other feline characters with similar faces, but Sawyer can be identified by her very bushy, squirrel-like tail.
OTHER TARAL WAYNE ARTWORK FEATURING SAWYER
(THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A COMPREHENSIVE LIST)
‘NORMAL’ LIFE: Rendezvous | Night Missions | Conflict of Interest | Sawyer Steps
WAM: Mudlark | Setting Star | Sawyer (Quicksand): One | Two | Three | Four
OTHER FEMALE SUBJECTS
Petrification by Mythological creatures
Basilisk
Gorgon
Other petrifications
ILLUSTRATED SHORT STORY: The Case of the Stoned Client
Stuck/Encased
Most of the stuck/encased images are taken fromTaral’s Downunder: Other Works page.
Note that most of the encased ‘victims’ appear to have open mouths or breathing tubes.
“Bath” might be a lost work by Auguste Rodin (compare this picture). “Plastered” recycles
an oft-used pose, while it should be pretty obvious what the Cheesepuff Mice are a parody of.
Extreme
MALE SUBJECTS
PROSE FICTION
In addition to art, Taral has also tried his hand at stories.
As something of a writer myself I think the results are pretty good.
Female Subject
The Case of the Stoned Client
In case you missed the link to it above, this is an illustrated take on the hardboiled
detective story, about a private eye who gets a very unusual request from a female client.
Male Subjects
No Bet
Jon is getting used to Gretchen’s eccentric requests, but even he thinks it’s a bit much when
she asks him to dress up like her old lawn jockey. What’s the method behind her madness?
The Changing of the Guard
Lew Garland, small-time actor and ladies’ man, is about to play the most realistic role of his life.
Indeed, thanks to his host’s amazing powers of mesmerism, Lew is about to learn what
becoming the part really means. |
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