#yexil

Gamma World - Yexil

Mixed results today. I don’t dislike it, but I’m not crazy about the fur (it’s not for nothing that last year I did a hairless owlbear and featherless gryphon) and it could have been better. I also pictured my Yexil rearing up on its rear legs as if to intimidate the viewer. That didn’t quite work out -- maybe his back isn’t arched enough.

I am happy that I did my best to draw canon:

Long hair legs. Fur-lined wings. Lion-like head. Large mandibles.

I didn’t go with everything. My guy’s neck isn’t long, and I put his hands where other artist have put his hands -- which aren’t really at the “end” of his wings. That would be weird.

But that did get me thinking: maybe I should have drawn him exactly as he’s described, long neck and oddly-placed hands and all. What’s the worst that can happen? He’d look silly? Can’t have a Yexil looking silly.

My Yexil owes less to David Trampier’s original:

and more to Larry Elmore’s version from 4th edition:

Mike Faille did a good Yexil, but it’s more cool than goofy:

The Tomorrow Men haven’t met a Yexil, but they know guy -- and old solider named 12-7 Mike Mike, who made Fatbox’s license plate lorica segmentata -- who weaves clothes and textiles to feed one.