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Published: 2005-12-11 03:54:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 296; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 10
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Vive la France!This is Odd from the French cartoon Code Lyoko acting like one of the bike nutters from the French comic Joe Bar Team.
I drew the lineart and started to colour it before I looked up any reference to Joe Bar Team , which is why the pose and the "GAAAAZ" doesn't look quite right. An example of a Joe Bar bike nutter shouting "GAAAAZ".
At least I looked at a reference early enough to change the "GAAAAH" I originally had to "GAAAZ"
This was sketched with mechanical pencil and coloured with coloured pencils, a dark purple gel pen, and markers.
Whereas I have long thought of Odd as being a Suzuki GSX-R rider, I had the idea of Odd as a Joe Bar Team rider this morning as I woke up. I this in one day, including buying the purple gel pens after 5:00 PM and buying the markers after 7:00 PM (it's a quarter to 11 as I type this...)
It's interesting that Code Lyoko is done in semi-anime style instead of in the Gallic "big-nose" style the way Joe Bar Team and The Adventures of Asterix the Gaul are.
Odd and Code Lyoko (c) Antefilms
Joe Bar Team (c) Christian "BAR2" Debarre & Stephane "FANE" Deteindre
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GAZZZZZZ.... if it was "GASSSSSSSS"... I would have put "...MAN" on it. 
BTW, cool pic... but Odd's face (I had to zoom it) looked like the Grinch's face slightly... or like the people from Whoville. Quite scary, since Whoville was never a town violent enough to perform motorcycle stunts...
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This is one seriously awesome pic! The bike is simply fantastic and Odd's pose in relation to the bike is ver realistic. 
Great job!
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Thanks! 
I've done at least two unintentional wheelies from traffic lights, but I've never got the wheel that high; any unintentional wheelie that high would probably go even further and have the bike up-end itself. Then again, my bicycle up-ended itself on me once, but that was the other way: my front wheel jammed, I flew over the bars, and as I was turning to get up I saw the back of the bicycle, complete with the bag of tools on the rear carrier, coming down on me. It was surreal; it was exactly like watching it happen to Wile E. Coyote in Road Runner, except that it was happening to me. If I had a picket sign saying "Oops!" on me, I would probably have taken it out...
I've also never ridden a bike with a fairing. Splashguards, yes, but no fairing.
As for the lettering, well, I guess I did learn something in first-year Technical Drawing after all, although this was done freehand while TD requires a T-square and set squares...
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The text is truly fantastic!
I hope you weren't badly hurt when your bike up-ended on you. 
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No, I wasn't. It was a bit painful and a lot humiliating, but nothng too serious.
Not like the time I hit a pothole while signalling a right turn (Jamaicans drive on the left). That was how I first hurt my right shoulder. I hurt it again some time later when my motorcycle got its front wheel caught in a train line on a bridge.
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Dear me!
It's a shame motorcycles can't really come with seatbelts or airbags...
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Somehow I doubt I'd want to be strapped to something that can fall on top of me... It works with cars because cars have protection all around.
Motorcycles and bicycles are what they are. Either you live with the possibilities or you don't bother with them.
Then again, there are helmets and leather jackets...
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Ahh, that's true.
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Really nice work it looks cool. Wanna check my updates? Wow like the coloring.
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