Thursday, 7 October 2010

Zombie

I started off this image by getting the basic details down, I thought if I leave the eyes white it would be more interesting and look a lot more zombie like, the face turned out quite well.














The structure of the body was quite hard to draw as a lot of it was put to imagination but I think it turned out alright for the first lines.


















I then drew the beer bong and incorporated it with a skull, the next step was to draw the tattoos.



















the tattoos were quite hard to illustrate but it turned out okay, the main factor I had to take into consideration was the 3D shading.


















The shading turned out really well and better than I expected, it really pops and adds such a dimension to the structure of the image.


















Colour was the next stage, I started off with the face and added a nice blood red for the first layer, also I coloured half of his hair in a dark grey as I want to layer the image with a white outline when I am finished.I want to know where the strokes are of the hair so I can trace around them.















I then added two more tones of red to make it really stand out, I believe that the detail is exactly what I wanted to achieve with this image.


















I then added a strikethrough paint stroke on the jeans of zombie boy to give the image some real depth .


















I thought that I would give the fella some joker like appearance (Batman) the outcome of this worked really well and made the illustration a lot similar to the one of Dan Mumford on my context.


















The tank of beer was next.














The most difficult part of the drawing was colouring in the sleeve tattoo, I can honestly say it was a bugger to do, but I think I managed it, at first the colours were to bright and drew attention away from the rest of the image which is not what I wanted, so I dulled the images down.


















The t -shirt was a grey colour just to keep the tone down, this means that the t - shirts cloth needs to be a different colour so it doesn't merge with the actual clothing and get lost.



















I moved on to the jeans and this is as far as I was able to get with the image, my plan is to finish off the whole image tomorrow. All that is left to do is the skull, shoes and to add some fine detail to the skin clothing and items.