#inktober - Days 8-11... ZOMBIES!!!

Once again, found myself falling behind in this challenge.   To be fair though, I've been working on a pretty awesome comission (which may be posted later), and have had little time to squeeze in any other artwork  Anyway, this brings me up to... negative 1.  So, that's better than the negative 5 when I woke up this morning.

Anyway, I wanted to see the premiere of 'The Walking Dead' tonight, but felt guilty about not keeping up with this challenge... so... yeah, decided to combine the two... draw zombies while watching the walking dead.  This is what came out of it.  Again, mostly india ink and brush... though I added some details with a pen.  So mixed media ink?

Argh... zombie...

Argh... zombie... run!

WALKING DEAD IN TWO WEEKS!!!! OMG!!!!!

You've got red on you...

A quick little sketch today of one of my favorite films of all time... Shaun of the Dead.

I had this itch to take a stab at drawing Shaun for the past couple weeks, so today I fed that itch.  Portraiture is one of my weaker points as an artist, I can do it, but it's difficult, and usually time consuming.  While not a perfect match to Mr. Pegg, I think the above drawing came across well, you know it's Shaun, you know he's about to bash some zombie skull in.  To capture Shaun, you really just have to get that slightly balding hair right, and you have it.  One thing my college art teachers always tried to get across is you're not trying to draw (or paint) that person, just enough that you know who it is without having to be told.  There are small visual things about a person that make it that person (i.e., Leno and has monstrous chin, etc.), and those are things you most want to capture.

And if you haven't seen the masterpiece, "Shaun of the Dead".  Then stop reading my blog and go watch it.  NOW!

Alas poor Yorick, your brains were well...

So, I woke up this morning, and I was like...  I want to draw a zombie!!! But, I want one of those skull exposed type zombies...  So i started with the skull... and I was getting all McFarlane/Capullo'esque with the line work on the skull, that i said... "Okay, I'm gonna draw a skull!"  And there we have it, a skull!

This reminds me a lot of my art classes in high school and college.  There'd always be a random skull thrown in a still life.  I've drawn a lot of skulls in my education as an artist...  But i haven't drawn one in quite some time, this was a nice throw back.  I should dig out some of my high school/college skulls and compare.  Be interesting.  Probably won't though, no sense dwelling in the past.