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"Bad Day" :)zom

Issue 1 of Teenagers Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse doesn't have much opportunity for gory zombies, but I will soon. So, now I have a chance to draw some mutilated corpses. Sounds grotesque, but it's actually quite fun... for me anyway.
Anatomy is fascinating, and mixing moving (walking) creatures with the havoc of torn tissue, broken bones and muscle is just too much fun.

I will be doing these more often now. (being that more action is coming just around the corner) I'm referencing anatomy books and such, but will have to dive into some creepier studying too. Some of that is not as fun.

Spilled Ink

A mistake on my part resulted in us losing thousands of dollars worth of ink for our printer. A sad day, indeed, but we quickly found a use for it. The trouble is that all the ink mixed together; magenta with black with yellow with cyan) so there was no saving them for any printing purposes as they were all contaminated with eachother. So we poured it all into this bottle for my own experimental uses. Being that it's the same ink I use to print on canvas, I'm sure I can use it on the excess canvas we always have laying around. The final color looks a bit like dark blood, and is admittedly a bit creepy.



For now, I decided to try it with a few brushes on a character sketch page of Kara. I've been told to try to use brushes for inking. I've been using a micron pen brush, but it dies out pretty quickly. It looks like I need to go pick up some more precise (smaller and better shaped) brushes and play with this more. I can also see a lot of texture I can get from this that could bring some nice dark depth to some of the later scenes.

Panel peek

I haven't been posting much lately. Mostly because most of what I've been drawing has been for the comic, which we're waiting to show until it's finished.... but.... I thought I'd give you a peek at a couple panels. Shh....


On news: Tabulanis Snow has been working on the color for the comic and I'm very very pleased. The texture and feel is perfect for what I had in mind.

Color teaser panels coming soon. He's a bit of a perfectionist, and won't let me show anything yet.