Bark at the Moon

A few entries back I posted a picture of a zombie I drew.  Well, here it is again, updated.  I knew I wasn’t finished with it; I just had to find proper motivation to do what I wanted to do.  So here it is–

As you can see, I’ve done some shading.  Not something I’m used to doing in ink, I must admit.  Still, I’m pretty happy.  I was worried that my shading would interfere with Zombo’s beard stubble, and it didn’t… at least not on the real picture.  It’s not so clear on this tiny picture I took with my webcam.  Seriously, that’s a really messed up way to do this.  I just don’t feel like going into the other room to use the damn scanner.  I didn’t exactly add worms or blood or brains as requested by at least one person, but I think he looks, I dunno, deader than he did before?  The sunken eye sockets really stand out, which I like, and I think I accomplished the task of making it look like the light source is to his left.  Somebody may be wondering why he appears not to be wearing a shirt.  Well, there’s good reason for that.  In World War Z it is mentioned by one of the characters that the way zombies are often depicted by the media (keep in mind that this is a book consisting of fictional "interviews" of people who survived a world-wide zombie war) is a bit sugar coated.  Meaning, zombies are always portrayed clothed, but that "fact" is that more often, they’ve just wandered out of a hospital or even morgue, meaning that they are very likely to be wearing hospital gowns or nothing at all.

So that was fun.  What’s not fun is that I have to first post my pics on myspace or something before I can post them here… it seems you have to be on OD+ to upload pics directly.  That doesn’t bother me since I don’t want to actually pay to use OD, but I wish I didn’t have to worry about that extra step. 

Next time I draw a zombie I’d like it to be more disgusting.