Zombie Love

Valentine's day is upon us and despite my efforts to prepare a good design for it, things didn't end up too well and I'm fighting to make my self-imposed deadline. The first idea I had was of a zombie hugging a brain and that's what I went with.

Turns out it's much harder to draw a zombie than I originally thought. Thankfully deviantArt to the rescue, with many a tutorial on drawing a skull. Because, really, it isn't a zombie if it has an entire face, am I right? The wonderful stock of SenshiStock provided a good reference for a pose, though I couldn't exactly capture the facial expression... what with the zombie not having lips and eyelids. Still, I took this nice lady's lovely stock and doodled all over it so I could get some skull practice.

You know just up there when I said it's hard to draw a zombie? It's even harder to make one look cute. My first attempt ended up looking too creepy and I was about ready to scrap the whole thing. Decided against it, thankfully. No point in giving up on the first go and all that. Even if your zombie looks like a horror reject version of the Phantom of the opera...

Yeah, don't look at him too long, you might have bad dreams. The writing that somehow made into the scan says "Bye bye", because I like to write comments in my notebooks. Hard habit to break, let me tell you!

Anyway, after much a-doodlin', erasing and re-doodling, a cute, happy zombie was... well, not born... transformed/transfigured... made! I'm gonna go with made. As a little sketch, he moved into Illustrator and underwent some adjustments, a lot of colouring and detailing. Lost some hair in the process, gained a lot of spotting and a brain in his jar of love. With some lettering added to convey the message I was trying to put out there for Valentine's day, "Zombie Love" was done.

So happy Valentine's day to all love-birds and happy chocolate 50% off day to everybody who'll shop on the 15th. Hope to see you in the queue!

A blog wouldn't be a blog without some shameless self-promotion so "Zombie Love" is available with or without letters at my Zazzle shop.