ZOMBIE

First piece 2011. I did some sketches, finally settled on a pose and happily painted away. But I stopped no less then 3 times and thought to myself: No this is not what I had in mind. This doesn't say "ZOMBIE" to me. It was all too nice, too slick, without meaning and because of the color you couldn't clearly read the head when I reduced the pic to a thumbnail (important for covers).

I mean think of it: Zombies are always outside, night and day, sun and rain. Their clothes get bleached by the daylight, their skin will be swollen by rain and dried by the sun. These creatues won't look nice after awhile. In the end I used an earlier sketch and finished this instead of the others. It's rough, raw, dirty and ugly - like a Zombie should be.

I had the idea to put "it" in a dirndl because of the comicbookseries DIE TOTEN from Zwerchfell. All the stories of this series play in Germany, so the cover always displays something typical from Germany. What is more typically German than something straight from the Oktoberfest? Yup, I thought the same.

*Early Sketches

*WIP

*Final Image

HEAD EXPLODES

Right now I am learning an awful lot. Too much in a way. I really tried to paint this sketch, but I thought the composition is too two-dimensional, too graphic designy flat. Done digitally with Corel Painter.

C'EST NE PAS UNE PENCIL

No, it's Artrage Studio Pro 3, which means this sketch is done entirely digital.

PRACTICE

The first painting where I tried to paint entirely in grayscale and color it later. With reference of course. I think it's a fast way and it's good that you don't get distracted from the color while painting, but I think it's really no fun for me to color the grey aaaaand the colors become dull afterwards. Pretty a 'meh'-technique in my eyes, but who knows, maybe I have to rely on this technique more than I think now.
Nevertheless I never bothered to finish it (the lightsabre and the gun need work, they never got out of the sketch state and there's more of course). I pushed the contrast a bit much, but I never thought I'd show it to anyone else - ever - anyway.

OLD, BUT I STILL LIKE IT