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Monday, July 6, 2009

Part 2 of Rob's 12 Step Program

Time to start painting the blood, guts and gore galore!

Step 5
I put some initial washes of skin tone – gross muddy zombie skin tone on our living dead drawing. I like the muddy mossy look that watercolour gives when you mix it wet right on the artwork.
Step 5 Supplemental
Here’s a close up of the ghoul. There are some nice earthy tones in there.



Step 6
More washes for the cloths. I add the brown-black muddiness to the pants even before the blue dries, to give it that soaked in look.
Step 6 Supplemental
Even at this stage the far leg really appears to be receding.



Step 7
I lay down some more washes for the clothes and beef up the first two washes with the grey-blue, grey brown I’ve created for the shirt. He’s looking to be one cool ghoul.
Step 7 Supplemental
I add a little more blue-grey to the skin tone under the ripped clothes to make them appear to recede into the shadows.



Step 8
I add the red, purple, blue and pink to the guts, gums, hands and elsewhere to get the gore happenin’.
Step 8 Supplemental
You can see by this detail that there’s a lot more than red in that there zombie’s guts!



Tomorrow's post: The end zombie result!

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