I'm starting a news letter of sorts

I haven't made a blog post in a very long time, mostly due to the fact that I post constantly on google+

But ... I'm starting a newsletter of sorts ... so here's
a sign up form. I'm hoping to get the first newsletter out soon.

Newsletter of the UNDEAD

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just for the hell of it

The first one was done just for shits and giggles of some guy that likes making other people zombies too. My non confrontational way of taking out the competition ;)    The close up of the dude below him is someone that has been on my radar for months. He was also a fast and furious doodle drawn while in a hangout on G+

is this progress ?

I've been thinking about the progression of my art for the last couple of days. Has my work improved, become stagnant and stale or is it changing in to something better? I used to take a little pride in the fact that i could doodle out a zombie in just a couple minutes, and while I'm sure I could still do that, I find myself spending more time on my art and refining the blends of colors, tweaking backgrounds and just fussing over each image more.

Perhaps I'm changing as an artist, and the art is beginning to reflect that change. So the question becomes, is that change a good thing or a bad thing? Can change be stopped or should it always be embraced?

Until I change my mind, I'm going to embrace the change and see where it takes me.

The first image is about 6 months old, the next image is about 2-3 months old and the last one was done last night.

on the table

this has just been finished, and now being put aside to scan tomorrow and then next zombie is about to be created. For those that are wondering, I don't work digitally, instead I get dirty, messy and throw my ink and paint on thick(ish) watercolour paper. I use decades old watercolor paint, dollar store pens and brushes, and whatever else I have lying close at hand. I probably shouldn't and one day I won't, but until then ...

VIVA LA ZOMBIE

I've been a busy boy .... the first one was a gift that someone ordered, the rest are all for fun and giggles

zombie colouring book

I just released my first ever zombie colouring book under the banner the Zombie Factory, which is mostly a googlePLUS thing. Anyways, if you want over 20 pages of colouring goriness and access to other goodies, check it out at http://byronrempel.bigcartel.com/product/zombie-factory-zombie-colouring-book-1

after the con

had a great time at the comic con in Winnipeg. First one I ever attended, but it wont be my last. Learned so many things about setting up for a convention, met so many amazing people and drew a whack load of zombies.

While waiting for people to start noticing me, I drew my wife as a skinless zombie. I put it on a shirt if you want to wear my wife ;) Click here.

revenge of the undead Bird

Remember this one? Happy Turkey day fellow Canadians.

sunday setup

I went out and hung a few of my better (or worse) zombie drawings and paintings for an artshow that is happening tomorrow. There are artists from all over the place hanging and displaying their work but there is only one zombie artist there.

Me.

I will also be there tomorrow doing some demos and painting some portraits, so if by some miracle you are in or around Morden, stop by, say hello and get your portrait drawn.

This image is my old mentor Marcel. He taught me many things about art and life, and always encouraged me to give the established "norm" the finger and kick em in the nuts as hard and as often as I can. Check my facebook page for a picture of him.

the trouble with todays tuesday

Let's give a round of applause for unnecessary alliteration folks!

I tell ya, the day started off to early and hasn't really gone very well from the word go. Life with kids is a challenge at the best of times, but today I could just about pack my bags, hop a train and live my life as a hobo. If I was a total asshat ... which I'm not. Sure I'm an asshat, but not a total one. I could rant for a while but then I'd just be wasting more time, and I need to waste as little as I can.

Still cranking on the new BuyZombie website design, a little tougher than I originally hoped but it's coming along, you folks with big screens will really dig it. Also been pushing hard on getting some existing graphics of mine on to tshirts and anxious to start getting them on other products and pimping the hell out of it. On top of that I have some comics to draw and a fundraising campaign to organize and promote, an art show coming up on July 4th at which I will be doing zombie art demos and portraits.

Last night I spoke with a WPG dude on facebook about doing some art for his zombie anthology magazine and going to the Central Canada Comic Con in October. He got me extremely jazzed for that and it looks like I will be attending ... so I need to get my shiAt DONE. So today its all BZ and nothing else.

But I am trying to keep this daily, so here are a couple of sketchbook heads with a touch of photoshop color on one of them.

Cya tomorrow

blowing off steam

I don't know what to think about this image or this style but it was fun to do and made me feel better when it was all over. Sometimes its great not to think and just let loose. What do you think? Style worth exploring or not?

portraits out the ...

As I have mentioned here and elsewhere, the Dark Art show that was held in Morden was a somewhat success. Some people loved it, others may have hated it, the turn out was less than what I hoped and closer to what I expected. Not everything was in our favor either though. There was a comic con happening close at hand as well as a cd release party, plus the ad in the paper came out a day later than it was supposed to. Still, overallit was a success and people in my area know that a zombie artist walks amongst them and I know that zombie love exists in southern manitoba. Win - Win.

ANYWAYS - lots of zombie portraits lately, and they keep coming. These next 2 are a couple of younger than me kids ... the first one is an artist and I recieved a bit of a glam shot of her, so I had to remove a lot of her hair and tear up the part of her face I couldn't see. Jabbed a few paint brushes in her head because it was the only weapon I had close at hand. Didn't work, she's still out there searching for brains.

The second image is of a gamer guy so I imagined the government trying some sort of zombie mind control with him ... which obviously ended in tragedy for the government as he got loose and killed everyone he found.
I will post more portraits tomorrow - and I keep getting more orders. Even family portraits are getting requested. Because of all this recent interest I have decided to keep my prices where they were for October ... a full color 5 x 7 zombie portrait is going to remain just $25 and that will include shipping inside North America. Internationals will have to pay a small fee for shipping. If you are interested in getting zombified, send me an email. If you want a family portrait done, let me know the details and I'll give you a quote.

day 16 - grave rising zombie print

Today I am giving away the first print EVER! If you want me to mail it to you then just leave your comment, send an email, find the tweet and RT it or go onto facebook and comment or LIKE ... so many ways to enter its enough to melt your braAaaains ...


yeah ... that was lame ...

day 15 - zombie killer or killer zombie

Todays sketchcard was inspired partly by a twitter conversation I had with Patricia Tallman ... she is a zombie killer. The above dude ... also a zombie killer but as with most people during the zombie apocalypse - on his way to becoming a killer zombie. Such is life in the undead world.
Comment to win it ...

zombie give away day 3

Day 3 of my zombie a day give away has begun and the image above it todays prize. It came about after playing with pen nibs and inks, and going in a totally different direction than I normally would. It's about the size of a playing card and looks a lot better on your wall than it does on the screen.

If you want a chance at winning it, you just need to leave a comment about who you think should become a zombie. Famous or infamous - your choice. Tomorrow I will use a random number generator to decide on the winner.

finding time

The more I try to find the time to get my drawing done on the computer only, the more I realize that it will never work that way for me. At least not for a few years. So instead I am giving up. I will no longer strive to get all my work done on the computer, and settle with drawing on anything and everything, no matter where I am, when I have time to do it. And use the computer when the occasion arises to scan, upload, color or whatever.
Take the above image for example. Drawn on a piece of paper with a bic pen, scanned and colored today. Is it beautiful and flawless ... no ... but its a zombie afterall, and zombies aren't beautiful. At least its done, the site is updated, and my blood pressure went down by a couple of points. Whats even better though, is that I drew 8 more images at the same time, some of them even good enough to hang up ... or maybe sell.

its a battle

Lately I've been doing a lot of web site design for various horror themed websites, all of which I will announce as they get released. Its been fun, but I miss drawing too. So during my lunch break I doodled out the above image, and it made me realize that I need to develop my background drawing skills. I hope to get back to the drawing board soon.

faces of death

There once was, and maybe still is, a video series called FACES OF DEATH. I watched a few of them over a decade ago and the images I saw have been forever seared in to my brain. I don't really recommend them and the only reason I bring it up is the image above made me think of it. Life's funny sometimes.

Anyways, the image above is 3 different days and 3 different yahtzee games. I think I won at least one of them, but I can't be sure. My wife wins a lot. At a later date I will probably take the girl image and color it in photoshop with the bamboo.