first 50 zombies

Put together a little poster of the first 50 zombies of the 1000 zombie project. If you like it, you can buy a print from my Society6 store. If you want to take part in the project, a minimum donation of $10 gets you in. For that donation you can choose who you want to be zombified, perhaps yourself ... and you get a high res scan to print out or use as an avatar, plus you eventually get a free ebook which contains your zombie along with a story about how it became a zombie in the zombie apocalypse. There's also monthly give aways too.

zombie at the typewriter

It was requested 10 years ago, or a few weeks ... I can't remember. All I know is that last night I was doodling at the table while the kids ran amok and this zombie started taking shape. About that time I remembered a request for an image so I spent a few more minutes on it and turned it into the direction that I needed and here it is. See it in action over at roughridecreations.com

watercolor print

Here's an experiment I tried a couple days ago ... I had a high res image scanned in of this drawing ...

I printed it out on my new handy dandy printer on to watercolor paper and then painted it. The final result is this ...



Turned out better than I thought it would. I might do more of these in the future to play around with and try new painting techniques. What do you think?

zombie level up

It might not look like it, but this is the image that helped me level up in my skill set, if I can call it that. Just a lazy day doodle with a bic pen, but I did it on one of my 'low' days when I felt a bit crappy about my skills, and I pushed it further than I normally do. I colored it today to show you all what I saw a little easier. The portraits that I will post tomorrow are a direct result of pushing myself with this image. Side note ... should i post just once a day, or whenever the hell I feel like it?

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.

monday mayhem

Day light savings really threw us off today. Our internal clocks are used to waking up at what used to be 7am, with the sun just starting to rise. Now 7am has become 8am and we nearly slept through the day. Frantic breakfast and a mad dash out the door to get the eldest child to school really leaves you frazzled. To slow things back down I water colored the above image with the boys, and once its dry I will scan it in for all to see.