From time to time, as an artist you just gotta grab the trusty paper and pencil ( in this case also a pen ) and let the creativity flow. Every digital artist gets tired of staring at their monitor, and I do mean all! So today as a treat I thought I would post a sketch I did today just to get away from the, use guessed it...the monitor.
The drawing began with a quick, pencil gesture drawing of the zombies body stance. ( The exact pencil I used was a 4-H made by the company Royal & Langnickel...Great pencils!! ) Once I had the creatures position set, I grabbed my Prismacolor chisel point marker. I used just the chisel point for the entire drawing as I can get great variation of line thickness from just that marker.
I inked the face first, and worked down the body adding texture as I went. The background at this point wasn't even considered yet. After finishing the zombie, I thought well....just keep going!! So I started to add the background. By turning the chisel marker a certain direction ( to the thin side ) I began making small slashes to add the look of the ground.
Next, the sketch pencil box was used like a ruler to make a line straight up. ( gotta use whatcha got ) I then made and almost mirror image line on the right side of the paper, but didn't take it all the way down as I roughed in a trash can. Then just like the ground, I turned the chisel marker and made more slashes of various sizes to make the sides look like buildings.
Lastly, I used my coffee cup to make the roundness of the moon ( still using what I got! ) and added more slash marks to create the cloud look next to it.
Easier said then done, right! Well you gotta keep practicing it doesn't just happen overnight.
Til next time!
Keep drawing my friends ( in the Dos equis guy voice )
Freddy K.
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