I was worried I might have loss my knack for drawing the undead, it having been so long since I drew one, but I think he might be one of my favourites I've ever drawn.
A little bit more Yana holding a machine gun action to both end and start the week with today.
I think of Yana as being way more like a slasher villain than anything else, so it is weird seeing her with a firearm. I don't think the character herself would be that crazy over guns, but that doesn't mean she couldn't use one if need be.
So this is of course my SLASH-UPS poster art from our exhibition back in 2017. The show was held at St Mary's In The Castle which has a somewhat famous Clock Tower, and I wanted to depict something gruesome happening to it in the poster art for the show, and very quickly decided it should be a very large blobby creature mounting and drooling on it.
You can find the original poster HERE.
I've always liked this poster and wanted to turn it into a pin-up in its own right for SLASH-UPS: Vol 2. I've also been getting back into Sci-Fi a bit lately, and was always pleased with how this alien turned out in this image, and wanted to colour him up someday, and try and make him look extra gross and slimy.
One problem I had with turning this into a standalone piece of art is the dead space I had left for the title and show's info at the top needed filling in. So I added some UFOs flying over head. It seemed to fit the theme pretty well.
This is only my second go at colouring a pin-up in Clip Studio, but I'm picking up a few tricks now and slowly figuring it out. While colouring this, I was going for a kind of purple liver covered in birthmarks kind of look. I also tried to make sure the Alien looked organic and blobby while the Clock Tower looked like hard stone.
I like that the more you zoom in, the grosser the Alien gets. I wanted him\it to be so disgusting it almost looks like it's in pain, it's so messed up. It really helped when I figured out he should have bad bloodshot eyes going on.
You know it's a hot day when while working at your computer you can smell the tarmac in the streets outside cooking.
Today is officially too hot.
