Back From The Dead.

 I haven't drawn or posted a Zombie on this blog for quite some time. So here's a quick one I doodled in my sketchbook during the week.

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.  

Yana Fully Loaded.

 

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.

Alien Ambassador.

 

First contact has never looked so ugly.

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.

Smells Of Summer.

 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.

Halloween Minded.

As is the tradition now, it's mid-summer and yet I'm already planning and working on stuff for Halloween later in the year. Hopefully making sure there'll be new and spooky Babayka-Lives and SLASH-UPS related work to go out.

I'm a little worried people might not be in the mood so much this year for Halloween, what with everything that's happening, but I guess we'll find out in October.

A Bad Time To Be A Thief.

I'm pretty sure at one point today while out shopping I turned and caught a guy trying to open a pocket on my bag behind my back...

The problem is because of Corona and the fact that nobody is bothering to social distances anymore and are just coming right up to you now, I'm always very aware of anyone within a two metre radius. It's impossible to be casual or relaxed around strangers now.

Later as I was paying and leaving I heard the cashier debating whether they thought he stole something or not in the shop.

Bloodshot Eye.

I can very much relate to this image right now. My eyes feel like two dry burning balls of dust after so many hours on my computer colouring this image. I think I might have been projecting a little bit while doing these eyes.