Or Die!

Just because any title that ends with "Or Die!" is cool in my books. The Exclamation Mark lets you know the title is serious.

Again, edited to avoid spoilers.

Pith... Pith... Hurray!

I thought I'd share this sneak peek at what I was working on today just because everybody loves a girl in a Pith Helmet. It makes her look so classy and adventurous (or maybe that's just the Englishman in me talking).

I had to edit this photo a little so as not to give away too many spoilers.

Revamped.

I know some people might notices this is actually my second go at toning and adding blood to this sexy Vampire Nurse sketch (she has her own special way of taking blood donations).

 
I accidentally deleted my first go and thought I could do better anyway, so here's my 'revamped vamp' for folks to enjoy.

I hope one day I will make a return to the world of Vampires. It's differently been a while, and I do have some Vampire related ideas I'd love to flesh out at some point.  But for now, this will have to do.

Only Russian Bots Love Me.

There are a few things that really annoy me about Deviantart these days, but the biggest lately is how the majority of all my favs are fake accounts now. Blank profiles with no art and usually a single link under their Bio they clearly want you to click. It's so maddening and just a waste of time.

I don't know if I'm on some kind of sinister list or if other people on there are having the same problem? I even have one particular pin-up where all my favs are from fake zombie accounts that have since been deleted.

I'm also kind of sad that all the 'Notes' I get these days are from scammers now, too. It's been nice to talk to other creative people over the years through messages on DA, but now when I see a 'Note' in my inbox, I know it's always just a scam.

I should say a big thank you to any and all real people who actually show my work some love over on Deviantart and actually do add my artwork to their favs sometimes. The internet isn't always the friendliest place to go for support or encouragement in regards to creating stuff or getting feedback. 

I don't really know how a Russian Bot works, but I'm guessing art might be lost on them, so it is nice to know when your work does get a positive reaction from someone, even if it is just them clicking a 'like' or 'fav' button.

One nice thing about the internet (bots aside) is that you can support the art you wanna see more of.

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.