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Zombie heads by *Inkthinker:iconInkthinker:

Categories Digital Art > Drawings > Macabre & Horror

©2009 *Inkthinker
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Zombies! I'm drawing zombies lately. I do this drawing thing for people, and they want zombies. So zombies I draw. I'm told it's okay to share a few bits and pieces, as long as I stick to the fairly generic content, so this probably won't be the last piece I post on zombies in the near future.

Drawn in Photoshop CS3 on a Cintiq 18SX. I'm torn between fat zombie and afro zombie as my favorite, though I'm also fond of poor jawless zombie.

Do you think a zombie without a bite could still infect? Would removing their jaws or sewing up their mouths with heavy cord or otherwise muzzling them be at all effective? I'm not sure what's been done and what hasn't, but I'm interested in finding out more.

I'm actually not a big zombie fan, myself... played the RE games up to 3, played Dead Rising and a little L4D. I've seen maybe 3 zombie movies (if you include 28 Days Later which I don't think should qualify 'cause they weren't "dead"). But all things considered, it just breaks down into drawing people all corpsificated. I've been trying different levels of decomposition, and I think I like the dried-beef-jerky look better than the wet-n-gloppy look, but I don't know if there's a general preference out there for one or the other.

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~MrHades Feb 10, 2009, 1:15:36 AM
Personally, I like the fella in the top left. I like how you have made their skin look 'goopy'.
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~OnTheEdge913 Feb 10, 2009, 1:23:17 AM
Awesome zombie depictions! If you're really interested in finding out more about zombies you should check out the books "Zombie Survival Guide" and "World War Z," which are both by the author Mark Brooks.

While the survival guide is basically that, a survival guide, WWZ is a book that basically interviews the survivors of a zombie outbreak that covered the world over. A great book indeed.

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~Shcaradeus Feb 10, 2009, 2:09:19 AM
The last one (right, lower corner) is the best ;]

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*katheb Feb 10, 2009, 2:14:25 AM
lower right corner , why is the mouth stiched ?

did the zombie do it , or did someone else if someone else why not jsut kill the zombie?


or maybe it was done before it was turned into a zombie ,if so then what the hell?>


i am confused
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=Legato895 Feb 10, 2009, 2:15:04 AM
to answer your hypothetical questions - a zombie's bodily fluids are what spread the infection so even without a biting jaw, a zombie could still bleed onto you etc.

as for lashing the mouth shut, even if it was done, the zombie - feeling no pain and having the super human strength that feeling no pain gives one, would just tear through the bindings - no matter how hefty they may be.

that is assuming you could get them on a zombie. you would either have to sew it into a living but infected human before they revived, or... on the snapping snarling zombie :/

so - sorry to burst your bubble with my knowledge of too much in regards to too little

love these concepts tho!

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~Boldo Feb 10, 2009, 2:23:41 AM
Its good to see some of your work again. Awesome work, I like the detail you got on the eyes.

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*Inkthinker Feb 10, 2009, 2:29:20 AM
No bubbles burst here. It's good to get feedback.

The fun thing about zombies is that you can fine-tune them somewhat to your own storytelling needs. And not every zombie has super-strength (some zombies are portrayed as physically weak, as befits atrophied muscle, but they're just so damn persistent and there's so many of them that they overwhelm their victims). For instance, I don't recall the zombies in Kirkman's The Walking Dead being particularly strong, just sneaky and vicious and mindlessly implacable like army ants stripping a jungle floor.
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*Inkthinker Feb 10, 2009, 2:32:52 AM
It's open for interpretation at this point. Whatever freaks you out the most.

From a design perspective, I was thinking that a zombie's bite is its usual weapon, and that stitching the mouth closed might be an attempt to hobble it. Perhaps it was done before zombification, because someone knew it would become a zombie? Maybe someone, somehow, subdued it long enough to sew it's lips shut?

As it's just a concept being presented with no particular context, feel free to make up something.
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*Inkthinker Feb 10, 2009, 2:35:03 AM
I decided zombies aren't scary without eyes. It's the staring that creeps me out.
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=Legato895 Feb 10, 2009, 2:35:40 AM
well, like the above comment the zombie survival guide and world war z i think have supplanted all other zombie folklore as gospel :D

but yeah, the give and take of zombies are - you technically have a really good chance of surviving them... but you usually don't T_T

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