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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:24 pm


I have to have this picture finished in the next two days and I thought I would turn to here (its been a long time I know) for some help. These are two unnamed characters for a zombie comic I am making for my project. I know they do not look very "zombie attack" ready, but this takes place sometime during the 1600's. Now time for the questions.
Also, please disregard the ties on the males right (to our left) arm. They were supposed to be higher, but I screwed up and never fixed them.

Zombie Comic Characters WIP

First question is should I have the male character holding a gun to his side or up like I have now? If I have him holding it up it looks as if he is holding his sister hostage to me.

Second, should I have both of their eyes closed instead of open. They are supposed to be leaving a broken down house, and I think that would add to the questioning of the mood of this picture. Maybe their parents were turned into zombies and he had to kill them? Who knows. I just thought that might have been a good addition.

I also have some slight wind blowing in the picture, so should I maybe make it raining? Just another thought to add to the mood of the picture.

I plan on doing this picture in Copic marker with Prismacolor pencil. Easier on me to get my colors right and finish faster. If anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to include input. I'm open to anything that will help me out. Sorry about the long description...
PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:55 am


I didn't really notice the hostage thing at first, but now that you mention it, it does kinda look like that. Maybe the gun could be angled up more (like a 45 degree angle) to keep the same idea for the pose while not pointing the gun near her head.

Maybe the guy's sleeve comes down a bit too far... Sleeves usually end around the wrist... It looks like it's going farther than that, but I'm not too sure because the fingers holding her forearm look weird. It looks like the pinky's side is raised more than the index finger's side, and I think that would only happen if he was holding it awkwardly or if the forearm got noticeably bigger on his pinky's side (but she's a little girl, so she probably doesn't have muscles that would make a man's fingers like that). The pinky (and perhaps the ring finger) wouldn't be able to wrap around her forearm in that pose, I think. Maybe his hand position needs to be changed.

The guy's legs also look very skinny. Like, skinnier than they should be. I don't know enough about legs to properly explain, though. And I think his knees are way too high. I went ahead and did the red lining thing...
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Unless we're supposed to be viewing them from above... in which case I don't think it's shown well enough.

I think the upper bodies and hair look really good, though.

Zantetsken

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