Bob Zombie

Here is my second character called 'Bob' the zombie. I decided to use a zombie like character for the fact that they're very popular and have been in our era for many years. In fact zombies have been the subject for a lot of games such as 'Left 4 Dead', 'Plants vs Zombies', 'Stubbs the Zombie', 'Resident Evil' and 'Dead Rising'. It seemed foolish to leave out one of the most iconic horror characters, so i had to sketch Bob up for my concepts. After looking into zombie designs, i stuck with the torn clothing look to give that affect of the undead. The main attributes of Bob that identify him as a zombie would be the addition of the green saliva and plasters stuck to him. I wanted to make him looked infected and wounded by giving him these extra features, however to keep the humour like previous with Frankie, i added plasters for the funnier side to a zombie, where he gets hurt and patches himself up with lots of plasters. I also removed on eye and added stitching to take away more of his human like features, but to stick to my style i added the same eye and bottom lip like i did with Frankie. To finish off the drawing, i gave bob the traditional outstretched arms in which zombie's have in the majority of movies and video games. I also made him without shoes, to give it that sense of a primitive being.

Once the sketch was complete, i conducted the same process as i did with Frankie, by making outlines with the pen tool and using the magic and to select sections for colour. With the colouring i gave Bob a dull purple skin tone to bring forth the look of him being living 'dead' and not flesh coloured. I also gave him green toenails to add to the infected look alongside with his saliva. Now that he was coloured, i used the same technique as previous to do the shading, but paying special attention to the tears in his clothing so i would get the right level of shadows on his body. Overall i was really pleased with the outcome of Bob, and think i kept the style the same to that of Frankie, and also to make him host his traditional character well.