THE FEATURED CREATURE


Much of my work within Zombie Bites is created digitally, but my background is in hand drawn comic book artwork.  The weekly Featured Creature is my ongoing attempt to keep my hand drawing abilities flowing.  All will be hand drawn with pencil, pen, and sharpie.  Every week, I will be posting a new sketch of some dark creature: Satyrs, Ghosts, Zombies, Demons, you name it.  In fact, if you have any ideas for creatures you'd like to see me draw, post a comment below of what you'd like to see and I'll add them to the list.

Shortly after beginning the weekly Featured Creature, a friend, blogger, and fellow artist, Vincent, suggested an addition to the Devil's Head.  I took the image into Photoshop and began playing with it by adding grey tones and visual effects.  What followed was a visual epiphany as the creature took a further step into reality.  With each creature drawing that followed I continued the same process.  Although the Featured Creatures are to focus on my hand drawing, I am happy to accentuate them with digital effects because of the level of drama and reality it brings to each creature.

Below is a slide show gallery of highlights of the Featured Creature posts that I have created.  Each image within the slide show links to its original post.   Below the slide show are thumbnails with links to all of the Featured Creatures created thus far.  In time, I hope to develop this section further and present a more functional higher quality gallery.  Thank you for viewing!



This slide show gallery template was updated by Rahul Ippar at helper blogger.  the original gallery code came from Dynamic Drive.



FEATURED CREATURES
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2 comments:

Vincent said...

The transitions between the progressive images really works well. Really enhances the transformations. Almost brings them to life!

Jesse W. Campbell said...

I do enjoy the animated quality it gives them. I'm discovering also that it is showing me which pieces turned out kind of flat, but that is useful too. :-) I'm sooo grateful I found the Javascript for this. I'm just excited that it works on my iPhone!