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BryanBaugh — Swamp Rot
Published: 2005-08-24 07:03:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 52394; Favourites: 847; Downloads: 1438
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Zombies and GirlsRelated content
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Two of the best things in life. Very nice work.
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*Starts singing*
Zombies and Girls
The two things I like
Mixing them together
Makes verything right!
Even in I prefer to draw zombified girls...
You are one of the greatest zombie artists I've seen here on dA, and your girls aren't bad either! It's a winning combination!
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Awesome picture, the zombies are drawn superbly well
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thats so typical hollywood 
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OH! Love it! Very old Horror Tales from the Crypt Comic style! AWESOME!
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This is a real creepy piece, did you draw it from your head or did you actually raise the dead for photo reference?
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The two coolest things ever in one picture. Awesome.
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It's like...the opposite of necrophilia 
I like it. Very interesting view. And the zombies look great ;o
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i really like the overall style of the work!
Awsome! Keep up the good work.
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haha brilliant 
what program do you use to draw and colour your images?
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It's just Photoshop. Took me a while to learn but I think I'm starting to get better at it now. When I get more time, I actually want to go back into a lot of my older stuff and punch it up a bit, using some of the new tricks I've learned in the past few months.
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'Scuse me for answering in two different posts, I thought you just asked about the coloring, then noticed that you asked about the drawing too. For the drawing, it's very traditional, old-school techniques. I use dip-pen with india ink on good old fashioned 2-ply bristol board. I like drawing everything by hand and then coloring it on the computer using Photoshop.
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I thought that might be the case, the lines are so dynamic 
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Thanks for your compliments about the lines. Line quality is something I strive for, which does not always mean perfectly clean lines. Sometimes line quality means messy, scratchy, crazy lines, depending on the mood of the piece. Looking back on Swamp Rot I realized I actually drew it with a combination of dip-pen (using #107 Hawk Quill nibs) and a brush. Drawing with a brush is often more fun and effective than dip-pen, because with a brush, the lines come out so much more fluid and organic. It's also a lot faster once you get the hang of it. But of course, there's nothing like a dip-pen if you want to get ultra fine lines or do really strong textures.
And to answer your question, Bristol Board is just an ideal paper if you are working with pen and ink. Bristol Board is thick enough not to buckle if you are slathering on heavy layers of ink, plus it is sturdy enough that the tooth of the paper won't tear up when you attack it with those sharp metal pen nibs.
Thanks, greenfroggies, for giving me a legitimate excuse to blather on about art technique for a while!
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haha
thats great! someone recomended I use bristol board for my prisma color markers I just bought - is it expensive?
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Not really exensive. It's more affordable to buy it by the tablet instead of single sheets. I would imagine it would work well with markers. It works pretty good with most media. Take note that Bristol Board comes in two different surfaces: vellum (rough surface), or smooth surface. Which one you choose to go with will depend on what media you are using as well as what effects you are after with your art.
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Sorry to cut in on the conversation but I was wondering the exact same thing and really appreciate your detailed answer!! You have been a big help!! Oh, and your piece is FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!
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Words cannot express how awesome that is. Except maybe for the word, Awesome.
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this is so awesome. love the colouring. love the inking. love the whole thing, totally. the expressions on everything are awesome. a fav for sure.
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