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Published: 2010-11-29 08:39:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 77677; Favourites: 1938; Downloads: 2407
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Pinpup for the upcoming graphic novel of the collected El Zombo comics by writer Kevin Munroe and ΓΌber talented artist Dave Wilkins, who was kind enough to hire me to create this pinup piece for the book, but also to let me post it on dA (thanks man!) - go check out his work!I'll post an update when the book comes out so you can all chase down a copy
Pencil sketch, painted in photoshop. I usually just stick to really basic brushes in photoshop, but played with a cloud brush I found at [link] for the smoke in the background on this and was very happy with the results.
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Cheers! It was an honour to appear in his book - Dave's a great guy and an all round talent!
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Yeah man! I love Dave, we've talked a lot and a adore his art style.
I'm really glad to see your art in his book too, I feel like you really captured the essence of El Zombo!
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Not a word often used to describe zombies - not even a zombified Einstein could be called that, but maybe el Zombo is the exception!
Cheers man!
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El Zombo says 'gracias'!
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This is just too great to explain properly!
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Zombies never listen anyway
Cheers man, and thanks for the faves!
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Eempresseevo, Loopydave, although the rotting flesh, she is missing. Otherwise, el caliente, magnifico creation you have here.....you can tell I've never even been to the Northern Hemisphere, let alone Mexico, can't you?
Seriously, quite, quite awesome; you've earned yourself a Fav, good sir/madam/[insert appropriate supernatural or extraterrestrial equivalent].
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Thanks for the fave and the mexican! Will put it to good use at the next party I attend (with your blessing of course).
As for rotting flesh - I got him to pose before the rot set in as I cant stand the smell while I'm trying to paint
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A big zombie thanks!
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Zombies are always cool. Dead, disgusting and have a terrible diet, but always cool!
Cheers!
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Gosh, I remember seeing this article in ImagineFX and love it. So cool to find it on dA.
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Great magazine that, and I was very fortunate to get to do a piece for it!
Cheers!
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Cool.
Er... I'm probably focusing on the wrong thing here, but is the lettering manually drawn, or a textured font?
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The 'EL ZOMBO' text was hand drawn - couldn't find quite the right font I was after, so I sketched it up on paper, redrew it in illustrator and then imported it into my photoshop file. Added a few spots to it in photoshop to age it a bit.
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Hand-lettering? Mucho respects man.
Now-a-days I find myself tempted to delegate lettering to oh-so-freely-available fonts. But then I feel like the presence of dude that taught me lettering (and critically endangered skill of paste-up) staring at me with a mixture of contempt & pity, as if to say "This is why lettering is a dying art!" and I stop, mutter a few naughty words under my breath, and head off to Painter to individually eat away
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Well... that was lovely. Accidentally hit "Send" instead of "Preview".
Anyways the last was suppose to be: "eat away two days of my life letter each individual character & trace over every single line by hand."
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increΓble trabajo las texturas estΓ‘n buenΓsimas saludos
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ok de nada esta genial el personaje
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this is a really great gallery Loopy. What a bunch really fun looking characters..
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Thanks! El Zombo is character created by a friend of mine - this was done as a pinup piece for his upcoming graphic novel.
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Its such a great character and it was lots of fun to paint!
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Can't help but think of Zombo the Great from the Munsters when I see the name! Fantasic artwork here!
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Lol! Love the muppets!
Cheers!
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I also saw this in ImagineFX. I love it. Last weekend I tried to sketch this pic from the image in the mag. Although it didn't turn out as good as this, I still had alot of fun with it.
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You got a copy already? My local newsagent hasn't got one yet, so Im still waiting to see it in print.
Glad you had fun with the sketch/article and thanks for the nice words.
Cheers!
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I ordered mine online, because my local doesn't stock it anymore... got it a few days ago
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hey i read your tutorial/feature in ImagineFX ! was nice to see you there, i was pretty amazed when i recognized your art, and went, could that be loopy ? haha
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Indeed it is loopy - and so am I
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Your rendering is just awesome!
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Thanks ma'am - flattered you checked out my work!
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It is so awesome. The lighting the style... fantastic
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