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Published: 2013-05-17 00:43:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 3017; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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Description WHOOPS. I JUST REALIZED THAT CATAPULT ZOMBIE WEARS DRIVING GLOVES, AND THAT HE WINDS UP HIS CATAPULT TO LAUNCH BASKETBALLS.
Ah, the Catapult Zombie. Hard to beat, and hard to draw. As you can see, I tried to draw him from a sort of semi-frontal view, and it didn't come out as great as I was hoping. In fact, I ended up making his catapult a little too tiny, so please bear with me. Catapult Zombie reminds me of a janitor in a way, especially the one at my elementary school when I was little. (Who wasn't undead, of course.) Maybe he was one in life. After all, Ladder Zombie was probably a carpenter. The catapult looks like one of the makeshift homemade variety that some people build for contests and such. Or maybe he's just an undead "backyard inventor" type. Personality-wise, I see Catapult Zombie as being smarter than the other zombies (except Zomboss) because he appears to know how a catapult works and apparently built said catapult (judging by the looks of it). He also seems to understand that only a catapulted object can go over a slanted roof, which is why he built it in the first place. If Catapult Zombie is implied to be a genius, I find this a bit surprising, as in fiction, the fat characters are almost always morons. (Hey, averting the stereotypes is pretty cool, though.)
Catapult Zombie is not a very easy zombie to draw; not only is his catapult a nightmare to get right, but he is definitely one fat zombie. Probably because he sits around in the vehicle all day, but then again, so does Zomboni, and he's not fat... Maybe his catapult has a built in "brain tracker", so he finds more brains to eat.
Just for fun, I threw in (no pun intended) one of my favorite plants-Melon-Pult. He's chucking watermelons through the air in a valiant attempt to smash that ramshackle catapult thingy.
Anyhoo...I'm all PvZ'd out for now. I'm taking a little break from it for a while, because I don't really know what to draw besides the commonly-drawn characters and I just want to have more variety.

The Lawn: [link]
Sketchies: [link]
Digger Zombie: [link]
Zomboni: [link]
Blover: [link]
Humanizations 1: [link]
Humanizations 2: [link]
Bungee Zombie: [link]
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Comments: 12

RonaldTheZombie [2014-05-08 03:24:26 +0000 UTC]

I used to think he was a janitor. He kinda looks like one. But now I see him as a former mechanic.

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NiftyNautilus In reply to RonaldTheZombie [2014-05-08 08:41:19 +0000 UTC]

I feel the same way. After all, janitors don't tinker with machinery.
If you look real closely, he even has a grease rag poking out of his pockets!

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RonaldTheZombie In reply to NiftyNautilus [2014-05-08 11:57:19 +0000 UTC]

And that's why he's probably a mechanic. He would really spice up Garden Warfare.

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NiftyNautilus In reply to RonaldTheZombie [2014-05-08 14:33:49 +0000 UTC]

Yes, he sure would! Look at us, coming up with more clever ideas than the folks at EA!

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RonaldTheZombie In reply to NiftyNautilus [2014-05-08 21:07:58 +0000 UTC]

That's sad for them, really, because I'm only 15 and I don't even have a job LOL that must be embarrassing to them! I have plenty of game ideas with no run-n-gun mechanics. Just a boomerang, a slingshot, and your fists, vs. pan-dimensional reality-butchering engineers and a super religious extraterrestrial military force.

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Jordie0710 [2013-07-02 21:45:49 +0000 UTC]

This is great! I love the style that you use

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NiftyNautilus In reply to Jordie0710 [2013-07-02 21:46:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I know I made his catapult way too tiny, though, so I hope you can get past that.

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Jordie0710 In reply to NiftyNautilus [2013-07-02 21:50:24 +0000 UTC]

It's fine,that's just detail.

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NiftyNautilus In reply to Jordie0710 [2013-07-02 21:51:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Jordie0710 In reply to NiftyNautilus [2013-07-02 21:52:29 +0000 UTC]

No problem,also I'll be getting Plants vs Zombies in a few days for the PC.

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Tehrainbowllama [2013-05-17 01:51:47 +0000 UTC]

hehe! i love this!
plants vs. zombies is awesome!

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NiftyNautilus In reply to Tehrainbowllama [2013-05-17 09:54:09 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! And I couldn't agree more.

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