How to Draw Zombies: Discover the Secrets to Drawing, Painting, and Illustrating the Undead (Fantasy Underground) - Softcover

Michael Butkus; Merrie Destefano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600581978 ISBN 13: 9781600581977

Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Zombies are appearing everywhere in popular culture now - films, tv, comics, books, and this is a complete start-to-finish how-to guide to drawing the walking dead on paper.

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Review

Discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating the undead . Zombies are appearing everywhere in popular culture now films, tv, comics, games and books, and this is the first complete start-to-finish how-to guide to drawing the walking dead on paper. This is a guide to creating screamworthy zombie art, and takes the reader step by frightening step through the process of creating revenants. From initial sketch to bloodshot eyes, rotting appendages, teeth, noses, dead flesh, skin textures and more - this comprehensive book gets all the gory details to rendering these in pencil, paint, digital-imaging software. Now, I (Zombie Ed) am not good at creating art, but this is a beautifully created book containig some truly amazing artwork and would definitely be worth picking up even if you did not intend to create zombies yourself... --Terror 4 Fun, March, 2010

About the Author

Michael Butkus was trained at Otis Parsons in Los Angeles and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has taught illustration and rendering techniques, along with character design and visual development, to art industry professionals and commercial art students. Michael has worked on more than 2,500 films in the areas of advertising, movie poster art, set design, and character design. Michael also invented and illustrated hundreds of characters for Lucasfilms' Shadow of the Empire. Clients include Paramount, Warner Brothers, Universal, Disney, DreamWorks, and LucasArts, as well as a number of toy companies that employ his imaginative creations and conceptual renderings for product design. Michael lives in Los Angeles, CA.Merrie Destefano left a 9-to-5 desk job to become a full-time freelance editor and novelist, writing science fiction and fantasy. With 20 years of experience in publishing, her background ranges from award-winning graphic designer and illustrator to editor of Victorian Homes magazine and founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband, their German shepherds, and a Siamese cat.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1600581978
• ISBN 13: 9781600581977
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128