I am still going to add a victim with half a head underneath him, but this is what I have so far

any suggestions? think this concept will go over well here?

eating brains must be fattening....he's got alot of junk in da trunk!.....



something about the proportions of the legs/rear seems off at first sight...



awesome facial expression and background pattern.....looking forward to the finished product....

I agree. It looks like one side of his pants are tight and the other's loose.

updated with the roughened up style the final version will be (still need to add the victim)

V2 is visually more appealling man, its cool stuff...the shoe laces catch my eye for some reason.

Im considering subbing it for the gmail comp and putting "what better way to connect with someone than eating his brain" but i dont know if the voters will buy it

hahha,

I would buy it.

Because I sort of have a "thing" for zombies.



The pattern on the background area is sort of weird though... I'm thinking a sort of gothic fence type thing would maybe work better, but maybe not.

hahaha thats a great slaying...i mean saying..zombies rool

one last bump for suggestions before i start on the victim

Maybe since his sleeve is shredded, it shouldn't be clinging so tightly to his arm. Let a bit of it just sort of hang off. Nice work so far! I like the handprint in the background!

I love the wallpaper.

get rid of the puma logo on the shoez

the torn sleeve doesnt really match the rest of the piece

the bloody hand looks a tad small



this is turning out great though man

The right thigh looks kinda chunky, but I like the idea and am interested in seeing where you'll go with this.

yea, i would fix the thigh/butt area and remove the puma logo. i also agree with vandv about the loose hanging sleeves



and maybe it would be cool to add a ground shadow or something?



ooh..and maybe have his pants kinda ripped too?



i dunno!

awesome - love it

the bloody hand print is awesome. love the texture that you're using on the pants.



like everyone said, work on his butt. the shoes are super detailed compared to the rest of his other clothing. and i think the shoe in the foreground should be slightly bigger than the one in the back to help with perspective/depth.



there needs to be more blood on the floor :) good start though.

maybe bloody shoe prints or blood smears

the texture and pattern in the background are awesome, but there are still problems with the body. his thigh looks huge and flat and the hilights in the folds of the cloth seem arbitrary and don't really flow with where the folds in the cloth would be.



it's a good start to a design. the details really contrast nicely with the gory subject. i kinda think you shouldn't expect too high of a score because of the violence, but if you finish it as well as you've started it, it has a good chance at a print

I'd also suggest picking a darker/less saturated red. Right now, it's sort of vibrating against the gray because the red is so bright.

thanks for the great tips guys, next week you may see one of your favorite bloggers playing the victim!!

His ass looks huge.



And is he supposed to be holding some brains? You need to make it look more like brains, it's kinda hard to figure out at first glance.

yeah tone that red down, more of a burgundy... and the thigh is rounded, thin and define

His ass looks huge.





Somewhere out there, a zombie is crying and swearing that he'll go on Atkins.

hell, zombies are on atkins

kaloyster on Jul 20 '07

And is he supposed to be holding some brains? You need to make it look more like brains, it's kinda hard to figure out at first glance.



when i add in the victim missing half her head i think it should be clear that theyre brains :)

A lot of great advice has been said in the above comments. I would make his mouth more gaping open and flash some of his teeth with blood and bits of flesh on it and go the whole 9 yards (but then again that might be going too overboard). It's looking good though, the colors are cool too.

okay people already got to most of this before I got here but I did notice one thing that bugged me the back hand ... goes into his torso, the rest of that arm should be slightly visible above teh back leg or just change teh angle of the hand. besides that and a couple of teh things previously mentioned this is good

Grayehound is right on the money with the cloth folds. I think some attention there will go a long way to fixing most of the problems. He looks like he's wearing a sweat suit right now. Which made me think instantly of:





Also, you may think about making those shoes flex. The rigid thing you got going there is very unnatural. Good idea though and I love the detail and expression of the face.

Hmm, I tried to link a picture of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but it didn't work. That's who I thought of.

Looking good Frank, Get the brain/victim in there! As it is now, it just looks like a guy whos recovering from a suckerpunch, kind of wiping the blood off his lip and staring down the guy who hit him as he gets up (if that makes sense)

agree about the thigh looking a bit fat+ the sleeve not looking quite right, other than that it's looking great so far...can't wait to see how the victim bit is gonna play out,

dunno if you're going for a scary vibe or if there's a joke involved.

(sadly, it seems like it's hard to get a decent response from voters with darker material without lightening it up somehow these days...maybe make the victim into something a bit ironic, such as a "brain cooler" ice lolly vendor or something. stop me if i'm just rambling now:)