Here we see another of my daily drawings I did last August.
The story:
I had seen ads for Capcom's Xbox 360 game Dead Rising for months. It looked pretty, and I do love me some zombie kiling action (See Resident Evil 1-4 and various offshoots). But, was it enough to purchase what was then the most expensive console system? I held my ground, thinking that buying an xbox for just one game was madness.
Then the videos started showing up. And the list of things you could kill zombies with started to grow. Bowling balls, 2x4s, axes, swords all screamed out to me. Then came the lawnmower (Warning, slightly violent conent. Click only if you can handle zombies dying in brutal blade action).
And so my gaming zombie genocide contiuned. There is more to the game that I will talk about later. For now I must go finish tomorrow's last part of our Zombie week.
Tune in tomorrow.
-alex.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Zombie Q&A.
Amber works a lot. More than me for sure. So in the moments before sleep, I of course decided it was time for a little Zombie Q&A. Enjoy.
Amber’s thoughts on Zombies.
Amber: They’re green and smelly. And serve no purpose to the community. Plus they’re creepy.
Have you ever seen a zombie movie.
Yes. 28 days later. Scary!
What you do if you saw a zombie?
Tell you to kill it.
Do you know how to kill a zombie?
I think you chop its head off with a silver bullet axe, or something.
Why do you think people are fascinated with zombies?
I really didn’t know people other than you were.
There you have it.
Tomorrow: Zombies in the media.
-alex.
Amber’s thoughts on Zombies.
Amber: They’re green and smelly. And serve no purpose to the community. Plus they’re creepy.
Have you ever seen a zombie movie.
Yes. 28 days later. Scary!
What you do if you saw a zombie?
Tell you to kill it.
Do you know how to kill a zombie?
I think you chop its head off with a silver bullet axe, or something.
Why do you think people are fascinated with zombies?
I really didn’t know people other than you were.
There you have it.
Tomorrow: Zombies in the media.
-alex.
WOYL? 3.28 edition.
Zombie stuff later today.
Hit the comments for the lists.
Mini review of Miami Vice: Zzzzzzzz.
-x
Hit the comments for the lists.
Mini review of Miami Vice: Zzzzzzzz.
-x
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Z is for...
When I was a kid my brother was the artist between the two of us.
I did manage to mangle my way through Draw Squad one year, only getting about 1/3 of the way done before I gave up.
Two years ago I decided I was going to 'bust my cycle' and do some drawing. I practiced and participated in the 24 hour comic day that year. Since then I've done a couple of months of daily strips here and there.
This is none of those things. It is what happens when you have the undead on your mind.
As far as my current drawing skills go, you may get a glimpse of those soon. Consider yourselves teased.
Tomorrow: WOYL and maybe some zombie pictures?
We'll see.
-alex.
I did manage to mangle my way through Draw Squad one year, only getting about 1/3 of the way done before I gave up.
Two years ago I decided I was going to 'bust my cycle' and do some drawing. I practiced and participated in the 24 hour comic day that year. Since then I've done a couple of months of daily strips here and there.
This is none of those things. It is what happens when you have the undead on your mind.
As far as my current drawing skills go, you may get a glimpse of those soon. Consider yourselves teased.
Tomorrow: WOYL and maybe some zombie pictures?
We'll see.
-alex.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Zombie, Zombie, Zombie weeeeeeeek.
Oh yeah it is.
Normally I'd say something different, but again with the pg-13.
And I promise this week's strips will maintain that, at the same time giving you some fierce Comic-Shop on zombie action.
This week was fun to write, Josh had a blast drawning it, and I hope you all have a good time reading it.
We have some outstanding stuff for you on the blog this week as well. Tomorrow I'll show you some Zombie Art (part 1). Wednesday we'll talk a bit about Zombie movies. Thursday might have some Zombie Video game action. And Friday, if we all survive that long, is still up in the air.
Check out the Myspace page for more Zombie action.
Tune in tomorrow for something that gives multiple meanings to the word Horrifying.
-alex.
Normally I'd say something different, but again with the pg-13.
And I promise this week's strips will maintain that, at the same time giving you some fierce Comic-Shop on zombie action.
This week was fun to write, Josh had a blast drawning it, and I hope you all have a good time reading it.
We have some outstanding stuff for you on the blog this week as well. Tomorrow I'll show you some Zombie Art (part 1). Wednesday we'll talk a bit about Zombie movies. Thursday might have some Zombie Video game action. And Friday, if we all survive that long, is still up in the air.
Check out the Myspace page for more Zombie action.
Tune in tomorrow for something that gives multiple meanings to the word Horrifying.
-alex.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Jumping Right In.
Sometimes starting in the middle of something can be thrilling. Knowing it is either sink or swim, that you have no plan B if something doesn't work can be exhilirating.
I just get frustrated and want to throw things.
Thus starts my second day of Post Production.
A bit of background.
Josh draws the strip. Pencil and Ink and all that. I take them, scan them, and up until Monday would use a web based photo program to alter the contrast and that was it.
Monday I started messing with Illustrator to add the text and try to change the contrast. Text was not much of a problem (I still can't make conjoined word balloons yet, or make them flush with a border) but the contrast thing was a tad more difficult.
Luckily there's a new feature called LiveTrace which takes the lines you have on the page and 'inks' them digitially (I may be way off on what it actually does, this is what it 'seems' to do). I'm not sure if I like the effect yet. We'll see how the whole week looks.
I also tend to get cranky when something I did in a program worked yesterday, then trying to do the exact same thing today doesn't work at all. I realize it is 99.99% likely that it's my fault, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
In good news, I bought 3 shirts today. More on that later.
Happy Tuesday everyone.
-alex.
I just get frustrated and want to throw things.
Thus starts my second day of Post Production.
A bit of background.
Josh draws the strip. Pencil and Ink and all that. I take them, scan them, and up until Monday would use a web based photo program to alter the contrast and that was it.
Monday I started messing with Illustrator to add the text and try to change the contrast. Text was not much of a problem (I still can't make conjoined word balloons yet, or make them flush with a border) but the contrast thing was a tad more difficult.
Luckily there's a new feature called LiveTrace which takes the lines you have on the page and 'inks' them digitially (I may be way off on what it actually does, this is what it 'seems' to do). I'm not sure if I like the effect yet. We'll see how the whole week looks.
I also tend to get cranky when something I did in a program worked yesterday, then trying to do the exact same thing today doesn't work at all. I realize it is 99.99% likely that it's my fault, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
In good news, I bought 3 shirts today. More on that later.
Happy Tuesday everyone.
-alex.
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