My 1st Entry For the HivePH Art Challenge Week 4

October 26, 2022, Post Num 46
Greetings once again my Bee-zy Hive friends. I may be quite busy at school in the past few weeks but I have been working on a digital drawing for my entry to HivePH's Art Challenge. I wanted to make at least three entries for the fourth and final week, unfortunately, I think I only have time to make two.
For my first entry, I will dedicate my work to my favorite TV series, The Walking Dead! Yeah, after 11 seasons, it's finally going to end. sigh. Coincidentally, one of the prompts or themes for this week is "Zombie"!
When I saw it, I thought why not? It's not the first time I drew zombies. In the past, I created a few tsumbies to show my disgust at the influx of spammers on another paying social media app a couple of years ago. We jokingly called the event "tsumbie apocalypse." (Calling the attention of TSU veterans ).
The only thing that I was grateful for to that platform is, it brought me to read.cash. (I mentioned this times already, but I will, once again thank @bloghound for that).

Here is my final drawing for my entry.

Yeah, I did not create just one zombie, but a horde of zombies!

The Process.

I started working on the sketch last Sunday, using Medibang Paint. It took me about two hours from the initial sketch to the "ink" outline.

I only started working on the colors the other day. I have a hectic schedule this week. But whenever I have some time to take a break, I worked on drawing as my way of relaxation. And I can't work for more than thirty minutes at a time. I had a history of RSI that almost caused me to have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Actually, it was already the start. And I also had a case of trigger fingers just before the pandemic started.

Normally, I'd start with flat colors. Since I am creating a zombie, I wanted the skin and everything else to look pale and withered, so I desaturated everything.
Then I added at least two layers for each set of objects (skin, clothes, hair, etc..) so I can add light and dark tones.

The T-Shirt Design.

At first, I just wanted to draw a zombie. However, I had a plain shirt. I thought of what will be the design. I decided to create a The Walking Dead title with a silhouette of one of the characters.

I placed a black rectangle that serves as the background and painted over it using the "dry or rough feeling" brush.

After adding the text and the silhouette of the character, I placed all the layers for the t-shirt design in a folder. I selected that folder and used Medibang's Mesh Transform tool to give the "wavy" look like it's on a shirt...

(I think I will have this printed for myself).

(Let me see if there are TWD fans: Who is the katana-wielding character in TWD?)
When I was done with the zombie, I was planning to create the background. I thought why not create a horde?
So I did.

I created a new canvas in Medibang Paint. I set it to landscape, then imported the jpeg image of the zombie.

I duplicated the zombie and made some modifications so the second one will not look exactly like the original.

I repeated the process two more times.

The Horde

I merged the three layers containing the three zombies' "clones". I duplicated it twice. I made the ones at the back smaller to give a little perspective. I also reduced the brightness and saturation.

Lastly, I added long shadows for each of the zombies. Thus, this scene is either in the late afternoon or early morning.

The Background and the Environment.

I made the background with small buildings, some trees, and a couple of mountains. I also added a broken red car. I forgot to add a broken post though.

Then I added the gradient sky so it will appear like the sun is either setting or rising at the horizon.

Lastly, I added the fog to give it an eerie effect.

I think I spend about 8 hours all in all creating this.

In Closing.

In the second week of the art challenge, my entry won third place. Last week, my entry won second place. I hope I can grab the grand prize this week the reward is 3 Hive... (don't ask me how much is that in USD because I have no idea how much).
This is it for now. Thank you for reading.

*The Walking Dead franchise is a property of AMC (https://www.amc.com/twdu/) - No copyright infringement is intended.

A shorter version of this article was posted in read.cash: https://read.cash/@JLoberiza/my-tribute-to-twd-and-entry-to-the-art-challenge-40418275