These are awesome. Love that the colour makes it feel like the last heat in their body is in their hair(Which is how I'd imagine zombification goes because heat goes up). Seriously cool. Would love to see more but can absolutely respect it if this pair is the series.
@alistercat: Basically I manually draw by hand using color blocking and shape building techniques in a vector based drawing program (in this case, Abby was made in Affinity Designer on an iPad as I am currently learning to use an Apple Pencil, but Jeff was made in Adobe Illustrator with a mouse).
I usually block it out from 3 to 5 color ranges, then from there visually decide what shapes of the figure are darks, mids, and light. From there I just go with my gut (and eye squints) and have fun with the pen tool.
Takes a while to do, especially depending on the level of detail I want to do, but once the shapes are in place, color choice then is what comes next, which at times can be quick or long.
@quasiconundrum: The funny thing is that years ago when I started this design process I was focused on them being for shirts. I even learned how to screen print in my bathroom to get some of my prints on projects of mine. It's been so long I think I barely remember most of how to screen print now lol
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