Painted Feral Dead from Blood in the Forest

[samuraitrev]

Hi folks. I've been chained to my painting desk without food or sleep so I could finish painting these rotten freaks. I tried a new technique where I spray primered them flesh colour from above the model and brown colour from below. Straight away this gave me a good natural flesh colour to work from. A watered down purple wash and a small palette or grey, brown, blue and green for the clothing. I did this for two reasons. a) I wanted these rotters finished quick and b) it makes them look like a pack of wild Zombies i.e unit coherency. I really wanted to get away from the cartoony look you can sometimes get with Zombies and go for the absolutely horrific bestial look. These guys have been in the woods for months without a fresh kill. Their lips have rotted away, exposing all their teeth in their shrunken gums. Their fingers have withered and rotten exposing the full length or their nails. I hope you like these thoroughly vicious bas***ds

   
   
   
   

any thoughts?