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Age/Gender: 29, Male
Location: Santa Cruz Ca.
Job: Game guy.

DUDE, i made that game gish.. remember gish.. that game that came out like 3 years ago that never went anywhere.. that one. im cool you fucking assholes.

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Bluebaby

Virgin Zombie!

Posted by Bluebaby Feb. 11, 2009 @ 5:02 PM EST

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A time lapsed video of me drawing a Zombie virgin Mary for a local gallery.

it took about 2 and a half hours to draw, cut down to 8 min for the video.

Check out a semi finished export here.
http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.
com/2009/02/zombie-mary-time-lapsed-dr awing.html

Questions are welcome.

-Edmund

Updated: 02/11/09 5:02 PM Log in to comment! | Share this!

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36 Comments

Feb. 11, 2009 | 5:04 PM Wonchop says:

I wish I could piss blood


Feb. 11, 2009 | 5:20 PM JoSilver says:

I can't draw can I.... =(


Feb. 11, 2009 | 5:29 PM catmel says:

post finished pic?

Feb. 11, 2009 | 5:56 PM Bluebaby responds:

i posted a link to the semi final pic, i still need to do a BG and specular stuff to have it finished.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 5:31 PM Doomsday-One says:

Zombie Virgin Mary?!
You must have an awesome local gallery.

And my, that drawing.
I think that must be the most jealous-ridden 8 minutes of my entire life. Good job!


Feb. 11, 2009 | 6:08 PM mrpibbs1 says:

Great work, really cool.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 6:34 PM Adidaas says:

And here I was thinking you litereally meant Zombies who died as virgins, which in retrospects sounds like some sort of hentai the japanese would've made.

I'll assume you used a wacom tablet, which you used very very well.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:00 PM Robo-Clock says:

hey, you skipped the part where traced mary

Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:17 PM Bluebaby responds:

you mean the part where i scanned in the picture i drew on paper first?


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:09 PM BoMToons says:

The line work is amazing. Very cool to see your process. I'll have to try the underpainting approach sometime.

Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:16 PM Bluebaby responds:

thanks, yeah its something thats usualy used in photoshop. but no reason why it cant be done in flash right? :)


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:11 PM Leigh says:

How do your brush strokes come out perfect on the first go? Are you using a Cintiq? This is madness. Ur skills, dey r so uber. Omg.

Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:15 PM Bluebaby responds:

i use a wacom penpad intuos 3. i usually just draw fast to get those lines, but ive been using a tablet for about 5 years.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:19 PM BiffTheTimid says:

Very cool work, but dude, why waste your time underpainting like that? All you've gotta do is fill in the line art, make a layer below it, cut and paste in place. Then on that layer choose "fill only" as the brush property. That would definitely have shaved at least 20 minutes off your total time. But hey, do what you do. I digg it.

Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:39 PM Bluebaby responds:

this is true.. good call. :)


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:20 PM The-EXP says:

Impressive, shows how much effort goes into such things like the light of the heart that I usually overlook in similar pics.
Excellently done, especially as you must have been at least slightly hindered by screencapping it.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:33 PM joe-spink says:

so good but if she was out on a friday night it would have to be a no... no... from me =D.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:37 PM Starogre says:

you believe in hell!? hah!

no seriously, the gray line at the end really brought out her eyes


Feb. 11, 2009 | 7:54 PM thedo12 says:

shes letting jesus into her heart............literaly.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 8:34 PM AKS9 says:

really cool to see how artists go about their process, really cool drawing and colouring.

questions, um, what were the keyframes for? is it a kinda way to save progress and go back?
and the bright red you were doing at first, that was a mask right? for the "softedge circle" to shine through?
and how come you coloured all the big fills by hand instead of doing a kind of paintbucket-copy-to-another-layer kind thing? or duplicating the lines-layer and colouring them in with the paintbucket on the layer underneath?
thanks

Feb. 11, 2009 | 9:59 PM Bluebaby responds:

i key frame so i cane save the states incase i want to go back.

the bright red isnt a mask, it was originally going to be a red light but i didnt like how it looked so i changed it to yellow green in the end, the gradient light i placed at the end just went over the image.

I didnt use the paint bucket because im an idiot.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 8:44 PM KidneyThief says:

Wow, that is epic. Great job man.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 8:44 PM eatmoreflesh says:

SOuP
was
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Feb. 11, 2009 | 9:29 PM Nuke15 says:

Truly interesting, I really enjoy seeing artists post these for some reason. But why Mary? Jesus is the real zombie.

Also, was that an instrumental of The Mars Volta in the back round?

Feb. 11, 2009 | 10:00 PM Bluebaby responds:

jesus seemed to obvious.. i mean you basicly see what hed look like as a zombie all the time right?

and yes it was.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 9:55 PM FrozenFire says:

That was the coolest thing ever ;)

thanks for the vid.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 10:14 PM LenardNotLenny says:

The most jealous 8 mins of my life. looks amazing.

Is that a very different version of a Mars Volta song in the background?


Feb. 11, 2009 | 10:57 PM PolishMatt says:

It's great to know that I have been using the same method and technique for drawing in Flash as you do, all along. The picture was great, mostly for the idea.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 10:59 PM PolishMatt says:

Crap, I forgot to ask. I noticed you using multiple frames, but I don't understand why. Is it so you could make a reference as to how it looked previously or.. something?

Feb. 11, 2009 | 11:26 PM Bluebaby responds:

i key frame so i can save the states incase i want to go back.


Feb. 11, 2009 | 11:17 PM Paryl says:

Sounds like Wade Fulps wife!


Feb. 12, 2009 | 1:24 AM fluffkomix says:

you are a god.

people like you make me vomit.

oh shit my multiple personality disorder is- SHUT UP!


Feb. 12, 2009 | 3:17 AM Zandar89 says:

Wow....thats all i can say its very very very good i wish i could draw and do flash like that but dont you think it might piss off some Religous nut jobs? I frankly dont care its free ART and plus its really Cool. Could you PM me with a link to the finished Product? I think it would be funny to see the peoples reactions when they see it!!!


Feb. 12, 2009 | 4:24 AM Dhakkel says:

Woow. I was pretty impressed, until you started doing the heart highlights, and then my jaw dropped.

How does such bold highlighting look normal? When I try that, it looks fake and synthetic, but that looked.. well, accurate. Wow.

Good job.


Feb. 12, 2009 | 5:19 AM Nuttro says:

Poster?


Feb. 12, 2009 | 7:48 AM PartyZombie says:

That is fucking cool drawing. My favorite part by far was when you were doing the red lines for the lighting for the heart. I learned something there. The detail for the insides was great, and the folds and wrinkles in the clothing was so cool looking. I love that picture now.


Feb. 12, 2009 | 10:24 AM Killerkb says:

Oh wow, that was awesome. New Desktop background.


Feb. 12, 2009 | 10:40 AM Markjie says:

DUDE, that is just awsome, great skills you got there!!!

Tobad .. i cannot find finished pic of it..
LOL I'm retarded sorry, could you link it to me please, i would totally love to save that pic between my oder files!
And i wanna use it as my phonebackround just please, link me the picture
i'm so sorry TT_TT

Feb. 12, 2009 | 2:15 PM Bluebaby responds:

you can get high rez versions of the final image on my blog
http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.co m/

i also have a few remixes up as well


Feb. 12, 2009 | 10:54 AM ArthurGhostly says:

You're one of my favourite artists here on newgrounds and this is nothing short of incredible.

I'd love to see that original sketch you did on paper?

Feb. 12, 2009 | 2:16 PM Bluebaby responds:

ill probably upload the origional sketch on my blog later today
http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.co m/


Feb. 12, 2009 | 11:09 AM Murad136 says:

Your an art God.


Feb. 12, 2009 | 1:49 PM sunlighthit says:

really cool =D


Feb. 12, 2009 | 3:38 PM lazydoctor says:

holy shit that version of the song is fucking great!


Feb. 12, 2009 | 10:39 PM I-fang says:

you are using the brush tool right and and awesome kick ass tablet
so what smoothing level do you use?

Feb. 13, 2009 | 1:17 AM Bluebaby responds:

yeah, i just use the default smoothing level.. ive honestly never looked into changing it.


Feb. 16, 2009 | 6:15 PM Axius says:

Mars Volta for the fucking win.

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