Drawing Chinese Vampire or Zombie step by step tutorial

Drawing Chinese Vampire or Zombie. Step by step digital painting tutorial.

It's called Chinese Vampire, but I actually thing this creature quality is a lot more like zombie than vampire. The official root name is Jiang Shi (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ?? or; pinyin: jiangshi; literally "stiff corpse"). They are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (?/?q�) from their victims. Jiangshi is pronounced g�ngsi in Cantonese, or kyonshi in Japanese. They are said to be created when a person's soul (? p�) fails to leave the deceased's body, due to improper death, suicide, or just wanting to cause trouble.
Anyway, it is part of my little pet project, Zodiac Blade. Here is a step by step quick speedpainting method of Chinese Hopping Vampire. This one is kind of similar to Zombie Ninja step by step digital painting process I did a while back.

If you are looking for more drawing video tutorials go How to draw comics batgirl, How to draw Fantastic 4 Susan Storm (basic comics style drawing with pose) and watch How to draw comics superhero spiderman, and my How to draw comics character Hulk, it also has coloring or paint over tutorial. Also the new arrival video tutorial, How to draw Captain America. And an older video tut, How to draw Batman or Darknight. More drawing tutorials are coming up...stay tune! :)

Basic lessons on how to constructed (draw) a body anatomy. Then watch these following tutorial Drawing body muscle torso anatomy tutorial. And Drawing arm muscles bicep tricep There will also be some basic include there. Then you could try out the following tutorial.

Hopping Vampire?

Here are step by step quick digital painting process.


Here is the final speedpainting


**Zodiac Blade illo *still in process"


And some extra Chibi art form, just for the hell of it.

Digital painting process machine gun concept

Digital painting process machine gun concept, Step by step from rough sketch to finished render.

Hi guys, it's been a week since I update some art work or any sketch. I've been busy with the holiday stuff and cooking some code in my little project called "Zodiac Blades." Here are some update for the art on the project. If any of you remembered, the guy had a glove, a flaming hand, then now I decided that it would be a lot easier with the heavy weapon like machine gun. I thought it would be easier for me with the personal project I am going with. The cool thing is, with machine gun, he can easily switch weapon to flame thrower, shotgun, and many heavy different looking kind of weapon. And it will be good for me as an artist to sketch and paint more of a gritty sci-fi genre.

I'm still thinking about doing some more free tutorial as soon as I get some time in my hand, recently I did a bunch of typical superheroes video tutorial sketch and shading basically on how to draw comics so there are How to draw Marvel Susan Storm from Fantastic 4, How to draw comics superhero spiderman, How to draw Batgirl, How to draw Emma Frost X-men, How to draw supergirl, How to draw Jean Grey X-men and my How to draw comics character Hulk, it also has coloring or paint over tutorial. Also the new arrival video tutorial, How to draw Captain America. And an older video tut, How to draw Batman or Darknight. More on comics characters drawing, I have a few female or girl characters line up so...

Also there are some of the video that might help you refine your art skill foundation I would recommended like how to render basic unique style facial character from start to finish Character Design Face Male Merchant Character, Character design sketch villain or Drawing Male Face Swordman and Learn how to draw and paint face. And with male anatomy study: Drawing body muscle torso anatomy and Drawing arm muscles bicep tricep these are quite short, but could be valuable for you if you are interested in learning drawing body and such.

If you are looking for

Hopefully there will be more art coming from idrawgirls' kitchen. Now I am really busy learning some code for iphone SDK and Java. It's fun but it's kinda hard for me since I've never done any real coding other than html, xml and java script. Have fun guys, will update more soon. :)

Anyway, here is an image of our hero with the weapon of his choice for now.

Dude with machine gun concept art (still in the work)

Here are step by step how I sketch and paint machine gun concept art.

Zodiac Blades characters concept design update

Zodiac Blades characters concept design update.


This old design is a little more, settle and doesn't really tell much of what this is all about. It doesn't look like fun and it's very static. Most of all, it doesn't engage the viewer into the illustration as I want them to. I know some of you who like the lady, I will put her in some other illustration that I feel more appropriate for her part.

Also, I decide to change the overall theme from fantasy to more of a sci-fi and post apocalyptic steam punk. I've been concepting fantasy for ages so I want to freshen my idea up a bit more. It will make me think differently in term of design and such. More mechanical and clunky design rather than organic and ornate. I also want to design more creepy mutated creatures rather than typical fantasy monster in armors for the Zodiac project.
Since it is no longer fantasy, our hero dude's arm will no longer be magical elemental (fire, ice, and so on). He will man up and hold a big machine gun, pistol and sword instead. And yes, I will have to draw many cool guns from slick to gigantic clunkers. :)
Speaking of Mech here are some videos tutorial on the subject you can watch How to draw Mech War Machine, How to draw and paint Anime Mecha, and Concept art Tutorial drawing Giant Mech...beside robots here is some character Draw Metal Gear girl female assassin.

Download the bigger size image: Zodiac Blades Old

So down below is a new version of the title page or screen.
Now, I'm leaning toward the more action pack appearance as I try to engage the viewer more.
Apocalyptic steam punk Sci-Fi cross with a little touch of Far East influence design. Like I said, I'm trying to take myself away from fantasy genre for a while. There will be, hopefully, tons of guns and ammos...and many more greasy hi-tech steam punk manly stuff.
Back to the point that I am trying to make. This illustrates to viewer that he is out to destroy outrages mutated undead creatures. Where do these ugly creatures came from?
Long story... Once in every approximately 2,464 years, Luna Eclipse Zodiacs happen to realign themselves (I totally made that up). Then twelves asteroids will crash on earth...then we have twelve of them boss creatures from outta space. You get the idea. :)


*Still in process, will finish it up soon. And so does the boar mutated creature design I previously posted.*

For those of you who are awaiting for new video tutorial to come, I am running out of idea on what to draw. It's kinda hard to get something record within 20 mins and make them look good. But I just came up with some idea this morning. Possibly, I will just start drawing all the Marvel and DC superhero characters one by one... kind of like this video tutorial, How to draw Batman start with them ladies. Also possibly some Manga or Anime character like How to draw Naruto Anime Manga. And maybe some video game character like the Drawing and Sketching Mech StarCraft Marine video as shown below Been very busy these days, but will keep it up. It's been almost three years on this blog. I am not going anywhere.
In the mean time, watch this until I come up with new ones.
Watch drawing tutorial drawing Mecha Marine suit


FEATURE TUTORIALS:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

Female portrait painting quick sketch color

Female portrait painting quick sketch color.

It's also one of the character I develop for the Zodiac project. I accidentally merged everything down and forgot to save a copy so no step by step. It didn't take me that long and I guess that why I keep merging them down. Anyway, I'm sure you can find something similar that I did around this blog. Or here is a basic instruction for drawing female face step by step "Drawing humans head female face how to" or for in depth instruction you can go get "How to paint portrait"



Anyway, here is a similar video how to start drawing female from side view and such


For step by step still images goto digital painting and drawing learn to draw and How to draw face and head shading. Well, hope these instructions and tips are helpful.

More art is coming soon :)

FEATURE TUTORIALS:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

How to draw Zombie character

How to draw Zombie character. This video tutorial is a very basic beginning drawing process I usually start off with, nothing fancy here. But I will keep updating the Zombie goon art work and hopefully take it to the finish color concept sketch.
If you are looking for more advance looking zombie concept art and design process, check out Drawing Tutorial Zombie Ninja character that I did a while back. It's a more advance version of zombie.
For more tutorial on body, arms, and muscles, if you are interested then you should check out Drawing body muscle torso anatomy video tutorial, and don't miss the tutorial video on Drawing arm muscles bicep tricep. These are a little more than basic, but still foundation you need to know.

Here is a quick zombie sketch


Watch the basic video tutorial on how to draw zombie

Drawing Male muscle torso video tutorial:

Also update on the Boar Zombie or undead monster...still very little change. Also if you notice in the back, he has an army of zombies behind him. Oh yeah!


And I had some time to work on the main character and decided that his arm should be some sort of elemental weapon. As illustrate in this concept, it's "Flame time!"
Still unfinished though, I will have to work and polish it up some more. But for now....


Anyway, more art and video tutorials are coming soon.

Creature Character concept art Monster Boar update

Creature Character concept art Monster Boar update.

Here is a Zodiac Boar zombie undead monster update. I have some time on the weekend to work on it tiny little bit. Basically I work on its ferocious face and refine it a bit more. Also decide to take the long tongue out to reveal its lower teeth more and it works out better.
Anyway, it's a shot update if you want to go see a previous post ,creature concept step by step Boar monster, with accompany video tutorial.

Short post today, but more are coming.

Creature concept step by step Boar Monster Orge Zombie

Creature concept step by step Boar Monster Orge Zombie. Have some time to sketch up some creature stuff for the Zodiac project, the Boar undead zombie monster. It's a long story and I will eventually have some explanation later (that is if I can come up with one)

So I decide to go with the year of the boar first because it would be the easiest for me to start or that's what I thought anyway, It turns out not so much...well, I have some sort of vague idea in mind, but I didn't execute it well enough. So this is just a quick throwing idea around sketching to get it off the ground for now. I will probably redesign it later...I kind of want it to be ferocious, mean, but also have some hint of humor at the same time. It seems that it didn't go into that direction. But I will get it...soon. :)

The process of quick concept I did for the boar monster is very similar to How to draw comics Barbarian Warrior video tutorial (recommend to watch) and How to draw comics woman viking warrior video tutorial. I usually try to find values and assign gray scale to the figure first which makes the job a lot more easier if you can get the overall values range, like in this drawing video tutorial How to draw a vampire woman and from there you can assign color in the middle of process then continue on working like in this video example How to draw werewolf creature monster tutorial. Well, I will have to fix this Boar Zombie monster concept for sure. :P

Here is a Boar Creature concept design sketch so far.

I have a really good note on Digital Art technique assigning color to Gray Scale process that you might want to read (click on the link). It should be helpful.
Here are step by step process of the Boar Zombie Creature (Grayscale)


Now that I thought about it....I did a drawing video of a different Boar Monster long time ago:
How to draw boar monster creature here:

Learn How To Draw Evil Boar Pig Monster Creature For Cartoon, I -

FEATURE TUTORIALS:



-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
-Character Design Tutorial: Dark Valkyrie

Concept Art Character design male

Concept Art Character design male for my personal fun project update. He is a main hero in my little project but the look on his face says otherwise (Chis has the point on the previous posted comment). He has the look of anti-hero (sort of like a rebellious teenager), so it's not a typical good guy but he is indeed a good guy.

Anyway, I get some time to paint and flesh out on this character, including his Chibi form. The idea is there, but the final design I am not quite please with it totally. Originally, he did have a cape, but I just add it in for illustration impact purpose...cuz it frame the figure nicely. I would later put him in real pose other than static concept (which is what I do all the time :P).

There might be something add to his design later on as I can come up with some fresh idea. But for now here it is.

Here are some tutorial recommendation to watch if you like this character concept. Go watcht these video tutorials on male figure such like Drawing body muscle torso anatomy tutorial. And for arms for male figure watch Drawing arm muscles bicep tricep. These tutorial are basic enough to understand if you have some drawing experience which I assume if you are here then you do draw.
As for the head part or face, these will be useful for you artists. Here is a tutorial on basic structure of the face from line sketch to monochrome render, go watch Character Design Face Male Merchant Character, These two are also very useful, not as complex as the merchant face video, but get the point across, Character design sketch villain or Drawing Male Face Swordman and Learn how to draw and paint face. Enjoy the tutorials, see you soon!

This is almost there but still lack of certain elements that I want.

View Full size at Zodiac Blades


The latest update...decided to change the glove to organic arm. Also make the character concept pose slightly more interesting. Still need to tweak minor stuff and put MOJO in the hands.


Here is a Chibi form experiment: :)
As of now it looks a little too flat for my taste, but that was the original intention. Next time, I will try to approach it in a little more painterly and make it a more rendered.


Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet or Genius MousePen 6x8
Softwares:
-Gimp or Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Professional software)

Character sketch design young hero type first pass

Character sketch design young hero type first pass.

Hello, in the pass few weeks I did a few random sketch; such as "Digital art sketch of a female pilot concept", "Character Concept Art process Executioner" and "Female Spartan" (which I didn't post cuz it's not good enough), without having any useful purpose in mind, but they are all fun.

Anyway, recently I just have an idea that strike me to do some short and fun project. It involves a young hero male archetype and the Chinese Zodiac deities as villains. I can't tell you yet what it is going to be until I finish. It will also involve a undead force or zombie army along the line of Drawing tutorial Zombie Ninja character that I previously did.
The thought excited me so much that I have to put it on the number 1 priority list. So you will see tons of sketches and concept that are related to the Chinese Zodiac for the next few months. That will also include environment (same as Concept art painting landscape and Draw and paint landscape technique.) So yeah, 12 evil designs for the Chinese Zodiac sound like a blast to me! I am pretty excited. I will try to record more tutorials as I produce more of them. And if this Zodiac project born to life and finish finish. I was hoping to turn Kapow Express into the same medium.
My plan for the Zodiac project is very simple though it will take six months to take it all the way to the end, that's the projection plan anyway. As for Kapow Express, the storyline is so complex and the core is not very straight forward...it will take a really long time to complete. So I am going to put a break on it until I am finishing with the Zodiac project. Watch out!
I'm sure you will like it about the same though it's not an online comics but it has story and it will be fun!!! Don't worry Chris, there will be Zombies (I promise). Sorry Knuckle, I know you are looking forward to Kapow, but you will love this! I am sure. As for Luca, I know you like everything. :)
Thank everyone for all your support. The project will slowly reveal itself from the shadow, and you guys will be very happy. So do I. :)

Here is the initial sketch for the Zodiac. This is a young hero character that will take an adventure and face all 12 Dark Zodiac deities.

*If you really notice, I cheated...I painted over the previous Female Pilot concept that I did cuz her face draw me in for some reason. I painted over her face and make it more masculine though I want to keep a bit of prettiness in it. And I kinda want this guys face to be rebellious, but also you can help but want to know what he thinks. It's like some kind of mysterious air around his persona. There are still a lot to be done on the rest of the body. (Also I just notice that he wears a sword on the wrong side of the shoulder, blah!)


Same dude as above but here is a chibi form or SD (super deform). Don't worry this is just an initial sketch really quick. I will pretty it up later on. :)