Intial drawings

First off I wanted to get a grip of drawing zombies. I drew from the pictures and tried to make them more zombie like. The imagery sort of worked. I found that some people were more effective than others. I tried using pictures of other zombies to look at the features they had exaggerated and disformed to apply them to other people. Looking at the design of the zombies from the game left for dead they described there design of the injuries and deformities were inspired by thinking what they did in there life and then applying the sort of accidents they might have in there everyday life while applying the bite and scratch wounds from a zombie attack. Applying this to my drawings may help.

This was a lay out idea I had where I thought about using the front of the courtyard in a zombie apocalyptic environment. I thought I could have a bill board outside that could have the information written on to incorporate the text with the image. Then I though if I had zombies and dark clouds about the image it would help to give it the horror look. I would have to think of a way to use the hammer horror style in my work to make it fit in with what the client wants. Having it at night would mean I could put the large amounts of black into my design which is classic of the design I need to incorporate.

In this idea I thought having a shot down the theatre over the seats looking down the stage would be a good perspective. I imagined it would have zombies crawling over the seats trying to get to the viewer, with maybe the title and info in between the curtains. I thought the character at the front could be a zombie Garrick inviting you into the theatre.

this is a few drawings done by my tutor to help give me ideas. We looked over the ideas of have Garrick inviting the viewer into the theatre and how the text could be laid out. Possibly up his arm or in hair? He suggested having the characters close up to have a sense of immediate doom hanging over. This I feel would draw more attention and help create that sense of fear abit. Also he said about creating a more characterised zombie to help my style. I think If I can do this it will help create better zombies rather than the more photo realistic ones I've been going for. I need to experiment with this more as my poster will be based around them.

Quick study of Garrick's features

study of Garrick again trying to look at his features and apply them to my own drawings. I need to try more to characterise him rather than just draw him.

Here I managed to characterise him more as a zombie. Also looked at the idea of doing Shakespeare in a skeletal way to zombie him

Zombie version of Shakespeare done for the T.V series "The Simpsons"

more ideas on what my zombie Garrick and Shakespeare could look like. I like the idea of Shakespeare clambering on Garrick as he welcomes the viewer in with his outstretched arm. I feel that I've got enough of an idea now to draw up what I want character wise.

This idea for layout I think is the best one yet. I thought instead of having the viewer look over the chairs of the theatre that maybe they could look out to the chairs though the theatre curtains. This would create a nice boarder to focus the eye in as well as have the theme of theatre. I also thought if the audience was in darkness then it would create a nice black background on with the title and information could go onto. On the stage I thought I could have Garrick and Shakespeare amongst zombies acting out roles in costumes but also doing strange zombie like acts. One idea I had was to have a actor talking to a skull as is famous of practicing actors but instead of a skull he found it could be his own head. This kind of humour I thought would fit in with the humour the play was trying to create. I will see how this goes done.