Don't Say The Zed Word!

Have you ever noticed that in virtually every zombie movie ever made, the writers go out of their way to never actually mention the "Z" word? It seems to be an unwritten law in Hollywood. George Romero's Dead movies always call them "those things." They do say it in Shaun Of The Dead, but they make a joke about how they shouldn't say it.

Why this is, I have no idea. If you make a zombie movie, why not call them what they are?

Anyway, here's a vector drawing of a zombie, er... I mean one of "those things."

Drawn in Indesign. Including the engraved-look brain.

By the way, I've been drawing in vector a lot lately, and I always use InDesign. Even though it's made for page layout, it's got most of the same drawing tools that Illustrator has, and I'm more familiar with it.

I recently decided that I should probably learn to draw in the more conventional Illustrator program, so I fired it up and started fiddling around, and was appalled to find out that there's no "Paste Into" function. You have to create masks for objects that you want to appear inside other objects, which can quickly become needlessy complicated.

What a crock! InDesign's "Paste Into" function is easy to use and elegant in its simplicity. Why can it, a page layout program, so effortlessly do something that Illustrator, a drawing program, can't? Adobe, I demand an explanation.

So I guess I'll continue to use InDesign from now on for vector drawings.

Here's the original version of the zombie, in an odd and static pose. I didn't think this was working, so I scrapped everything but his head and shirt and started over. That's today's art lesson, kids. Don't fall in love with your art. It can always be improved upon.

Originally I had the zombie against a blood red background, but I started playing around with colors and decided I liked the green better. Here's the red background for comparison.