Zombie-Lucy doesn't settle for jerking the football away from poor, gullible Charlie Brown at the last second -- she just jerks his legs off!
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Now that is all kinds of awesome...
I'm assuming you mean add rot and decay, but doing that would compromise the Charles Schultziness of it. Toothy grin, blood-speckled flesh and zombie-eyes is as far as it needs to be taken. It's a far enough removal from Lucy's normal appearance, if you don't get that she's supposed to be a fiend/zombie/psycho blood-lusting maniac, coupled with her having torn off poor Chuck's legs, then I can't help you. Overkill is not the way to go here. Just sayin'.
Honestly, I agree with walrus12. I didn't think zombie at first, either, even though that's what I HOPED, because otherwise I was thinking it was really terrifying.
If it were more zombified, I think it would put it in better perspective. Right now it just looks like Lucy turned into a murdering psychopath for no reason, and that's too frightening for me. Sorry.
wow, that tone is quite passive-agressive, not sure how to respond to that. Wait i figured out how.
The grin is hardly toothy, to be it comes off as just a random squigly line that is meant to resemble a mouth. eyes look more suprised than "zombie eyes, They don't have the rage that most zombie eyes have.
I also think the "blood" would work better darker.
Overkill may not be the way to go but god-damn neither is a confusing degree of subtlety.
I was just talking about maybe some bones poking out of the arms or bloody hands (how wouldn't she get her hands bloody if she's been eating people)
Yes, i agree with walrus12 on this one, It is a nice design and I understood it as soon as i clicked the image to look closer. But for most people it would probably look like she is just angry. Like above, maybe some blood on her hands or maybe a bone sticking out, heck just have a piece of her skin on her arm folding down slightly to show off some muscle or bone. Nothing to far fetched but at least some undead.....ness to the look. Otherwise it looks good but i dont think I would buy until she has a more zombie-ish look to her.
I apologize if my tone has bent you out of shape, Walrus, but I think you're missing some crucial things here, so this design might just not be for you, and that's okay. I'm being as polite and descr*ptive as I should be here, so here's some further elaboration.
The point is to keep the style as close to Charles Schultz' as possible. I can't help it if you don't see or appreciate that. This is essentially supposed to look like a twisted Peanuts cartoon, hence my hewing as closely as possible to that style. What you are asking for is unnecessary and would stray too far from what I'm trying to do here. Trust me. This is, I believe, how Schultz would portray a traditional zombified Lucy. I'm quite familiar with the style I am aping here, even if you might not be. That "random squiggly line" is traditional shorthand with many many cartoonists over decades of cartooning for a fiendish "toothy grin." I didn't just make that up. Rage is not what I was going for because most zombies to not have rage in their eyes (and there's no real call for rage here anyway) -- they don't have ANY emotions in their eyes besides hunger, so maybe you aren't as familiar with traditional zombies as you think. Remember, when zombies first came onto the scene, they were not the horribly decomposed corpses full of decay and rot, missing limbs and shedding guts like the ones that are prevalent today. A zombie is simply an ambulatory corpse with a hunger for human flesh. To pour on the decay and to depict bones sticking out of Lucy's body or intestines hanging from her abdomen would unnecessarily complicate the design and would take the piece well into overkill territory. Trust me. I could do up the image like you think it should look and anybody with a decent eye for design would say "yeah, that's too much". I don't just squirt these things out. I put a lot of thought into my design choices, so I'm sorry if you don't agree with them, but that's not going to change my decisions here. Thanks for voicing your interest, though.
If she weren't a zombie what else would she be? a beady eyed version of Lucy with no nose who rips off legs for fun? Is a bone sticking out here or some flesh falling off there really gonna push it over the edge? I'd say you're nitpicking over an awesome design and there are at least 30 people that agree with me.
Yep. She's a fiend version of Lucy. That's all you need to know, and that's clearly what has been conveyed without hammering you over the head with overkill. I'm not the one nitpicking, though. I'm the one who created the design and made my decisions about it very carefully, so it's up to the spectators to nitpick. You and the "at least 30 people" that agree with you will have to live with it as-is or do without. It's okay. I really can't and won't apologize or change my mind.
Can you please give me an example of this squiggly line being used to represent a toothy grin, I have never seen it used that way. Also look at Charlie Browns mouth, I know that the squiggles in this are different But i take it that you are appealing to fans of peanuts, right? so i think it would make more sense to use something that isn't already, in a way. used in peanuts for a toothy grin, or use something that is more associated with grinning in peanuts.
Last I'll say on the matter because even when you claim to be trying to be polite you still insult me.
Walrus, I don't have time to hunt down images for you, all I can say is I guess you need to expand your comics and cartooning vocabulary. I don't know what else to say. No, I am not appealing to fans of Peanuts, necessarily. That was not the aim, but there might be some crossover, sure. Why would it make more sense to use something that isn't already used in Peanuts for a toothy grin. You're not making sense any more, and I guess you just want to argue. I'm not going to argue my point anymore -- it's been made clearly and succinctly. I haven't had any comments or suggestions close to what you're aiming at from my fellow artist and designer friends, so I'm going to just leave it there and you can choose to like it or dislike it, but in the end, I cannot really worry about your opinion any longer. Sorry to be insulting -- I haven't said anything to attack you and I haven't been ugly about any of this. It's clear that you don't get it, though, and no amount of explanation or cajoling on my part can fix that. What can you do? I can't please everybody. Good night.
BeastPop I was defending you! Guess I should've quoted who I was talking to. The "30" people I was talking about were the thirty other people that had voted and like me already thought it was awesome just the way it was
Some of the old scool cartoonist like beetle baily, haggard the horrible and others of that generation of cartoonist used it frequently. Google is available to everyone. The squiggly mouth grin has been used in the peanuts strip many times aswell. As for feeling insulted, I think the fact that he doesn't agree with is what you find insulting, than what he is actually saying. He was being direct and blunt not name calling or condesending.
That being said. Love this design suprised it hasn't printed yet.
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