How To Draw A Zombie Face

Zombies, the uglier the better, remembering from the zombie films I always liked it best when the zombies had half of their faces hanging off, they are much better to draw when part of the skull shows through.

Zombie are great to draw in numbers, but for now we will just be drawing a zombies face.

So to start off, it is best to do an oval type shape for the whole head, draw lightly and don't concern yourself about the exact ovalness, because I sure don't. As you can build on it later, I roughly mark out the eyes and the mouth at this stage, just to have a reference for how I want the mouth and eyes to look like in my mind. Details don't matter at this point.

 Your zombie face drawing evolves in this next stage and you start to draw a few sketches to fill out the face of your zombie, the cheek bones are defined, then the eyes and the mouth aligned with the teeth are all drawn in a bit more detail, but still quite lightly as I may change some of the structure of the zombies face to show it rotting or bleeding.

 The next step is to draw with more darker pencil lines to add more detail and form to the piece as well as clarity, by clearing up the whole zombie face design your zombie starts to take shape now.

The angry look of the zombie is optional as some zombies look quite different, some look dopey, others look enraged with the rage virus, others just look puzzled, it's up to you to convey a sense of zombie likeness that we know and love from the films.

 Adding ink is just an option, but I think it really brings the line work together and it shows what you can achieve when you look back at your original planning sketch in step one, the black line work helps to contrast the white papers surface and brings your drawings forward and they really stand out.