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How to Draw Zombies

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Why do so many want to know How to Draw Zombies?

picture of finished peice

draw these zombies with Justin Cook

Zombies seem to be passing Vampires in popularity. I guess it’s about time to ad a “how to draw zombies” lesson, to our site. I wouldn’t be surprised if Stephanie Meyer were writing a love story between a walking corps and a beautiful young woman right now. I won’t read the book (my wife and daughters will) but I will definitely watch the movie, “Waking Dead”.

Our latest lesson is “Learn to Draw Cartoon Zombies” lesson by Justin Cook from the UK.

He shows you how to use Photoshop to sketch the zombies, ink them and then color them, or as he may say it, “colour them”.

how to draw zombies, inked.This course will teach you how to draw creepy, but cute zombies using Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet or Cintiq monitor. He draws each of the five characters and shares his tips as a professional illustrator. The techniques he uses to “ink” can be appreciated even by professionals who might want to learn how to work digitally. Justin combines the pressure sensitive brush tools and the pen tool to paint a beautiful layer of “ink” with an emphasis on line variety. Then he teaches you how to use dedicated layers to add color and value. how to ink cartoon zombies

You don’t have to go to the UK to learn how to draw zombies from this master, thanks to FolioAcademy.com you can learn from an artist with a way cool accent. how to draw zombies, colored.

I just finished watching season three of “The Walking Dead” via NetFlix and I gotta say, Zombies are cool. I wouldn’t want to be one, raise one or fall in love with one. But as far as the world of the undead goes, zombies rock.  I’m just sayin. . .

NEW TUTORIAL! Learn how to use Photoshop

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I just finished a new video tutorial so you can Learn how to use Photoshop – a basic video series on how to get started in Photoshop.

We have been receiving requests over the past year to offer a video that would help the person who has never used Photoshop get started.

This tutorial is a focused on helping the student learn how to use Photoshop for painting in my Digital Painting in Photoshop tutorials Parts 1 & 2.

Instead of being a general beginner course I leave out all the photo editing specific tools and methods. You will learn how to use photoshop basic tools, settings, windows, and the controls that I use to make a painting in Photoshop.  I do share my Wacom tablet settings and opinions as well.  If you’re familiar with Photoshop you won’t need this video but will probably be fine jumping into parts 1 & 2 of Digital Painting in Photoshop.If you know anyone who has wanted to move from traditional mediums like acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, etc – this video might be just the thing to get them started.

how to use Photoshop for beginners

Check out a sample here.

If any of you have already purchased my Digital Painting in Photoshop parts 1 or 2 and would like this beginner course please just leave a comment below – make sure you leave your email address associated with your http://folioacademy.com/ account so I can look you up – and I’ll GIFT you this new tutorial for free! So you may want to purchase one or both of these Photoshop part 1 & Part 2 first, then get this FREE!One more thing – I do not paint in this new video but I do explain how to get around in photoshop in the most basic ways – and how to use many of the tools. Check it out at Folio Academy.

New How to Photoshop Tutorial

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Whoooeee – I just finished my new How to Photoshop lesson!

This was a fun one and now I’m in the editing process for the video tutorial. As I mentioned before I’ll be giving this one away for FREE to anyone who has purchased my “Digital Painting in Photoshop” Videos from either my site or Folio Academy. It’s my way of saying thanks for all the support we’ve been getting and continue to get. I hope to be finished with the editing process in a week or so – I have a crazy hectic schedule at the moment.

Painting of a cat on a turtle done in Photoshop by Will Terry.
I’m tired – having fun but tired – I’m wearing lots of hats right now. Just trying to get the colors right – this piece is a challenge because there isn’t a lot of warm light which means almost everything needs to be on the cool side.


It’s slow going but I’ll get there. Just starting to add lighter values and colors and trying to figure out my color scheme as I go. One of the advantages of working digitally – testing colors on “throw-a-way” layers.


I’ve now added a “multiply” layer and started to work color into the background using the airbrush with the “texture” turned on in the brush pallet. The texture is a scanned texture I made with acrylic heavy gel medium and black and white acrylic paint.


I added the value on the ipad using the airbrush tool. I want to try to figure out where all the dark and light areas are going to be before I start adding color. This is crucial because once you get deep into the color process it’s hard to fix value problems.


Since I’ve switched over to Photoshop 5 I thought it might be nice to offer another tutorial. I’m going to give it away for FREE to those who have already purchased my “Digital Painting in Photoshop” video series – I’ll just update everyone’s account at Folio Academy with this new video series. So what I’m going to do is work on it a little each day and post my results here on my blog as I have a big project for National Geographic Kids Mag going on right now too.

This is a little sketch I did on my ipad with my finger – I’ve gone paperless by the way – I never intended to go green but when technology makes it easier to use than paper…

I’m calling this painting “Class System”. I find it ironic that often it’s the working class/poor who are much happier in life than the rich who control everything but still turn to drugs, alcohol, and suicide. Oh no – I actually have something to say? This is weird.

Anyway, I’ll try to post my results each day for a week or so.