Drawing a zombie face is something that gets easier with practice, each new sketch you make is a learning process that improves over time and zombies are quite popular to draw, so here we will see the steps you could take to draw yours. zombie faces and apply what you learn to create many different zombies.
To draw our rotten zombie head, we need to remind ourselves of the genre, go see some of those zombie horror movies and then come back, you will find that there are many different undead facial possibilities for you to draw, the preferred method is to draw a Uneven oval shape for the head on a sheet of A4 size paper, fill the entire sheet if necessary and don’t worry too much about the basic shape as this will surely change later in the drawing.
Mark a line in the middle of the oval head shape and a line along the nose area, this way you can draw the eyes, ears, (if applicable) the nose and a preliminary sketch of the mouth, so that you can later cut back into the meat, to make it look rotten and possibly show the teeth and gum line which often looks pretty good on a zombie, you can also sketch out some hair if you don’t want a bald undead be your zombie character.
Now we have the basics, we have to work on this a bit, the eyes become angry and almost evil, with an eyeball sticking out of its socket and more details surround the characteristics of the zombie, as it looks totally rotten, the teeth are extracted . As it looks like the lips are hanging down and the hair has been outlined in a darker shade, it is up to you how far you go with the drops of blood and so on.
The next step is to ink the drawing if you prefer, just go over the pencil lines and fill in the dark areas with solid black ink or a cross hatch, usually under the eyes and define the cheekbones if you want a part of the skull to show through.
Drawing a zombie’s face is a great way to learn how to draw characters, so have fun.
