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Mar. 11th, 2012 09:25 amApparently I sunk a lot of thought into "why skeletons" and hadn't realized it...
But from the art perspective, skeletons are weirdly more appealing than zombies. Skeletons are these big, dramatic shapes, instead of having to figure out how to draw someone still fairly fleshed but obviously dead (and then there's the question of how rotting is rotting - do you want your zombies to be fairly dessicated guys, where there's a chance they won't read as dead, or do you want them to be all dangling intestines and disintegrating faces, in which case pretty much anything else you might want to draw is losing ground to shock value). I figured skeletons were a great choice for here because their uniformity isn't very distracting, which goes with the focus being the adventurers fighting in this really three-dimensional place. And then after I start on things like that, of course, I realize just how involved drawing skeletons can be!
But from the art perspective, skeletons are weirdly more appealing than zombies. Skeletons are these big, dramatic shapes, instead of having to figure out how to draw someone still fairly fleshed but obviously dead (and then there's the question of how rotting is rotting - do you want your zombies to be fairly dessicated guys, where there's a chance they won't read as dead, or do you want them to be all dangling intestines and disintegrating faces, in which case pretty much anything else you might want to draw is losing ground to shock value). I figured skeletons were a great choice for here because their uniformity isn't very distracting, which goes with the focus being the adventurers fighting in this really three-dimensional place. And then after I start on things like that, of course, I realize just how involved drawing skeletons can be!