WizKids Beholder Zombie - WZK90032

 

More fun with AK Interactive Playmarkers with a little help from Sharpie. I think this time I picked up Desert Ochre from Emerald Tavern after a game session of ShadowDark.

Purple is my go to color - it goes on so smooth and effortless and always dries to a nice looking solid color no matter how much or little paint I put down. Then I used Red around the main eye and a third of the way down the eye stalks just to break up the all Purple. I used Pink on the fleshy bits hanging off the two of the eye stalks and then on the fleshy muscles on either sides of the maw. Out of the Sharpie markers I used Yellow on all the individual eye stalks. Desert Ochre was used on the spike and the teeth. Dirty White on the main eye and a highlight on the teeth. Finally some white on the tips of the teeth.

The base was done more "traditionally" with Vallejo Black and a drybrush of Neutral Grey and then Stonewall Grey.

I left the eye blank as the package artwork left it blank and I think it gives this zombified appearance that way. However, when I asked Google Gemini to convert my photo to artwork it placed this really cool looking eyeball. I might have to rethink that a bit. I think it's very interesting to see how A/I in some cases fixes my mistakes and enhances the overall image, and then in other cases it leaves my brush mistakes in the final image.

I'll have to come back to any ShadowDark stats - the core book has the Ten-Eyed Oracle - as a GM, what I'll probably do is take that monster and add the Zombie monster talents of Undead and Relentless.