Collins builds the world of the walking dead

This entry is all about adding in the (previous) existence of humans. Mankind leaves behind it a trail of debris in terms of paper and plastic waste. an easy way for me to recreate this is to use the material produced and given away by people online (I can take no credit for this pdf).

I printed it off in black and white (I don’t have a colour printer unfortunately) and then tea stained it to age it and give the newspapers the unbleached off-white colour they normally have. for those that don’t know about tea staining, make a cup of tea, take the tea bag out before adding milk, and then drag it across the paper where you want it to go brown. the more passes you do the more brown it will stain the paper. very simple really.

To determine where the paper was going to go I did two things, firstly I added plastic to the big windows so it looks like there are actually windows, I drew cracks on using a permanent CD marker and then superglued on the missing posters.

The news papers were all cut up and placed on my hands and literally blown onto the board. where they landed is where they were glued with superglue. I did drop a load into the shop area so it kinda looked like they had fallen from the shelf but the key is randomness really which is why the blowing worked well on the outside spaces.

next up is to take this wonderfully technicolour world and turn it into black a white. enter a free app called Prisma and a filter called Heisenberg*.

its basically a one click way of turning photos into a graphic novel style extremely similar to the TWD comics.

*blue meth not part of the filter or additional in app purchases options