*Once again I am at a loss for a title, if any of you fair viewer wish to suggest a title, it would be greatly appreciated. And if it's used, the suggester shall forever go down in history as "that person what did go and name that picture", quite the respectable title if I may say so myself.

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"Holy crap, he actually uploaded something!", the shocked masses shall proclaim!

So yeah, I've finally gotten around to actually making something, which will probably be to the surprise of my watchers. For a while now I had kind of lost that little creative spark that made drawing fun, but for the last few days it seems to have come back in full. Hopefully it will hold out long enough to get in a few more pics.

Anyway, I ramble, on to the picture! If all goes well this should be the first in a "series" of slightly related pictures, the first few pertaining to this masked firefighter, then moving on to other characters as it continues. I'm pretty much thinking this up as I go so I'm not sure what direction this will go. Oh, if you haven't already guessed, it's about zombies.

As for the picture itself, it's made up of three layers, the first being the background. It's not a from scratch image, I wanted to get to you all quickly, so I just sent a stock photo of a street through a few filters and touched it up here and there.
The second is the mask and helmet, which is for the most part from scratch. I tried to do the entire thing from memory so the mask has my own special touch to it, much like the mask in Future Perfect [link] I'm rather proud of how it turned out, and am expecially happy that the transparency didn't turn out like utter bull hockey.
The third and final layer is the reflection on the mask. Though not a lot of time went into making the reflection itself, getting the damned thing to actually look like a reflection was a pain in the arse... it's probably not even right...

But anyway, I really enjoyed making this. It felt good finally get back to making art, again. It's a feeling I really missed. But listen to me getting all sentimental, you didn't come here for that, you came here to point out all the flaws of the picture! So get to it! Tell me what you think of the thing. Good, bad, indifferent, it doesn't matter.

made with GIMP 2.4.5 over two days time (on and off)