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Fandom: World War Z
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Zombie-seeking dogs from World War Z
Content Notes/Warnings: a not-very-scary drawing of two zombies, otherwise just the dogs
Medium: traditional - probably fineliner with marker-colouring
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Dontknowwhattodraw94 on DA
Why this piece is awesome: One of the brilliant details in the book is the use of trained dogs to seek out the remaining zombies in a widespread clean-up operation after the bulk of the main battles that won the war. The dogs had various roles - small, low-slung dogs could sneak through pipes and get into urban areas, and smaller scent hounds needed big dogs as escorts and protectors. Several are shown in this artwork, such as Maze, a dachshund cross from the book. I love the idea and was thrilled to find that Dontknowwhattodraw94 had been taken by the idea of these specialised dogs as well. 
Link: World War Z dogs
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Fandom: World War Z
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: unknown woman, zombies
Content Notes/Warnings: This one's classically horror-movieish, with graphic wounds on the central figure, and scary, grabby zombie hands.
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Rofelrolf on DA
Why this piece is awesome: The scenario's well painted and realistic (in the zombie-art genre anyway!). It's a desperate, no-win situation, but at least she's choosing her own end with dignity, and as she's aiming for her brain she won't become one of the horde. Grim, and really well done. 
Link to artwork: No Hope
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Fandom: World War Z
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Man running, zombies.
Content Notes/Warnings: The usual for zombie-apocalypse art, but this one is a cartoon, which softens any zombie-related horror - it's also a spoof of the movie, which deserves to be spoofed. 
Medium: digital drawing and colouring
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Otis Frampton on DA 
Why this piece is awesome: Nice cartooning, and I like how depth and distance are conveyed by blurring the background and the zombie mob. Here's a link as well, to the short HISHE vid that this panel of art was made for (from the How It Should Have Ended web series on Youtube). Plot spoiler for the movie, kind of.
Link: World War Z HISHE
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Fandom: World War Z
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Scene - the Battle of Yonkers
Content Notes/Warnings: OK, so this month I'm reccing World War Z, as I read the book recently (after an amazing SGA fanfic by [personal profile] mad_maudlin) and it's brilliant - a completely different thing to the trite blockbuster movie, and very highly recommended. It's far more genuinely tragic and horrific than the movie and yet more bearable, as it's the narrated first-hand accounts of survivors, well after the war's been won. So I'm into World War Z at the moment. I know zombies aren't to everyone's taste, so I'll do clear content warnings for all of these. This one's not especially horrific - it depicts a major US battle early on in the conflict, and it's basically an action scene of some poor beleaguered US troops, with very little detail of the zombies.
Medium: pen and ink drawing, photoshop shading 
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: (the DA account is now closed)
Why this piece is awesome: There isn't much good World War Z art out there and this is an excellent dramatic drawing of the main battle after which New York was overrun by the zombie horde - a battle where the US military were defeated as they used traditional methods and equipment against all common sense and because too little was known, that early in the conflict. I like the stark lines and the contrasts, and the overall structure. 
Link: Battle of Yonkers art preserved in a reddit post

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