Creating a Zombie-slave

Another entry for Short Challenge #13 - Special Halloween. My concept for this piece comes from more ancient zombie lore, in which zombies aren't mindless brain-hungry undead monsters, but rather are corpses that have been reanimated with hoodoo in order to serve as slaves to the hoodoo-practitioner who reanimated them. I didn't want this piece too dark in tone so that it would be distanced from the macabre and ravenous zombies we see in modern depictions. I wanted to depict the reanimation as if a soul were reentering the body, so I tried to show a light from the spell-book to the corpse, lighting the body up from within. In order to further highlight the fantastic nature of the subject matter, I decided to have it look like it was an illustration as opposed to a photograph.

My Other Entries for Short Challenge #13 - Special Halloween:
    

Thank you to the following for their lovely stock!-
- Stock - Halloween special witch ..hocus pocus .. 
- PNG long hair boots hat belt 
- Object Stock - Worn Book 03. 
- Pentagram Pendant Stock 
- Ascending png 
- Skeleton (7) 
- Foggy Graveyard II - Stock 
- Open grave 
- Light Trail 
- Smoke Stock V  
- Coffin 2 
- misc light element png & png fraktal 2