hey!! My names Emily Paige!! I’m a comic artist focused mostly on apocalyptic YA stuff!! Here’s an illustration I did for concept art <3

Taken in the shipyards.

Gdansk, Poland

Found in Gdansk, Poland

https://imgur.com/gallery/h3XAxqR

A virus has spread across the world, consuming everything in its path. It begins with a fever, but soon, victims lose the ability to function as they’re gradually taken over by a parasitic plant. The plant grows inside them, but eventually, it breaks through. In a desperate attempt to stop the disease, people began burying the infected before the plants could emerge. However, the plants spread underground, as plants do, and soon infected thousands more.

Now, the story behind my drawing:

It’s about two brothers and their sister. The younger brothers contracted the virus. The other brother, a doctor – possibly specializing in medical technology and part of a team researching a cure – didn’t have the necessary tools to try and save him. In desperation, he told their sister to drive the ambulance to a guarded hospital while he worked to keep their brother alive in the back.

The ride was like a nightmare. Dead bodies littered the streets, each one wrapped in thick, creeping vines, their skin being consumed by the plant. The sister, horrified by the scenes around her, didn’t notice the person on the road ahead, one of few still alive. In a panic, she tried to swerve around the person, but the tires slipped on vines covering the ground. She lost control of the ambulance and crashed into the side of a church. She died on impact, having been in the front seat.

In the back, both brothers survived the crash, but the elder brother had been knocked unconscious. When he finally woke up, it was already too late. His infected brother lay there, the vines now breaking free from his body, slowly wrapping around him.

As grief overwhelmed him, the doctor had not realized things could still get worse. He tried to set his emotions aside and escape, but the back doors were tangled in vines. Desperate, he grabbed anything he could find to smash or cut through them, but nothing worked. The vines had trapped him inside. All he could do was sit there and watch as his brother became part of the very thing that killed him, knowing it wouldn’t be long before the same thing would kill him, too.