A drawing a day keeps the Doctor away...

I have been drawing not near enough. I will try to sketch something every single day this week, just to do it. To get back into the habbit. It's like all exercise - a matter of good health and wellbeing.

Eons

Time pass quickly. And now, when I finally post another picture it is almost the same as the last from months ago. This is my entry for the Hellboy Holliday Art Exchange 2009. It is not what I had planned and in the end I had to rush it. Still, it is fun to be able to post something.

Strange places...

Just a quick one. The Mermaids of 'Strange Places' have been haunting me for a while now... I was thinking this could be a cool motive for a painting perhaps...

Paint it Black

I still only have about two pages scripted of this comic yet, but I felt I had to go ahead and Ink one page to see if I could live with the result. And I think I can. It looks ok and with some colour I think I may even be pleased with how it turned out. We'll se.

Fan Fiction - sort of...

A month or so ago at my inlaws house I opened a book of local ghost stories. It is called 'Stockholms Spökhus'. It translates 'The Haunted Houses of Stockholm'. I looked up an adress close to where I was just then and came across a story that was just perfect Hellboy material!

A story started to form in my head and the other day I got around to sketch the first frames. I have no idea how to do this but I will make it up as I go. I use my Hellboy books as reference when drawing the characters and even most of the poses are on loan from the books.

Perhaps I will learn to draw Hellboy so well by the end of the story that I can do my own compositions. Hopefully I will be able to finish it before I run out of steam!

Toothpick Neck

With the hollidays past I found a little time yesterday to mess around with the Hellboy sculpture again. I took Ivars advice and supported the neck with a pair of toothpicks. I can not think of anything more out of character. If Hellboy actually had a toothpick neck he would not have lasted long! Anyway it seems to have done the trick and supports the head of the sculpture nicely.

I also went with the formal suit on Hellboy like Kees suggested. The tought had crossed my mind before, but now it is happening and I think it will look OK.

So, here is the latest progression picture. I shortended the horn stumps. Fixed the neck. That involved complete decapitation actually. And then I started on shirt and tie.