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.

Meanwhile... elsewhere

Another two sessions, not too much time each. This is where im at. I have got troubble with his neck that is not supporting the weight of the skull properly. Not sure if i will have to do something about that or not...

Nicks and dents...

Still inspired by the 'Almost Colossus' drawing from the other day I drew this angel statue today at work. I usually doodle on the back of workorders or other piece of papers I happen to have handy. This one I did on my lunchbreak. and as I got to the part of adding the nicks and dents on the statue I realized that was missing from the drawing I did yesterday. So now I added some rough texture to that one too.

Almost Mignola?

I have started re-reading my Hellboy TPBs again. I just got to 'Almost Colossus' in the awesome 'The Chained Coffin and Others'. The title page has a classic Mignola statue and the sun and moon symbols on it. I decided to try draw it and here it is... Almost Mignola.

Sculpting!

After being inspired by the Hellboard i got myself a piece of Super Sculpey and started my first sculpture! Hellboy of course. This is after perhaps three hours work. The whole thing has been redone once and the head twice. But now I think it is possible to se a resemblance to Hellboy. This is a very rough work in progress of course. Lots of fun and just as difficult as I imagined.