a lobster, a floating head, and a beast of the apocalypse walk into a bar...

The three sketches I hid last week at The Beguiling, in Toronto, for #artdropday. Two of them are still there.

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Stacking up nicely with last year's Abe, here's Hellboy, done for Multiversity's "31 days of Hellboy". Just like last year, they're running a competition that you should check out, if you draw. And surprisingly, as with Abe, I'm happy with how this one turned out. Let's see how it goes next year...

March 22 - Hellboy Day

To celebrate the first twenty years of Hellboy, Dark Horse has organized a bunch of events on March 22, at stores around the world -- full list here. I'll be signing in Toronto, at The Beguiling, so come say hello!

mornings are hell

Colored another one of the German tour Hellboys while having the morning coffee. Here's how the original drawing looked:

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During the German tour last month at least a hundred requests were "Hellboy" -- so here's is one of them, "Hellboy climbing a mountain". Thematically appropriate and just in time for the anniversary! Drawn in a scary 12"x18" sketchbook (at least), but the figure itself is maybe three inches tall. 

(Will post more tour drawings when I get a chance to sort through the photos.)

grumpy hellboy

A grumpy Hellboy from one of the previous sketchbooks; last drawing of 2012. If I remember right, it was just doodling straight in pen, trying it out, and I liked how it turned out, so I colored it -- without realizing I'd used the exact palette of the Strange Places collection (an obviously great palette by Dave Stewart). So, here's a purple one instead.

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a gift for a collector, this one.