Ah... Mignola. How I love thee. A friend was borrowing my Hellboy Library Editions as he visited my place, one and three specifically since they're the only ones I own, he wanted to do some studies of his art and I've been more than supportive of his forays into the fields of art. I became a bit jealous and decided to join him. Flipping to a random page on the third Hellboy Library Edition, the random flip brought me to his The Island series that Mignola had drawn and I decided to emulate the figure of the Priest as well as I can. Like with most of Mignola's work from this late 90s and early 2000s era of his comic book illustrations, the Priest in The Island had struck itself deep in my mind's eye as a major foundation in my visual library. I still maintain this to be my personal favorite era of Mignola's art but his 80s work is a very good contender as well.
I also wanted to play around with some cartooning and expressions. I dusted off one of my favorite abstractions from life, my rendition of the rat. You can call it a mouse, I've also heard it called a puppy. It doesn't matter. It's kinda cute and it's rodent-ish. It's good enough for me. Finding fun ways to play around with balancing and making an appealing little abstract figure are fun too. I need to do this more.
Some recent figure drawing exercises I've done. I like these a lot lately.
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