I love concept art, I think if I had to pick a career as a dream job it would be concept artist. Â I love the idea of sketching something out and then seeing it in the flesh. Â The good people at Universal sent me some links to some Hellboy stuff (in a very cool viral way - sorry Iron Man!) so I thought it might be cool to show some concept art from the movie and a photo of the actual end product. Â In Hellboy II: The Golden Army he has a new weapon, the Big Baby:
I’m not really sure what drew me to the character of Hellboy, probably the brilliant artwork by Mike Mignola, actually I’m sure it is. Â What I expect kept me coming back was the surprisingly droll humour, the real world mythology mixing within the rich tapestry of the BPRD world and of course I still can’t go past that artwork!
Now that Iron Man has come and gone, it met my expectations (and hopes) and renewed my faith in the potential of the comic book movie I’ve got some more movies to look forward to.
High amongst these films is of course Hellboy II The Golden Army.
I know some people were unmoved by the first Hellboy, but I liked it and I’m more than ready to revisit that world. Â I still marvel at the perfect casting of the first one, could you get a better Hellboy than Vincent himself? Â (some people will get that reference and I know how old you guys are!!)
Tracey got me a replica ‘Samaritan‘ gun ages and ages ago, actually it was just before we were forced to move out of our old place. Â So I haven’t had the time to actually enjoy it and so it’ll be twice as cool when we finally buy a place and move out.
It’s going to be like Christmas as we open up all our old stuff that we haven’t seen for a year! Â But for the mean time one of things that I’ll be adding to the storage manifest now that we just got it off lay-by is my very own Right Hand of Doom.
I had to at least check it in the box to make sure it was actually OK (it had been on display), Â of course I didn’t realise that you can actually wear the thing!!!
(in the wider shot of that photo you can also see an Iron Man figurine laying down in the background - portrait of a comic book geek much?)
I’m a huge Hellboy fan. Love him, love the BPRD, love Abe, love Johann, love Liz, love Kate and I suspect I’m going to love Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Actually I know I’m going to love the new film. With all the excitement over Iron Man coming I must say that I haven’t even been able to catch my breath over the awesomeness of Hellboy and you have no idea how happy I am there is a sequel!
There are some really great concept art that I’ve seen on the official Hellboy website and I know this film is going to be a strong ‘true to Hellboy’ movie. Â LOL I don’t even know when this comes out! Â I’m off to go find out.
Ahhhhh through the magic of the interwebs I’ve discovered it is due to be released in July!
Tracey got me a replica ‘
