Hellboy (an old Spring Clean Challenge)
She’s got wings but she’ll drag you down
Harpies as depicted in the Hellboy comics are basically black/grey monotone after transforming from giant black birds. But Mignola wasn’t shy of changing character colours between pages and I’ve already painted plenty of black and grey and earthy tones and feel like doing something a bit fun and different that will stand apart from the other minions.
So taking a couple of vibrant india ink colours and some Game Ink Violet I started layering in my colours. It took a few passes before I was happy with the placement and intensity and I had to switch to Vallego Fire red to get the depth I wanted but it was worth it.
To complete, a little black wash to the darkest areas and some very light dry brushing of the red and blue to pull the wings together. The more human aspects are successive glazes of Vallego Skin Tone and a bit of Game Colour Flesh wash
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