Art Thread: Nengx

[Nengx]

Hello,
I am new to this forum (a friend of mine pointed me out about it) and this is my first post.

I am not used to make customs but being a great fan of the Mignola's art I decided to give it a try. What you see here is an "Angry Hellboy" action figure (8" tall) from Mezco Toyz (hellboy comic series 1) - not from the standard production line, but one of the prototypes.

The protptype was in perfect conditions, only painted with a coat of dark gray.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb03.jpg

[Nengx]

The first step was to disassemble the figure and decide the new pose, making the new joints with a thick brass rod to avoid any kind of deformation.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb05.jpg

All the joints were freezed using the epoxy putty and resculpting with the original texture the missing areas, while for the setting I decided to sculpt a dead dragon, using the below Mignola's artwork as reference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb07.jpg

[Nengx]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb08.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb09.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb12.jpg

[Nengx]

And this is the piece once finished, now waiting to be painted.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb16.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb17.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb18.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb19.jpg

[Nengx]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb22.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb21.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb20.jpg

Hope to post soon some shots of the painted piece.

Thanks for looking.

[hellboyone]

WOW! Amazing.

[parrish]

Good stuff.

Looking forward to seeing more. Welcome to the board.

[jnapper]

Nengx, I especially love your dragon!! AWESOME!

[Jakob Westman]

Excellent!!
Thanks for sharing, and way to go!

/ Jakob

[ZombieHound]

Very impressive, Nengx. It's always entertaining to see customs, and I love that dragon.

[Neil Hill]

That's really amazing stuff! Thanks for sharing your progress images.

[Nengx]

Thank you all, this is a quick (and bad) shot of the current painting progress, I am trying to render it in a cartoons style.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/sunny/hb23.jpg

Will post more once done.

[parrish]

Its looking great so far.

[Ivar_L]

Really cool work in progress pictures, thanks for posting them!
You made so much work with this figure and although you're already painting it, I'd like to make a couple of suggestions. Only a couple...
:)
I'd try to add some additional hanging (triangular) sideburns to both sides... Also, I'd try to cut off a little section from the first link of the tail - to remove this straight part, it looks a little bit weird on some of the photos...

Dragon's head is super!
:)

[Nengx]

Thank you all and thank you Ivar, I will keep your suggestions for the next one, whan I read them the piece was almost finished.

This is the final result, painted with brushes and acrilic colours, trying to achieve a rough, cartoony style.

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb12.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb10.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb13.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb17.jpg

[Nengx]

This to give you an idea about its size

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb22.jpg

[Nengx]

And the dead dragon

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb23.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb24.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb25.jpg

http://www.figuralia.com/images/portfolio/hb26.jpg

Thanks for looking

[Lilitu]

Wow! Great job! I love it!

[Zabalou]

Magnifique, superbe, trés beau ...

Thanks for sharing

[lerochelle]

Gee... now this looks familiar! I wonder who from the forum is going to win this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Angry-Hellboy-8-custom-action-figure-from-Mezco-Toyz_W0QQitemZ170080880817QQihZ007QQcategoryZ80QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Nengx]

Hello again,
this beautiful sketch by Skottie Young is what inspired the following sculpt, the horns version is just a variant.

The reference artwork

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/skottie_young_hellboy.jpg

my own take

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/cabezon12.jpg

[Nengx]

and some more pics of the "Alter Ego" pair, hope you like it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae07.jpg

[Nengx]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Chalvin/ae01.jpg

[The Lobster]

Looks great! Looks alot like the comic series 1 Hellboy figure. And the Busts are great too. You could work for Gentle Giant.

[jscott]

Oh wow-nice job!
And I was never a big Young fan...but really like his stuff as of late.
To quote the great Bobby D:
"You, you...you're good."