"Death is Complicated" - Johann Kraus (Hellboy)

"Death is Complicated" - Johann Kraus (Hellboy) - Part 1

There we are. Your temper, it makes you sloppy.

Try to control it, Agent Hellboy.

Before it controls you.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Over the last two weeks we looked at Big Red himself, this time we're turning our sights to his ectoplasmic companion, Johann Kraus.

Johann is a ghost stuck in a containment-suit body. From the beginning of this paint job, I was trying to decide how I would paint his spectral head. But while I was mulling that over, I cracked on with the rest of the model.

From a zenithal undercoat (sprayed black then sprayed Grey Seer from above), I painted his fatigues a mix of XV-88 (a new paint for me that I bought for a different...secret...project) and Rakarth Flesh.

I painted his boots, gloves and bullet-proof vest with Contrast Black Templars.

One coat of Contrast Snakebite Leather did a nice job of picking out the pouches and holster around his belt.

I then gave his fatigues and pouches a ol' lick of Agrax.

Still trying to settle on how I wanted to paint his head, I finally decided just to kind of leave the zenithal that had already been established. I accentuated by masking off his shoulders and then giving his head a puff of white ink from the airbrush over the Grey Seer. I think this will stand out better once I pain the base.

I finished with a few quick highlights: Rakarth Flesh on the fatigues, and Scavenblight Dinge (with more and more white added) for the black areas. I washed a bit of Contrast Space Wolves Grey onto the straps on the shoulders and waist, just for a bit of cool tonal variation against the warm fatigues.

The metals were painted with Leadbelcher and shaded with Nuln Oil.

That's two back-to-back Hellboy heroes. I was going to do Abe Sapien next, but when I went to spray the undercoat, I noticed that the model was a bit warped so I gave him a hot water bath to straighten him out - meaning he missed the boat on this round of spray priming. Don't worry, he'll have his day, and there's more to come besides!

Reading: The Danish Way of Parenting - Alexander and Sandahl

Listening: May Ninth - Khruangbin

Next Week:

Spooky ghost-man in the dark...

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