Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola

I really like mike mignola's creations. I like looking at his sketchbook pages and rough ideas as much as his final coloured comic pages. I like the shapes he uses to structure the faces and bodies, it inspires my character design a lot. The characters he creates are otherworldly, combined with his drawing techniques he creates his own universe of abnormal creations.  

His work is often quite dark and sinister looking, he uses a lot of black in his designs which makes them very bold and contrasting with the flat colour. His line work is always straight and angular, it isn't overly worked it is just well shaped.. He doesn't use any feathery lines or cross hatching, the outlines are flat and linear and this works really well with murky pastel ink colours. His work is simple but still really unique and is easily readable so works well for comics.