A Hell Of A Poster

I was at the movies last night and saw the new Hellboy II poster up in the lobby. It really caught my eye with its simplistic style. Most sci-fi hero type movies go for very exaggerated poses and wide angle perspective shots of the characters- which is fine. After all, comic art is precisely that but you gotta love the perspective of his profile at ground level. Hellboy is bullseye dead center, which is a amateur no no in photography and graphic design but when you know the rules, you know how and when to break them. The artist pulls it off nicely. The colors are bland and dark as it should be. This is Hellboy. A demon from hell here to save mankind. The contrast of Hellboy's red skin against the gray and golden sky really makes him pop. The title and text above and below him are centered and very old school in its layout. Again, to sum up it's very simple and I love it. It's definitely going up in my room when it goes on sale online. Hellboy II comes out July 11th.