#Lugosi Béla

[faustiandevil]

New 4-issue comic series featuring Universal Monsters’ Dracula in collaboration with Skybound Entertainment coming this Halloween.

[victusinveritas]

[classicfilmblr]

Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff The Black Cat (1934) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

[old-hollywood-smash-or-pass]

Requested by @spacepunksupreme

[thinkingimages]

Lugosi Dracula image from 1931. (From an album author David J. Skal had access to)

[gothicretro]

My favourite thing about Béla Lugosi is that he was a loud and proud anti-fascist. Enough said.

[vero-niche]

yet another example of "please google the names of your ocs in case they mean something else in another language". this dude stepped out all confident and declared his name to be pussy (in hungarian)

[scarletsmiles]

Hey lovely Lugosi freaks, I uncovered something cool on our guy.

He wore this smoking jacket with a moon and star motif in The Raven (1935). I thought it was quite pretty, so I remembered it.

Lugosi must have thought it looked good too, because this jacket appears his films all the way back to Hungary. It’s no movie prop; it must’ve his own piece that he kept almost 20 years and brought across the ocean.

It’s a little surprising, as he is said to have owned almost nothing else other than his WW1 Hungarian lieutenant’s uniform when he emigrated to America in 1922.

Lugosi in Küzdelem a Létért (The Leopard), a 1918 Hungarian silent film.

In Daughter of the Night, or Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan ‘The Dance on the Volcano’ (1920), a German silent film.

Finally, The Raven (1935), an American film:

Aside from me wanting to do the girl-steals-a-guy’s-hoodie-thing to a man in the 1930’s, I thought it was a neat little fact about Béla.

[draculasnightshift]

Béla Lugosi as Benedict Hisston in The Silent Command (1923)

[mysticum-draconis]

Béla Lugosi

A portrait of Béla Lugosi I intended to be for his birthday, which was on October 20th, but it ended up taking me way longer than I expected to get him finished.

I feel like I've had everything against me right from the beginning with this portrait. I started him late (October 18th), because I had another art project that took a lot longer than I anticipated to finish, so I knew that I wouldn't complete him in time for his birthday, but what I didn't expect, was to get art block worse than I've ever had before, and for it to take me almost a week just to get the sketch right (I'm surprised the paper survived all the erasing I had to do!). Take a look at the process photos I've added below the cut, and you'll be able to see my suffering in pictures :) 🫠

All that being said, I am happy with how he came out in the end. It seems that, with a lot of portraits I do, I think that I'm going to have to give up and start over completely, but then somehow pull them through last minute.

Instead of using aquarelles to paint his suit like I have done with my last six portraits, I decided to just use graphite, like the rest of the portrait. To make it quicker to shade, I used a graphite "crayon" for most of it, then smudged it with a blending stump to make it look smoother.

HB, 2B, 3B and 6B graphite and mechanical pencils on 160 gsm paper.

Process photos below cut.

Other Lugosi portraits: 2022 | 2023.

Please don’t use or post on other websites without credit or permission, thanks 🙏

[trans-corvo]

last exam of my bachelors degree is done, all I have left is my thesis defense, which I'm actually really excited for because I've been waiting a year to have a good in depth conversation about early 20th century Hungarian history, but have the good sense to know that no one else in my life wants to talk about that for an hour straight. Sure it'll be with people trying to pick my argument apart, but a. none of them actually specialize in Hungarian history, and b. I feel like I handled the colloquium presentation and questions pretty well.

Anyway, I'm going to be proud of myself for this because I spent most of my childhood thinking I was stupid, was a C average student in in K-12, and believed that post secondary was utterly beyond my capabilities. I've always loved history but I never really thought I'd be able to study it, so the fact I'm about to graduate (with honours!) and will be going on to do my masters this fall is literally more than I ever dreamed.

[faustiandevil]

Wanted to post about this for a while now, but I came across the trailer for this short animation (the full animation is not available online sadly) about Béla Lugosi. It’s apparently only 15 minutes long, but shows him from early childhood, hitting important landmarks in his early career right up to filming Dracula.

As a fan of Béla bá I love it, but as an artist I do gotta say… it do be not looking like him…

Anyway here he is in the animation as Dracula:

[sharks-in-boots]

I like how Gray pets his cat while killing someone

[carloskaplan]

Béla Lugosi

[gonnaeatyourgirlfriend]

watched drakula (1931) and let me tell you, life is worth dying for again !

[doubtfultaste]

Son of Frankenstein (1939)