#don’t look at Dracula
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Ya know what I think is really sad? There’s so many artists who have worked on Castlevania that either don’t get credited, have incredibly little information about them, or aren’t appreciated nearly as much by the fandom as others. It’s to the point where while I was looking up information for this post, Google was only giving me Ayami Kojima as the answer for “who painted the Castlevania 1 cover art”. Which is so sad because! like! I love Ayami’s artwork!!! But she is not the only artist for the series! And I love everyone else’s artwork too!!!!!!!! :(
Anyway, the only information I could find about the art of CV1 and CV2 is that Noriyasu Togakushi was the character designer for the games, as well as for CV3. But I’m not sure which artworks he did for these games. Some sources claim that he did the cover art for the first two games, others (updated just as recently) claim that the cover artists for both games is completely unknown. And I’m not sure if he did the cute little manual doodles and concept sketches either, but I’d say those are probably more likely his since cover arts were commonly outsourced at the time and concept sketches like that seem more in line with the work of a character designer, but I could be wrong. Sadly, many websites have a habit of crediting an artist and then not specifying what works are theirs. And judging by how little information there is regarding everyone involved with working on those games, even the main writer/director, it’s also possible that we might not actually know which works are his.
Regardless, I wanna thank this guy for probably having designed Simon Belmont, the man I draw or want to draw almost every day of my life :)
I hope that the images show up correctly cause I’ve been having some weird issues with images lately. When cropping the image, it shows the correct one, but the thumbnails aren’t showing up right at all on my end. I was initially going to make this a larger multi artist appreciation post, but I don’t wanna have all the images switching for no reason with that many images ugh. So uh yeah ok bye—
#castlevania#simon belmont#castlevania games#art post#castlevania artists#cv1#artist appreciation#love the artwork for these two games#and yes I know that CV1’s cover is inspired by The Norseman by Frank Frazetta#I am aware#it’s still good tho#it’s not like it’s directly traced over it it’s just pose reference taken#I’ve compared the two before and Simon is actually built wider#the Ravenloft theft was shameless tho lmaooo#like that is ravenloft#with Dracula’s head slapped on the vampire guy#there’s a reason why the European release got rid of the background#the simon is good tho#don’t look at Dracula#this ain’t about him#XD#the manual doodles are also so cute#everything is so scrunkly#the scrimblos!#they look so silly#I love it#and Simon’s messy hair in the Simon’s Quest doodles#I wanna pat him on the head (platonically)#i am very normal#especially about characters
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I do think the ‘comedy’ of Dracula in this part of the story only adds to the horror. Like we can all go ‘haha lizard fashion’ because it is ridiculous, he’s crawling barefoot on that wall like 🦎
But also fucking imagine a whole ass man skittering down a wall like that, the fact that his cloak is billowing like wings means he must be going fast too bc otherwise it would just fall over his head. (Or idk maybe he is using magic powers to make his cloak look cooler who knows.)
And it’s in his pretending to have servants too, I know, my most popular post rn is calling him a loser for it which he is!! He’s probably really embarrassed about it too bc it’s demeaning for a boyar to do those chores!
But Jonathan doesn’t have the luxury of laughing at this stuff.
One thing that really caught my attention this time is the uncanny valley of it all. From the moment Jonathan meets the Count, he can tell something is off. No matter how thickly he puts on the charm, Dracula can’t hide the fact that he’s not human; he’s something else, a ‘creature in the semblance of a man’, there’s something innately off-putting about his presence. His eyes, his teeth, his hands, his smell: he has the aura of a predator and Jonathan, his prey, can feel it.
From Jonathan’s point of view, every hilarious weird thing the Count does is another sign of him being Not Human, as well as the fact that he’s in total control—as his ruse of normality is slowly falling apart, but there’s still nothing Jonathan can do. The mask is slipping, the Count is revealing his true nature—whether accidentally or on purpose—and Jonathan can only watch and keep pretending in the hope that it will prolong his life.
#dracula daily#re: dracula#dracula#there is also definitely a lot to be said about how the count is racialised in his physical descriptions and how that contributes to#his otherness. just something to keep in mind#my jewish ass reading dracula like haha he looks just like me 🙂 (except for that im not old and don’t have facial hair etc)#dracula & otherness is such an interesting topic i will read a thousand essays about it btw
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lol imagine you’re Colin Bridgerton and you’ve spent the last three weeks pinning for your best friend who’s being courted by a vegetarian so now you have to jump through hoops and loops (and some finger tricks) to get her to marry you instead.
she accepts your proposal and as you’re still riding that high reality comes crashing down all around you as you realize marrying her means Portia Featherington will be your future mother-in-law…
#to the ‘colin deserves to suffer’ crowd: 1) no he doesn’t#and 2) even if he did like… look at his future in-laws. he WILL suffer don’t worry#boy will be paying for his sins in this life and also for any and all transgressions he committed in the past five#did he use to be dracula the impaler or what. to be punished so much#colin hyping himself up: god gives his hardest battles to his sexiest soldiers#anyways i really liked this ep if you couldn’t tell#but this and gregory wearing a top hat were probably my favorite parts#colin bridgerton#portia featherington#polin#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#bridgerton season 3
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Van Helsing: “Mina you should not be involved any further for safety’s sake—“
Jonathan, thinking: Yes, she shouldn’t be put in Dracula’s reach, good good good—
Van Helsing: “—helpful as you’ve been every step of the way, you do still have a chronic case of Being a Girl and so cannot be trusted to keep up with us men and our man-work.”
Jonathan, personal heroes including Mina, Scheherazade, and Mina again, grinding his teeth into dust: …That Is. :) A Way to Frame It. :)
#there’s also the social caste element in play I think#yes the Harkers have been instrumental#but they don’t have the numbers and resources on VH and the Suitor Squad do#likewise their general standing#quick friends or not; the Harkers feel they have to bite their tongues now (and in ensuing scenes) when the social more wedge gets driven#between them ~for their own good~#even so#you know these two are chafing#not looking forward to the next few days…#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#jonathan harker#abraham van helsing#mina harker
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He angy (part 1)
#Dracula you don’t look so happy#very protective of your little solicitor man#that feeling when your three weed smoking vampire wives try to eat your new boy toy#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#artist#count dracula#Dracula#dracula x jonathan harker#dracula daily#bram stokers dracula#comic#may 16#dd may 16#harkula#jonathan harker#jonathan#blue
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Peter Cushing as Lawrence van Helsing in Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
#i… don’t know why i decided to put myself through this film but i needed lawrence#he is literally the only good thing in this film#non!lee drac? JAIL#the way leyland looks? JAIL. HOW IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE VAN HELSING’S SON.#the ending did not even feel satisfying like their whole goal was to free the village and that didn’t even get a closure scene#but. it had lawrence. so i had to give it 3 stars on letterboxd.#lawrence van helsing#van helsing#dracula#hammer dracula#hammer horror#peter cushing#my screencaps
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Have this wip because I wanna share it before I decide I hate it but I’m currently losing the battle against colours
My humour is broken 🤩
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#Yes I ship them no I don’t have justified reasoning#My source is just trust me bro#I live for victorian gay people#Also don’t give me shit for the designs I had specific ideas of how they’d all look and now I can’t unthink them#dracula#quincey morris#jack seward#john seward#quincey p morris#dracula fanart#dracula art#dracula memes#meme art#digital art#digital artist#drawing#digital drawing#my artwork#artist#morward#art wip#sketch#digital sketch#art sketch#unfinished art#bram stokers dracula#re: dracula#gothic lit art#classic lit art
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#the way who’s taller and shorter is completely the opposite in renfield 2023 is rlly funny to me#like renfield just suddenly is taller than dracula. i love that#renfield 2023#dracula 1931#i’d never drawn the dracs before so forgive me if they don’t quite look super accurate#also everything here is exaggerated here for comedic effect obviously
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I generally like gothic horror and am very fond of Dracula so when my aunt was like want to watch Nosferatu 2024 I was like oh damn maybe
[Nosferatu spoilers ahead btw]
I am very easily spooked and don’t watch horror movies often but I was like vampire lore comparison opportunity outweighs potentially being too scared to sleep well so I was like Oho perhaps
But then I was like Hrm. r rating with sexual content. lets see
And a VERY shoutout to this person who had roughly the same question I had after trying to google content warnings for a movie that hasn’t come out yet (lmao)
And a very Thank You to this kind person who amongst the more unkind Reddit users had an actual response:
Anyway I’m not gonna see it but a) I’m grateful for these posts and b) look I KNOW the Dracula story is inherently lustful, and there are FASCINATING things to learn from it!! Mina Harker having sexuality outside of her marriage? Just one of many examples that would be interesting to dive into as a reflection of 1890s Victorian culture! So while I don’t think the sex scenes in this movie are unwarranted (I debated watching it anyway because dude I really like Dracula comparisons) I… probably can’t handle this one lol 😔
#sex scenes don’t typically get me to watch the movie but in this case I was like yknow I think I will sit this one out#fuck the horrors but also fuck the horrors yknow#“lust amongst the Horrors’ is well and good and even super fun to run with in like DnD#nosferatu#nosferatu 2024#that said if anyone watches this please tell me what they do with the lead character because I want to look for parallels to Mina Harker#Dracula#mina harker#Nosferatu spoilers#spoilers
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SOMA?? SOAM CRUZ SKIN IN DEAD BY DAYLIGHT
#castlevania#akumajou dracula#dead by daylight#OK OK HE LOOKS REALLY GOOD AS A SKIN FOR TRVEOR#but also he looks wayyy more Caucasian than I expected 😭😭😭 I don’t think a Japanese high schooler would look like that but I digress
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@sleepyjuniper you have arrived at your destination…..
Afternoon fools!
My name is Apophis, or you may know my business name Sealhaus, and this terrible little man has been my special interest for upwards of 7 years!!!
Naturally I draw him all the dang time and have been posting it for a long time. I have a fancomic on webtoon called Phoenix Rising, I post mostly art dolls and illustrations here and I make videos on the clock app every once in a blue moon!
Im letting this serve as my Shen masterpost.
#dreamworks#fanart#anthro#furry art#kung fu panda#lord shen#digital illustration#art doll#kung fu panda 2#furry#art dump#special interest#looking for bird? you’ve come to the right place!!#dreamworks fanart#kung fu panda fanart#why is “did you know his voice actor is a giant manwhore in my tag recommendations?#can that even be proved like scientifically?? I don’t doubt it I’ve seen Dracula but damn
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Still losing it over this image because I’m almost positive it’s due to tech limitations at the time aka a what we would call a dated model by today’s standards. BUT it looks like Isaac has the tiniest bit of hip fat and and I CANTTT 💕
#castlevania#akumajou dracula#curse of darkness#Seriously 3D model progression in games is insane a model can end up looking like ass in just 10 years which is crazy#Don’t worry Isaac that wasn’t about you ✨#But you could be an ass model if you wanted to be 😏#Jk what ass?
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When I see videos of pet rabbits being friends with the cats and dogs they share a home with I can’t help but think that this is probably our closest real life example to how a human would interact with a vampire and werewolf respectively. It’s not exactly a one to one thing (obviously) but it’s the closest thing we’ve got.
#Rabbits#Bunblr#I have a friend who ships hammer Dracula and helsing hard#and their fursonas are a cat and rabbit respectively: at least they are to me#If you see this pal I’m sorry don’t look at me
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Remember how Nic Cage said “dominate it” in that one scene?….. uhh yeah.
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my heart will never recover from them losing each other 🫠
#romance club#dracula a love story#dracula: a love story#rc aslan#dracula a love story spoilers#rc spoilers#I’m not posting that whack ass cg bc what the fuck was that#I don’t want to be ungrateful bc I know other routes are severely lacking in content#but why are they using AI so much#the DALS cgs (default white mc aside) have always so fucking gorgeous#this AI generated image doesn’t even look like them and it’s such a shame#anyway I’m happy we got this cute scene ❤️#even tho it’s lowkey heartbreaking at the same time dmdnd#(bc everything will NOT be okay)
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