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Mar 2, 2009, 2:13:40 PM
:iconczarine:
At last.

Well, this has been in my mind for quite a long time. This is Count Dracula from the Castlevania game-series. I painted him in a similar style as Ayami Kojima, who worked as a character artist for some of the games.

In most of the games they use his aged version, so there aren't many youthful pictures of him. I wanted to paint a young version of him, or how I imagine he would have looked like. Got inspired mostly of Castlevania Chronicles art.

It was interesting to find out how Kojima paints and what does her painting process include. For me, molding paste and gold-paints were a new thing. Her way of painting facial features is challenging, so forgive me for all the mistakes.

There are many things I could have done the other way, and some parts were left quite unfinished, but I'll leave this now as it is. I could have done changes in Photoshop, but I'd like to keep this original as a reminder of what to improve in my skills.

EDIT: here's a kind of tutorial: [link]

tools:
B3 size illustration board (353×500 mm)
regular HB pencil for sketching (couldn't find conté )
some weird ink for sketching (baaad choice)
acrylics for colouring
black water soluble oil colour (pure mistake! should've bought black acrylic...)
brushes of various sizes (I trimmed some thinner myself)
white molding paste
a piece of plastic (read: palette knife ;))
gold paint (acrylic, I guess)
navy blue and burnt umber gesso (just happened to have some)

Dracula & Castlevania © Ayami Kojima & KONAMI
fan art © me.
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Mood: Love ~djrunza May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This is beyond AWESOMENESS I gotta tell you that. Lol. Shall add this into my favorite gallery! Cheers! :D
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*Czarine May 11, 2012  Student General Artist
Heh, thanks! 8-)

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Mood: Love ~djrunza May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Ahaha you are welcome. By the way Czarine, please do have the time to actually look over my artworks that I've done recently and please do not hesitate to drop by some comments over my artworks too. Cheers! Castlevania FTW~ :D
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*jmdesantis Apr 24, 2012
I think you did a nice job with this. I especially like how the halo looks (how it brings out the texture of the molding paste). I actually love that element in Kojima's paintings (she's one of my favourite artists). I gave molding paste a try years ago in one of my acrylic paintings, and I've been using it ever since.

On a side note, you can play with other ways of putting it down. Sometimes I use small strokes (as you did in this piece), sometimes I spread it on in wide strokes with the palate knife, and other times I run a stiff (oil paints) brush through it to give it a very "paint stroke" look. Gold paints are great to use too, though I agree, sometimes they don't quite show up the way I hope they would.

Great job again. Keep it up!

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*Czarine Apr 25, 2012  Student General Artist
Thanks! I wish I had time to take on another painting project with molding paste. It's fun to work with!

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*Fiji-Fujii Feb 23, 2012  Student Digital Artist
My greatest respect for painting such a wonderful picture with traditional media. Whenever I stumble across an artist who owns this skill, I can only tip my hat to them and praise them with compliments. :) I myself have converted from traditional to digital media because it's much easier to edit things in Photoshop than it is with a pencil and an eraser on paper, let alone acrylic paint on canvas.

I've been a fan of Ayami Kojima's work since I first saw it on the Castlevania series. You imitated her style very well. It pleases my eyes. :D

Wonderful work! :clap:

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*Czarine Feb 23, 2012  Student General Artist
Thanks! I think I still have much to improve though. :)

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"Show... a little more respect... for faerie tales."
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*Fiji-Fujii Feb 24, 2012  Student Digital Artist
You're very welcome. :) And we all have.

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~Vierov May 2, 2011
Lol..Reminds me of the anime version of the Count of Monte Cristo..from the anime called Gankutsuou xD
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*Czarine May 2, 2011  Student General Artist
:D You're right, they have similar looks...

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"Show... a little more respect... for faerie tales."
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