Self Portrait

Castlevania of Cagliostro

I don't usually make posts like this but this time I just couldn't resist, so here we go, I'm going to make a point about how studio Ghibli's Castle of Cagliostro (1979) served as a base for Castlevania (1986)!

Let's start with the most obvious one; level four, the Underground Caverns!

Water-filled skeleton-ridden cave? Check.

Shenanigans on the rooftops of the castle? Check.

A red-bricked route leading up to a chapel? Check!

Clocktower capering leading up to a final confrontation with the cloaked main villain?
Check!

Of course, I was thinking if anyone else noticed (I mean of course someone/everyone must have, but still) and someone (this guy http://tinycartridge.com/post/31536775930/scenes-from-castlevania-compared-with-the-castle) noticed some things I didn't. So here they are!

(Really, how could I have missed this one?)

So there you have it! Ghibli was instrumental in forming the first Castlevania into what it is or I'm a monkey's uncle!

Fantasy Zone

Third! I'm on a roll here!

I was feeling happy, does it show?

This one I made listening to the Katamari Damacy soundtracks (most notably I listened to Guru Guru Gravity). If the Space Jam one was done to YMO's Behind the Mask then the first one (Monster Party) was to the 1985 Vampire Hunter D soundtrack (Night of Monsters). Absolutely useless information.

Space Jam

Gods I love YMO  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY_SPVU-NMA

Anyway, more RBBW stuff.

More coming pending on reasonable ideas.

Monster Party

Back to playing around with black, white, red and blue. I made this in a day's time, will be printing it a few times tommorow, and selling the prints the day after. The punny title of this post is the idea of my dearest of  friends and the motivation to do something with this colour scheme again came from his girlfriend. 

Perhaps I will return to this style again, although I shouldn't think it'll be an orgy next time around.

Viking meets the Jellyman

 It's a comic I made with Tom van der Heiden (that guy from the Balkan inspired band, yes) with Jellyman.
Don't ask why the last two pages are huge.

More style tests (and Ripple Cracker Volley)

I figured I might try doing some stuff with just one colour, and some quick work later this is the result.
I didn't really use that much reference material for the skull which is why it's about as anatomically correct as a western 14 year old's attempt at a manga character.  

As for this, having some other ideas I wanted to try out and figuring I might as well make something for Joseph Joestar now that the anime has reached the second arc (and with no pencil sketch, which explains one or two things about the face amongst other things), so there you go.