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<\/a><\/p>\nBela Lugosi – Dracula<\/em><\/strong>, 1931<\/h2>\nBela Lugosi’s Dracula<\/em> was the film that caught my imagination as a kid, and got me into horror to start with.\u00a0 Although I have a nostalgic fondness for it, and there are a few outstanding performances, the truth is, as a film, it’s not actually all that good.\u00a0 Director Todd Browning was apparently asleep at the wheel through most of it.\u00a0 He let Karl Freund cut loose with his camera work in the introductory scenes in Transylvania, which are the only scenes of any real cinematographic interest – once the action moves to England, Browning plants his camera in a medium shot, and barely moves it even to intercut any closeups, so it’s a lot like watching a stage play.\u00a0 In fact, the Spanish language version, filmed at night on the same sets by another crew, with Carlos Villar\u00edas as Dracula, is a much better version overall (though I think Villar\u00edas and Eduardo Arozamena in the roles of the Count and the Professor do not measure up to Lugosi’s and Van Sloan’s performances).<\/p>\nAll that said, Lugosi’s Dracula<\/em> was certainly an iconic film which created a lot of what would become the standard tropes for horror movies, and kicked off Universal Pictures’ series of horror classics in the thirties.<\/p>\nFor the artists in the audience:\u00a0 Technically, my Lugosi isn’t “ink” per se.\u00a0 It was created in Photoshop, but I set myself certain rules to try to make it more like an actual ink piece:\u00a0 minimal number of layers, and no using selections or masks, no layer mode changes, no level adjustments, just painting with black and white.\u00a0 I broke my rules just once, putting a texture on on the background in multiply mode to give it a little more visual interest.\u00a0 pretty happy with how it came out.<\/p>\n
Dracula on IMDB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bela Lugosi on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So I’m late to the party with this “Inktober” business – just found out about it the other day.\u00a0 Choosing to jump in, I figured considering the time of year, I might as well make my Inktober creations celebrate some … Continue reading
All that said, Lugosi’s Dracula<\/em> was certainly an iconic film which created a lot of what would become the standard tropes for horror movies, and kicked off Universal Pictures’ series of horror classics in the thirties.<\/p>\n For the artists in the audience:\u00a0 Technically, my Lugosi isn’t “ink” per se.\u00a0 It was created in Photoshop, but I set myself certain rules to try to make it more like an actual ink piece:\u00a0 minimal number of layers, and no using selections or masks, no layer mode changes, no level adjustments, just painting with black and white.\u00a0 I broke my rules just once, putting a texture on on the background in multiply mode to give it a little more visual interest.\u00a0 pretty happy with how it came out.<\/p>\n Dracula on IMDB<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bela Lugosi on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m late to the party with this “Inktober” business – just found out about it the other day.\u00a0 Choosing to jump in, I figured considering the time of year, I might as well make my Inktober creations celebrate some … Continue reading