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Submitted: September 14, 2005
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Tending to Masterby *AshleyCope

Fan Art / Digital Art / Painting & Airbrushing / Other

I've wanted to paint this for... six years? Ages ago I attempted it with just Alucard and the fairy but this here was what I really wanted. There's something about Alucard and his familiars that just makes me happy. Maybe I get too into these silly games but I can imagine Alucard creeping through his father's castle, thunder roaring in the background, bloodthirsty hellhounds around every corner, deceit, torment, agony on his heels - and all his little demon familiar wants to do is push cool buttons while the fairy makes a comfortable perch of the half-vamp's shoulder as he broods over the castle map. It's just cute! And I love when cute things mix with macabre things. It's a... thing.

So here we have the fairy familiar tending to a tiny nick on her master's face with a bit of potion as the rest of their little party looks on, likely offering suggestions on how to get 200% map completion or bitching about how broken the shield rod is.

Wasn't going to finish this but after they announced the next round of the OmniArt contest at RPGamer I thought this fit the "Loyalty" option pretty well, so I pulled it out again and tried to fix what was bothering me most. It's very sparkly. Lots going on. Super ornate. Like Ayami Kojima and Kinuko Craft had a lesbian affair in Photoshop. Sticky.

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Given 2006-05-21

Tending to Master by *ShardGlass is packed with details. Besides having a wealth of interesting things to look at, the color shading is some of the smoothest I've seen. ( Suggested by ~shrela and Featured by `Aeires )

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~WynterLegend Dec 13, 2012

Simply gorgeous. I loved Symphony's addition of the familiars and I feel like you've captured this flawlessly. Thank you for this.

~nitroxvi Oct 13, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I LOVE this picture, it brings me back to those magical days when I discovered this game, scratched and stained with some kind of weird gunk, in my dad's old box of stuff. I'd never played a single castlevania before - and that game (running remarkably well considering the horrifying damage to the disc) sparked an obsession.

I loved how the Fairy and the Demon worked in particular - how the demon would hit out-of-reach buttons for you to open hidden passages, and the fairy would whisper to you about strange walls. Sadly, no game in the series has come close to that level of familiar awesomeness. It's also funny how the Bat familiar is instantly smitten with you if you go into bat form - to the point where he brings in wing men.

This is an absolutely awesome picture!