ERIC ROMAN AD NAUSEUM

101 of the pictures here, including the animated Metroid II GIF to the left, were created by the one and only, second to three, Slogra-obsessed, usagi-girl craving CastleVania III sitemaster and anime informant known as Eric Roman!

Ho shoot, that's me. I'm currently on the HB pencil tip, but before my skills improved, I was always using a pen. I still can, but not as "good" as I could with a pen a year or three ago. I've been a hit at the CastleVania Dungeon for some time, from the first CV3 character drawings to Symphony pictures formatted like they were Monster Dictionary entries. Of the numerous contributions to the Dungeon over time, let it be known, Fan Art was one, two, three, and seventeen of them.

Hey, on September 20, 2000, I put everything in chronoligical order! Cool. Now I can call this "my history of drawing CastleVania".

How deep are we? You think I'm writing intricate descriptions for my writing health? Well...yeah, but still. Read the docs, man, please read the docs. They'll go straight for the cake. Come on. Kurt's deleted the MP3s. Explore his works for once. Gimme my D ring and chopper. I'm outta here.

1997

Skull Knight
One of the first three images ever to appear on my site when in its infancy. The Skull Knight materializes from a heap of bones, and attacks with his sword and shield ready. The skull knight is also one of the best, yet simplest looking Ultimate Evil, in my humble, expert opinion.

Pillar of Bones
This mouse drawn image is the other that accompanied the Skull Knight on day one of Dracula's Curse THE PAGE. This one seems to be referring to the Dragon Skull Cannons in the Tower of Terror, where they're stacked high.

Dragon Skull Cannon
I made this one with my mouse. I made one head, copied it, mirrored it, and colored it to look like it does in CastleVania 3. Also one of the first images to grace Drac's Curse THE PAGE. The third image was a password.

Fish Man
Yet another bitmap from the site's early days. Shows one jumping, and another standing.

Vampire Bat
Just one of the first wave of the CVD Fan Arts. A hand drawn picture of the sprite.

Skeletal Gargoyle (6-1997)
The earlier drawing of the gargoyle that was done for DCTP. The shield was supposed to be protecting his chest, not the whole body like it is shown here. That's why I redid it later on.

Raven
Here's another one I did when my site was new. I did this one from memory, that is, I remember that in the Nintendo Power coverage, their pic of the Raven had one wing sticking out, a bit like it's shown here.

Fish Man
The Fish Man has got to be another one of my favorite enemies. I liked them in CastleVania III, though. They had more movement. I drew this to look like the sprite of the Fish Man just leaping out of the water below. Subconsciously, I produced my first CG, sort of. I used a smudger to make the water look all smudgy, heh.

Axe Man
The Axe Man is okay. They also have more movement in CastleVania III. Well, they kneel, at least. In this picture, the Axe Man readies an axe. Another one for the early site.

Skeletal Swordsman
These guys are a bit strong compared to other skeletons...they'll take 2 hits before being vanquished. In this drawing, made for the early site, the swordsman just drew its' sword. These small armored skeletons seem to be more efficient than the Skull Knight! Ooo.....

Evil Spark
Well, I was doing this for the site (also), so when I remembered this enemy, I drew it. I'm not sure if it's some kind of hairy thing or if it's a spark.

Slime
Here's another small picture for the ancient DCTP, this one's of those little slime blops that hop around and stick to the ceiling. There wasn't that much, if any of, a challenge in drawing this thing.

Bone Dragon
This one was on the same piece of paper as the Fish Man, Skeletal Gargoyle, Axe Man, Skeletal Swordsman, Medusa, Spark/Fuzz, and the Slime. I originally had this colored blue, but I changed it for a reason I forget. These smaller versions of the Bone Dragon King are attached to their surface, with neck and head swinging out. They'll try to nail you with their pellets.

Bone Dragon (Blue)
This doodle I made before a Religion 3 final was retraced, colored on the spot, then scanned. I used it as the pic for the Bone Dragon King on my site at one point, the earlier point.

Doofy "Heads"
In the summer of 1997, Dracula's Curse ruled! I embraced the philosophy "Emulation. It's a wonderful thing." And Count Dracula's second form, which I called "Heads", was the nastiest thing I've ever seen until I saw Evangelion Unit One go Berserker in tape 0:10 (summer 98). I attempted to draw (with a mouse) Dracula's second and nasty form, and I tried again. In the end, I purposely made him look doofy.

Harpy
Harpies CAN be cute, if you give them the chance. Before Evangelion's Asuka decimated the competition in May of 1998, Osaka Naru (Molly from Sailor Moon) was my fave anime babe. So I tried to give this Harpy Molly's head. There's also another Harpy I drew for this fighting game I designed, she was called Pteryx Harpiai. She's got a Molly head, too. Okay, originally, the Harpies in any given CastleVania game are bare breasted. I can't draw that. Yet. Don't expect an Asuka Harpy. Oh, and another note, this is actually a scan of the stage leader "Harpy Mama" in my SNW series. It passes for a CV Harpy.

Death
Death has got to be one of the most hate-able blasstards in the ENTIRE CV series! I made this drawing of him when I was in Puerto Rico. I tried to make him look the way he does in Dracula X. He is BAAAAAD in Dracula X! Hand to hand combat, by far the greatest challenge ever set forth by his royal deadness!!!

Bone Dragon King
Here's another one I drew while in Puerto Rico. This was one of the first CV leaders I took a liking to. The King is the Ultimate Evil of the Sunken Temples of Sarnath in Dracula's Curse. It rarely has its' arms attached, but for fights, he'll make an exception. I got the arm idea from the Nintendo Power magazine with the CastleVania III coverage...which I'll never see again...

King Fish Man
Another drawing hecho en Puerto Rico. I drew up this creature as a tribute to the wonder that is Fish Man. We had seen Medusa Queens, Bone Dragon kings, and Phantom Bats, but what about the Fish Man?

Puweyxil
Puweyxil is an absurdly large skull creature. Mr. Skull Head was first recognized to be "Puweyxil" in Super CastleVania IV. And when I went back to 3 and saw him after the Grim Reaper, I recognized him to be Puweyxil, too. Puweyxil is even more absurdly large in CastleVania III, where it attacks by spitting sickles from its mouth. In another phase, the voluptuous Annette Renard rides atop, its' eyes conjuring fire and thunder!

A new form for Dracula
Count Dracula has been known to use many terrifying forms during his last stands. In this drawing made during the Puerto Rico vacation 97, I used a combination of nearly every final threat to create this mess. This original nightmare also contains many of the aspects seen in CastleVania bosses and enemies. Mixed in are the centipedes in CV4, the Angel Mummy of Belmont's Revenge, and more.

Skull Knight
Here's one I drew and colored which came out okay. The Knight makes a fearsome pose. Let it now be known that the model of this pose was that of the spoof of Spinal from Killer Instinct in a CRACKED magazine. Curse Castle is in the background.

Dragon Skull Cannon
My hand drawn, colored picture of the DSC displays horns just as the instruction manual to Dracula's Curse.

Red Skeleton
Another bitmap after a string of these hand-drawns. This was actually a redo of an original Red Skeleton (that never went web), in a leaping pose. The first one came out majorly clunky, the feet looked horrible. The only thing that came out well was the head. So I erased everything from the neck down, and started over.

Skeletal Gargoyle (revision)
Here's a skeletal gargoyle I redrew. I decided to redo it when I realized that the gargoyle's held the shields protecting their chest, not holding them out in front of them. These guys look a bit like the Skull Knight!

Aquarius (9-30-97)
Hey, look! A previously unreleased bitmap! Bone Dragon is about to taste Trevor's Banshee Boomerang in CastleVania III's Sunken Temples of Sarnath!

Skull Warrior
Well, well, we're just discovering fossils every single day! Direct to you from October 11, 1997 is the Skull Knight after I broke his sword over my knee and dunked him in the blood of a thousand zombies. And this was only for stealing my early pics. I wonder how Slogra would turn out if it was him... Not a bad idea. NOT a good one, either.

A CastleVania Adventure: The Skull Knight
The first area guard from A CastleVania Adventure that Andy Costello and I did in late 97. This one was held at bay with a Warykiya Express card Andycard handed him (look closely).

A CastleVania Adventure: The Cyclops Monster
Another area guardian from A CastleVania Adventure. (Unscanned enemies are Cardian Minotaur and Mollster, and undrawn enemies are Snake Man Sentinel, Nasty Grant, Hideously Evil Slogra, Ball o' Dead Bodies, and the Fuzzy Grim Reaper)

A CastleVania Adventure: Koranot
Koranot was another boss in the RPG, A CastleVania Adventure, which I wrote with Andy Costello late in 1997. Our Koronot was smaller and had undergone an intensive sediment-shaking workout.

A CastleVania Adventure: Count Dracula
In the conclusion to A CastleVania Adventure, Andycard and SlograSaur were pitted face to fang with THE Ultimate Evil, Count Dracula! We won, of course. The Count looks rather sociable in this one, don't you think?

1998

CastleVania Printouts: Skull Knight
Printouts of The CastleVania Dungeon, CastleVania III Dracula's Curse THE PAGE, and other CastleVania things, were building from September 1997 on. Because the currently available folder wouldn't be able to hold such a bulk, in 1998 I found a manilla folder from school and decided on that. I titled the folder "CastleVania Printouts", and would later decorate it with some pen drawings of notable CastleVania enemies. Here's a beastly Skull Knight!

CastleVania Printouts: Slogra
Here's yet another off-model Slogra of mine from the CastleVania Printouts folder.

CVP: Chupacabra
A Chupacabra (or Cave Troll) leaps into air and launches his throat needle in this O.K. drawing.

CVP: Dracula and the CVP logo
Here's a cool CastleVania III style Dracula standing next to the drawn logo for this folder. Obliterated from sight beneath the right end of the logo was the Skull Knight, erased in Photoshop just to get him outta the way.

CVP: Skeletal Gargoyle
Straight from CastleVania III comes the Skeletal Gargoyle from the Curse Castle Tower of Terror! Another good pen rendition of this strange enemy.

CVP: Bone Dragon King
CastleVania Symphony's Bone Dragon King unleashes a huge blast from the lower left corner of the folder.

CVP: Mobile Bone Pillar
I was a chronic fan of the Mobile Bone Pillar (Bone Ark) at the time, so I just had to include this former Cool-Character-of-the-Week on the folder cover!

CVP: Huh?
I'm not really sure WHAT this thing is supposed to be...maybe the Demon Familiar from CastleVania Symphony. If anyone would know, it'd be me. But since I don't...we've got problems.

CVP: Dragon Skull Cannon
Of course, we can't have a folder brimming with CastleVania stuff and not have the Dragon Skull Cannon on the cover! I might re-scan this one day. The scanner left out most of the lower skull.

Oroborous
For some reason, CastleVania Symphony of the Night labels the Bone Dragon King in the game, "Oroborous". I don't get it. Then I'm startled when I look on at a game of Marvel vs Capcom then see Strider perform an Ouroborous. Here's the King of the Skeletal Dragons, flying about in a catacomb-like setting. Hand drawn.

Symphony Bosses
Granted, everyone in this picture rules, even "Alucard", though I hate him. In this small hand drawn, you can spot several SotN characters, including four of the five Familiars, Galamoth, Dracula, Slogra, Gaibon, Death & little friend, Richter, Alucard, and the Skull Knight, who plays no more than the part of the GAME OVER screen.

Se Chupa (Spanish for "he sucks")
In Puerto Rico, there was this really bad abomination running around and sucking the blood of livestock. It was the Chupacabra. Konami probably heard of this when making Symphony of the Night, so they added in this alien creature, and, in Japan, labeled it "Chupacabra". In the U.S., they called it a Cave Troll. Misinformation should be a crime. HELLO!!!!! THIS THING ATTACKED ON U.S. SOIL! RING! RING! RING! CAVE TROLL, INDEED!!!! At any rate, here's my SNW boss (Rueber) that can pass for a blue CV Chupacabra with a tail. In this drawn picture is a small information system that is later refined and used by another artist. Thanks to DarkHugh for letting me use the word-for-word Dx NitM interpretation from the Monster Dictionary.

Angel Mummy
Cloud Castle resounds with rock music that is rather metallic. Whenever I listen to BGM 2, I'm reminded of a climbing American Airlines plane headed for Puerto Rico in the summer of 1992. This Castle Spirit looks to me like a combination of Puweyxil, Queen Medusa, and the Bone Dragon King/Queen(?). Of the sparse Angel Mummies I did draw, this one seems to come out looking the best, even though the skulls seemed to be rearranged instead of the neck bones...

Legion of Dragonkind
In Symphony of the Night, there is a monster called the Granfallon (Legion in Japan). That was the main reason why I needed Symphony of the Night (as well as a PlayStation). When I saw the .avi of the Granfallon corpses screaming and getting beat, I was shocked. I eventually beat the Granfallon, and I drew this Granfallon of Bone Dragons, the Legion of Dragonkind. Another made-up boss.

The Moo Mix
The Bone Ark is quite a thing. The jury is still out on what that skull is, and I suppose they'll never return. I was in the middle of a Bone Ark buzz in the beginning of the year. I drew the thing from memory in looseleaf paper, then put them together in this collage.

Scilly Scylla
A very silly Scylla created with Dizknee characters and more.

Gaibon
The Blue Gargoyle from Super CastleVania 4. Did you know he's a play off of Dracula's beast form?

KONAMI!
All these characters represent Konami! Even the licensed ones!

Deino Bone Dragon
The VICIOUS Bone Dragon King from CastleVania Bloodlines threatens anything else I drew on the same looseleaf page. As you can tell, I made a looping line and then added the vertebrae. This one's cool.

Airius Berigan
RPG character based off Gaibon.

Fire Demon
Anne Felis descended from heaven in early 1998 to make the world a better (and much more competetive) place with her fantastic fan art for the CastleVania Dungeon, which consisted of most of CastleVania Symphony's enemy characters. This Fire Demon, drawn in summer of 1998, was an attempt to mimic her techniques which I assumed involved inking over a drawing and whatnot. Anyway. It's in COLOR! The strange ripple pattern on the color is due to the paper. Fire Demon charges up a blazing flame shot! VAGUEly visible due to the scan, is his wailing face of agonous death in the background.

Dracula Battle Selection Screen
In the summer of 1998, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before the Humor Me submission called Dracula Battle Royale, I made up this drawing of the character selection screen for the CastleVania fighting game I was designing. You'll have hours and hours of fun...deciphering the 25 faces of the playable bad guys. CastleVania experts like Kurt Kalata, Mike Erickson, Andy Costello and I will have no trouble. Where are the Belmonts? What Belmonts? I didn't tell me there were going to be BELMONTS in this game!

CastleVania III Dracula's Curse THE PAGE!!!
As Kurt once put it, "'nuff said."

Cool Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper's look in CastleVania Symphony is phat. It wouldn've been cool if he used his air slashing sickle as he did in Super CastleVania IV. Here's my concept of him using it as an attack in CastleVania Symphony along with his little pal only I seem to care about. Not bad pen work from August 9-8.

Cool Dracula X
Nice-looking DX logo done in Paint.

"AL"
Another CG. Alucard in the catacombs!

Fish Guy!
A Fish Man in his environment! I like this one. It has a certain feel to it, much like the thousands of anime show character collages out there.

New Skull Knight
Edited Skull Knight bitmap.

Bone Dragon King CG
The Bone Dragon King, made in Paint followed by Paint Shop Pro.

Heads: GET SERIOUS!
Doofy Heads gets SERIOUS!

1999

Knight 99
Sketch of the Skull Knight. Done in Puerto Rico, 1999!

Choops
A pair of Chupacabra.

Chupacabra
Computer colored version of the Symphony Chupacabra.

Haters
A horrid, done-on-the-train sketch of Slogra and Gaibon facing off a CastleVania character in drag. Quite possibly "Alucard".

Harpy 1999
Harpies get such a bad rap. Returns the Molly Harpy! This used to be "Chillin with Slogra Gaibon and Harpy" now in the Slogra section, until she was inked over and colored.

Iron Doll: NewType Style
My mouth watered at the sight of an Iron Doll graphic in a certain Belmont's Revenge tribute page, so I had to get to work ASAP to make my mark. My two Iron Doll sketches were finally scanned and touched up three months later... To add a touch of anime-ness, I stuck in nearly illegible and slimly relevant text, just like many...um...anime, yeah, anime GIFs I've come across.

Iron Doll
A confused Iron Doll wears its bulky armor and tolerates hip-hopping Under Moles.

Vampire Hunter E
I had ambitions to finish a certain story called "Vampire Hunter E (and his lovely brunette maid)" and during that time, I made a few drawings. Here, we see the main character, I, arrive on the scene, stalked by a Slogra-ish character and about to throw down with a charging Skull Knight! I like the way the caped Skull Knight came out on this one. Knowledge of Japanese Katakana Romanization was very limited, so bear with me on this one. I'm better now.

Cool Skull Knight
I just had to do this one for Andy, Skull Knight's biggest fan. Here's the Skull Knight from the above picture!

Scary Slogra
Let's just call it a compact version of Hideously Evil Slogra and we'll leave it at that. 'Finalized' in early 1998.

Ow! Hey!
During the big Symphony buzz of early 1998, I drew on a piece of looseleaf this picture of Slogra in his "IIAGH!" hit-reaction pose. That odd thing above him is most likely the trident's spear tip. I didn't finish it.

Rondo of Guts
Alucard divides Slogra in Dracula X GEKKA NO NOCTURNE! Whatever that means...

The Blast of '98
The days at Cardinal Hayes High School wound down in June 1998, and the math teacher graciously gave us a chill-out period. In a flip over type sketch book I used a thick, ball point pen to draw this picture of Slogra incinerating a victim. As a line drawing, this one actually pretty much has it all together! "THE PAIN! THE PAAAAAAAAAI---!!"

Do you have any moo juice?
In June 1998, Slogra needed to know if you had milk. This one has great remix possibilites.

Slogra CG
Slogra?

New Slogra
Made-up master for my game idea, NUTS: A CastleVania Excursion.

Who is Slogra? I AM
In July of 99, Berrigan Slogra showed up at the Ferguson Library in Stamford Connecticut with an answer to the eternal question: "WHO IS SLOGRA?" in this remix of the early 1998 "WHO IS SLOGRA" sign. I made this pencil line drawing as Al B Pri got title belt information...

Slog and Drag
In case you never noticed, I can't ever draw Slogra the way he ACTUALLY LOOKS. But here's as close as I've ever come. A Bone Dragon was on the same page, so I kept that in.

Throw Down
Slogra wrote this description: "Oh yeah? Come at me then! Let's take it to the streets, ---- makin' games. Like E said in 89, let's do it right now! Come on! I don't need this ------- spear!" Thank you, Slogra.

Chillin' with Slogra, Gaibon, and Harpy!
Lord Slogra and Mister Gaibon chill out as a Harpy sweetie soars above in this summer 1999 sketch.

The Slim Slogra LP
Before it was known as The Slim Sloggy .MP3, I made this little fakeout ad for the parody of Eminem's Slim Shady LP, The Slim Slogra LP, some lyrics of which premiered in July of 1999. This was completed on August 4, 1999 at 4:30PM, just in time to end my break and get back to work.

S
A bitmap made with Microsoft Paint's line and shape tools. Slogra. HE's the S. Forget utility boots, fruit loop.

Slogra and Meloura
You've gotta respect the lovely Princess Meloura of TwinBee and probably Xexex. But don't you dare touch her...Slogra's got her back. Meloura could've come out better, though. This one is just pleading "remix me, please!" Fine. I want to one day. Where's Pastel when you need her..? WARNING: MELOURA IS NOT LOVELY IN THIS SKETCH!!!

The SLOGRA [berigan].MP4
The original concept for the album cover included a Slogra mecha. I drew a 'yeah, right, like I'm gonna tune this up' light sketch. His head was smaller, too. In the end, it turned out to be a VERY cool sketch, if I may be big-headed for a second. With its 6-20-2000 12:50AM completion date, it rightfully illustrates what I'm now capable of with pencil, paper, and patience. Its left hand could use a bit of work.

Warrenheim Sloggington III
Kurt Kalata's kickin' second comic, Kid Dracula in The Reason I became a Dancer, featured a British-type-Slogra supporting character named Warrenheim Sloggington III! I was thinking of doing a cover page for this one too (as I had incompletly remixed his first CastleVania Darkening of Blood Comic), and was coming up with rough pen character designs. Here's Slogginton decked out in a tuxedo, hat, bowtie, villanous moustache, carnation, and cane! Dated 7-9-2000.

BETTERSLOGRA
Back in July 2000, before the huge revelation of efficiencies which made it even easier to work on DCTP, I was working on an offline little piece of trash called 'Do You Have Any Cheese?', which would have been my personal site. The first header image was of the vicious-looking anti-hero of anime, BETTERMAN, asking the question, "DO YOU HAVE ANY CHEESE?" So I was talking with Andy when one of us said the magic words which prompted the shortest-lived comic saga ever, BETTERSLOGRA! Check it out. Starring Slogra, Browny, Yuushio from Neoranga, and that commander from Contra Hard Corps. The plot is simple; Slogra turns into a viciious, highly detailed beast whenever bad things happen, such as the incident which occurs at the bottom of the page. What we don't see is Yuushio getting stomped out and Slogra becoming BETTERSLOGRA and destroying An Unimaginable Terror. P.S. The mecha is a spoof of a Neuronoid in BETTERMAN, which resembles a frog. P.P.S. You'll not get a prize if you can guess what An Unimaginable Terror resembles!

Thanks, Metroid Database, for Kraid and Ridley!

CastleVania the Reunion of All CastleVania Enemies Bloodletting
When I found out that all the past CV enemies and bosses were in the (upcoming) CastleVania Symphony of the Night game, I made this!

Slogra Joke
When I found a Coelophysis clip art in my MS Word Clipart directories, I knew this was going to be perfect! See what happened when a Jurassic Park reject tried to audition for Nocturne/Symphony?

Battle Arena Noc-turne-Den
When I found out that you had to fight Trevor, Sypha, and Grant in Symphony of the Night (Dracula X Nocturne in the Moonlight), I drew this pic! My Battle Arena Toshinden and Nocturne in the Moonlight crossover!

Symphony of the Skull Knight
Yes, Symphony is spelled incorrectly in the image. My intent was playing on the word to make it sound like another word for fake, phony (phoney?). As Alucard, Sypha, Trevor and Grant look on, the CV enemies and leaders create their own phony symphony! Featured enemies include Count Dracula, Cyclops, Harpy, Flame Ghost, Medusa, Phantom Bat, Vampire Bat, Grim Reaper, Skull Knight, and the Bone Dragon King.

Stupor CastleMania: Series 1
One of two Stupor CastleMania comics. The scene is set in Super CV4's 7th stage! Very droll...

Stupor CastleMania: Series 2
The subsequent comic, which takes a stab at the Demon Familiar in CastleVania Symphony of the Night. On the down low, this one has some extraordinary possibilities as an animated GIF.