 HOWMANY
OF YOU REMEMBER
the original DCTP Art Gallery? This miniscule art
collection consisted of about 6 links to about 6 pictures in a tiny little "Miscellaneous"
place. How many of you remember when the Skull Knight HIMSELF went on
an art kick and stole all my pics to hone his painting skills? What a
loser! I boiled him in the blood of a thousand dragons and broke
his sword, making him the Red Skull Warrior with a katana as his weapon.
He was still acting up, so in November of 1997, I went
to The CastleVania Dungeon, where THE MAN,
Slogra, was stationed, and consulted him about guarding my Arts. He agreed
to the non-pay job, and at members.aol.com/SlograSaur/, Slogra's
Art Show premiered on November 9th.
Meanwhile, the Red Skull Warrior 'accidentally' met
with a foul end at the butterfingers of Kurt Kalata (Holy Water, Whips...don't
ask).
 So
Slogra was doing his thing for a while, gaining two--no, three--loyal
followers (you know who you are), and then his job was abruptly obliterated
in June of 1998 during some unlimited web space negotiatons only
three knew of...
On October 19th of that year, while DCTP remained
at members.aol.com/Sinyaso/ (and still undaunted by the two-megabyte cap),
the Fan Art Gallery!! found itself steady at dragonzamasu.8m.com/art/gallery.html,
with over ten megabytes' space granted by Freeservers and initially registered
at NYiT.
Over a year and a half later,
space was getting pretty tight on DCTP. On Sunday night, July 23rd, 2000,
I was fortunate enough at the end of my week off to rediscover FortuneCity,
which by then was giving away 100MBs of web space; way more than
I needed! Dracula's Curse THE PAGE!!! would move to the location by the
middle of that week, tailed closely by the CastleVania III: Dracula's
Curse THE PAGE!!! Fan Art Gallery!!, which would finally remain as close
ever since.
Dated Neon Genesis Evangelion jokes aside,
unless you've been in Terminal Dogma gawking at Rei # 4~192,791 nude for
the past few months...oops. I forgot to overwrite the outdated Evangelion
joke! Anyway, ...you'll recognize that the below links will
take you to what you want to see. The pictures! You've gotta have the
pictures!
CLASSIC
Before the ferocious Skull Knight's gaping
grin accompanied his NES sprite (during the earlier days) at The CastleVania
Dungeon, and before Hideously Evil Slogra ripped fear from you along with
the rest of your throat, there were 1991, CastleVania III, a pen, and
papers. We all have our beginnings, and some years after I began to draw,
I reached this point.
WARNING: TIME WARP PROCEDURE ACTIVE.
YOU'D BETTER DO SOMETHING TO GET READY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT, JUST THINK OF SOMETHING.
ERIC ROMAN
AD NAUSEUM
In 1997, The CastleVania Dungeon's Fan
Art section had only three or five graphics; two were very nice CGs. Dracula's
Curse THE PAGE!!! continued to spawn around that time, and I didn't know
how to use emulators to grab sprite shots (neither did I have a reliable
GIF generator). My plan was to hand draw every bad guy
as close as possible to their in-game appearance. Lo and behold, the first
big surge of CV Fan Arts at the Dungeon consisted of some hand drawn snippets
and a couple made in Microsoft Paint. Here, we have a PHAT,
hundred-strong collection of my own drawings, Bitmaps, sketches,
and touch-ups.
The monstrous CastleVania baddies are my specialty.
RUFF
HAS THE STUFF
During the mid-summer of 1997, an
unstoppable juggernaut named RUFF tore a mark into the CastleVania Dungeon's
Fan Art section. My personal title as major CV Fan Art contributor
became seriously wounded with his contributions for the Dungeon, which
were CastleVania (III, especially) scenes, rendered extremely well
with a steady hand over his mouse. In my egotism, I wondered why
the artist himself never approached me about showing off his pics. Indeed, DCTP
had been around four months less than CVD, but, as the 'CVIII authority',
I felt entitled to first dibs on this kind of thing. I remember feeling
competed against when I saw "...and yet ANOTHER work from Ruffs in the
Art Section!" on the Dungeon's updates list.
I envied his superior mouse skills... Was I being replaced?
Find out, and scope out Ruff's excellent GIF'd CastleVania BMPs, here!
FAN DESU
This is how the rest of you do business.
A Fan Art assortment of numerous styles and formats
occupies this new section of the Fan Art halls.
MYSTORY
History, herstory, MYstory.
Here's the additions list!
New stuff added October 10th, 2009.
Page Start: November 9, 1997
Restart: May 21,1998
Re-restart: October 19, 1998
Counter Added: November 9, 1997; Re-added(?) May 21, 1998, then
striken later on, since this is now a normal DCTP section...
....with its own updating schedule...
Last Edited: February 23, 2010, 5:51PM EST
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