Castlevania III Dracula's Curse Tribute

My piece of gaming history drawn for the fantastic tribute at Game-Art-HQ

It follows in the vein of an early tribute I made to another Castlevania game: Castlevania Symphony of the Night.

It follows the same tier structure. The hero/heroes at the bottom. The various boss monsters in the middle. And at the top the castle itself followed by a visage of Dracula and Death. And then we have the logo taken straight from the game.

This was completed just after Season 2 of the Castlevania Netflix series concluded; which was primarily based off Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. (And the Ps2 sequel Curse of Darkness.)

So I took Trevor Belmont and pretty much made a rough interpretation of him from the Netflix series. He definitely stood out more in the series than a simple Simon Belmont clone which he was in the original.

Then I took companion Sypha Belnades and based her loosely off the Netflix iteration too. Though she is carrying a magic staff like she did in the game and dressed entirely blue. I only really borrowed her shorter hair from the series.

Alucard on the right is more or less his gaming counterpart. The Netflix series was essentially his Symphony of the Night incarnation. He had much darker hair in the game. So because he never used a sword in the original game and used energy orbs instead; I drew him with darker hair and more traditional vampire garb. He was limited in Cv3 more so than both Symphony of the Night and the Netflix series.

And rounding them off is Grant Denasty; who didn't appear in the Netflix series at all. At least; not officially. I have to watch it again but I think he's in somewhere as an Easter Egg or something. But here he's pretty much his game counterpart complete with pirate outfit and dagger.

So now for the boss monsters. Like my SoTN Tribute I didn't include all of them.

I included the Skull Knight, The Cyclops, The Two Mummies, the Frankenstein Monster, the Leviathan Gargoyle, the Two Water Dragons and the Giant Bat who broke into smaller bats.

The Medusa Archer, the Bone Dragon King and the Doppelganger ended up on the cutting room floor.

Finally at the top is the Castle itself; which actually looks to be an improvement over the SoTN castle I did years ago. It features prominent locations like the clock tower and crumbling tower with aqueduct too. Definitely more taller.

Flanking the castle is Dracula and Death. Dracula is a combination of Netflix Dracula and the game Dracula with that staff of his he used to summon fire. But Death is pretty much classic Death here as he was in the game; and also like Grant didn't appear in the Netflix series. (Though a priest that looked like his human disguise Zead did appear in the series.)

A lot of work this was but worth every second of it to pay tribute to one of the greatest and most important chapters in the Castlevania saga. It pays homage to both the game and the Netflix series it inspired which actually turned out to be quite good.

Castlevania seems to move people in many ways; and I got it done just in time for Halloween!

So hope it puts you in the mood for the holiday as well!

Castlevania, Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Grant Denasty and Alucard Adrian F. Tepes belongs to Konami