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Classic Monsters: Vampires! 02632, Jahenna, and 02867, Mathias the Twisted

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Rigel    8911

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Been working on a series of monster hunters from the Early Modern Era, and of course that means we need early modern monsters!

The Vampire, of course, is one of the most versatile classics. Polidori, the "Varney" authors, LeFanu, and Stoker popularized the concept and promoted the bloated varcolac or shambling nach-zerer to the aristocracy. The variety is almost infinite, but nowadays we expect them to be parasitic, narcissistic, obsessive, entitled, compelling, rule-bound, and of course, literally blood-thirsty. 

Here's one such vampire, the beautiful Jahenna. Alluring, beguiling, deceptive. This is one of the crispest, cleanest sculpts I've encountered with regard to hands and hair. The conveniently-non-cruciform gravestone she's sitting on bears the legend "Mircalla RIP," a nod to LeFanu's "Carmilla" (source of the Vampire Anagram trope). The dress is very Jessica Rabbit-esque and my first attempt at fabric semitranslucency. Could probably have pushed those highlights more.
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Matthias the Twisted, on the other hand, is a very different flavor of vampire. He gets the full Murnau/Schreck treatment. Grotesquerie, disfigurement, corruption, contagion. An asymmetric bogey, horrific, athirst, more rat than bat or wolf. I do love the adorable little plague rats around and on him. 
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I like the way you really went for it with the two different types - great job on both, but Matthias is my fav - his skin and the olive/gold robe thing he's wearing make him very 'real' looking and creepy.

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Thank you! Glad you like/are creeped out by them! 

13 hours ago, Cicciopiu said:

Great job! Mathias is sooo creepy and Jahenna so sexy in her Jessica Rabbit suit ... nice!

 

11 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Jahenna! :wub:

She's beautiful!

Mathias. He looks great, degenerated and vile!

Yes!! That's what I was going for! 
 

5 hours ago, Iridil said:

I like the way you really went for it with the two different types - great job on both, but Matthias is my fav - his skin and the olive/gold robe thing he's wearing make him very 'real' looking and creepy.

Thank you! GW contrast Snakebite Leather is a really...unwholesome color and I LOVE it. I wanted to make Matthias look filthy and horrific, but also look like he comes from a noble family. A flaking and discolored coat of arms might help...wouldn't be easy with all the wrinkles. 
His skin is mostly Reaper's extremely well-named Vampiric Flesh, with bits of AP Corpse Pale and some light sepia wash. The sculpt is perfect for washes and inks and the like.

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