Beginnings

Trevor (Ralph) Belmont from Castlevania 3. I did this waaay back in October right after finishing my Simon fan art, but after being totally uhappy with Lords of Shadow's ending, I was completely discouraged from completing it. Finally started to get back into the mood this week, so here it is!

I thought Trevor should be a little burlier than Simon, a bit more armored, but similar in theme. Since Trevor was the first Belmont to actually have a headband on his character sprite, I incorporated it into his design. Like Simon, his coloration is meant to be pretty close to his NES colors, so mostly yellows and browns.

I was really unhappy with Kojima's redesign of Trevor for Curse of Darkness. Although her rendition of Simon in Chronicles was a little offbeat, at least it was original. Her Trevor, on the other hand, was largely just brown Richter... between those two, Juste, and Leon, I was just about fed up with how the Belmonts were shaping up, to be honest.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I actually liked Obata's Trevor from Judgment. His colors were about right, he had his headband, he wore armor, and was generally appropriately manly and rugged. The ridiculous belts and buckles were a bit much, though...

I've got Grant, Sypha, and Alucard coming down the pipeline, maybe later this week. Much like Trevor, I've tried to keep them close to their NES roots as much as possible, while incorporating some of the newer elements of Kojima and Obata for each of them. Perhaps ultimately I'll do a group pic of the whole Dracula's Curse gang. We'll see.