character’s aesthetic: Claudia
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Daniel Molloy ~ Another version of this, because I couldn’t decide on the colors.
Thank you, thank you, for blessing us with this sweet, sweet beautiful Dan.
I’m crying tears of joy and they won’t stop flowing ❤
[Pitiful Children plays in the background]
This is what happens when I have to work without reference
(characters: Santino & Armand)
Referring to the post about casting Dylan & Cole Sprouse, what are your thoughts on casting each twin as Louis and Nicki? I remember some time ago Anne had suggested using the same actor to portray both. After character make up and dress, do you think twins would be able to relay the concept of a defined similarity between the two without it being overkill? I guess I’m asking if looking the same would overpower distinctive personality differences.
You remember correctly! AR had suggested casting the same actor for the role 2/16/17:
Also Anne can you please spell it Nicolas w/o the H? Plz? *cries*
Lestat did compare Nicki and Louis, and there are similarities and differences, I think AR was just curious about it as an idea… I’m sure this has been done in live theatre at some point, casting one actor for 2 (or more) roles in a given production. She did say she’d want a talented, versatile actor who could create each role distinctively. Twins could probably create distinctive personalities but they would probably still look basically the same.
However, that “twin” comment from TVL was more about their personalities than physical resemblance:
I fell fatally in love with Louis, a young dark-haired bourgeois planter, graceful of speech and fastidious of manner, who seemed in his cynicism and self destructiveness the very twin of Nicolas.
Nicki’s face is not really described, aside from his having brown eyes. Louis is described in much more detail: narrow face, wide-set green eyes, wavy/curly black hair.
Louis and Nicki are not the same. I feel like looking the same would overpower distinctive personality differences.
Played by the same actor or identical twins, I feel like it would seem too much like “Louis”/”Nicolas” is trying to trick Lestat, a weird consideration I’d rather not have introduced.
…But let’s have the Sprouse twins audition anyway and let’s take one of them!
Rarely if ever do I post non-finished works or art to my mostly fandom and cosplay related blog, but since it’s NSFW, the sketchbook this was in recently got destroyed beyond repair and I seriously need some reinforcement for my sadly-nonexistent art muse of late… have some Armand and Louis sexy times!
Armand and Nicolas de Lenfent. These are just scribbles so please ignore glaring errors and sloppy work. I haven’t been drawing much for myself lately so I rushed to crank these out in the midst of work I can’t post here yet, heheh.
This is certainly during their theater days, perhaps Armand has been keeping a close eye on the public opinion of Nicki’s plays and is in the process of appreciating Nicki’s abilities.
Let the flesh instruct the mind
Interview with the Vampire Traditional Art – Painted with Watercolors & Pastel Pencils in ACEO size
Original Painting available NOW here
Dylan Sprouse (with long hair) looks like the perfect combination of Louis and Lestat.
Um, agreed. TBH I would love for him to audition as Lestat, Louis or even Daniel. Dylan or Cole both. I can’t tell them apart. They are seasoned professional actors, they have such charm and charisma, they’re 25 yrs old but could easily pass for 20 or 21… so many reasons so YES PLZ.
Submission from @baroquebat:
So while snooping around online, I managed to find a Japanese edition of The Vampire Armand and I have never seen anyone post the cover art, which is just gorgeous to me!
There seems to be an alternative cover as well:
I found them on Amazon.co.jp, here are the links in case anyone is eager to import!
Also there seems to be other titles of Anne Rice’s work also in a similar retro shoujo style if you look at her author page on Amazon.jp. It’s a shame that it’s only for the covers, I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?
^Above covers and text submitted by @baroquebat, thank you, much appreciated! I had never seen these before, they’re lovely ❤
>I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?
*nods* Me too! Of course we have our awful graphic novels of the 90′s but whatever…*
IWTV and TVL got the graphic novel treatment in the 90′s, I’m not sure how far up canon those went bc I didn’t really like them 😛 IWTV and TVL only, I think. It seems to me that the publishers are missing out on an incredible financial opportunity. I don’t know the backstory on how the IWTV graphic novel Claudia’s Story got made, but I would think that The Vampire Armand would have to go through a similar approval process.
We do have these, and CS is the best of them, IMO.
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