2draw.net - boards - Intermediate - Alucard <Unfinished>

Peipera (Jan 19, 2004)
drawn in 38 min

RabidMalikFanGirl (Jan 19, 2004)

Ah. Alucard. *screams and runs away*

Scary. Very scary indeed ^^

Childlike_Vampire (Jan 19, 2004)

Hey awesomely, I love Hellsing. I'm pretty sure it's spelled Alucard, but then there are those who tell you it's Arucard so...I'm just gonna enjoy the pic.

ToraNeko (Jan 19, 2004)

Well, Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards, so ferom there you can figure the spelling >.< Anyway, I like this! Scetchy black, thats tight!

Tenor (Jan 20, 2004)

As per the translation/subtitles its Arucard, but I suspect its just a pronunciation getting mangled--dunno ask someone who has more Japanese experience than I

Pip, it owns ^__^ do more hellsing stuff

marcello (Jan 20, 2004)

Any L or R in a transliteration of a japanese name/word is ambiguous, there's no necessarily correct way.
In the case of names it's a little easier to say for sure is if a) the name was based on an originally non-japanese word/name and you happen to know that word/name (for example, Julia instead of Juria), or b) the official site has a spelling for the name. Oftentimes, even on the japanese sites, they'll have the spelling in english, because it's "cool."

Peipera (Jan 20, 2004)
drawn in 41 min

Childlike_Vampire (Jan 20, 2004)

This looks even better with color, although compression didn't really help it seems.

The reason I said that wasn't because I don't know that Alucard is Dracula backwards, but because there is a debate among fans as to which is the real spelling. I say Alucard just cos I think it's cooler, but apparently even on the official series they changed it halfway through. I wouldn't know, I've only seen crappy downloads with fan subs.

Both versions have a "u" though, so there. lol.

Peipera (Apr 3, 2004)
drawn in 52 min

I'm still working on all the red. I worked on the blending on the face and glasses. More to come.