A little late but happy end-of-dracula-daily-2024 day!!
Here's a little something special :))
(Sorry if it feels a bit clunky, I'm not used to making these. But enjoy!)
(Original audio from "Promises" (Hadestown))
Would love to see your version of Jonathan "actually smiling" from October 28th. I love the moments where he's described as starting to completely lose it.
Our good friend is slightly unhinged
(Hope you like it)
But seriously the image that Jack paints is so chilling: The boys are together, hyping each other up and burning with excitement at the letter, ready for action, full of fire.
And Jonathan is far away from them, silent, cold, waiting. Occasionally whetting his knife like a panther sharpening his claws.
Midway through the book I wondered how the story would be if instead of "Lucy is the warning and Mina is the one they must save", Jonathan came back a couple weeks earlier and it was "Mina reads her traumatized husband's journals and can't talk to him about it for fear of hurting his health. So she, Lucy, and one or two of Lucy's maids team up to save Lucy and fight Dracula." Idk if that sparks any drawing inspo?
I love this idea a lot.
I would like to have done more with like the maids and stuff I think it’s a really cool idea but I wanted to get the drawing done this evening and not still be working on it too late.
I hope you like it sorry it took me so long to get around to doing this request.
Sound designing a vampire being hit in the face with a shovel is... challenging. Who would've guessed.
[Audio transcript: Ben Galpin voicing Jonathan Harker from Dracula by Bram Stoker. He says, "There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face," followed by a cartoon "bonk" and the Wilhelm scream. End transcript]
Angela Barrett’s illustration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Folio Society, limited edition)
Jonathan Harker, October 3rd
POV: You are in 19th century England and have come across a very normal couple in early October. Keep walking. Quickly.
(Hang in there, Harkers, you're almost out of this year's time loop.)
If you're interested in your own art, my Ko-Fi is here!
By the way, if you’re unfamiliar with Kukri knives:
Jonathan is basically carrying a machete around London.
To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone.
jonathan & mina harker.
Silly wee Jonathan Harker warmup sketch idk if I’ll ever finish
Happy Ides of March, Dracula fans.
Knife (Kukri) with Two Sheaths, Two Small Knives, and Two Sharpening Pouches. 18th–19th century. Credit line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/31694
Jonathan's got this all thought out
I forgot to put the full text for Jonathan's list of plans in the description earlier so I'm doing it now!
Plans for saving/protecting Mina Plan A: Kill Dracula Plan B: Find a vampire cure ASAP Plan C: Join Mina in unholy undeath Plan D: Be Mina's bloodbank then become a vampire later Plan E: Sell my soul to the Devil Plan F: Fight the Devil Plan G: Fight God Plan H: Kill and usurp God
OP's tags: #not shown: Van Helsing going into full “this is fine” denial at this presentation
Arthur crashing the boat is comical in its own way, but I bet you anything that if we got a PoV for it—especially in a non-epistolary fashion—it would be dramatic as all hell. They’re trying to force that thing up RAPIDS. They know Dracula is just ahead. I can imagine Arthur faltering as he sees the rocks and foam and telling Jonathan he’s not sure about this, he’s never dared anything like this before, but turns to see Jonathan staring back with fey look in cold eyes. Go on, he shouts, wild and reckless against the wind. We must let nothing stop us.
Art promised Mina he’d keep Jonathan safe, but he also promised to kill her should their efforts fail. The choice is clear. He takes a deep breath, and plunges ahead.
Jonathan can’t swim. It’s clear from the sudden terror in his eyes the moment the first crunch of wood on rock splits the air. How did Art not know this before they set out on the river? Assuming that everyone’s had the leisure time and trips to the sea that he’s had, stupid—
There’s no time for self-flagellation as the boat screams under the strain and tips drunkenly in the rapids. Art pries Jonathan’s white-knuckled hands from the railing where he’s frozen and drags him to safety as the boat limps to shore.
God help him, they took the train
Dracula daily heritage post
Ah yes, the classic literary couple: Train Fiend Wife and Kukri Knife Husband
