Gothic Charm School: pretty things

Vampire ladies. 

brain-food:

Vampiros

by

Meritxell Ribas Puigmal

A fabulous picture of Beetlejuice by Mike Mitchell. I should go see if there are prints available. 

poesdaughter:

thephilanthropygirl:

Late Night Secret: I had a bit of a crush on Beetlejuice. I feel like eventually his antics would’ve gotten on my nerves, but I loved his spontaneity and “I-don’t-give-a-fuck” attitude. Also was a fan of his style.

No, I’m not drunk right now.

PS: This awesome piece of art is by a man named Mike Mitchell.

Ugggghhhh this picture is so beautiful I reeeeeeallly don’t need more pictures of him on my wall but I… I just… *prints*

These are delightful illustrations, and I’d especially like the outfit from the first one, please. 

steampunktendencies:

Dokinana

How did I not know about this edition of Dracula? Yet another one to add to the wish list!

forthegothicheroine:

handful-ofdust:

Becky Cloonan’s illustrated version of Dracula.

Oh my god.  They made the blood exchange perfectly horrifying!

(Source: thethorninhisside)

It should surprise no one that I admire Baba Yaga.

Joseph A. Smith - Baba Yaga House, from Witches by Erica Jong, 1981

(Source: elpresoenelcraneo)

Time to bring this back. It’s such a lovely edition. Dracula by  Anne Yvonne Gilbert

(Source: lohrien)

This is adorable. By David T. Wenzel. 

These are wonderful illustrations!

djevojka:

End – Barbara Canepa & Anna Merli

Via thenakedpainter: The Sketches of Alphonse Mucha. Note his beautiful linework and the intricate drapery, the sketches of Mucha give us a powerful insight into his creative process.

(Source: xombre)

These are so elegantly haunting and spooky!

theartofanimation:

Carine-M - Élian Black’Mor

An adorable witchling. 

via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin: Sarah Vandermuelen

These beautiful images are from an adaptation of Dracula, which is illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert. The instant I saw it in a bookstore, I knew I had to be mine. 

(Source: aristocratic-doll)

Lovely, dreamlike images by Pek Güzel Şeyler.

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From fyodorpavlov, some gorgeous illustrations. I especially like the gentleman in the stripey waistcoat, and the silver-haired gent. 

Some stress had built up over the last couple of weeks and jumped out at me suddenly at the end of last week, so I decided to not work on anything serious and just make some self-indulgent little drawings. The result was these 2.5 by 3.5 miniatures. I haven’t worked on watercolor paper in literally years, and I don’t really know how painting tiny details on paper I haven’t had practice on since forever is relaxing, but it worked for me.

The silver fox ended up looking like Vincent Price, and the brunette in the red waistcoat is sporting the haircut I described to my husband as “the hair that was the downfall of public school masters for centuries.” He told me the blond was grown-up Tadzio. I’ll be selling these babies at MoCCA! Maybe I should do portraits of ladies too.

This is adorable, and I want her outfit and batty mask.