The Passion of Dracula

This is one of my entries for the "Dracula:Vlad Tepes" contest at my vampire club: ~vampirerequiem

I've been working on this -- and the other entry -- for several days, doing them in conjunction with eachother as companion pieces.

I started this one first, but as I was working on it, I didn't think it conveyed all I wanted to do for Dracula. I had a difficult time deciding if I wanted to portray the passionate/romantic side of Dracula, or just do a monster Dracula. The original book paints him as little more than a monster. But there have been movies and plays since then that shows a more romantic and sensitive side to him, developing what I always considered a rather two-dimensional fictional villain. So here is the romantic side of Dracula.

Stock Sources:
The Couple: by *nobledeath-stock


Edit: Just cleaned up the dark parts a bit. Hopefully that does the trick.