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Published: 2007-12-18 09:22:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 36937; Favourites: 1030; Downloads: 0
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The Phantom of the Opera (also known as Erik) -- perhaps my favourite character of all time, but I think Elphaba just beats him.Anyway, I based this illustration on the Phantom’s description in the original novel, Le Fantôme de L’Opéra by Gaston Leroux. Unlike the handsome actors who have played Erik in the many Andrew Lloyd Webber productions, the original Phantom looked like a corpse from head to foot, not just on half of his face. It is also said that he was abnormally tall, had very long fingers, eyes that glow red in the dark and no nose.
Another thing, the notes you can see on Erik’s cummerbund form part of the Dies Irae, a piece of music for which he has great respect (in the book, this hymn appears on the walls of his lair). Erik’s own magnum opus, Don Juan Triumphant, is lying at his feet.
I know this portrayal is a bit cartoony. I have a friend who’s a great fan of Erik and didn’t like this painting all that much. I started a more realistic version, but stopped after a while. I like cartoony better.
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Sure. Although I'm not sure how illustrating will work coz I live in the deep south of Australia!
But anyhow, my email: the_enamoured_imp@hotmail.com
Actually, it would be better just to contact me on this website coz I haven't used my email address in about a year (if you do decide to contact me, that is)...
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LOL. That's okay. My current plan is to have my brother illustrate and he's 2000 miles from me. That's not as far as Australia, but it might as well be for as often as we get to visit. That having been said, everything in my life moves VERY slowly, so it could be a while anyway. THANKS!!!
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Thanks. That's probably the nicest thing I've heard in months!
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Well, you have to use a bit of imagination anyway to draw a character with a description of a corpse. xD I think this is very well done; I didn't know about this until I saw your picture. I think the movie would have been more interesting if they stayed true to this description.
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As weird and bizzare and creepy looking that is, it's very accurate.
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I verily appreciate the bookversion!Erik. His face has a very nice look to it, even if it is not teh handsomz.
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Oh wow! Fantastic work on this, the outfit and the vaguely disgruntled look on his face. He looks extra classy with those spats
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Wow this is really great, I like your style and the cape is awsome.
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This is amazing. O: I love that book, and this is a great rendition of Erik. 
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Lovely style and wonderful attention to detail.
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Bravo for having a unique vision of the Phantom! I love how dark and gothic he is, (I hate using that word but I don't know how else to describe it), and how his shoulders are all bony. XD Niiiice designs on the cane, too!
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I like this! Don't worry about if it's cartoony, it's great anyway! It's so nice for someone to remember Erik wasn't handsome or very ncie in the original, but grotesque and WAY screwed up in the head! I love what you did with him here!
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This piece is so mesmerizing that I favorited just because it made me so uncomfortable and I've maybe looked at it five times today. It fills one with such discomfort but pervades such attitude. It's exactly how Erik should look, to a T. The 2004 Phantom just filled you with pity and made Christine look very shallow; this drawing shows that Christine was dead on by being terrified.
Amazing.
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I absolutely love this rendition of Erik. From the body language and the face, something about the whole thing clicks for me. If someone ever thinks about remaking the Phantom of the Opera cartoon, This would be the perfect candidate for Erik's official design.
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I absolutely adore your rendition of Erik! The stylization works so well, and the cape is fantastic!
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Anjoo!! I love this one - but ofcourse you already know that.
It's fantastic 
I miss you Anjoo
-Ema
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Mole!! You found me! I miss you too... and it's OF COURSE, not OFCOURSE! 
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Wonderfully expressive. I love how you've drawn the face with such pinched gauntness.
Very, very fun!
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I see what you mean about the colors. Really nice.
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Kyah! Wow. It's really rare to see the good old original Erik here on DA.
Awesome to the max. I absolutely love the little touches; the music notes on his shirt, the skull cane, the little tatters in his cloak. Just wonderful!
I'm in love with how you did his face. It's rather different from what I usually see of Leroux Erik--very cool.
Yeah, I tend to like cartoony better, too
This is just great, it really brightened my day!
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Amazing!
And thank goodness you did a book-version! (They're so rare!)
Really gorgeous job!
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Actually his eyes glow yellow in the dark but what the hell. Excellent work! Truly marvelous!
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You're quite right. I realised after I'd finished that I'd made that mistake. 
But thankyou for liking it despite the flaw
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Dude, that is not a flaw. It's just different.
The slight sunburn of a deformity in the 2004 piece of crap, THAT is a flaw.
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Yeah, a lot of people hated that, for obvious reasons. The Phantom was much better looking than Raoul despite the sunburn!
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Wow it's amazing! I love the details (the Dies Irae..OMG!) and the cloak, his pose....the colours.....
Just a question though: Is he wearing a wig? I mean Erik had little to no hair
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I thought someone might ask that. 
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Wait wait wait... POTO fanart... that's NOT of Gerard Butler?!? Don't get me wrong, Gerry's great and everything, but THANK YOU!!!!!!! I absolutely love seeing a well-executed fanart of Erik from the original book. Great. I love his expression. It's just win-tastic. THANK YOU. 8D
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Thankyou 
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I completely agree!!! I think I ranted about this on phantomoftheopera.com long, long ago. About how, if you combined Michael Crawford's angelic vibrato and lung capacity with Gerard's deep, growly-ness, you would get about as close to Erik's voice as humanly possible. (Even now, Michael Crawford is singing "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" on my iPod, which is on shuffle. XD
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Your style is AWESOME. And the coloring is just fantastic! Oooh, I love it.
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this is absolutely wonderful! i love this 'cartoony' phantom of yours...super!
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Thankyou. I love your many phantoms too!
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I don't think cartoony is ever a problem. You have some interesting shapes and angles on him, I like the hair.
I tried reading the book but I couldn't finish it. The characters and the writing got to me, but if the book was originally written in French than it might have been victimized by a poor translation.
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I think you're right, the book was probably a lot more dramatic and gripping in its original language. I found the English version had very, very, very long sentences, and the whole Christine/Raoul 'romance' didn't really feel like a romance at all! I kept skipping to the bits with Erik; they made me cry.
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There's probably more than one version. The one I read sounded like it was narrated poorly, and Raoul kept flopping about so much with his feelings for Christine, ("I love her, she's an angel and I must save her!" " she's a witch!") sometimes mid-paragraph, and it drove me nuts.
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Hmmm... sounds like your version was even crazier than mine! 
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But then again, think of the time period when it was written. What may be strange to us now, was perfectly normal back then, whether it was translated or not. Prime example; Shakespeare...
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I wouldn't call it strange at all. I've read other books from the same time period that I like just fine, and some are my favourites. I just didn't like it.
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I really like the colouring on this piece. Kind of reminds me of the character designs from the Cosgrove Hall Count Duckula cartoons. The little details in the cape and the cane really make the picture.
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I am not familiar with those cartoons, but thankyou
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I love his outfit, I swear, from his Skull tie pin to his black and white spats, it's absolutely perfect for him. I the cloak is brilliant as well, it almost looks like funeral shrouds or something.
Brilliant job!
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