Kristina: Queen of Vampires, Chapter 1
I’m a Dutch professional illustrator with a passion for the female form and for comic stories (or graphic novels).I combined the two in Kristina, Queen of Vampires.How that really started was unusual, to say the least.I met an actual Kristina (from the United States) online. She had found a painting in my online galleries that looked just like her and she sent me a photo to prove it. I made that particular painting, a sexy vampire, from my imagination but the resemblance with Kristina was indeed striking.That’s why I decided to invite her to pose live for me and, even though I didn’t expect it, she actually took me up on that offer.I was quite surprised when she really showed up on the agreed date and I found it creatively stimulating enough to make her the main character in this new comic series. It took me a couple of years to create the first Chapter.I didn’t really do an entire Book before and it took some time to get it right.Before that I just made gag-comics for a Heavy Metal Magazine in the Netherlands and the UK and for an American Football magazine in Germany. Making a full fledged book turned out to be a very different discipline. But eventually, after having started all over again after the first 15 pages which didn’t appeal to me enough,I found the right tone and mood. Soon Chapter 3 will hit the market, so the mood is still alive and kicking :)I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I did writing and painting it.