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KainTheVampireLord — Before The Storm
Published: 2009-11-23 13:54:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 7221; Favourites: 149; Downloads: 0
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Acrylic paintKain, when he was still a human, a short before his vampiric rebirth.
As there is no information about his human life, all we can see of him is when he's being sent out of the inn and brutally murdered. The only thing he mentioned about himself is he was a nobleman, so everything else is left to the imagination.
According to the huge mansion he was buried in he was surely an aristocrat, but as he was chosen to be a Guardian since birth, that means he has that nature and attitude that made him perfect for his future role, he surely didn't belonged to the weakling spoiled type of aristocrats. Even if he was born into a wealthy family, he already had the arrogant loney wolf nature that shows better later, and rather went out seeking adventures than enjoying the careless wealth of the aristocracy. To fit this, I dressed him into elven style of clothing, that has the elegance of the wealthy people, but also shows the warrior's nature within.
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I'm glad you like my depiction. And thank you for the lots of faves 
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my pleasure
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I seen all your of art and let me just say that its just so amazing and awesome keep up the good work
I also love how much detail in kain I think yours is the best you
and that you capture so much of his personalty
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I'm glad you like them
Thank you, actually the guy is a perfect inspiration as not being the stereotype goodhero neither the genreic *cough*anne rice**cough* horny vampire stuff.
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Such an amazing concept for pre-vampiric Kain.
Truly beautiful. c:
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Thank you so much
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Rare a sight! Without claws, white hair and pale skin
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Yes, I drawn the sketch for this painting the same fashion I'm drawing him, but really felt so strange when he got colours with dark hair and normal skin, and also different clothes than his warrior outfits
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Tha's clear..for this look we aren't acustommed.Despite your strange feels that's quite well done I think. It's him.And you see, he was beautiful even when was a human
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He looks gorgeous and thoughtful and that background kicks ass.
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Thank you so much, I tried to imagine what sort of person he could be in his human life. I'm glad you like
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Looks like something terrible is about to happen !! Just by looknig at the sky's dark and pale colours and the character's expression !!
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Yes, he's going to get killed to be revived as the most powerful being in his world, and also shouldering the burden of it's fate. Although he's not aware of that yet on this image. I'm glad it shows on thos work that terrible things are going to happen
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The way you coloured it perfectly show the dramatic mood here !
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This makes me wonder what his parents were like. If he had any brothers and sisters. Also... what would his parents think of the him we have all come to know and worship. That would be interesting.
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Same here, looking at his behaviour, I wondering about his parents, if he fulfilled their expectations and was he the only one to preserve his family's bloodline. He was a nobleman, maybe belonged to an aristocratic family, but he visibly liked a way different lifestyle, wandering around Nosgoth seeking for adventures, sleeping in cheap inns, he surely chosen a different life from the aristocracy. I think he was already different from the average in his human life, as Guardians had something in their persons that made them special, and being chosen for their roles by birth, even if Kain's future role was a secret even to himself.
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You gave him a definit air, it does show some of his arrogance in his face, but it's hidden by the mask of nobility.
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I think he was quite arrogant already as human, but became that heartless when he became a vampire, and had to face a lot of hatred, that killed all humanity out of him.
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Mortal Kain
I love your mortal Kain, and somehow dying his hair fits him very well, it does not change his charecther completly, maybe it does make him seem a bit crueler, but that sounds weird to say on bad old Kain
And I like how you kept the painting a bit rougher, like you see them in art galleries.
good work hun
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Thank you!
I drawn the sketch for first, made him look as usual, but changes come only when I added the colours on his hair and skin. I think his human self was very similar to his later one, the difference is he was not so anti-social and heartless yet, but was surely an ego-centric arrogant person.
The truth is I hell dislike to paint landscapes and architectures, so didn't went into details with the background, I rather kept the painting focusing on the main character
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I could say, "*kainthevampirelord, your work is magnificent", but I do hate bean redundant.
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
In the opening of Blood Omen, if you wait in the tavern for a short time until it becomes night, Kain wil be able to defeat the assassins in just a few strokes (as though he had that power/weakness before), making for a very awkward assassination...
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Haha that's great! I don't like to leave over-praises either.
Really? All I knew if you succeeded to find a certain position, you can beat the assasins, but Kain should spend his days next to the inn then. I never kept Kain alive that long, I always let him getting killed quickly.
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You might even be able to drink thier blood too by pressing circle, but I never tried it. Even for the goof, I still like how we get to play out the assassination rather than sit through yet another movie.
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I have no PS, but drinking their blood when Kain is still a human does not works on the pc-version.
Controlling Kain during the assasination scene is great, even if we know he must die to get the story continued. But I wouldn't mind a movie added either, thinking about a cruel one, as showing how Kain was cornered and put down in a nasty way as he did nothing to deserve it would make the players understand his later reactions and anger better.
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I love the pose and the darkness of the picture. He looks sooooo real.
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Thank you! I wondered a lot about what sort of background would fit human and aristocrat Kain (interiors with lots of fancies and gold was out of question, it'd take ages to make it, and doesn't match his person either) and found that darkness fits him the most even in his human life
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I agree, Kain is not the fancy type. XD
Yeah, his destin is dark and mysterious fits better.
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He looks relaxed and in control I love it except he's wearing far too many clothes for my liking
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Yes, I wanted to show him deadly bored and annoyed by the lifestyle of the aristocracy. His warrior and power-thirsty nature was surely deep inside him when he was human.
Like him better when wearing pants only?
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This is such a gorgeous painting, I agree with LoKIMOOn that the lighting and shadows look fantastic the contrast between them makes really beautiful artwork. I love the look of human Kain too, I find it strange not seeing him as a vampire.
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Thank you!
I tried to make big contrasts with the colours and their intensity, the background supposed to be gloomy, so Kain got more intense and eyecatching colours not to drown the picture into dark colours, and making Kain sticking out of his environment.
I used the same body and facial structure I always draw him with for the sketch, the big difference was the colouring, to paint him dark-haired, and his face without the dark shades around his eyes and the extremely pale skin that make him look so evil.
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Wonderful *___* I really admire Your talent, especially now
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Thank you so much!
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Girl... amazing job as usual. I really liked how you gave him such a calm exterior kinda thing goin' on there. Like "meh, whatever." But he also looks kinda bored.
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Thank you so much!
I wondered what a person he could be as human, I think his later nature was already existing deep inside him, and he was surely uninterested in the lifestyle and issues of the aristocracy. That's exactly how I wanted to show him deadly bored, and with despise on his recent life, longing to go out and find his place in the world.
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I don't think Kain was every truely satisfied with his life until after he came to terms with his vampire rebirth. He then knew he could really "let himself go" lol
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Ok,seriously,you are a sorceress when it comes to painting!
I really admire your skills with light and shadows(something i badly lack 
Heh,if a remake of BO1 in ever made,i hope the game designers let you make human Kain,because the original one back '96 looked like one of those Klingon aliens from Star Trek.
(my interpretation:[link] )
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Stolen talents together with the skills of my victims 
Thank you so much!
The tricky of lights is to use colours as reflections that are opposing the main ones, even if you normally wouldn't put these together like those cold blues against the warm colours of the balcony and Kain's figure.
Hahahaha his appearance really sucks (but looks still better than his green frog version) not only his face, he has no anatomy at all. But he was supposed to look even worse according to the concept art, so he's still lucky with the Klingon looks
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For some reason, this makes me think he was a bully when he was a kid... But I'm just in love with everything you did here! Speculating on how Kain was as a human, based on how he was dressed, and how he acted at the inn, and in the painting of him you come across when you happen upon his mausoleum in Defiance, you did spectacularly well. Kain's always been depicted in red, hasn't he?
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Good thing he didn't became a spoiled weakling aristocrat
Perhaps there was something about him since his birth that made him sticking out of the average people, as he was chosen to be a Guardian and the Scion from birth. He may hated the human traditions and behaviours, but could accepted it without tearing heads off, but vampire Kain wouldn't let himself thrown out of the inn.
His banner is red coloured, and I like his clothes and armour in the two Blood Omen games the most, they're designed to fit his person, and always have some red on them.
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Nicely done. I knew you had a talent for costume design. Isn't it fun to design new stuff? I think you captured his personality quite well with this. And you used the same color scheme I did. Of course if you want to capture his personality then that's what you have to do. Putting him in blue or green wouldn't seem right, and pink would just be jacked up.
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Yes, it was fun to make it. Sometimes I make random character designs, but I always feel them empty (I mean a random pose with some accessories on) but it's much more a fun to make a new design to already existing characters with keeping their personalities.
I remember you dressed his human self into red clothes too. I gave him an outfit to show he's a warrior and not a sissy aristocrat (even if not the best one when he was mortal) I think he always had his personality deep inside which becomes dominant after he was turned into a vampire. I was playing with the thought of painting his clothes deep blue, but red is his colour (he always worn something red in the two Blood Omens too), and wanted his figure catching the eye so decided not to paint his clothes into anything similar to the background.
Pink? Haha it's not only Kain who'd never wear pink, but everyone else who feels themselves a man. Pink is okay for little girls only.
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I could give you lots of ideas for characters to redesign. I know what you're saying, just making up random characters that you never intend to use is not very fulfilling and it's kind of pointless. It is fun to do stuff with your original characters if you take the time to create a story and you plan on using them more than once.
For Kain the schemes that work best are red with gold highlights, or black with red highlights, or in some cases just black. You might be able to put him in a dark purple since that's the color for aristocracy but that would be kind of pushing it.
I wouldn't say he was not a good warrior, it's just that the game was rigged. Those guys never stopped coming and you had to let them kill you in order for the game to go on. If there was a limited number of guys attacking then I think I could have beat them all.
Yea pink is a gay color. It's hard to pull it off without coming across as either queer or color blind.
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I'm not an author type, rather love to read good stories and go and thinking about them than trying to make up own stories and own characters. Whenever I made random fantasy women, it was fine to put them into interesting poses, and creating accessories to them, but they're quite thoughtless as there's nothing behind those works. I don't even use the randomly created annoying comic-females twice.
I like Kain as there's so much things about his personality, and also has a thoughtful story to be told in artworks.
Yep, red and black fits him the best, I like his BO2 costumes as he's always has something red on it, no matter if it's making him sticking out of the average citizens, as if he doesn't care about hiding his presence or trying to sneak, rather wants to directly face his enemies.
Purple is not his colour, but it'd work only as a reflection on his clothes if he's wearing black.
His human self fought way slower than his vampire self, that's why I think he wasn't as good as his his later incarnation in fighting (he had not too many moves in the oldie game to show how he can fight)
Haha Sillicon made it sure to get Kain killed.
I find guys in pink ridiculous and gay, the swollen-headed managers think pink shirts are "trendy", but it's even more funny to see guys in stretchy pink shirts trying to show their muscles (I wonder if that could amaze any women)
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Well I am the author type, so you can be my assistant, or partner. Whichever you prefer. It is good practice for though, and your stuff usually turns out well.
Yea you can do a lot with Kain, and he does change his outfit a lot during the game so it's acceptable to tinker around with him. Of course even if he didn't change his outfit I would probably still redesign him.
Now that I think of it, I think I could probably do purple highlights on black with the human Kain, but it still wouldn't work on vampire Kain or ugly Kain.
Well the Vampire Kain is going to have whatever skills the Human Kain has plus the new Vampiric powers. He had just better not get caught out in the rain (which I think is retarded) or the sun. In BO2 you get whatever abilities your enemies had once you suck them dry, so by the end of the game you're pretty powerful. They ought to make a BO3, of course if they do it will be a long time before I can afford it, if ever.
Haha, now I wonder what's going on in your country. It might be worth a visit just to go over there and see all the weird stuff (if I can ever afford it). I went to Spain once and got to see all sorts of weirdness. Once I was standing near a street in Madrid, and this punked out chic with purple hair, tattoos, and piercings came up and stuck a brochure for a tattoo shop or something in my hand and walked off without a word. I still don't know why she did that. Then there was all that stuff going on in the Retiro... Anyways, that sounds gay, and pink is the wrong color for that. If I want to show off my physique I wear a tight black shirt. That's the way to do it because it makes you look more impressive than you really are.
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