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Your name?
-Kain The Vampire Lord (what else did you expected?)

If possible, your age?
-only a few centuries old (and honest as usual)

When did you start drawing?
-Of that means when did I started drawing seriously, I say since 2007.
As a kid, I was drawing a lot of course just like anyone else at that age, only I didn't left this habit when I got older. I drawn a lot of lame caricatures and parodies during the school years, but drawn nothing significant that could suppose any talents. After finishing secondary school, I attended an art school, and studied art at an university later, but drawn nothing else, but the compulsory stuff. I was not interested in the conservative type of arts those schools represented, and had no idea what the heck I could do with arts.
I started to paint for my pleasure and develop my own style after graduating from the university.
I think it was Boris Vallejo's art in first place that made me fall in love with arts, and realize it is fantasy art what I want to make.(it does not means imitating his style, no way!) I had no net for so many years, so I was quite isolated from fantasy arts, I saw fantasy mostly in videogames (yeah, I always loved gaming)
One more funny info: I drawn a few fantasy females before, but the reason that ignited painting seriously was Blood Omen2. I fallen in love with this game after beating it for the second time, and wanted a poster, but found no pictures on the net I'd like, so I decided to paint my own "poster" for my wall

Which hand do you use for drawing?
-Left

Which is easier to draw - male or female?
-No difference. All that is needed is the knowledge of the anatomy.

Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair?
-no difference, both should be drawn with the same care.

Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left?
-No difference

Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view?
-No difference (damn, I feel like being a parrot)
All what makes drawing faces is to get the right face expressions that gives back the personality of the character.

What do you have problems in drawing?
-Mostly those things I'm not interested in, like robots, mechanical stuff, animals, landscapes, architectures. Landscapes and architectures are usually the part of my pictures as backgrounds, but whenever I can, I'm bugging painting them with hiding the bg into mist, smoke or darkness.
And what I was unable to paint with traditional tools is raining.

What do you like to draw?
-Human bodies, with fantasy accessories and elements, muscles and dynamic poses. I also love adding a symbolical meaning to my works, putting thoughts into them, or compressing a story into a simple piece of paper. As for the styles, I love to paint decorative, art nouveau-like stuff, or realistic pieces.

Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist?
-Traditional.

Where do you start drawing from?
-From the center of the paper.

What is your drawing habit that you are aware of?
-Spending too much time with the sketching, being crazed about panting the details, and always hunting for mistakes in my works (some of my stuff here got fixed and re-uploaded many times, only I didn't put the tick to notify my watchers )

What do you keep in mind when you do lineart?
-to make it fit the concept and idea I have in mind, and to design everything on the lineart before copying it up to a cardboard for paint.

Any tips for coloring/shading?
-In traditional colouring, always start with the background.
-Use colours, and not blacks for shadings and reflections.
-Use colour contrasts, like warm and cold colours.

How long does it take to finish a piece of art?
-Depends on the size, style, tecnique and details.
[link] It's about 45x35 cm, took 2 days (designing the hair took the most time)
[link] 50x70 cm, and mostly because of the technique (tempera sucks) it took 4 months
Pencilworks are the easiest, and needs the shortest time.

What music do you listen to while you draw?
-Nothing dancie-music.
-Lord of the Rings soundtracks, Enya, Nightwish (their old albums), game soundtracks etc.

How long does it take you to come up with an idea?
-I never sit down to think about what to draw. Ideas are coming on their own, and all of a sudden at any situations. I just need to note them not to forget because I always have far more ideas than I could achieve.

Your favorite drawing utensils?
-pencils and acrylics

Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot?
-red, blue and their dark shades.

Your favorite style(s)?
-realistic and art nouveau style.

Are you satisfied with your current art?
-Can I be?

<bWhat kind of artist are you aiming for?
-successful
Anyhow, it'd be great to hae arts for career, and not to get it wasted as a pushed aside "hobby" I could practising only in my spare time after work (and who knows what shitty works I'll have in the future)


Thank you.
Now please fill in the next columns by writing the names of the artists that match the criteria.
Artists tagged must fill in this baton.

(I'm quite confused with matching artists to some girly words, even missed a few of them )


"Cool": ~Epantiras for her humour [link] [link]

"Cute": No matches! I don't like this word, and luckily neither of my friend can be related with "cute"

"Stylish": =GlassReaver for [link] [link]

"Unique"~Zsuccubus for [link] [link]

"Moe" : What the heck this means

"Tasty": =SeedyDeedee for [link] [link]

"Smart": ~BaPHeHkATa for her thoughtful pictures and comics [link] [link]

"Sexy":*Mistress-of-Kain for her poems [link] [link]

"Admirable": *angginatama for [link] [link]

Now, the unlucky ones listed above must fill this and those ones too who feel like doing this.
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I've met so many questions about the timeline of the LoK series, mostly about how each games following each other, so here you are (warning, crappy drawing ) [link]

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Status: Learning to smile again [link]

Have you ever played Sacred?
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Look at Kain!
[link] Is it the sword's handle, or he's just too excited?
[link] No comment...
[link] Perhaps he's about to faint
[link] and finally he shows his loveliest self


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A little memory for on my shoutboard here: [link]