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Done for my decorative illustration class, it’s Cadmus! You may or may not remember Cadmus from [link] , as the shadowy figure dissolving into birds. I should probably mention that Cadmus, being of the vampire species, is supposed to look freakishly spidery and long of limb.The skeletons at the top of the border are of a vampire (left) and a human (right). Note the differences between the species. In Cadmus’ world, vampires are a living species of shape-shifters, separate from human beings. They use their shape shifting skills most typically for hunting. However, vampires have also developed a bit of a complex after living around human beings. They use their shifting abilities to make themselves look as lovely as possible-- shortening their limbs, adjusting their teeth, eyes and faces, hiding their extra fingers and toes-- even when in the sole presence of other vampires. Cadmus finds the act of adjusting his teeth to be unbearably uncomfortable, so he simply doesn’t do it. Therefore, you’ll never catch him grinning...that is, unless you’re about to die.
Cadmus and "Carpe Noctem" © M.Nat.
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for Halloween!
Its a really good picture! I love it!
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Ahaha that would be AWESOME. 
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Poor vampires, demons and other creatures of the night, they always must sit on the very tops of everything XDDD That must be developing quite some leg-muscle XDDD Mm, somebody's cooking something yummy there (the green smoke XDDDDD) and he looks like he kinda likes the smell of it XDDD
No, sorry for my funny interpretations X3 This is a great picture, so well composed and so ornate, symbolic I'd say :3 Wish we had it for interpratation in our textbook back in high-school instead of some lame classics XDDD <3
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Buahaha...@.@ I like your interpetation. It amuses me.
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*grch* You and your talent to spook me >_<
And all the wonderful details - the skeletons are great - and I'm fine with them being legless ... *shivers* but the blood on the plevis bone ... ? I can ignore the blood on the trees ... or in the snow ... but that one?
I guess I'll find those 'doom trees' of yours just around the corner, huh?
But I really love the fact that your art can make me react like that
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I love that evil green cloud, it contrasts so nicely with the red hair.
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Oooh of course I love his hair but I also really like the languid green mist! It's gorgeously done, and doesn't get lost in the dark parts of the background. Nice job!
Love love love the skeletons! Did I ever mention I have a thing for bones?
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One of my friends spent her first date with her boyfriend over a box of bones.
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LOL! It would win me over!
One of the less torturous activities we had to do in my comparative vertebrate anatomy lab was reassemble an entire cat skeleton from a jumbled box of bones. Ours had two left humeruses (humeri?)... O_o
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I suppose it wasnt a dancin' cat then. Two left legs. HA. pun...x.x I'm so sorry you had to witness that.
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Whoa Whoa Whoa. That's totally awesome. It's so creepily awesome!!! I must admit, uh, probably for like the thousandth time that I absolutely are in love with the way you draw/color hair. Seriously, it's epic.
I love the framing her as well. @_@
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The haaaaiiir! (why isnt there an emoticon for hair blowing in the wind? There should be one, and I'd put it right here --> )
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Make one, yo! It's the easiest solution.
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I don't know the first things about making emoticons! 
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It looks awesome and a bit creepy at the same time. I love, how the wind is blowing his hair. I tried to find difference between the two skeletons, but I could see only, that the eye-sockets are different.
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Most of the differenences are fairly subtle: the length of the arms, the size of the hands, the over-all size difference...the biggest differences are in the skull. The size of the bottom jaw of the vampire is larger, the hinge in the back is stronger, and the cranium is more elongated. The vampire's teeth are much longer and as you noted, the eye sockets are different shapes. Also, the vampire has more of a protruding lower half of the face, due to the large lower jaw and long teeth
What you can't really see is that the vampire has six fingers on each hand instead of five, but the hands are so massive that they're able to wrap around a human skull.
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I love how he's so... perched. Does that make sense? XD
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Perched like a bird! It makes perfect sense
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i love his hair and those skeletons up there! (it rhymes lolz)
Is the border actually painted? @_@
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Yeahp, I painted the border with watercolor as well. It's all one huge sheet of paper.
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Real Vampireess!!! >w< Good to still see them around doing classically vampire-y things! I lurve the border too
A song started playing in my head when I saw this
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Nos for raaaa tuuuu!
Oh yeah. I tried to go classic on the vampires in "Carpe Noctem"; return them to their awesome, morbid roots...with a few twists, of course
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I love that emote, it's so expressive
Yay for morbid roots!
Maybe I wouldn't have hated those tweeny books as much if the *coughhack* author didn't call those creatures vampires :/ urghh!
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-_- vampires my ass. If those are vampires, than I've got three bottles of ten-year-old sparkleglue somewhere in my closet that are NOT going to drink my blood as well. -_- Ohhh! Scary!
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*is droolig over that gorgeous red hair*<3<3<3 That shading and colours on those skeletons rocks my socks totally. And I definetly love his anatomy, so slender and tall! *o*
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Ah, I miss Dracula.
XD Oh well. That's an awesome pic.
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OH! Also, you should read Terry Pratchett's discworld series. He does vampires too, but in a wholely different way.
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I have a few friends who are mad Pratchett fangirls, but I haven't read any of his books myself. I do have two favorite unique portrayals of vampires from other books through. The darkangels from Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel trilogy and the Drakhouls from Sarah Ash's Tears of Artamon provide truly unique portayals.
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It's nice to read a wide variety of books, since you can find interesting and different views on all sorts of things.
And then you get something like ... Twilight. 
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First of all, your vampire species idea is totally awesome and very original, and second, I REALLY like this guy (but I have such an obvious thing for long flowing red hair, that shouldn't come as a surprise 
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Red-heads: a fatal weakness!
I'm glad you find my version of Vampires novel. I wanted to blend the oldworld myths with some fantasy stuff,and I'm truly desperate to get away from the campy-highschool drama that seems to have infected the genre. x.x
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I have to admit a certain fondness for vampires as a creature, much less for the angst and tweeny romance. 
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Evil green clouds of doom! The design of the frame is so purdy
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Evil green clouds done in pastel! Whoo!
This was supposed to be a halloween-inspired piece for decorative illustration, so i thought the noxious, unhealthy green looked right. Especially with the red
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hey it's the guy that explodes into birds. Looks cool. any reason you didn't paint the background between the ribs?
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Lol I thought about that guy too..
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That's because it is him! Surprise!
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I thought about it,even did it that way in the color rough, but in the end decided not to do it that way. I thought it might be too busy.
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