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KayPike Fashion Bodypaints Kai’Sa!

Riot··2 votes·32,419 views

Last month, we invited KayPike Fashion, the Twitch bodypainter extraordinaire, to the Riot campus in Los Angeles for a live Kai’Sa bodypaint! If you tuned in to the live stream, you got to watch KayPike transform herself over 18 hours from human to void daughter, and the results were astounding.

If you don’t have 18 hours to spare (it’s totally cool, not everyone does) KayPike’s partner-in-crime Moose assembled this time lapse of the whole process, linked below.


We sat down with KayPike during her trip to Riot and asked her some questions about getting started with bodypainting, what her experience with the League community is like as a relatively new member, and much more!

Check out the interview here:


And be sure to check out KayPike Fashion on Twitch!

82 Comments

weak boy 223 votes

So you release a statement saying you're sorry Kai'sa has a low cut v neck but then you promote a titty streamer with her breast covered by a thin piece of fabric all over your client? Seems like someone at Riot HQ is a hypocrite.

RiotRiot swimbananas41 votes

Hey Christye, I wanted to jump in and clear something up. I was the one that suggested we bring Kay to campus and promote her work. I wanted to do that because of how positive, and geninuninly fun to watch her streams are. While yes, while painting she is not wearing much, its due to the nature of bodypainting as an art form (an art that is very different than cosplay, and isnt cosplay). Her streams focus on positvity and bringing up her community, something I wanted to share wih our larger league community as well.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you are upset about the “hey, we might have made Kai’Sa too revealing for her character type” announcement and how that feels very opposite of what is happening here. I can 100% see how that feels like we are saying two different things at the same time. However, I just ask that you dont take it out on our league community member, who did this paint out of passion. As a company we wanted to promote the postivity of her stream, something I saw cery clearly when watching it for the first time. We are always trying to experiment with ways to celebrate our creative community, and are still finding the best way to do that.

I’m personally sorry that you feel this was a little weird given our statement, and I wanted to say thankyou for being willing to jump in and express how it felt a little off. I still stand by my decison to suggest Kay for this project, as I personally think she is a great artist, a positive member of our community, and an all around amazing human.

Smartalex2210 votes

Speaking for myself, I don't really care about Kai'sa's revealing attire...it's not even that bad.

I'm just confused by her second skin looking like spandex and Kai'sa's head looking straight off of Cosmo instead of, I don't know...that really fierce and excellent looking concept art that showed her looking as fierce as was advertised.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/7/7d/Kai%27Sa_Insights_01.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20180318032952

I mean...the difference between the two is night and day.

I Main Swain4 votes

lol theyre basically the same. besides, what else would the suit be? some kind of super bulky weird looking thing? that wouldnt make sense and it would be just plain stupid looking. also, someone can be attractive and still look fierce, such as kaisa.

Smartalex221 votes

Not the same. Maybe it's just me, but the image I posted doesn't have make up (beyond the purple streaks on her cheeks) and the hair is much messier, as opposed to the current Kai'sa, which looks like a plastic doll with perfectly shampooed and conditioned hair.

I don't mind her being attractive, I just think she's attractive in the wrong way. If that makes sense.

I Main Swain1 votes

i get what youre saying, but i 100% disagree. i think that they made her attractive in a perfectly tasteful way that wasnt unreasonable from a lore perspective at all (or at least not so much that it goes beyond the normal aesthetic touch ups from what the ACTUAL appearance would be in such a circumstance)

Rhino4Me1 votes

Is the proper use of commas/punctuation not taught in elementary school anymore?

RiotRiot swimbananas4 votes

I typed on my phone, and mistakes were made. I wish I could fix them, but I cannot...

Thanks for pointing out my errors. I should have taken more time to double check them :P

xelaker1 votes

fun to watch eh? [slayer-jinx-wink]

FenLightstep2 votes

I totally agree. Our community will benefit from people brimming with positive energy no matter what! I know it made me personally feel more positive about League seeing as I watched Kay years back as a separate entity from gaming completely. (comic book/cartoon days) I was like "NO WAY" you guys are really going to have her on? That was huge, and I am really happy for her. More exposure for Kay means more rainbows and unicorns for everybody!!! :D

Cocheta1 votes

THISSSS. I discovered her a little over 2 years ago and her streams have been keeping me going. She's so freaking positive and skilled at what she does. I logged in and saw "KayPike" and that was all I managed to read at first, I just lost it completely, she's such a gem and she's my absolute favorite. I was especially happy to hear Riot Jynx comment that the room was toasty, because I've watched Kay through 2 winters now and I know how getting cold causes her pain. So it felt like they were actually catering to her health as well for this, and that is AWESOME because so many people just dismiss an artist's state of being and concentrate only on their final products instead. Like, this gives me a HUGE amount of hope for Riot overall.

HomicidalThor19 votes

"Titty Streamer" Hello? That implies showcasing is all she's good for/good at. It brings the implication that she's just flaunting herself for views. That's not what this is. That's not her at all.

Maybe you can't look at a woman and not see a sexualized piece of meat, but the most of us, I think, see KayPike doing yet another amazing body painting. Just look at her other works, you'll see they're thematically on point, if not perfect. Well beyond what some simple "Titty Streamer" is capable of.

As per the Low Cut V, not every country is as Lax as NA, and that much has already been addressed and Fixed. I do recall a certain Cigar that falls under this category as well.

I think you've got the wrong picture, but I hope this helped.

rest in peep xo20 votes

I love it! I think she did an excellent job. The purplish blue tint to her skin makes her look more void-like [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

mvmlego8 votes

Agreed. Does it look exactly like Kai'Sa's splash art? No, but it doesn't have to. Real people's appearances change to some degree on a daily basis--even more so, I would imagine, if part of your skin was a symbiote from another dimension. It's reasonable to think, for example, that parts of Kai'Sa's skin would glow gold in response to certain environments, similar to how Bilbo's sword glows blue near goblins and spiders.

Fight4Noobs14 votes

"We're not gonna over-sexualize new female champs" - But here is this topless woman for you based off the new champ.

välar morghulis12 votes

you see is a topless women but most people see cool art. I thought it was a drawing when I first saw it.

im guessing they are showcasing this because she's talented but even if they are promoting for the boobies, the girl chose to be in it and I thought women should be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Robat3 votes

I see a beautiful woman showcasing her artistic ability. If people think there is something wrong with that then I feel sorry for them.

ERROR 4Ø413 votes

Personally I don't think it was done very well. There is a lot of things that just don't look right, the lines are wrong and the colors are off. Not bad for an amateur but would have expected a little more from a company like League of Legends.

MattieTKD37 votes

"Company like League of Legends"

Skeevix15 votes

I think you meant "cOmPaNy LiKe lEaGuE oF LeGeNdS"

Kosmakius8 votes

LMAO its "cOmPaNy LiKe rItO"

Plausibly Sane13 votes

I don't think most people understand how difficult that self paint was. the sheer stamina to do it, the body to make it work, and the skill to make it look good.

Cream Of Meep11 votes

Oh look, more streamers with little more to offer than borderline nudity.

weak boy 24 votes

It's true though. She doesn't get views for the mediocre cosplay, she gets views giving the nerds a tease. Sad Riot promoted this. Expected A LOT more from my favorite game.

WhyAmiSoSexy13 votes

Why are you so butthurt over something that does not negatively impact your actual life in any way? Chill out. Your username should be buttsoreChristyeXG

Kiwi Glitter7 votes
  1. Bodypainting isn't cosplay. Cosplay is designing costumes to look like a character (involves working with plastics, molds, sewing, etc.). Bodypainting involves, um, painting bodies... Not sure how else to put that but yeah the 2 are totally different art forms.

  2. Yeah maybe some people think she's got the hottest rack on the web and that's all she's good for. But most of us accept the female body a little more past just seeing it as a sex object. To us, she's offering her artistic vision and talent through a form of painting.

  3. You seriously expect Riot to act like your prudish granny? Have you even looked at the female characters in this game?

yumyumfarted1 votes

She did use some mold plastic on her arms bud.

Kiwi Glitter1 votes

And cosplayers use paint on their faces, bud. But the defining feature of bodypainting is that the artist paints a body. The defining feature of cosplay is a costume.

mvmlego6 votes

She's not just sitting there in pasties for hours on end. She's painting herself to look like a popular video game character--and despite the differences between the end result and canonical Kai'Sa, the likeness is definitely there, and getting it to that point took a lot of skill.

Parakeeni9 votes

I still can't stand swimbannanas voice.

mvmlego5 votes

I wouldn't go so far as to say it ruins the video, but I'm definitely not a fan of her when she appears in Riot's videos. For me, it's not so much the tone of voice as her pacing and wording being extremely awkward--often intentionally, it seems.

LainSitting1 votes

;_; I legitimately have no clue what you're talking about.

Fireware6 votes

First

RiotRiot swimbananas2 votes

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SpaceFootbalKing2 votes

This one is 2 minutes older than the other one though

Fireware1 votes

No Lie but mine is 2minutes older Zilean

RiotRiot swimbananas6 votes

...You are right. How did I miss that?!?! I'm wrong. I'm sorry I failed you...

Fireware2 votes

my mannnnn

Cupcakebubby6 votes

I love seeing body paints, but a LEAGUE one? [sg-lux] I saw it when I first opened the client and got super excited!

InsaneWind5 votes

can we agree that twitch is not the place to have someone 99% nude painting themselves? i mean seriously it isnt a cam girl website and this would not have been tolerated a couple years ago.

mvmlego3 votes

I consider myself somewhat conservative, but I still don't see what the issue is. Twitch may not have been the ideal medium for this, but there was good rationale for choosing it. 1) It's a cosplay from a popular video game (as opposed to movie, novel, etc.), so it's tangentially relevant to the platform's central purpose. 2) Twitch isn't for kids. The language and jokes of most of the streamers on there would make for an R-rated movie, so G-level* partial nudity is hardly inappropriate. 3) Anyone who wants something more hardcore than G-rated partial nudity on the internet can find it in literally 5 seconds, so the implication that people are using this for fap, when there's much more explicit stuff readily available, is dubious.

*see The Little Mermaid

LainSitting6 votes

Actually, Twitch invited her to stay on Twitch. She wasn't on Twitch before then. They, like so many others, agree it falls under art and artistic expression.

I get it, bimbo streamers exist. But let's not be so hasty to judge. If you spend even a few minutes looking through her pieces (which include actual male characters like Gambit!) you'll realize this woman is a phenomenal body painter. I have almost never seen someone put so much effort into the props, design, and art.

d1v1ne beast5 votes

"I don't know why i scream so much."

"It's good, it's good for the soul."

oh. -next day, 1:53 am- decides to do some good for my soul "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."

dad opens door "Boy if you don't shut the hell up it"

TempName748141 votes

was this an attempt at humor?

d1v1ne beast2 votes

Nope, i really tried.

sarii fox4 votes

The eyebrows....if only the eyebrows weren't so awkward [sg-janna]

Amaterasu071 votes

Wouldn't it be easier to have someone do the painting for her? Painting yourself seems a bit of an unneeded difficulty level, and adds more time.

mvmlego11 votes

I don't mean this as an insult, but that's a self-centered way of looking at it. For her, it's not just about the final product, it's about showcasing her skills as both a model AND an artist. It probably would have been faster and easier for someone else to paint her, but she had a certain stylistic vision for how she wanted it to turn out, and and she wanted to demonstrate her skill as a painter.

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