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A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07 updated: 13/4/07 - digital art pieces}
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Aleria
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Date Posted:
4/10/07 3:12pm
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A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07 updated: 13/4/07 - digital art pieces}
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5/12 1:46pm (3 edits total)
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HanSolo29
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Okay, here it goes - my first art thread!
I've been drawing Star Wars art for about four years now, but it took me quite a while before getting the courage to share my work with anyone. You guys get the honor! Critique will be much appreciated, so please speak your minds.
This is a piece I drew about two years ago. It's done with aquarel pencils, and still quite rough around the edges.
The Emperor's Hand
I'll do my best to give you more to see asap. Both old and very new pieces!
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Rebel_Radio
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Date Posted:
4/10/07 4:25pm
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Great job!  I like her expression and the way her hand is clenched. It makes you wonder... did she lose a close friend or something? Post more soon! 
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HanSolo29
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Date Posted:
4/10/07 5:26pm
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Welcome to Fan Art, Aleria!
You have a nice style going on here. I like the loose, animated feel to your work. There are some anatomical problems with the figure - especially with the hands being a bit too small for the body and the head a bit blocky, but they are an easy fix. I think you've done a real nice job with this! Keep it up and don't be shy to post more of your work. 
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Chilla
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Date Posted:
4/11/07 9:04am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Hi Aleria! 
Welcome to Fanarts!
And I love Mara Jade and therefore this drawing. 
I think the body looks great so far, I'd only concertrate on the face a bit more now, perhaps. Maybe moving the mouth slightly more downwards? 
Don't know, up to you. I really like it, esp the hands. Omg, I can't draw hands for my life! 
Would love to see more of your work!
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FalconFan
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4/12/07 10:12am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Welcome to Fan Art, Aleria! I'm glad you "got up the nerve:" you'll find we're a pretty amiable bunch here, so there's nothing to fear--and we always welcome new artists!
I like this Mara Jade piece--good dynamic pose (very MJ there!) and a bit of that characteristic glower on her face. I like the two-piece costuming, too--something different! You have a nice perspective of her saber arm--it's held out from her body just a bit, as it would be, holding her ignited weapon in this position--I agree with our moderator that there are a couple of small anatomy issues, but nothing glaring (to me anyway). The hands do seem a bit small, and you might want to just look closely at your own hands for models when trying to draw things like fists (which are very tough to get right--the proper curling of the fingers and thumb require close attention to how the hand actually moves and articulates): stand at the mirror, put your own hand into the position you're trying to draw and study it for a while (and if you need a "lightsaber hilt," a broom handle can often suffice nicely! lol! I know this from experience!  ). I have a link to a great tutorial for hands if you're interested--just let me know. I think this piece would really benefit from some shading, if you feel up to putting some in: it would contour the figure more, and give it some good volume and depth. Shading is always good! A very nice piece to share first (we have a lot of Jade fans here!), and we'll be looking forward to seeing more very soon! Again, welcome!
FF
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Todan
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Date Posted:
4/12/07 11:05am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Todan
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Hello there welcome Aleria ,I like your pic it rocks
keep up the good work
Todan
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Aleria
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Date Posted:
4/12/07 4:53pm
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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5/20 8:52am (3 edits total)
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Aleria
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Thank you all for the warm welcome.
Rebel_Radio - Thanks. I never really thought about a particular moment or event for Mara to be reacting to, actually. If I remember correctly, what was going through my mind was more about her anger and hatred towards Luke at the time.
HS29 - I'm glad I was able to capture some movement to the pose, it has been my problem to make people in my pictures look stiff like stone. And hands are a neverending battle for me! As for the blocky head, I hadn't even realised that before. But I do dare to think I've gotten slightly better with heads since I drew this piece.
Chilla - I love Mara's character, too. Jaina is my other fav character. I've been working mostly on different kinds of faces, trying to correct former miscalculations/errors, what ever you want to call it... I'm pretty happy with the body also, and those hands are maybe the best ones I've yet drawn. Though they still need much more practice!
FF - Wow, a long commentary! When I drew this picture I didn't notice the effect of the sabre arm looking like being held out of the rest of her body. What I was thinking, and trying to repeat from a comic picture, was her readying the sabre for a shoving attack. You are widening my perspectives! And thanks for the tip about the mirror and broom. I had tried to look at my hands and drawing them before, but I have never gotten them quite right. Also, it would be great to see that tutorial! And about the shading, I've done a lot of that since this piece!
Todan - Thank you very much!
Thank you to all of you for this amazing critique! I'm sure it will help, and at least make me concentrate on the mentioned parts. Okay, I'll try to get myself around to scanning a few of my other older pencil pictures this weekend.
As for now, here are a few digital art pieces. They're very simple and mostly just ordinary picture manipulation.
Tahiri
Jacen (Though I later realized that it's probably Anakin...)
Jaina - Great One
The Solo twins
EDIT:
Since the first post for some odd reason won't let me edit it, I'll edit this post instead. The reason for the edit, is to put an index of posted pieces on this post to help keeping track of new arrivals.
(FAC - Fan Art Class)
So here it is then...
Drawings:
The Emperor's Hand - Mara
Father's despair - Han
A Mutual Dream - Jaina/Jag
Jaina FAC NEW!
Mara - Sacrifice FAC NEW!
Digital:
Tahiri
Anakin's Spirit
Jaina - Great One
The Solo twins
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Chilla
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Date Posted:
4/13/07 11:24am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07}
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Aleria posted:
Chilla - I love Mara's character, too. Jaina is my other fav character.
Same here! 
You were right, it's Anakin. (from the japanese cover of Traitor)
And the Jaina fanart piece you've used is one of the my fav one and one of the best I've ever seen. You happen to know who did it? 
And I love the Solo twins. I find it a bit disturbing that the ring of the planet ends so apruptly to Jacen's left, but the very idea is already great. 
Well done!
PS: Go back to your first post and click edit. Then write into the title/header line the date you've updated and maybe as well what you've added. That helps others to know when you've updated and you get more replies.
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Aleria
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Date Posted:
4/14/07 5:48am
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Chilla - The Solo twins piece is my favourite. And that the planet's ring seems to have a gap in it is already in the original picture. At first I thought it looked a bit weird also, but it's just because the shadow of the planet hides a part of the ring... Simple physics, I was never that great at it!
I don't actually know who's work the original Jaina picture is. It's absolutely amazing! I think I found it from Google and got the idea for that little piece.
If someone knows who did it, please tell me so I can give that artist credit for it.
Oh, and thanks for the tip of editing the title! I had totally forgotten...
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Blue_but_beautiful
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Date Posted:
4/17/07 7:54am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {started: 10/4/07 updated: 13/4/07 - digital art pieces}
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wow I really love how you have used colours really bold on your picture of Mara, her posture certainly says she means business too, glad i'm not on the receiving end of that, D:
I particuarly like the tones of her hair
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FalconFan
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4/17/07 5:20pm
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A nice series of wallies, Aleria! I especially love the "Solo Twins:" a most foretelling quote there, too...  I also really like the Tahiri one--she's one of my fav characters, and I wish she'd get more page time in the newer novels... **grumbles** Keep up the great work!
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Aleria
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Date Posted:
5/12 3:02pm
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {5/12/08 - BACK IN BUSINESS and NEW ARRIVALS}
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5/12 3:09pm (1 edits total)
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Aleria
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After a very long absence, I'm finally back. Thank you to HanSolo29 for reopening this thread for me.
And of course, I have a couple of new pictures to present to you. These two were both drawn for my own fanfic, which can be found from Beyond the Saga. So here they are:
Father's despair - Han
A Mutual Dream - Jaina/Jag
Hope you like them! Let me know what you think and anything constructive will be much appreciated.
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5/12 9:48pm
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Is that Mara during the book Allegiance? She looks like her younger self.
Very nice. I like the Jaina/ Jacen DA too.
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Aleria
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5/13 7:56am
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Sublime: Thank you very much! I haven't read Allegiance, so I can't say it's exactly from there. But I was thinking about a younger Mara when I did that piece. I'd say the timeframe could be the whole time she was still working for Palpatine and trying to kill Luke.
I just draw a picture of Jaina for the Fan Art Class. The reference picture is from the Japanese cover of Dark Journey and the assignment was to concentrate on the nose. Here it is: Jaina
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Aleria
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Date Posted:
5/20 8:50am
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RE: A Spot in the Void - Aleria's art {UPDATE 5/20/08 Mara - Sacrifice}
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Another sketch made for the Fan Art Class. It's Mara from the cover of Sacrifice.
Mara - Sacrifice
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IMHO, I think the new one of Mara is your best yet. You nailed the posture and perspective. And the shading is beautiful. There's something a little different in the face than from the reference picture but I actually kinda prefer it.
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