Mara Jade

This is my anime version of Mara Jade from the Star Wars novels. This picture incorporated little things from the American comics that Mara appeared in combined with my own drawing style. The most obvious of these is her outfit. It's based off one she wore in the series 'By the Emperor's Hand.' The other is her eyes which I based off the version done by the artist who did the comic version of the Zahn Trilogy. Everything else is sort of how I pictured her in my mind's eye.

It was drawn from 8/3/01 to 1/30/02 ((I'm a pretty slow drawer ^_~)) and colored on 2/13/02. It was inked with Millennium pens and colored entirely using colored pencils. The glowing saber and background were added digitally.

This is the first picture that I made up an original pose for without using a reference picture. I think it turned out pretty good. Not perfect... but I still like it, though I don't like the gun that I gave her. I wanted her to be holding a small gun (Like the one she keeps in her arm holster.), but couldn't find any reference pictures for it. The one I came up with looks like something that should be in my husband's collection, not the Star Wars universe..... Oh well... I'll try to do better next time. =)

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