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Published: 2008-07-23 18:17:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 4662; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 25
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So here's the lovely Bastila from KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic). 'Why is this one so much better than my other drawings?' you may ask... Well, I used a reference properly!!!
'How so?' you may be wondering... Well, I layed it out beside me and measured lengths, proportions, heights, distances, etc and multiplied them by three (to accommodate for my drawing being 3 times as large), and then drew away! I must say, after drawing with reference i'm scared to go back to freehand!!!Critique is welcome!
Pencils: 4H 2H 2B 4B 6B (8B barely), minor digital touchups to remove creases and scratches
EDIT: This is one of my most popular deviations. Can anyone tell me why that is? Is there some special search you used to find this old piece of crap?
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Okay when I clicked on it, the picture wouldn't show up; but I'm sure it's great. It looks great from the smaller picture. I love that game. You should tell prople it's Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. It might be more fumilier. I owned the game for a year before I knew the referance.
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Thanks! It says in the description where the character is from.
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Thanks! The blades were basically a product of me not knowing how the heck to draw glowing objects
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This is so NEAT I love everything about it! You captured a lot of the drawing
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Thanks! Glad to hear you like it!
And thanks so much for the 
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hey nice art but could u pm me the reference pic ? thnx
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the referance is off the cover of the game
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huh. ive never seen this one b4...
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dagum! The shading is especially beautiful! holy crap o.o
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thanks, i tried especially hard here
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Actually, in life drawing, when you measure proportions for the models you use your thumb and pencil.
like, you outstretch your arm and stick the eraser end of your pencil to line up with the top of the head, and then use your thumb to measure the bottom of the head.
Then you can use that to measure!
that way you don't have to do crazy maths to set everything up.
you can also set up a graph but that can get messy and complicated.
But this is nice! very cool shading and I love the bottom half with the light saber!
very cool! 8D
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thanks! i sort of knew how the pros do it but i didn't want to try ^_^ so i just went with crazy mathz
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someone's having math class withdrawal.
hahaha just kidding.
whatever works best right? who knows maybe you find it easier than I do.
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thanks, are you familiar with KOTOR?
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Anytime. No i am not. Whats/whos KOTOR?
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I need more pencils >_< that's partly the reason why i didn't bother with my Vincent pic lol. only had 4 to work with XD (Although, I should've spent more time on it and made it look like a proper pic ^^)
Nice sketch
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Very cool! I hope you're happy with it, all that measuring sounded complicated
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Oh yeah - that is a very nice looking Bas there. I see you made some changes on her robe. Looks cool! Maybe she has a bit of Asian look but very nice work! 
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ahh thank you for looking, and for the
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Sure thing and You are welcome!
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thats really good :3
the shading is beautiful, practically flawless ^_^
i would work on her hair a little bit more..
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uuurgh.. yeah... the hair... The problem is that the head is only like an inch tall and i can't yet do nice textures on such small spaces... I wish i could do hair like you
Thanks for the encouragement
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thanks 
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Wow! This came out really good 8D Makes me want to try to use a reference properly XD
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heh, yeah, they're really helpful! Thanks for the encouragement
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