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Published: 2008-07-16 08:10:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 73860; Favourites: 986; Downloads: 3484
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Here's the pencils, final art, and then CSI crime scene shot of the poor Jedi girl. Here's the link to the final cover:[link]
Hmmm. Haven't looked at this in years. There's some charm in the pencils that's lost in the final character art...
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Wow, and yes I think I see what you mean by losing some charm.. and a hand, and a hole in the chest heh heh. Beautiful work though.
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She have a history, doesn't? Please, say that she has one!
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i always like her. She is so pretty. it is a shame that she died.
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Adam, I'm still way happy with all the character designs you did on this stuff. She does have a bit more of an impish look in the sketch, but I think that came out in a few of the other drawings of her that you did.
I think that she has an instantly recognizable look that sits well with all the iconic characters from the films, without being an amalgamation of characters, either. You know, you should consider this drawing pictures thing professionally, man!
Are you going to post up the earliest sketches of the characters? I think I still have all the sketches on disc somewhere, I can email them to you if you want to look them over. I still have a softspot for the teenage wookie. I should see if I can find my original notes to you on the characters as well.
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God. That damned teenage Wookie.
Good to hear from you, Sean. That was a fun job and an even funner strip to Seattle for the launch party.
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That image is just so very unnerving. I applaud the work that went into designing her I just hate to see a girl wind up like that, even an imaginary one.
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i love the female jedis outfit, but in the actual picture i think her chin needs to be rounded a tad more, she looks a lot like cat woman from that angle.
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So cute, why she have to die 
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I've seen all manner of horrors on the internet, but there's something particularly unnerving about this, even so.
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That CSI shot fills me with all manner of joy! Take that, self-righteous jedi whore!
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when I saw that cover I thought it was that alternate reality line Leia fighting Vader
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Aaaaah, and here's where I knew you from! I remember seeing your character art in that Star Wars rulebook and loving the style. I still love it.
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Like Owen Kampen said, "It's all in finding the right line".
Had no idea you were a Sevendust fan... - mh
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I believe and agree to whatever you say!! I even read your "How to draw perfect tits to make morons drool"!!
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Ouch, looks real painful. Being a jedi has its bad points...lol, like the occasional lost of limb and/or limb..lol
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It looks like she's been run through with a lightsaber. That's a pretty grievous insult among Jedi, and carries much dishonor. I hope that the culprit paid dearly for their crime.
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Ummm... the "culprit" was Darth Vader.
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Wow...I remember seeing the first images when I was like, 14.
The cover is great. I was surprised to see her again.
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Awesome!! I really wish there was a gritty Star Wars movie now.
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OMG so its you 
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I really like the character design and the hardcore death shot, though i wish the full view would be bigger
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SIA-LAN WEZZ!! NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The official time paradox of the Star Wars Universe. Seriously... [link] <== Like Shaak Ti, she dies twice.
Crazy.
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she's pretty hot.
i kinda see the lost charm there. :\
i have issues with that too. it looks so much neater with the cleaned up color, but.... it has so much more personality all sketchy and awesome too.
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All three are wonderful, and each has it's own merits.
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Yeah the pencils do carry a different edge to them then the final art. I am always trying not to lose that flair in the transition from sketch to final
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I think the lost charm is in the ruffle of her hair, and the neatness and closeness of the rest of the image. The more rendered one loses the ruffle and she tends to look a little sloppier and a little less rigidly precise and prim.
But I love all three.
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It's all about the eyes. In the sketch, they're angled, young, mischievous. In the final, they're more rounded, serene, calm.
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I always loved that older SW art for the RPG book. And ew, how did you make her look lovely, even when dead and dismembered?
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Amazing pieces. For some reason I especially love the little detail of singe and smoke in the wound on her chest. To me it's the details like that which brings a realistic feel to a piece.
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I couldn't believe that Lucasfilm let me keep the crispy bits on the wounds. "yay" for realism! When I was a kid STAR WARS, had balls. Real people got shot, lightsabers cut off limbs, violence had repercussions. Am I alone in thinking that it's slighly negligent to make war and violence so palatable to kids, just to sell extra tickets, DVDs, or toys?
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I fully agree, I'm a for gritty war flicks. "We Were Soldiers" anyone? I wish I'd have known better before I actually ended up going to war with all these visions of glory lol... Only to find out that there are no heroes in real combat. The only people ever recognized on any battlefield are those that lose themselves on that field, most never fully return, even after the war is long over.
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I think I can see what you are talking about with the loss of charm. In the original design, she has that great, big, fluffy hair, while in the final image, her hair is more typical slinky comic hair.
That's just what I think though. :-P
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Nice man! 
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that charm you're talking about thats missing in the final, that's something I've noticed with a lot of artists and their art, it's something if we could harness it would make things so much more interesting. I think that generally you do a great job of keeping that freshness and energy through your images and thats what makes you so successful among other things. this is a nice image you uploaded, thank you for posting it.
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That Vader piece is one of my faves from your work...
Good work!
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Beautiful work, Mr. Hughes. I do agree that the final character art loses a little (very little) something from the pencils. (Disregard from here on if you wanna. Far be it from me to criticize you of all people
That said, te character art itself is still more beautiful than anything I've managed to scrape together. And the final cover is of course mindblowing.
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