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Yet another Jedi! Woo!
It's the Jedi Exile a.k.a. Meetra Surik (btw, am I the only one who actually likes that name?) from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.Been playing that game recently and I just felt the irresistible urge to draw my current Exile. When playing KotOR II before, I would always choose the female Asian head with the braids (the one everybody seems to play) because I thought she was prettiest, but this time I actually ended up with the Caucasian with the french braid and I really came to like her a lot.
I used this amazing stock photograph by Reine-Haru as a reference for this. It wouldn't have turned out half as good without it, so yay! ^.^
By the way, the glowy thing on the left is actually supposed to be her lightsaber which she is probably holding in front of her. Aaand I tried to incorporate the Jedi Order symbol into the background to make it a little less dull.
I really suck at backgrounds...Please let me know what you think about this.
Oh and playing this game made me realize again how much I love Atton!
I actually really want to draw him but do not dare to because I'm afraid of messing him up completely.
Girl problems.
EDIT 05/11: Finished the counterpart to this, Mr. Atton Rand ! ^.^
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Nice piece of art! BTW, is that lightsaber color blue, or is it cyan (that lighter bluish color)?
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Thank you! And awesome avatar btw, gotta love Jolee.
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yw! and oh, yes! Best Jedi ever!
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No you're not the only one. I think Meetra Surik is actually a very pretty name nice work, I used that head most of the time myself
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It really is the prettiest head, isn't it?
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Yeah they do. This actually the head I used for my original Exile.
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Good to know that I'm not alone
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Glad you like it!
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I swear I cannot get over the way you draw hair. It always looks so perfect and shiny and I feel like I could touch it! The lighting effects look fantastic too. After reading the description, I can definitely see the lightsaber and Jedi symbol in the background - both very awesome details that really complete the painting! Great job!
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Thank you so much for your kind words! ^___^
I actually struggle with hair a lot, and the way I paint it now is already quite different from how I did it in this painting
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Thanks 
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Me neither, she looked kind of like pig to put it bluntly.
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not keen on the quasimystism personality of her in that game either.
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I haven't played SWTOR so I can't judge her character, but didn't they also create a backstory for her in which she leaves and dies shortly after the events of KotOR II?
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I think so in the book Revan, haven't read it though
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I don't really speak Spanish, so I hope this means something good...?
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Thanks so much! Glas you like it!
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This is gorgeous. 
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Thanks so much!
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Looks really good. I don't know how many people actually have problems concerning what's canon, you know about Revan being male and the exile female. I kind of take it as true, but that doesn't change the fact I can easily play the first one as a female character or the second one with a male character. Nobody will tell me what gender I'll choose, so what's the problem what's canon or not?
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Thanks a lot!
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Shepard in a way is different to me. I don't know why. Not saying anyone can't play with females in it. Of course not. But I have mostly played with a male. Well tbh, I mostly play with male characters as I am male, but I've rarely played with a female Shepard in ME. Maybe it's because Bioware really pushes the male default Shepard in your face in its promotions, while with KOTOR or DA, that's not the case for what the protagonist looks like. Maybe also a little with Hawke, but Bioware is very supportive of Lady Hawke when promoting as I believe one of the game developers dresses as Lady Hawke at game events. But as for Shepard, because of that reason I also use the default Shepard in the game, rather than my own Shep. Maybe it's because you can't really make a good looking guy in the character design and the default surely has better textures than any other character you can create. Sadly this is also the case with Femshep, maybe that has been improved since they introduced a new default femshep for ME3. I've not tried it yet.
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True, I think Bioware started promoting female Shepard a little too late, so pretty much everyone had already accepted default male Shepard as "the" Commander Shepard. But the entire promotion campaign for the ME franchise was a lot bigger than the one for Dragon Age or other games, so I guess they needed a face to be able to promote it the way they did. And since the majority of gamers is still male, it made sense to go with the default male face I guess. 
I tried creating a good looking male Shepard once and failed miserably
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I might be wrong, but I find the customization with women very limited. I always find every creation I tried too similar to the other. My partner can see a clear difference in the characters she creates. Maybe because she has a better memory than me lol. I don't think in reality that all women look so alike, but in Mass Effect, yeah. I think it's certainly more a variety in DA. I don't know what you thought of that idea of giving Lady Hawke a more feminine walk, rather than her walking in the identical way of the male character like in the first DA. Some say that should have also been applied to ME3. And my partner thinks a bit different about it. In a way it would have been cool, but then again Shepard's a soldier so you can imagine that she has like a more manly walk. Manly is maybe not the right word even, just that she look she looks like how a soldier should walk, rather than how a lady would walk.
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In Mass Effect, female options are very limited indeed. For the head, mouth and nose shape there are only like two decent choices for each imo, the others look really weird. And the female NPCs all look pretty much alike, so there is not much diversity.
There was a lot more you could do in Dragon Age, if only for the tons of mods out there that can really give your character a distinct appearance. I thought the feminine walk in DA2 was actually a nice idea, but for Shepard it would have been... weird.
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