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Star Wars illustrator Jessica Hickman explains with these easy-to-follow steps how to draw Jedi apprentice Barriss Offee from the Season 2 of The Clone Wars.
Steps 1-3 are drawn lightly with pencil. No pen, no dark lines. Finished lines and details will come at the end.
Step One:
First draw the basic shapes for Barriss' head and upper body. Keep your pencil lines nice and loose as you decide what poses you'd like her to be in.
Step Two:
Next roughly draw in lines for her face and arms. Don't forget to roughly sketch in her hood!
Step Three:
Give her face a little more detail, making sure to leave the pencil lines light, in case you're not happy with it and have to erase them. Put more detail in their upper body and arms too, adding her hands, eyes, lips and her lightsaber.
Step Four:
Now that you're happy with your rough drawing, make sure to tighten up the image. Add even more details into her face like her diamond-shaped tattoos.
Step Five:
Time to color! I like to color with markers, but you can use anything you want -- crayons, colored pencils, and even the computer. You can even make copies of your finished pencil drawing to practice using different coloring media. I add a lot of layers with my markers before I'm ready to ink and highlight the drawing. Here you can see the rough marker image, before the final coloring layers are added.
Step Six:
I wait until the markers are completely dry, then go over it with the ink outlines. That way the lines won't bleed when they touch the colored marker areas. Use a black pen to go around Barriss' face and body. It can be hard to get a nice, smooth line. Practice makes perfect. Then add some white pencil to lighten up certain areas, and thicker white paint for the final, strong, white highlights -- like the dots in her eyes, lips, etc. Now you're done! Don't forget to sign your drawing before you show it to family and friends!
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