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hellothere-generalangsty · 4 months

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It's way past my bedtime ans my cat is sleeping-purring next to me but I thought I'd post the process of the @ailani-reillata Ailaniversary art I made today just to talk a bit more about it

Disclaimer: doing traditional art is cool until you need to scan it or post a picture of it 😂 also kinda long post below so ofc no obligation at all to read it!

Phase one: Sketching the Idea

My inspiration for the posture was a Yara Flor comic strip I found on Pinterest. Yara looks over her shoulder and her hair falls on the side of her face, and I loved the way it framed her face and thought it would look great with Ailani's hair.

I drew a little doodle on the page to help me visualize how the hair would be divided, and focused on 3 main parts (the lines, the bubbles, the empty space) which would - supposedly- help me during the lineart stage. Below are images of the final sketch.

I was hesitant on adding details to her arms, such as the folds of a dress, but I was so anxious about ruining the drawing I abandonzd that idea. I was considering adding her tattoos and was still not decided at this stage of the drawing.

Phase 2: Line-ing the Art

Is that even a real word? Idk, I'm too tired to English properly so we will say it is. Following the sketching phase was naturalle the lineart phase, which is one of my favorite stage when drawing. I bought new inking pens too so I was able to test them out, and it went quite well!

As you can see, the ribbons, outline of the skin and facial features have been done with my new pens, and i was quite happy with the result! It gives a more natural look to the whole drawing in my opinion.

At this stage I decided not to add her arm tattoos and consider this version of Ailani as the one you would find in the early chapters of Begged and Borrowed Time, so before she would get her tattoos.

Phase 2.5: Line-ing the Hair

This stage has it's own part because it was really fun to do! The inspiration for the way I draw hair comes from @/ssavaart (aka Scott Christian Sava on Youtube). I've been following him for a while now and I'm trying to push my art beyond my comfort zone and try new stuff thanks to him, and having fun with drawing hair is one of these things!

Look how beautiful these curls are. I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm really proud of the drawing at this stage 😂 it's the perfect moment where the inking went well and I have not yet ridked myself with the watercolours - so I always take a long sight (and tons of pictures) to celebrate reaching this stage without incidents.

Phase 3: Watercolours

Here comes the difficult part. It always makes me nervous because I always fear ruining my drawing and all the efforts I put into it by doing the watercolours. But I love the medium too much and if I want to get better I need to practice. So, testing the waters, I finally dive head first into this crucial stage.

The watercolouring goes well, I'm overall satisfied enough to take some pictures and even try to scan it, with the hope that the scanned rendering will be better than the usual "photographing and editing" I do with my phone.

Spoiler alert: the scan was NOT better than the pictures, and no amount of editing could change that. (Or maybe I am just very bad at editing.) So, back to my "photographing and editing" habits, I somehow managed to get a good enough result:

I still feel unsatisfied as I find these digital versions do not properly render the visuals I have on paper, IRL. With the digital versionsw the hair is either so dark we don't see the details, or too bright, the colours are too warm and light... And while Ailani looks light-skinned, the paper version has these visible brown tones that I struggled to find on the digital version, even when editing the pictures. The closest I got is the tone you see on the first picture, but the image is not lighted enough so the overall quality of the picture is a bit lessened by that.

Still, I won't complain too much, because overall it was a very fun drawing to do, I enjoyed every stage of it and I would love to do another piece like this! But for now I will go to sleep because it is Way Past My Bedtime 😂

If you've made it this far, thank you for your attention, feel free to let me know which stage is your favorite and what you liked most (or disliked most) about this drawing!

I for one really had fun doing Ailani's lips, as well as filling her hair, and colouring her eyes! 😊

#ailani #ailani art #I'm tagging just in case you wanna see more but again no obligation to read all of that or anything!#this post is mostly here to show the early stages coz I was so prouf of how smoothly it went!!#until the colours #it's always the colours 😂#but I hope you enjoyed the drawing anyway #I've actually been working on it last weekend but couldn't finish it until this saturday because of my exams week #which is over btw which means i finally has time to read Begged And Borrowed Time!!#and I'm really excited about that!!#so yeah that's all for me now is time to sleep because it's like 4:19am right now and I am huu tired 😂#once again happy Ailaniversary 💕💙#also yes we can't see my signature on the drawings I cut it out by accident when i cropped the pictures and was too lazy to retake pics etc #please pretend like you see my name signed next to her hair x)

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kookyburrowing · 27 days

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Portrait of an Unknown Woman, ca. 22BBY. No one knows the true identity of this Naboo woman, though there is suspicion she was a Jedi.

or: a pencil portrait of Ailani Réillata, created by the amazingly talented @ailani-reillata. This was done in a sketchbook with a papermate 0.7 mm mechanical pencil. It took me four days. The lighting in the final photo was edited to be set to the “vivid cool” settings on an iphone camera on top of my own modified lighting settings. The caption is because as far as I remember after her death she is sadly forgotten to time, and I wondered what would happen if someone had ever drawn her in-universe and it was found decades later. I focused a LOT on her expression because I didn’t want her to be too happy—I thought it would be fitting if she had a mask of seriousness over this bone-deep, tragic sadness. I hope I captured her well!

#lee does art #ailani réillata #star wars #swocs

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gimmeyoursnacks · 2 years

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Ailani in the beach dress?? Ailani in the beach dress.

@ailani-reillata

#ailani réillata #star wars oc #my art #she sparkles #ignore the inaccuracies of the dress #I just looked at it twice and was like yes #shes my muse your honor #miles cant do backgrounds example number 102932

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jaigeye · 2 years

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My loyalty to the past — my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most. (x) @ailani-reillata, based on joan of arc hearing the voices of the angels.

#ailani réillata #swocs #jaigeye art

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ct-7567 · 15 days

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Ailani giggling from her adrenaline in the laat/i was soo funny

@ailani-reillata

#im so slow at reading but im determined to finish reading the acolyte #my art #ailani réillata

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circadianaa · 2 years

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ailani for @queen-breha-organa ❤️ had so so much fun working on this one !!!! thank you for letting me draw her ❤️❤️

#ailani réillata #my art #circadraws #art #star wars #jedi oc

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just-anotherrandomartist · 4 months

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happy (almost) ailaniversery @ailani-reillata ! this is not my neatest lettering i’m sorry

#my stuff #my art #ailani #others ocs

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aspic31 · 2 years

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@queen-breha-organa ‘s oc ailani because that prologue plagued me with too many feelings

Taglist (dm to join) : @kkrazy256 @lost-on-kamino @beroyas

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dragongoddessoffate · 4 months

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Lavender and Orange Blossoms, Memories of Childhood

@ailani-reillata

#art #ailani réillata #drawing #lavender #orange blossoms #I hope you like it!#I tried my best to include her star map tattoos #happy ailaniversary!

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darth-caillic · 4 months

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Ailani Réillata + Aurora Borealis

Been meaning to do another Ailani piece for a little bit. I was kinda stuck on what I wanted to do with it, but had the sudden urge to draw northern lights and remembered Ailani's Snow Gear (which lowkey reminds me of Padme's snow gear in the 2003 Clone Wars :D). So I thought "why not? let's given it a go".

Happy Ailaniversery @ailani-reillata !

#ailani réillata #star wars #swocs #fanart #cj art #gifts for others #aurora borealis

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sleeplessdreamer14 · 5 months

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Snow White AU feat. Evil Queen Ailani (owned by @emerald-echeveria-plant)