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Tenel Ka: The Rare Smile

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Star Wars fanart! This is actually a picture I drew, like, a year ago, and only recently got around to finish.

Tenel Ka Chume Ta'Djo, Jedi Knight and princess of the Hapes Consortium, (here seen as a teenager,) is one of my favourite characters from the Young Jedi Knights books. She's the daughter of a Hapan prince and a Dathomiri witch. As a result, she has been trained as a warrior of Dathomir from a very young age, and even as a Jedi she still wears their characteristic scale armor.

Her dedicated training and perfectionistic nature made her one of the most badass characters in the books, rivalled only by Lowbacca, Chewie's nephew. (And it's pretty hard to top a Jedi Wookie in that regard.)

Tenel Ka is a serious, logical girl who doesn't flaunt her emotions. She serves as the romantic interest of Jacen Solo, and a running theme in the stories was his constant attempts to make her laugh with his rather questionable jokes. :D She's a good and trustworthy friend, however, and occasionally she'll let you see that rare smile.

About her hair: Tenel is described as always wearing her hear tied in multiple "warrior's braids." Cover art, etc, usually depict her with an entire head full of them. That was way to difficult to draw, though, especially since I was going for a sort of simplified, cartoonish look. So I ended up giving her only five -the last one is on her back.

Things That Are Wrong That I Already Know About: ^^;

Wierd shadows, for one. I suck at shading, unfortunately. Major kudos to and for putting up with me long enough to help me out.

Her anatomy is sort of screwed up as well, especially the face, but whenever I tried to change it, I found that I lost the expression I like so much.

In the end, though, I'm pretty much satisfied. :)

Tenel Ka and Star Wars belongs to George Lucas and LucasBooks.
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ShylaBlu's avatar
Yay, Tenel Ka art!

Nice work. :)