Alright, so this is entirely @foxwithadarkside‘s fault! 🤩🙀 Thank you, love because I really wanted to do chores and because of you I had to draw this out of my mind! 🫶🤪 I must have a good drawing day to manage this in such a short time! 😱
Poor Commander Thorn, you‘re also gorgeous, Sir! 🦚♥️😂 Even more when upset! 😂😻 But trust me, it's really hard to compete with Captain Beau Keeli ✨
And of course I can’t celebrate milestones without my personal support clone, so have here the Hero of Ryloth – Captain Keeli! 😽
Captain Keeli: Your eyes tell me that I have the coolest looks of the GAR, huh?
(Commander Thorn (somewhere on Coruscant): *is triggered*)
Ramble and close ups under the cut 😁
When I look how I started and now I can draw those faces and expressions without any templates!? 😱✨Only one year ago this was completely impossible for me! Even with no matter how many attempts, it would never had looked like this! 🙀
The only refs I used in here was Captain Rex‘ customized helmet and a phase-2 armor ref, because I‘m still struggling with armor, gear or weapon details, especially how they behave from different angles and perspectives ☺️
Those of you who know me well can’t hear it anymore, but I firstly came to this fandom to share my first Star Wars drawing ever only, because I rewatched TCW, decided that I could use some drawing training and noticed that there was too few fanart of the most stylish clone of the whole series: Captain Keeli 😎 Even less fanart of his gorgeous buzzcut pattern! I had to do something about that 🤩🤌🤌
You beautiful people loved my very first Captain Keeli and told me things like “Where have you been hidden all the time” and so I shared and interacted more and lost shyness from the level of ‘looking respectfully 😏’ to ‘staring absolutely disrespectfully 😻🔥🪭’, same with drawing courage and gaining experience and skill! So I blame yoouuuu 🥰🫶 for pretty Captain Keeli becoming my Art Journey Restart Support Milestone Clone! 🤪🤩✨
Later I marked the 3rd of September 2024 in my internal calendar! I still can’t believe what amount of beautiful chaos and unforeseen shenanigans happened since and now my first drawing for a long time and the start of all of this was exactly one year ago!? 😱😂
Now look at him! 😎✨ Captain Beau can’t stop showing off his well deserved phase-2 armor and if you think that this canine tooth showing smirk was intended – I only planned a proud and just slightly smug Mona Lisa closed half smile, but it didn’t fit! He had other plans and went all in smug smirking! 😁✨
He forgot the shoulder pauldron no I did shame on me, but he would never forget to turn his special helmet into the beholder‘s direction to make sure that they don’t miss Captain Rex’ customizations 😎✨
I indulged some dopamining crosshatching on the blacks and gloves, because I imagine them a structured fabric. I did less crosshatching lines in the other shadows in this case, because I wanted to focus on the neat armor and also spare some time to get that posted before midnight to 4th of September, what I failed pathetically in Germany but not everywhere yet 😂 I‘m able to indulge nightowling in my current situation, so I did 🦉✨🫶 Hope you enjoy!
