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Check out the lovely people who let me draw their Mandos:

Top middle: @a-aristippus 's Mando Agoru

Top right: @stardust-danvers 's Mando Parjay

Top left: @red-velvet-panda 's Mando Tasso

Middle: My Mando (uwu face reveal)

Bottom: @mistyfur5 's Mando Vren

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✨Sniper Training✨

This took me over 15 hours... Also my first time drawing a background I'm really proud of, yeah✌️

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✨My Mando-sona Dala✨

Dala is her bounty hunter alias just how Din's is Mando, so it's not her real name.

Color meanings: White (Purity/A new Life or Beginning), Black (Justice), Purple (Luck), Erin/Light Green (A lust for peace)

I think I might scrap her armor design completely and come up with a new one later on but for now... She's finished!

I'm still rather unsure about her backstory, too. I can't come up with one I absolutely like... I also don't know if she'd be in Din's covert or not so for now the helmet stays on.

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Oh God, haha! I can see Grogu throwing a tamper tantrum and also stuff around the Razor Crest too tho😂

✨Ad'ika and his buir✨

Grugo took it upon himself to finally give Din’s armor some paint.

This is just a quick sketch I cleaned up in an hour or two… so please ignore any mistakes, thanks!

@dindja and her wonderful art inspired me to try and pick up a pen more regularly again and this idea popped into existence… and then I just had to draw it.

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Din and Grogu

Painted Armor Part 1: Ad'ika and his buir

Painted Armor Part 2: Te beroya

Ad'ika and his first helmet

Mando Spoof Comics and Memes

Bananas with or without the shell (feat. confused nick young meme)

Original Characters

My Mando-sona Dala

Sniper Training

All The Mandos (drawing of others Mando OCs)

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Y'all with your tags!! You're all so unbelievable sweet and funny

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This is kind of a sequel to this picture

✨Te beroya✨

What if Grogu used permanent markers?

Just something stupid that I was laughing about too much in my head, so I had to draw and share it.

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✨Ad'ika and his first helmet✨

This is based on this ask @remmysbounty received from @djarinscyare

Ahshdhahsh the idea was too cute I immediately had to draw it the moment I had even a second of free time! But damn, I managed to finish this sooner than I thought...

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Agagsgsagah, true dat😂

This lil comic is based on this post by @incorrect-mando

I'm... I don't have an explanation for this. I guess I just really wanted to draw Din as the confused nick young meme and this interaction was just too perfect for that.

I laughed, okay??

(Please ignore my wonky Fennec, I'm exploring new styles and ways to draw faces)

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This lil comic is based on this post by @incorrect-mando

I'm... I don't have an explanation for this. I guess I just really wanted to draw Din as the confused nick young meme and this interaction was just too perfect for that.

I laughed, okay??

(Please ignore my wonky Fennec, I'm exploring new styles and ways to draw faces)

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Whitewashing Clones and Fetts

having now been vaguely involved in star wars fandom for the last few months it has become increasingly obvious that many people don't know how to draw clones (or any Māori characters for that matter) without wildly whitewashing them. I don't want to assume that everyone is aware that a lot of the things they're drawing are racist, many artists just seem to be uneducated and change how they draw the characters when kindly called out on it, so I figure the best way to address the problem is to make a masterpost of things artists should be avoiding, or adding in when making art of these characters (made with loads of help from Lucky @transfetts, who did all of the art for this post!

Should go without saying that this all applies to the Bad Batch, since the show isn't too far away. Just because canon has come up with excuses for whitewashing the characters, that doesn't make it fine for you to whitewash them too. Please actively try to make them look more accurate to how Temuera Morrison looks when you draw them.

1. Hair

One of the key issues is the way that people often draw the hair for the clones. remember, they are all Māori! this means their hair is not going to be naturally straight! in some instances, straight hair can be okay but only if there is a specific reason for it, eg. it was straightened artificially for a purpose like a costume or disguise. one of the two worst offenders for the hair being the wrong texture is the classic flat top and when the hair is tied up in a manbun style. the clone wars might have their hair sticking straight up but that doesn't make it okay for you to draw it that way. Temuera Morrison has curly hair, when his hair is short there should be clear lumps showing it is curly. The drawing just below has some examples from Lucky, first of the mistake most people make is having the hair sticking straight up, and a couple of examples of better methods of drawing that style and the tied up style! the key to accuracy is just making the hair lumpy, and ideally adding a few little curls sticking out for longer styles

Long hair should also not be straight, rather it should be relatively curly. Curly does not just mean giving it a few waves! There's a huge difference between making the hair vaguely wavy and making it truly curly

2. General Face Shape

The Clone Wars biggest crime is the way they fucked up the clones face shape. if you look at the gif linked below, you can see just how much they thinned out the clones faces and lengthened their chins. the best advice if you're struggling with the face shape is start off tracing Temuera Morrison! when in doubt, go straight to the source.

3. Lightening

I know everyone has talked about this but it always needs reminding that the clones are not white. stop lightening their skin. again, just copy Temuera Morrison! same goes for the eyes, the clone wars drastically lightened their eyes, the eyes should generally be a much darker brown. There is nothing inherently wrong with giving a clone blue eyes for plot reasons, but it is something that seems to happen far too much. Generally, stop looking for excuses to lighten their eyes. There's already too many clones with light eyes.

4. Nose Shapes

Please look at the examples from Lucky below, Morrison has a much wider nose than the clones do in the animated shows. When drawing them both face on and side on, it needs to be clear that the nose hasn't been thinned and lengthened like in the shows. This goes along with the face shape, Māori features are typically wide rather than long and thin, please stop white washing these features.

5. Moko

It has been super awesome seeing people incorporating the practice of inking the skin into clone and Mandalorian culture in their art! This is something I 100% support, but there a few things that should be noted in doing this. The most important is to never copy someone else's moko directly. moko is a sacred practice of carving our ancestors into our skin, each is individual and should never be directly copied. absolutely take inspiration from other people's moko! but please never come up with it directly. I would urge you to spend some time researching different designs, and spend the time designing something that is individual to the clone or Mando you are drawing. Even better would be to have an explanation of the meanings of the designs you have come up with along with the art! If this sounds too difficult I would recommend sticking with using mando'a for moko instead of traditional designs, although I personally think mando'a is the best thing to incorporate anyway.

The other important thing is not to refer to moko as tattoos, they are very much not the same thing. I would recommend doing a bit of googling to see the methods traditionally used for moko to help understand this.

TLDR: when in doubt, just use Temuera Morrison (or one of the actors of the younger clones) as a reference, rather than the Clone Wars models. just because the animated shows whitewashed the characters, that doesn't make it okay for you to do it.

In an ideal world, if we as fans can reject the whitewashing done by Disney, the people designing the characters would follow suit and start representing Māori more accurately. At the very least, actively portraying clones without whitewashing them will make people of colour feel far more welcome and comfortable interacting with clone artists.

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I was drawing something... And then my program decided to crash, corrupting the file...

I'm fine. I didn't just lose 10 hours of progress 🙂

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AAAA, YES YOU DO! I love your art, my God! And agshshs thank you🙈🙈💙

✨Ad'ika and his buir✨

Grugo took it upon himself to finally give Din’s armor some paint.

This is just a quick sketch I cleaned up in an hour or two… so please ignore any mistakes, thanks!

@dindja and her wonderful art inspired me to try and pick up a pen more regularly again and this idea popped into existence… and then I just had to draw it.

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✨Ad'ika and his buir✨

Grogu took it upon himself to finally give Din's armor some paint.

This is just a quick sketch I cleaned up in an hour or two... so please ignore any mistakes, thanks!

@dindja and her wonderful art inspired me to try and pick up a pen more regularly again and this idea popped into existence... and then I just had to draw it.

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