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so andor trailers (and the new krennic figure) have introduced us to imperial dress uniforms

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*Lighting a fire under anyone who has yet to pre-order so they don't miss out* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT TO PREORDER!!

Finding Home: A Chiss Ascendancy Fanzine is taking preorders for one more week! Visit our site here and reserve your copy! https://www.ascendancyzine.com/preorder

Preorders will close after May 4th! So get your copy now before it's gone forever!

(Yes, we will have a leftover sale period, but we can't guarantee how many leftovers we will have).

(cover art by @jazaesis)

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Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves.

I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately.

Ya’ll eat up fandoms, leave artists and writers bone dry and then move on so fucking quickly then fucking wonder where all the Good Fandom Stuff is.

Idk Maybe cherish some things for longer. Reblog stuff. Interact with people. Comment and share.

Fandom is Capitalism now and I’m not being nuanced.

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Order 66

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the empire's finest

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🇯🇵💙 SWCJ CHISS MEET UP ANNOUNCEMENT 💙🇯🇵

Time: Saturday 11:30 am

Location: Chess Field, Front Square, Makuhari International Exhibition Hall

Spread the word and see you there! 🫐

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"Welcome to the art club, Karyn..."

Typical day on the bridge of the ISD Chimaera…

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YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TALKIN TO THE JEDI HAVE YOU MATE

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Flowershop AU

Pt. 7: A Good Heart

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in the words of miss swift, only bought this dress so you could take it off 💙

ref from yuna ishizawa ☺️

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What color palette(s) do you use for thrawn/chiss

I can never seem to get the right shades.

And yours are always so spot on and amazing!

*claps with glee* color picking for chiss? you mean my favorite subject to ramble about ever? don't mind if i do 🔴〰🔴

this will be primarily for chiss skin. for anyone who wants to know how i do chiss eyes and haven't seen the tutorial i made, here it is

so for thrawn, i go the self-indulgent route and pick the brightest, most saturated cerulean blue as my base color:

then, before i add any shadows or highlights, i add the blush to his nose and cheeks/general middle third of the face. even if you're not trying to make your chiss look like they're blushing, it's good for adding some life/variation to the skintone

my chiss blush is, naturally, purple

your blush should be slightly darker than your base color. seeing as this saturated purple is naturally darker than the base blue i picked, i don't need to worry about manually picking a deeper shade, but in a lot of other color palettes, i would.

then for shadows, i shift the hue a little towards the royal blues with each darker shade, while maintaining max saturation

this is key if you want your chiss to be So Blue It Burns Your Eyes

for highlights, i like to shift my hue in the other direction, towards cyan, but after a certain point it doesn't matter as much as it does with base color and shadows.

for darker thrawn paintings, i will pick a darker base blue, but every other principle remains the same

and finally, if your chiss is not turning out blue enough (i've been there, despite my best efforts), try slapping an overlay layer with a midtone blue-grey on top. play around with the exact shade and the layer opacity based on what you're looking for and your chiss should become Even Bluer

i did it with my lesser evil fan poster

(and also in the very first example, from the thrawn and nuso esva painting)

now for other chiss, i like to add some variety in skin color, which does make my approach to color picking a little different. for example with ar'alani, i tend to choose a lighter blue

and then when it comes to shadows, i do pick more saturated shades as i go darker, as well as shifting the hue the same way as i do for thrawn

when it comes to blush, i pick a darker and more saturated purple. for characters whose base skintone is more cyan, i go for a more indigo color, and for characters whose skintone is more in the deep blue/royal blue category, the blush color is more purple

in this case, even if bomarmo's skintone is light, its hue is still less cyan than borika's, therefore his blush is more purple than hers

for darker or more grey skintones (like i do for samakro and my oc vuarum respectively) my principle is still the same, except the less saturated the base color, the less saturated the shadows are going to be. (even though we're still going slightly to the right and shifting the hue. i even do this when i'm painting evereni or other grey skintones)

there is a stopping point to the hue shifting though. i stop shifting the hue for my darker shadows once it reaches that cusp between indigo and purple. i generally don't put purple shadows on my chiss unless the lighting specifically calls for it

then for chiss hair, there's a lot less nuance to my process

the white circle is where i like to start if i'm doing a low committment sketch or very bright painting, but if i'm doing a darker painting i'll usually just start with black and every other shade is sort of a highlight after that.

generally you can go more saturated but i find the less saturated color selection creates a very nice contrast between the Very Blue skin and more muted blue-black hair. i do occasionally like picking more saturated base colors for some chiss though

in general i like to treat chiss hair colors similar to humans except if their undertones were blue instead of yellow and their version of "ginger" was purple.

finally, just a disclaimer: don't color pick from any of these. they're not going to be accurate to the colors i picked on my art programs. between screenshots and file compression, the colors are Slightly Off. that's also why i didn't just drop a bunch of color swatches and skedaddle. it's much more fruitful to learn how to pick your colors :3

thanks for reading! if you have any more questions, feel free to reply or send me an ask! i love talking about this stuff 💙

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Yes they are

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chiss eye tutorials aren't plentiful, and a beloved mutual on twitter asked, so i thought why not share the way i color chiss eyes :3 i hope someone finds this helpful! (and if not, i had fun making it anyway 💙)