Kase Ramada, Jedi Padawan Colour Test

Okay yep. I have some Star Wars fan characters - but I'm not insane like a lot of fans. I try to keep mine as cannon as possible and I only have two, both of whom I've had for years. This year I decided to redesign both of them, even though they'll probably never be used for anything, because it's fun to play in other people's creative sandboxes once in a while and I have a real thing for Star Wars. I have no idea what era Kase and her Master Jedi Knight Tak Rene belong too, though I like to think of them being several hundred years before the fall of the Republic at least. Respectively, the beads in Kase's hair are yellow for lightsaber prowess and black for covert operations, the two areas of the Force in which she is being trained. I tried to model her and her master off of the canon Quinlan Vos in a way, who often runs covert operations for the Jedi Order and has thus shifted into being a Grey Jedi. At the start of Kase's training (shown here sort of - she's about 14 and is of the catagory of women who never really grow any boobs) she's a proper, by-the-book Jedi of the Light. But eventually her master's influence (Tak being moderately Grey, but nothing really towards actual Dark) as well as lack of contact with the Jedi Temple has its effect and by the end of Kase's training, she's as grey as her master.

I tried to make Kase fairly militeristic and boyish. After looking at a lot of the designs for the existing female Jedi, I realized that their tunics are longer and quite a bit more dress-like. Jedi typically try to style their mode of dress a bit after whatever race or planet from which they derive - this is seen in the dress of Luminara Unduli and Bariss Offee. I'm still not sure what planet Kase (or her scurvy master) hail from, but I wanted to go with something a little different than the plain khaki for Kase. If you could see her full gear, you'd see that her full tunic is in fact longer than that of a typical male Jedi's.

Personality wise, Kase has a strong thing against dressing too girly or even acting feminine. If her master would let her, she'd crop most of her hair off and dress fully like a dude. It's a good day for Kase when somebody can't guess her gender, or calls her a guy. Her dislike of femininity gets her in trouble later when she's older of course, as often she and her master have to go about in disguise, which sometimes means not nessacarily dressing in a way that she particularly respects.

Kase is flawed this way, but that's what makes her real to me. She also has a strong dislike of hyposprays, another thing which she has to conquer during her training. Usually Kase obeys her master's every command, but if a hypospray's involved, then she gets a little free with her lightsaber. It's very un-Jedi-like.

Otherwise, Kase acts like any other Jedi and for a long time, so does Tak, afraid of influencing her. Unfortunately, eventually she picks up some stuff anyway, because padawans are taught to learn from their master's example and follow them nearly everywhere for the sake of this observation, loyally protecting them in battle.

I'll be putting up more sketches of these guys soon. This was a nice break from animating.

Lightsaber is way out of scale.