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So, finally I did it! I've been meaning to draw Commander Shepard of the game Mass Effect for a long time, but I was daunted. It's a game I love so much, that I didn't want to screw up my tribute.

I also wanted to have Shepard in a bleak mood. ME3 is the game where Shepard starts to question herself and her ability to lead the war. So I chose to have her in her dream background, which already seems desolate and colorless. Ashes raining down and Javik's words ringing in her head. I also added some scars because, no matter what you did, in ME3 you had to embrace your renegade side.

Shepard will forever be one of my favorite characters. So thank you bioware for creating such a memorable game.

EDIT:
*I fixed the red stripped in the armor, which made the arm look weird. The arm is pressing down on her leg and tilted inwards, so the strip should move inwards as well. :)

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Shepard Series
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Commander Shepard -- Doubt
[link] Commander Shepard -- Resolution
[link] Commander Shepard --Synthesis
[link] Commander Shepard --Destroy
[link] Commander Shepard --Control
Commander Shepard --Peace
[link] Commander Shepard --Regrets
[link] Commander Shepard -- Refusal

BONUS:
[link] Wallpaper

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The Shepard Files
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*the first link would be the fanfic, the second the image that goes with it

[ONE] Colonist [link] [link]
[TWO] Colonist/Sole Survivor [link] [link]

[THREE] Spacer
[FOUR] Spacer/Ruthless

[FIVE] Earthborn
[SIX] Earthborn/War Hero

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~silverleaf02 Apr 2, 2013
OMG! I got chills from looking at this. She looks so much like my Shepard its scary.

I can't imagine what Shepard was thinking towards the end and how many doubts they had. This captures the weight of all the choices you had to make.
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~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Apr 4, 2013
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. And yeah, I wanted to capture the moment when she realizes everything that has been forced upon her. I think it would daunt anyone to have the fate of the human race on your shoulders. Shepard had the entire galaxy's fate, though.
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*Knight-Watcher Mar 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
The recurring nightmare varies though the circumstances always the same. First leaving Earth. Second an old friend hangs between life and death. Third another old friend dies for the future of a cured race if you went that way with the genophage. Fourth a dying man falls in defense of a stranger. Fifth another perishes for his species evolution especially if you manage to broker a peace for the Geth and Quarians. Sixth comes the defeat on Thessia and perhaps the doom of an entire race.

At every turn, at every failure - so Shepard doubts and it finds voices as well as faces in a dream turn nightmare where all was for naught.
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~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Mar 29, 2013
It's what makes the character believable. The fact that if you pound on Shepard long and hard enough, he/she's bound to break at some point. And even if he/she stands back up to face the drums of destiny, it would never be as before. Event forever change you and defeats... well, they forever mark you.
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*Knight-Watcher Mar 29, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
There was also being near death in a coma for two years - that too changed Shepard though coming back and fighting for the lives of all in the face of some ancient design well that too.

Each and every even etched deeply - so yes the doubts make the Shepard human.
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Mood: Sadness ~lainiewench Mar 22, 2013  New member
That is one of my favourite quotes from Mass Effect 3. Forgive me if I have 'sadness' as my feedback. That evoked perfect sadness in me. Thankyou.
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~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Mar 22, 2013
Thank you very much! In a weird way... I'm glad I made you sad? Or rather, I'm glad I was able to inspire the feeling of just... Shepard's painful but sweet defeat.:hug:
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*Debbysh Mar 20, 2013
#ArtSupporters has featured you :)
Thank you for playing the MOST FAVED DEVIATION GAME!

We are now organizing a new game, which theme is A DEVIATION YOU ARE PROUD OF: [link]
Would you play again with us? :la:
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~Gigi-FenixPhoenix Mar 20, 2013
Thanks! And yeah! I'll play! I love the games :)
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~Nanahuatli Feb 25, 2013
Oh, you didn't screw up at all. :) But you DID improve later.
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