Female Bounty Hunter (not a Mandalorian!) [Lal-Khan]

I have been debating for some time as to whether or not I wanted to post up a request here (not sure if anyone would want to take it!), but I have decided I shall go ahead and do so and leave that up to the artists!

(and thank you in advance to anyone who looks at this!)

Anyway, I am curious if anyone would be able to draw an RP character of mine, a female bounty hunter. She is not a Mandalorian, and the only thing that she cares about involving them is that Boba Fett keeps snapping up bounties before she can get her hands on them. Damn new hotshots...anyway. Her name is Rylis Tavel, and she is a Mirialan living in the time while the Empire was in power. Her parents, having been supporters of the Republic, had been executed as traitors when she was 14, leaving Rylis an orphan (as well as causing a deep-seated hatred of the Empire in her). At the age of 16 she left Mirial and ended up on Nar Shaddaa, doing petty spy work for a local crimelord.

A few years later, she decided that trying to take in bounties would net her more money. Her first attempt was an unqualified disaster, in which she was nearly killed by her prey, but due to this she learned caution and patience while on a hunt. Her skill increased over the years, as did her reputation. Only once has she ever missed a mark, and as that was also a disaster that nearly got her killed, she's loathe to talk about it. A series of events that had gone out of control caused her to have a bounty put out on her by the Empire, and she was eventually given an ultimatum - come and work for them, or be executed herself. As of now in the game it is 5 BBY and Rylis is 28 years old, and has worked for the Empire for about a year. She doesn't like it, and doesn't trust them in the least, but for the moment has no other choice.

Okay! Enough background, now the actual character description. Rylis, as a Mirialan, has greenish-yellow skin and bright blue eyes, as well as a series of tattoos on her face (I have an actual reference for this - shall be a bit further on). She has long black hair that she generally wears in a braid that wraps around her head (similar to this, minus the goofy little ponytail). She's about 5'7" in height and 145 lbs - not a stick-thin girl, but not fat either. Average. And she doesn't have a tiny waist or big boobs either :P

I do have a portrait I did of her (I should upload it here, actually!) available here, that shows how her tattoos and facial features. The others in the game said they had pictured her as looking similar to Angelina Jolie so I sort of went off of a picture of her.

And the main reason I am requesting this instead of drawing it myself - she always wears a set of armor. I cannot draw tech-y stuff at all. As far as how the armor looks, I don't have a lot in the way of requirements. It's meant to be fairly sleek and fitting. She's not a stormtrooper nor a Mandalore, so it doesn't look much like either. The armor itself is mostly matte dark grey, with some black glossy accents. I picture it as being sort of similar to Deunan Knute's from Appleseed (will include links to some pics at the end) - not very bulky but obviously able to do its job. On her right arm a small spikegun is attached to the armor; the left arm has a small flamethrower (don't worry about these too much, they're supposed to blend pretty seamlessly). She also wears a jetpack on her back most of the time. The armor doesn't have any sort of helmet or anything that covers her head. Her blaster is a standard DL-44.

(I apologize, most of the pics I can find of Deunan are toys...)

http://images.forbiddenplanet.com/image/detail/1570458.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2085303328_f83d687b95.jpg
http://www.actionhq.com/store/images/cool_girl_Knute.jpg
http://www.actionhq.com/store/images/images_extra/cool_girl_Knute3.jpg
http://ildangbaik.img3.kr/20071207/Deunan.jpg
http://timmaughanbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/appleseed1.jpg
http://www.raymondlo.info/blog/uploaded_images/appleseed-707553.jpg

Phew! I apologize for the length of this post. It got much longer than I expected. But hopefully someone is interested, and I've included enough detail yet left enough open for you! Thanks very much!

dredwulf60

I sorry I haven't got time for this one, but I just want to say it is an excellent post, and the textbook example of a request that most artists like to see.

Rylis

Heh, why thank you! I've only ever requested/commissioned something once before, and figured a lot of info/references (or too many) is better than too little...

Hisham

Well for one thing, you don't need to waste a lot of apostrophes filling out a form. LOL.

Rylis

And not all bounty hunters are Mandalorian anyway! Very few of them would be, in fact :P