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No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can't choose what stays and what fades away

Heaven help me, I need to make it right - Florence + the Machine, No Light No Light

Art Story: You saw my Shepard for the first time happy in the picture with Garrus [link] Well, I wanted to properly introduce her, show who she is. This is Tempest Shepard. She is about 70% Paragon, 30% Renegade. She feels fear just like anyone else, she hates killing - it's directly against her nature. But she wants to save people more. She wants to try to make this galaxy better the only way she can, and save whoever she can.

But there are a few people she couldn't save. A few people too many.

So she fights for the comrades she lost. And she fights for Palaven, Thessia, and Earth because she couldn't stop the Reapers from reigning down destruction on them. She steels herself, pushes her emotions back and fights because she must. She fights to protect and to prevent anyone else from having to suffer. And she fights for her lover and comrade-in-arms, Garrus.

Not one more.

Art description: Original image: 1920 x 1080. Time taken: About a week.

Wow, this took me a while (days and days) because I had to learn how to extract her armor from the game. Well, I did thanks to a great tutorial but it doesn't come with the proper colors or patterns. It was just completely gray/white, everything was. So I painted it myself, every little detail o_o And it took me hours, because I'm not a damn painter. But at least it's done for future artworks.

I also redesigned Tempest's face a bit to closer match my in-game Tempest Shepard [link] and it took me a while. Funny thing is, you can't even see any of the new detail I added XD Next time though. I also wanted her hair to be up but I couldn't find a good hairstyle like I wanted, so let's just say her scrunchie broke in battle

I learned a lot and I like how this came out. For once, something came out very similar to how I envisioned. I'm also testing out watermarks, so feel free to let me know what you think on how obtrusive the watermark is.

Credits: Many people and tutorials and software helped me make this. So credits are below:

Thank you to for sending me a link to a tutorial on extraction.
Thank you to nhaneh from tumblr for the excellent tutorial and for helping answer my incessant questions even though you did not know me from Job.
Thank you to for letting me use your wonderful stock pose for Shepard. I'm absolutely sure I'll be coming back in the future.
Thank you to the following for the XNA Lara models: Runa, for Thane. for Anderson and Ashley, PabloPicasso for Mordin and Legion and for Garrus.

Software used: DAZ Studio 4.0, 3DS Max, XNALara, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Disclaimer: Shepard's armor texture, the background, Ashley, Anderson, Mordin, Thane and Legion are all property of BioWare and EA. The DAZ model of Shepard belongs to DAZ. All editing and manipulation is my work. No profit was made on this in any way.

Description
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can't choose what stays and what fades away

Heaven help me, I need to make it right - Florence + the Machine, No Light No Light

Art Story: You saw my Shepard for the first time happy in the picture with Garrus [link] Well, I wanted to properly introduce her, show who she is. This is Tempest Shepard. She is about 70% Paragon, 30% Renegade. She feels fear just like anyone else, she hates killing - it's directly against her nature. But she wants to save people more. She wants to try to make this galaxy better the only way she can, and save whoever she can.

But there are a few people she couldn't save. A few people too many.

So she fights for the comrades she lost. And she fights for Palaven, Thessia, and Earth because she couldn't stop the Reapers from reigning down destruction on them. She steels herself, pushes her emotions back and fights because she must. She fights to protect and to prevent anyone else from having to suffer. And she fights for her lover and comrade-in-arms, Garrus.

Not one more.

Art description: Original image: 1920 x 1080. Time taken: About a week.

Wow, this took me a while (days and days) because I had to learn how to extract her armor from the game. Well, I did thanks to a great tutorial but it doesn't come with the proper colors or patterns. It was just completely gray/white, everything was. So I painted it myself, every little detail o_o And it took me hours, because I'm not a damn painter. But at least it's done for future artworks.

I also redesigned Tempest's face a bit to closer match my in-game Tempest Shepard [link] and it took me a while. Funny thing is, you can't even see any of the new detail I added XD Next time though. I also wanted her hair to be up but I couldn't find a good hairstyle like I wanted, so let's just say her scrunchie broke in battle

I learned a lot and I like how this came out. For once, something came out very similar to how I envisioned. I'm also testing out watermarks, so feel free to let me know what you think on how obtrusive the watermark is.

Credits: Many people and tutorials and software helped me make this. So credits are below:

Thank you to for sending me a link to a tutorial on extraction.
Thank you to nhaneh from tumblr for the excellent tutorial and for helping answer my incessant questions even though you did not know me from Job.
Thank you to for letting me use your wonderful stock pose for Shepard. I'm absolutely sure I'll be coming back in the future.
Thank you to the following for the XNA Lara models: Runa, for Thane. for Anderson and Ashley, PabloPicasso for Mordin and Legion and for Garrus.

Software used: DAZ Studio 4.0, 3DS Max, XNALara, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Disclaimer: Shepard's armor texture, the background, Ashley, Anderson, Mordin, Thane and Legion are all property of BioWare and EA. The DAZ model of Shepard belongs to DAZ. All editing and manipulation is my work. No profit was made on this in any way.