Nippy13 - Jedi Master Elsa

When I was attending Anime L.A., I met a cosplayer who had done a rather interesting mash-up.  The mash-up was Disney and Star Wars and she was doing Elsa as a “Slave Leia”.
Here’s a picture of her:  Maid of Might Cosplay - Slave Elsa

I saw it and liked it but then I thought that as titillating as it was, I figured that Elsa wouldn’t be a slave at all.  So then I thought it over about the different aspects and professions in the Star Wars universe that would fit her.  And given her abilities, I decided that Elsa should be a Jedi.  With that in mind, I called upon an artist I know who has always done amazing work when it came to mimicking the Disney style whether it was 2D or 3D characters:  Nippy13

I sent a message to her making it a lineart/sketch commission.  The idea I had in mind was that Elsa would be wearing Jedi Robes, but also her tunic would be similar to the corset of her “ice dress”.  As for her lightsaber hilt, I went through various sites that made lightsaber props for cosplay and so on.  Among them was a site called “Saber Forge”.   The model that I wanted Elsa to have had to be something very sleek, simple and elegant.  And so, I came upon one that fight that description, but the name of it really laid the irony on rather thick.   The name of the lightsaber model was called: “the Princess”.
And here’s her lineart:  Frozen Wars by Nippy13
After Nippy13 had done the artwork itself, it was up to me to put in the colors.  Immediately, I didn’t want Elsa to be wearing the drab earthtones of the traditional Jedi Robes.  Instead, I used the colors from her ice dress as a pallet, the blues and a little purple.  And of course, I had to make her lightsaber blade blue.

As for the background, I had agonized on that one for quite a while trying to figure out a setting to put her in that would work with my abilities.   FInally, I picked the Death Star Hallway.  The panels for that were relatively simple to reproduce thanks to a few images I found here and there.  After that it was a matter of recreating the sheen and reflection in the floor.  All it takes is a little opacity change, mirroring the image above and viola.

Hope all of you enjoy this as much as I did thinking it up and coloring it.

© Elsa - Frozen - Disney

© Star Wars - George Lucas - Disney