"Under The Streetlight" - 23-03-01 V 23-12-16

So. Earlier this year we lost James Earl Jones who in his long career was probably most known as the voice of Mufasa as well as Darth Vader.

As I was busy with my Marvel 85 Anniversary, I took a day and stressed out a tribute to him as well as to Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse but now with actual time on my hand, I wanted to draw my favourite Vader-scene and what he gave to this character.

My favourite scene is the small hallway scene from Ep. 6 where Luke retreats to Vader. It’s the same character from the previous films, the same suit, same voice and all but none of that fear that came along. It’s no longer the monster slaughtering in hunt of the Death Star-plans, choking left and right over the smallest errors. It’s not the man who cut the hand of his own son in rage. It’s a father talking to his son.

It’s Anakin Skywalker, a master engineer admiring his son’s work on his lightsaber. It’s Anakin warning Luke of the dark side. Same mask, same voice, now portrayed as a slave more than a fist. It’s Anakin thinking back on Obi-Wan and the mistakes of his life and the prison he put himself in.

It’s Anakin saying it’s too late, son.

Well, a lot is of course the passivity of David Prowse’s performance and Mark Hamill leading the conversation but James Earl Jones gave the final push to make Vader more man than machine in his final hour of privacy, before the two entered the Death Star.

This moment between the two is important to strengthen Luke to yell out to his father in pain, to Vader to finally turn after all this time and for them to get a moment to say goodbye and Luke to attend his father’s funeral in the midst of a celebrating galaxy. Without this, Luke would probably still have hope, but now he has evidence of the light side in him.

Or I’m just overthinking. But damn, James Earl Jones was brilliant as Darth Vader and the AI hasn't been close to replicating what he gave to this character.

Newt and Theseus . A little later today, sorry Recently discovered this deleted scene from SoD and I love it, always fun to see the Scamander Brothers . #photoshop #photoshopart #digitalart #digitalillustration #fanart #wizardingworld #wizardingworldofharrypotter #fantasticbeasts #fantasticbeastssecretsofdumbledore #secretsofdumbledore #newtscamander #eddieredmayne #theseusscamander #callumturner #deletedscene . #commissionsopen https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjWHlos3EW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Halloween

Guess who right before the age of 22 has finally watched all of Batman The Animated Series?

LAST Official Art Post of 2024! The year I promised myself no more Miraculous and then just kept on drawing it anyways. Have like a hundred ideas of stuff I want to do in 2025 as well as no plans to ever watch the show again at the same time. I just lack the pride to keep watching a kids show. This is a fun paradox, don’t remember anything related to this in psychology. Maybe the idea of you watching shows based on stuff you want and this reminds me of a childhood I felt I missed?

Watching these kids finding these friends, skills, confidence and maturity lies closer to what I wished I had as a child and what felt like the lives many around me led. I spent my days staring into the wall in the school corridor or up at the moon before going to bed wondering about my place in the world and finding questions for everything between “what’s outside the known universe” and “do I deserve to breathe the same air as my classmates?” Apparently, my parents’ tactic of constantly reminding me of my diagnosis and differences did NOT have any positive result on my mental health :D, who figured.

I’m glad that I have all that today. A back bone, a small but diverse social life, an actual close relationship with my family and pride to go outside the door. But this show just takes that and makes me regret I didn’t find it sooner.

So my relationship with this show is something I have been wondering about a lot this year and seems to be a mix of escapism and weird sense of nostalgia to small moments of fun and acceptance and also, regrets of why I didn’t just do this or that or blah.

So going into 2025, I have an updated sense of what I want to draw, not to draw, what I want my stuff to say, the overall feeling and vibe of the individual ideas and what kind of artwork I can find myself sharing with my social group. And Miraculous have found a way into that mix.

So cheers to the new year and a happy warning, if you’re still following me, you’re not getting rid of these two. Nor me, feeling sorry for myself, but I’m working on that last part.

Late 4/4-celebration

Just wanted to share the WiP on my latest project, a little collage celebrating The Fantastic Four

Hope it doesn't look as awkward once the rest of the work is finished

But the FF has a special place in my heart, I have loved them as long as I have loved comics and so excitied for them to return to the cinemas

Some things I want to get done before New Year are just some re-drawings of stuff I wasn’t happy with.

First was the Chat Noir-post which itself was a redrawing of an older Miraculous Day-post.

This new one is closer to the original and more symmetric. Doesn’t feel as all-over-the-place as V.2 and looks better side-by-side with Ladybug.

22-04-15 v 23-11-08

Did a piece a year ago based on Reaching Out from the movie and wasn’t super happy with how it turned out. Quickly after I got an idea how a mirror could work instead but didn’t want to make it too soon.