No bc why is this the best Steve I’ve ever drawn 😭 huge fan of the little cat in the corner too. My bestie said it looks like Joe. Anyways I’m trying to bring more whimsy to my art ✨
P.S. don’t get used to four paintings in one day, I don’t know how this happened
I wanted to make some art after the news of Anthony Head’s passing earlier this week, but I was imminently going travelling so I couldn’t find the time, until now.
Anthony’s work has been so core to my life, in my childhood as Uther Pendragon in Merlin, Mr Finch in the School Reunion episode of Doctor Who, and taking me up to last year, when I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time. Giles became my favourite on the second episode. My friends noted that they’d never seen me fall in love with a character that fast.
It’s such a terrible heartache on the world to lose him, in not just himself and his artistic work, but also in his advocacy work and allyship of the trans community. He was vocally supportive of numerous causes and it seems people only have wonderful things to say about him. He’ll be sorely missed.
Happy Star Wars Day!!! May the 4th be with you 💫 I wanted to do something special for this year, so have nine portraits of our beloved trio characters 🥹
How are you celebrating? I’m currently on my third movie of the day and have a SW video game session planned for this evening ✨🙌
Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.
If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.
It’s been a long time since Luke has been on my pages! 🥹 One Jedi for Valentine’s Day 💝
Image description: A digital painting portrait of Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, made in Procreate. Luke is in his A New Hope clothing on a simple background with a blue gradient.
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
remember to cry for help without guilt-tripping. i know it feels like you’ve been abandoned and betrayed, but it’s probably not true, and it’s not okay to accuse the people around you of something they might not have done.
“i guess none of you like me” could be better phrased as “i feel unloved right now”
“but nobody cares anyway” could be better phrased as “i feel insignificant and i need reassurance”
rather than assuming others’ feelings, give them time to explain them. you’ll usually get a much better answer.
This is really important for future predictions, too. “You’re eventually going to leave me” is impossible for someone else to disprove without just sticking around forever, but no one wants to stick around when they’re being constantly accused of future abandonment. Giving someone no choice but to either stay with you forever in order to prove you wrong or leave you and prove you right is incredibly emotionally manipulative, whether you mean it to be or not.
“I get scared sometimes because I’m afraid of being alone again” is easier to address and doesn’t leave your partner(s)/friend(s) feeling as though they’re being preemptively accused of something.
I'm so proud of the way that my art grew in 2025. I had a wonderful therapist last year who managed to figure out exactly what was holding me back with my art, and got me back on track to making new paintings. She set me a singular goal: Post a new piece of art every two weeks. At first, I really struggled. I was so intimidated. That felt like a huge task, especially after years of creative burnout, mental health issues, an autism diagnosis and all of the other things that went on since leaving school. But eventually it got easier, and I was picking up my iPad whenever. I now actively look forward to drawing again, and with how much of my identity has always been tied to that, it means the world (though I still need to work out separating my self worth from my productivity). I have a lot more focus, and with this latest art course I've picked up by Artbytosin, I'm exploring and succeeding at new styles that I've never been able to crack! Plus, I picked up some brand new hyperfixations in Buffy, Superman and a Merlin rewatch to keep me fixated. So cheers to 2026 🎨🖌
Lt. Prant Solen is an Imperial Intelligence officer who survives by clinging to order. Hierarchy, procedure, and predictability—after the war and the fall of the Republic, these become his way of keeping the world stable enough to endure. Change terrifies him and stagnation feels safe.
Shortly after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Solen is assigned to supervise a new asset, CT-6119 (“Graft”). On paper, it is a straightforward arrangement: an experienced interrogation specialist without rank, reassigned to Bureau oversight; a junior officer tasked with evaluation, coordination, and performance reporting. He expects a problematic asset, as he always does. Instead, he gets something worse: a clone who fits the system too well. No ego, no emotional noise, just compliance. Graft functions exactly as the Empire believes people (and clones) should. And that is the problem. Graft does not want anything: not freedom, not his own identity, not even survival. His self-erasure is sincere. Even after the War Mantle project is set in motion, CT-6119 expresses no concern for his future. For Solen, this becomes first an intellectual fault line, and then a personal one. He begins justifying constant joint interrogations with Graft as efficiency. Then he starts quietly protecting him—adjusting workloads, intervening in reviews, rerouting attention from the clone. Prant can’t accept a system that would erase something this precise, this competent, this valuable (and he simply likes working with the clone). Yet Graft destabilizes him further by failing to see the point of Solen’s sacrifices at all and calling him out on them.
In the end, Solen does the thing he fears most: he changes. He discards his career, his position, and his safety, and defects from the newly formed Empire—not to free Graft, not to fix him, but simply to keep him alive. It is an asymmetrical bond: Solen values Graft’s existence more than his own stability, while Graft never asks for any of it (but he eventually grows grateful for it).
tl;dr: dude with a saviour complex has unrequited workplace friendship with a clone and his life goes to shit. and he is not, like, a good person. maybe an okay one at best.
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