This Is My LilWorld

Yep, I’m a trooper groupie.

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Happy Star Wars Day!

This is my second year making art for today and I had a blast drawing these two with their t-shirts on! Rex is very happy Cody agreed to join in the fun!

Here’s last year’s offering (because I’m still proud of it)

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All I want out of Star Wars Celebration this years is an announcement that Rex’ll finally have his own series (and that Echo will be a big part of it). That’s all.

I’m also very scared it’ll only be a couple of seasons long. He deserves so much more than a short run as the lead.

Echo, Cody, Wolffe, Gregor, Howzer, they all deserve more.

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Earlier in the year I started an online art course, keen to grow my confidence and get myself back to making art and sharing it more regularly. The course, Make Art or Die Trying, is based on the newly released book of the same name written by Stuart Semple.

The result of that course is this exhibition I’m honoured to be sharing with the wonderful artists I’ve been able to meet and get to know over the past few months.

It has been a joy to explore my art and I’m excited to be able to share the exhibition with the world and the art I made as part of my final project.

Called LilWorld: Dawn of Art, this project explores the origins of human creativity and art and presents it in a new comic style I’m hoping to develop and continue in the future.

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Happy Star Wars day!!

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I am keeping my fingers crossed that tomorrow there’s the announcement I’ve been waiting for (for so very long) and Rex finally gets to be the main character of something 🤞

May the Fourth be with you 💙 (\"/)

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I was unreasonably excited to see Echo’s ears this episode. Like really excited.

I’m also highly distracted with concern over him being able to get his tbb armour back…

Feels like things are forever changing and I’m not sure I can handle it 😂 I just hope the enormous number of unravelled threads means a new show is gonna be announced. Hopefully on the 4th 🤞

And finally, what fun it was to see him messing about with that droid hand! He should magnetise it to his armour (you know where) so he can keep it … ahem … handy.

As for Omega telling Emerie about the Batch… my poor heart can’t take it!

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Post penultimate TBB episode thoughts abound. Predominant one is how the last ep has got to be about 3 hours long.

But also…

Kind of hoping Rex and co aren’t in the finale as it ups their chances of getting their own show.

Wishful thinking is my superpower 🤞

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Hera

by Tori Wyatt. Jan 2019

Piece 2 from the archives

I’ve no idea why I made a drawing of Hera Syndulla from Star Wars Rebels going on a shopping trip with a tote bag with Sabine’s phoenix symbol on it. I just know that it was a big challenge to make her lekku look right.

Unlike the watch, I do remember making this one! In the months after getting my iPad Pro I tried to develop a new style to reboot my webcomic, which has been sadly languishing since 2012. The problems with my wrist cause me to be so slow and inconsistent my attempts never became more than just disappointing doodles. But the basis for what’s becoming the new comic is here already, an embryonic beginning to something new. I’d continue to struggle with how best to do the eyes until recently when I realised the simplicity of my established version is very much me.

I wasn’t happy with the results at the time, but five years after drawing this I can see it’s not as bad as the me of then thought. I present it proudly!

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I made this!

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You can easily imagine Echo’s been flexing his ARC training a lot working with Rex. His confidence in ep 13 was so effortless. And impressive. Wonderful to see him doing his thing! Even though it’s terrifying watching him go off on his own.

So very much wanting to see what the two 501st boys have been doing with their clone crew all this time.

Please…

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By the Force, the pre-Bad Batch Day anxiety is starting early this week! It’s only Monday 😳

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No amount of bracing could have emotionally prepared me for Point of No Return.

I’m a grown ass woman and yet I’m still knocked flat by TBB.

As for anyone trying to claim animation’s for kids… please tell me where in those last two episodes is content suitable for younglings

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Asajj Ventress

In honour of her appearance in episode 9 of the final season of The Bad Batch, I decided to draw Ventress. I loved seeing her again and thought her bounty hunter outfit was very cool. Great fun to draw.

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I made this! It’s on my art blog (\"/)

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Intensely feeling the need for Rex to have his own show. And for it to be announced on May 4 this year post TBB finale.

There are as many hints in TBB S3 that it could happen as there are ones that it won’t. And that scares me. Scares me.

I have these feels on a regular basis and have done for some while (years by now) They are daily at this rate as we progress through S3. It’s a little exhausting 🙄

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Me on a Tuesday: Bad Batch Eve is the most nerve wracking, suspenseful, stressful day of the week.

Me on a Wednesday; No, no, I was very wrong.

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Who doesn’t love a houseplant you can’t kill?!

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Been thinking, ever since I saw the Bad Batch S3 trailer, about how uncomfortable Rex might have felt stopping wearing his pauldron. I can’t help but think he wouldn’t have given it up lightly, what with it saving his life on Saleucami and being such an intrinsic part of his identity. So I came up with this little moment where it’s broken and he’s adjusting to life without it, flashing back to getting shot because that has to have lingered all this time.

Takes a bit of getting used to seeing him without it…

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Work in progress. Got an idea in my head watching the pre-season trailer, am just now getting around to realising it. Hope to finish soon.