Here's a preview of an animatic/animation still in progress. I don't know if I'll ever finish it, so I wanted to show you at least this part, which I really like.
message from santa:
"happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me.
i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas!
~starflung 🎀🔔 "
[Please click for better quality, brightness up for details. I don't know why but the shadows look awful on my mobile, but fine on pc 😕]
They pass the night in hiding. The floor is hard and cold. They are wounded and weary. Tired of fighting. Sick of the war. Anakin tries, but he can't stay awake. He's piled his cloak on Obi-Wan's shoulder, and Obi-Wan lets him rest his head there. Obi-Wan's offered his own cloak as a blanket over their legs. He wants to sleep, too, but how can he? He needs a plan.
Maybe he almost lost Anakin today. Maybe he needs to make sure it doesn't happen again. Maybe he's only two seconds away from turning off that datapad and turning his head in the dark to press grateful lips into Anakin's bloody hair. Maybe.
I've been working on this for almost a month and a half, and I'm SOSOSO excited to get to finally share it with y'all! :D it's a little love letter to his arc of the diasomnia story, and i'm so honored to get to make something special for my lil guy <3