personally love the interaction in the start of s4 where steve goes โugh, you know i donโt do double vhs.โ when robin suggests doctor zhivago. like ugh robin!!!! weโve talked about this before!!! steve has a limited attention span and if robin puts on something too long, he will start shooting her with rubber bands
For this illustration the coincidence is quite funny.
It's a concept idea I had last year, as usual I did a quick sketch and left it for later.
Then at the beginning of September I got the urge to finally draw it, (Also to provide a little entertainment for those who don't follow my project on Ko-fi), so I improved the skull pile idea by putting decaying skeletons in motion instead. And the date of my wips on instagram proves it, it was the day before the LA show where there was this coregraphy with skeletons lifting Copia off the ground.
Like I said, perfect timing. Pure coincidence. Hehe.
Art ref: Klimt, the Medicine. (It's not the whole painting, I wouldn't have had the time and I preferred a version focused on the character.)
I thought this one suited the Cardinal well, as the snake is very present in his attires.
In the original work, the bodies represent the different states of human suffering. For my version, I chose to stick with skeletal silhouettes, which can be understood either as a nod to the Dance Macabre, or as the image of death and decrepitude brought on by sin (the apple and all that, as we saw a character closely resembling Copia holding out the apple on a backdropโฆwink wink)
I had to adapt the background a little by not placing the silhouettes in exactly the same place and not reproducing exactly the same motifs, it wouldn't have made sense.
Just a reminder: if you like my art, don't hesitate to support me on my Ko-fi page, which, as well as make me happy, will give you access to a step-by-step of my Goya remake, a traditional project that's already been going on since July.