Motetus

Hey, remember back when I was doing this Star Wars alphabet challenge? No, me neither.

I've had this half-finished for months and months, and every time I sit down to finish it off I get distracted. But tonight I was all GRR ANGRY about all sorts of things (pretty much all of them silly trivial things that do not deserve anger. Except for the research stuff, because fuck Surface Plasmon Resonance, don't ever try to use it) so the best thing to make me less GRR was something nice and sweet and flowery and happy-making. So yay, more Padmé/Breha! I hope this makes up slightly for me never giving you your hardcore porny birthday drawing, swcajolings.

Also, now my WIP list is down to 2, with one of them almost done. I feel much better about this, because I have discovered I get very stressed when I have more than 1 (how do people I know have dozens of fic/art WIPs going on at the same time? I do not understand it), when really I should be stressed about other things. Like the stupid thesis and how I think I have to give my talk in January and oh god, I haven't given a talk in about 3 years. Ha, talking of the thesis, I realised that the draft copy that I emailed my supervisor this week had a section where I'd left notes to myself about things to brush up on for the viva with the heading: YOU SHOULD KNOW ALL THIS SHIT BY NOW, ZOE. Whoops.

Oh sorry, I am rambling. Right. Art. That was what this post was supposed to be about.

W is for... Waking
Padmé/Breha Organa, work-safe

( Afternoon nap )

Ugh. Sick today, but not feeling guilty about skipping work as a) I have hardly anything to do and b) the boss is away. I probably should spend the day getting started on making dissertation notes, but it is far more likely that I will just paint all day and watch the rest of the Rome DVD extras (oh god, Kevin McKidd's Scottish accent - SO CUTE).

Anyway... here's what I spent the morning doing (aside from saying hello again to last night's dinner). I know it looks like I slapped a 2-minute scribble on top of a NASA picture of the day, but the stars were actually made using this tutorial.

U is for... Universe
Tiny!Sith, work-safe

( Probably more of a galaxy than universe, but whatever )

Oh Sith Academy. What fond memories I have of spending my lunch breaks on the library computers with you back in high school when I should have been studying for my A-levels. Here's some fanart of that glorious universe that's probably the most complicated scene I've drawn, but was surprisingly fun and easy to do.

S is for... Sith Academy
Maul/Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon/Sidious, work-safe

( Yes Lord Maul, you are indeed hot shit )

Have some Sunday evening porn! :D

100% kitten-abuse free this time.

Q is for... Quiet
Qui-Gon, not work-safe

( Oh Master Jinn, what have you got yourself into? )

So from one Roman to another. This was meant to be of the_little_owl's young Roman nobleman Obianus, but I got excited looking through my stash of Roman uniform images and turned him into an older, battle-weary Centurion instead. An AU of an AU I suppose, but I'm still keeping the name.

O is for... Obianus
Obianus (an ancient Roman Obi-Wan), work-safe

( Feathery Roman helmets are awesome )

Yay, halfway through the alphabet! I'm taking a break from the Star Wars universe for the next couple of letters, starting with:

M is for... Morgana
Morgana (Merlin), work-safe

( Morgana goes on one of her up-to-no-good midnight jaunts )

I know I'll probably be lynched by an angry mob of Qui/Obi OTPers for this, but I should point out that in the interest of fairness swcajolings deserves to be strung up beside me for converting me to the idea of these two being an adorable old hippie couple.

K is for... Kiss
Qui-Gon/Tahl, work-safe

( Holy crap I think this is the first time I've ever drawn het )

Title changed from what I was originally given, because I was a moron and didn't realise until it was finished that Iron and Indigo was not the title of Tem's zine, but a different story (despite having the zine right next to me the entire time).

I is for... Indigo Warrior
Jin (from temve's samurai epic The Indigo Warrior), work-safe

( Come laugh at my attempt at a fake Japanese painting )

Scribbled out this monstrosity in a hour tonight, and completely missed Have I Got News For You. Argh.

This one's for bant, even though I think Qui-Gon/Jar Jar is the only OTP. ;)

G is for... Gungan
Jar Jar/?, work-safe? Uh, maybe, maybe not.

( Qui-Gon arrives home earlier than expected... )

So this was originally meant to be Ewan in ecstasy, but halfway through I realised it would end up being RPS. RPS squicks me. So I slapped on a few extra details and voila, successful nabbing of someone else's characters. ;)

I'm sure I've done a piece with the same title. This one suffers from the same problem too - the subjects don't look very enthusiastic about what they're doing. I can't draw orgasmic faces!

E is for... Ecstasy
Rob/Michael (from mizz_history's Layers), not work-safe.

( I'm inching my way slowly towards drawing smut. )