The Nerdy Musings of an Anxious DA

Text: When in times long gone in lands far far away did greatest of heroes live, whose stories now we tell. Of wise and loving Kanan, Knight of Jedi, and his beloved Hera, great battle leader and swiftest in flight, and of their crew of the Ghost, who with wit and will, blaster and blade, did save Lothal and strike such blows to the Empire that their names yet echo throughout the stars.

Inspiration: I looked predominantly at late 13th century and early 14th Psalters and Books of Hours, especially The Psalter Hours from The Morgan Library & Museum, the Codex Manesse from the Heidelberg University Library (especially for Kanan's hair), and the Luttrell Psalter from the British Library both for the design for the border and in general how to depict faces, animals, and clothing. Zeb and Kallus's fighting stances were taken from a German combat treatise, the poses for the Loth-cats were inspired by cats from the Workshop Bestiary, and I changed the usual leaves on the decorative vines to be heraldic wheat to represent Lothal's grasslands.

Materials: Acrylics, ink pen, & alcohol markers, on paper I washed with watercolors to look more like old vellum.

Made as my Candy Hearts entry on Ao3

This took forever but was a ridiculously fun project! I am in love with metallic paint now. Pic of the wolf in different lighting so it shows