Do You Permit It ?

+ bonus process vid

Here are some of my more artistic notes.

Enjolras has fire hair because it is at once dangerous yet hopeful. He is the leader and a guiding light, which is why both Combeferre and Courfeyrac are looking at him. I did my best to adapt his iconic vest and flag combo, even if the tricolour is not as visible with the warm lighting.

I remember it being a widespread fandom thing that Combeferre is into bugs (is this still a thing?), so I took inspiration from that and gave him antennae and 4 eyes for his alien form. The tail of his doctors jacket is also inspired from the shapes of butterfly wings. He is at once a fighter and a healer to me, so I copied Medic tf2's banger outfit.

I decided to make courfeyrac a cyborg for multiple reasons. One: since he comes from a rich family, he would be able to afford those augments. Two: his decision to cut the "de" of his name off is interesting to me, because he is now stuck in a both/neither grey area of whether he is still part of the upper class that he wanted to detach himself from. Granted, I am not very familiar with the actual politics of les mis, but it does remind me of how cyborgs in scifi struggle to fit in with either human or machine.

I worked so hard on the composition and colour scheme for this piece, and I'm so happy with how it turned out! Only regret is making it in a square canvas, I would have chosen a3 if I had known how much I'd like the final product teehee