Thinking about making a ship series like this for pins but I don’t know 

[Image description: A stylized portrait of Anakin and Padme from Revenge of the Sith. Padme is on the left of the  frame. She is looking down with eyes closed. Anakin is on the right his figure is flipped vertically to be opposite Padme. His eyes are closed and his metal arm is visible. The picture is drawn in a purple color palette and there are four white funeral  flowers scattered around the frame.]

Here another commission I did of Akanin and Padme’s last moment of happiness together

before you leave me

Into The Dark | by Mike Heath

A Patreon-sketch commission by an individual who has requested to remain anonymous.

I think that real tragedy of Star Wars was that Leia was so limited in her opportunities to harass her dad.

In a perfect world, Anakin's kids would have taught him a lesson in humility about how annoying it probably was for Obiwan to raise him.

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To the lovers that never had their happily ever after

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Someone on Reddit combined Hayden Christensen’s and Natalie Portman’s faces and now I’m in love with Luke

Revenge of the Sith but Padme is 8 months pregnant with twins and has no patience for Anakins melodramatic havin ass

Anidala sketch because i’ve been hyperfixating on them for two weeks

Anakin looking directly at the camera and making eye contact during order 66 flashback scene changed me as a person

vader

"What is that?"

Had a lot of fun painting one of my favourite ROTS scenes. ❤️

All the main villains of the prequels movies were reflections of the villain that Anakin Skywalker was to become. Darth Maul was the Sith apprentice, one that was never valued by the Sith and always had to prove his place with them, the one who was so steeped in the dark side that he couldn’t see any of the paths out of there back to the light.  He is replaced by Sidious as soon as a new, younger apprentice comes along.  He is the one who hates himself as much as he hates those around him, suffering in the dark all alone. Count Dooku was the fallen Jedi, the one who believed he had power greater than any other Jedi, just as Anakin believed that he would find a way to be the most powerful Jedi ever.  He is a reflection of Vader staring up at his Master directly in the face, unable to truly comprehend that his end has come this way, he is the choice that Anakin makes to destroy him, while Luke chooses mercy when in the same situation. Grievous is the one who uses his artificial limbs and body to push away his humanity (/alien equivalent thereof), that both Grievous and Vader use mechanical parts, but so too does Luke Skywalker, and that’s not the issue, the issue is that they use this to separate themselves from compassion for others, one who never cares for the people or droids that work under him. Each of these villains was designed to echo and rhyme with an aspect of Darth Vader and the prequels do not get enough credit for it!

the boy with the thorn in his side

I think what tcw got wrong about Anakin, and why I can never fully immerse myself in the story no matter how much I love the series, is that Anakin isn’t some jock/popular-aligned/macho-light w/ anger issues/possessive of his girl/action hero/stoic/terminator with a lightsaber they portray him as. When they fucked up his face I knew I wasn’t going to like it.  Anakin is this incredibly pretty, desperate-to-please-but-not-wanting-to show-it, traumatized “mama’s boy” with a passionate/evocative manner of displaying his emotions (partly due to said trauma) and a penchant of sticking his foot in his mouth and jumping the gun. He’s a lover and a fighter. He’s a friend and a son and and husband and a father, and each of those things deeply. The tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is how all the beauty and potential and ways he touched the world around him and would touch it was consumed and destroyed by the worst parts of his life, by the fears and anger he (thought) he had no resources/frame of reference to assuage. His arrogance is thin veneer for his want to please, to be worth something, to be the one. Yet he resents the effort of portraying himself as such, (because why can’t he just be enough, be valued on his own?”  and it fucks him over many times. Also, his relationship with Padme was the sweetest and healthiest thing he had in his entire life, (it can be argued his and Obi-Wan’s relationship was much more “toxic” than his and Padme’s) he and Padme both made their choice and chose each other, they were happy together and loved each other. Yes, it sounds cheesy and sappy, but it true, and I don’t understand why people don’t like/won’t admit it.  Also, he was a fucking slave. That accounts for so much of him, and people seem to always forget that about him. The beginning years of his life were spent being owned by someone else, and all his life he was fighting to break free of that. Only for his twilight years to be spent being owned by someone else also. 

He made the choices, but he was also truly thrown an extremely shit hand. 

“The tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is how all the beauty and potential and ways he touched the world around him and would touch it was consumed and destroyed by the worst parts of his life, by the fears and anger he (thought) he had no resources/frame of reference to assuage.”

This is such a beautiful sentence.