"Non paeniteo potitus."
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And, process !!
The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️
What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:
I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!
There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!
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recovered daguerreotype of warden ingo with sneasel, approximate year XXXX
bonus colourized and printed versions under the cut
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Thinking about how Lance almost died in the crystal explosion, and then he did die in that electric blast saving Allura, and how becoming red paladin was a start of deteoration of his character importance of his role in the show, and how he spent so much time before the series being compared to Keith only for it to be resolved as "You will never be Keith. Shut up, know your place as someone who will forever be in his shadow" and how fire and blasts and the colour red has only ever hurt him and yet he still kept jumping into them like a moth to the flame
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