[anakin skywalker by master palpatine]

This picture was inspired by And Let's Begin, by the lovely wyncatastrophe. In her amusing tale, Anakin Skywalker kindly consents to be Palpatine's life drawing model for the evening. In the story he is lying on red cushions, but alas, my Anakin insisted on standing. I had a great deal of fun imagining how Palpatine might draw and eventually decided that he would be a fairly modern artist, who used bold colours and was greatly interested in the contrast between light and dark. The picture is on a huge canvas hanging in Palpatine's bathroom.