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This will be a Christmas present, so its hand inks for a change, always fun, but never as good as my digital inks.

Some people may note the absence of Anakin/Vader, which leads into my...

Anakin/Vader Rant

Anakin sacrificed his life to kill Palpatine and save his son, which is all well and good. However, there is no way that this reverses a lifetime of wanton murder and terror. From slaughtering Jedi children in the temple to casually asphyxiating every underling who forgot to tie his shoes, Vader was about as viciously evil as it gets. Even Palpatine's actions can be rationalized as promoting order and stability; Vader is just purely evil.

The extended universe lore is that the secret to returning from the grave, which Qui-Gon discovers, is a completely selfless compassion that allows one to abandon the ego entirely. As a Buddhist myself, I of course identify with those aspects of Jedi religion which are based on the dharma, but this seems pretty explicit. And there is no way that Anakin can go from a lifetime of casual murder to a selfless Bodhisattva in, like, twenty minutes. My interpretation of the ending of Jedi is that Qui-gon, Obi Wan and Yoda brought Anakin forth to give closure to Luke, and to honor his successful effort to bring Vader back to the light. In other words, a one-time appearance based on the spiritual accomplishments of *those three*, not of Anakin.

Anyway, this picture shows the wisdom lineage of the last surviving Jedi: his teachers Obi Wan and Yoda, and Qui-Gon Jinn, who taught Obi Wan, and was both student and teacher to Yoda. Tried to follow the advice of , who once made a distinction between drawing the character, and drawing the *actor* playing the character. I tried to do the former here, with varying success.

Star Wars characters copyright of George Lucas

Description
This will be a Christmas present, so its hand inks for a change, always fun, but never as good as my digital inks.

Some people may note the absence of Anakin/Vader, which leads into my...

Anakin/Vader Rant

Anakin sacrificed his life to kill Palpatine and save his son, which is all well and good. However, there is no way that this reverses a lifetime of wanton murder and terror. From slaughtering Jedi children in the temple to casually asphyxiating every underling who forgot to tie his shoes, Vader was about as viciously evil as it gets. Even Palpatine's actions can be rationalized as promoting order and stability; Vader is just purely evil.

The extended universe lore is that the secret to returning from the grave, which Qui-Gon discovers, is a completely selfless compassion that allows one to abandon the ego entirely. As a Buddhist myself, I of course identify with those aspects of Jedi religion which are based on the dharma, but this seems pretty explicit. And there is no way that Anakin can go from a lifetime of casual murder to a selfless Bodhisattva in, like, twenty minutes. My interpretation of the ending of Jedi is that Qui-gon, Obi Wan and Yoda brought Anakin forth to give closure to Luke, and to honor his successful effort to bring Vader back to the light. In other words, a one-time appearance based on the spiritual accomplishments of *those three*, not of Anakin.

Anyway, this picture shows the wisdom lineage of the last surviving Jedi: his teachers Obi Wan and Yoda, and Qui-Gon Jinn, who taught Obi Wan, and was both student and teacher to Yoda. Tried to follow the advice of , who once made a distinction between drawing the character, and drawing the *actor* playing the character. I tried to do the former here, with varying success.

Star Wars characters copyright of George Lucas