Merry Sithmas - Darth Nihilus

Merry Sithmas

It's time again for a Sithmas Card!  However, since I've pretty much used all the ones from the movies, I've moved on to Sith from Video Games/Comic/Expanded Universe.

In this case, it's Darth Nihilus, Lord of Hunger, from "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords", as well we several appearances in comic books.  Taking place about 4,000 years before the "Star Wars" movies, he was a human who survived an encounter with a Mass Shadow Generator super-weapon and became a "wound in the Force", hungering for and consuming Force energy to survive.  A cross between a Force Vampire and Galactus, as he eventually became powerful enough to absorb the Force energies of worlds.

And, I always liked the design of Darth Nihilus.  Vaguely skull-like in his mask, he was one of the spookiest-looking Sith.  I'm not sure where he fits within canon nowadays, but I've since decided that such things don't really matter: cool is cool.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital inks, done in ClipStudio Paint (formerly MangaStudio).  It is a 1,000px x 1,400px document, with 200dpi.  The pencils eventually just became the inks in this drawing, and I mostly used the Symmetry Brush to mirror the drawing on both sides.

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STEP TWO:  I colored the drawing in ClipStudio Paint, and using Photoshop to create the four frame animated .gif.

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Done with Clip Studio Paint and animated with Photoshop (yeah, I know I should learn to use the Animation feature within Clip Studio Paint, and I will... eventually. :-)

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