Took some time off from commissions to color this, because I really wanted to finish this piece while the inspiration was still floating around in my head. This was the result of manymany hours of coloring/shading while listening to the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack on repeat.
I doodled this originally after seeing the film a second time and realizing the arc of the mentor-type relationship between Obi Wan and Anakin is quite similar to that of Kaid and Thalek. So I decided to stick the two of them in a very RotS-esque landscape. Interesting considering the story between these guys mostly takes place in a frozen landscape...this is the polar opposite.

Before anyone asks about the smoke: no it's not a filter, no there was no fancy trick to it either. I was just swirling around the oil pastel brush in Painter, at a large size, and for some bizarre reason it came out all wispy like that. Clearly the truth here is that I am strong in the Force and managed to manipulate the program to realize I wanted to make my brushstrokes look like smoke, but we'll just pretend it was a lucky accident.

Linework - Mechanical pencil on tracing paper
Flat color & touchups - Photoshop CS
Shading/background/general painting - Corel Painter 8