in celebration of one of the most important and broadly impactful holidays of the year; van halen-tine’s day i quickly rendered this van halen-tine. so as you’re shredding some sweet licks on your kramer be it made of wood or air, on this most blessed of holidays; please don’t forget to jump!

kynes is one of my favorite characters so far. though i got kind of confused and thought he was a fremen, one of the dudes native to the dune planet. i guess he’s just been there a while because he likes doing stuff the tough way. a wizard set me straight. but for this drawing pretend he’s a fremen or at least got their general vibe. i gave him dreads and a tiny pile of sand on his head. it’s sandy in the desert.

don’t let this picture fool you. i stamp tooled the heck out of the space around the drawing, my sketchbooks are clutter central.

according to carl sagan in his cosmos series, “planet” is a term derived from the greek word planan meaning “wanderer”. on dune there’s a bunch of nomadic people. wanderers of a wanderer. yet there’s also this family that comes to rule over it and all it’s stuff. they’re not bad eggs, at least as far into it as i am…

see i’m endeavoring myself in this: dune book club!

they don’t wander so much…yet. they’re kind of stuck.

there’s allusions cast however that one character “lady jessica” had a boy when she could have birthed a girl? they can pick? LIKE REPTILES? maybe she kept the eggs warmer or something and popped out a boy. through this i deduced that the characters of dune very well may be akin to david icke’s reptilian humanoids and did a proper homage:

thufir hawat

lady jessica…ON THAT PATH LIES DANGER!

and paul, that little scamp!