Star Wars, Medieval manuscript-style

Chawakarn Kongprasert from Bangkok, Thailand, created these illuminated manuscript-style Star Wars illustrations. These are just perfect, the kind of thing that makes me happy to be alive in the 21st century.

Star Wars in Manuscript (via Making Light)

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Was I the only one expecting the title crawl medieval-ized?
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Blasphemy !!!! (More please…)
GawainLavers

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Oh, hey, I thought this had come up here before.
- GawainLavers
  
  Here you go.
  - pKp
    
    That is creeptastic.
dragonfrog

Early Renaissance? Am I revealing my complete ignorance of art history by saying I would have expected a medieval manuscript to have the perspective way more wonky than that?
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  The people aren’t potato looking enough. Also not enough creepy miniature adults as baby Jesus. My mom has a love for iconography so I can go on and on.
Enoch_Root

They look more like like icons http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/images/icon07.jpg or panels from triptychs http://coosacreek.org/mambo/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/duccio-di-buoninsegna.jpg especially since they have the golden border on them.
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  But you say icon and people think of the modern meaning.
http://www.facebook.com/chris.woods.94009841 Chris Woods

So cool!

I also have a series of Star Wars-inspired paintings in the works. The suite is titled ‘SANDSTORM’ and it will show in the summer of 2013 at The Reach Galley Museum in Abbotsford, BC, Canada.

These epic-scale paintings will be done in the style of 19th century Romantic Painter Eugene Delacroix. Please check it out at:

http://www.indiegogo.com/sandstorm
Thank you,Chris
niktemadur

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… a bunch of flat-headed flatlanders began to toy with the idea of perspective, ever so slightly.
http://twitter.com/thissortofthing thissortofthing

This is cool, but cooler is this traditional Malaysian shadow puppet version of Star Wars by Tintoy Chuo: http://thissortofthing.com/index/2012/9/4/malaysian-shadow-puppet-version-of-star-wars-in-the-works.html