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Description
I love this character so much, I thought I could never be satisfied with whatever art I could come up to render him.
But since the whole cycle of FH's Dune is so dear to me, what a shame I'd only make fan art of everything else.

So after many struggles and attempts, it might not be the worthiest but it's my very best attempt at a real heartfelt homage!

Once Duncan Idaho, now a living 'ghost in the shell', a mnemonic shell for both a mentat and a Zensunni philosopher, here's Hayt the Ghola Tleilaxu, deadly gift to Emperor Paul 'Muad Dib' Atreides.

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Design note:
I referenced both DI and Hayt's features description in book to determine an appropriate face.
Not having the english text anymore at my disposal, and not daring to translate back, here goes, from his introduction in 'the Messiah':

"Paul avait le regard fixé sur un serviteur vêtu d'orange qui se tenait a droite de la délégation, comme un garde du corps. Son visage aux traits plats, ses cheveux noirs et bouclés... tout était familier, tout criait son identité. Duncan Idaho. Ce ne pouvait etre lui et pourtant c'était lui. [...] Ses yeux métalliques regardaient droit devant lui. Son port était calme."

Of course, he's here wearing a stillsuit

('distille' in french.
while playing on the same phonetic sound, altering the sense a bit, focusing the name on the function of the suit, distillation of body fluids, rather than the capacity/power of the suit, which is stealth in the desert night, as in the stillness of night's sleep that allows the fremen to travel unnoticed.
Indeed there'd be no need to double the l in the english term otherwise)

with a stylized bird of prey that could be the Atreides Hawk, as a brooch for his rough desert overcoat/cape.

Master Fencer, he wields a blade with a nasty pommel edge that I thought'd be a wise pun to the ambivalence of the character itself but also to his Zensunni teachings.

And Arrakis twin Moons, another great ambivalent symbol, that I couldn't forget to stage him with.

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Pencils and Inks on paper
Color and Edit on CS

Hope you enjoy it!

Description
I love this character so much, I thought I could never be satisfied with whatever art I could come up to render him.
But since the whole cycle of FH's Dune is so dear to me, what a shame I'd only make fan art of everything else.

So after many struggles and attempts, it might not be the worthiest but it's my very best attempt at a real heartfelt homage!

Once Duncan Idaho, now a living 'ghost in the shell', a mnemonic shell for both a mentat and a Zensunni philosopher, here's Hayt the Ghola Tleilaxu, deadly gift to Emperor Paul 'Muad Dib' Atreides.

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Design note:
I referenced both DI and Hayt's features description in book to determine an appropriate face.
Not having the english text anymore at my disposal, and not daring to translate back, here goes, from his introduction in 'the Messiah':

"Paul avait le regard fixé sur un serviteur vêtu d'orange qui se tenait a droite de la délégation, comme un garde du corps. Son visage aux traits plats, ses cheveux noirs et bouclés... tout était familier, tout criait son identité. Duncan Idaho. Ce ne pouvait etre lui et pourtant c'était lui. [...] Ses yeux métalliques regardaient droit devant lui. Son port était calme."

Of course, he's here wearing a stillsuit

('distille' in french.
while playing on the same phonetic sound, altering the sense a bit, focusing the name on the function of the suit, distillation of body fluids, rather than the capacity/power of the suit, which is stealth in the desert night, as in the stillness of night's sleep that allows the fremen to travel unnoticed.
Indeed there'd be no need to double the l in the english term otherwise)

with a stylized bird of prey that could be the Atreides Hawk, as a brooch for his rough desert overcoat/cape.

Master Fencer, he wields a blade with a nasty pommel edge that I thought'd be a wise pun to the ambivalence of the character itself but also to his Zensunni teachings.

And Arrakis twin Moons, another great ambivalent symbol, that I couldn't forget to stage him with.

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Pencils and Inks on paper
Color and Edit on CS

Hope you enjoy it!