In my continuing campaign to post more examples of my illustrations from concept thru creation to final birth…I wanted to share with you artwork below.
Like any guy from my generation, especially one that has both feet in the deep end of the pool of Geekdom, George Lucas’ “Star Wars” Universe…precisely that from the original trilogy, has always been a strong influence on me. For my own personal joy, I choose to illustrate four characters from those movies. The stylized Gouache paintings I illustrated were done on Watercolor Paper and measure 5.5″ x 7.5″.
Each one of the paintings started off as pretty detailed and tight pencil drawings on Tracing Paper. Working on tracing paper in this manner was a hold over from my college years where I was taught to do all thumbnails on Tracing Paper for some reason…I still not quite sure why. From there I made Photocopies of each of these drawings and did Color Comps in Prismacolor Color Pencils. A majority of the time I nail the colors I’m gonna use on the first try. Occasionally I may tweak the colors a bit either in another Color Comp or during the painting process itself. From there I work rather closely at trying to match those colors in the Final Gouache Painting. I think I was successful.
“Darth Vader” Pencil Sketch, Concept Color Comp, & Final Painting
“Boba Fett” Pencil Sketch, Concept Color Comp, & Final Painting
“Stormtrooper” Pencil Sketch, Concept Color Comp, & Final Painting
“Jabba The Hutt” Pencil Sketch, Concept Color Comp, & Final Painting
Click on the Pencil Drawings and the Concept Color Comps to view them larger.
I plan on doing more paintings in this style either in Gouache or in a digital format because the style really lends itself to the vector Illustrator format. I’ll keep you updated here. May the Force be with you!