Star Wars fan art illustration

It is finished - whoooaaa!!!!This has been a labor of love and hate as I have worked on this for the last month and a half. So glad I persevered. Probably the greatest lesson I have learned is if something is bothering you, get rid of it. That walking carpet (Mr Chewbacca) was edited and re-edited sooooo many times till I got the fur where I wanted it. Full respect to artists who do furry creatures. Seriously!!!

I will post up soon a basic little run over of the basics in this piece. Hope some stuff in it may help.

As always, thanks for visiting.

And a big shout out to the awesome artist Patrick Brown. His tutorial online through Skillshare was awesome and helped me so much. Thank you Patrick.

Tools used:

• Photoshop CS3
• Wacom tablet
• Sketch up for AT-AT Walkers
• Illustrator CS3
• a mumbling plea of "this wookie will not get the better of me"

Star Wars fan art_Concept completed

Han, Chewie now all setup with background elements (AT-AT walkers). Next is to ink these guys up following Patrick Browns tutorial. Then it's onto colouring. Really looking forward to that.

The AT-AT walkers were sourced from Sketch up and finished up in illustrator.

I am thinking probably a Endor feel for the colour palette (forest colours).

As always, thanks for visiting. Happy Wednesday!!!!

Star Wars Fan art_Chewbacca Sketch

Continuing on from a previous post  - click here - I have developed Chewbacca. I will post up soon both Chewie and Han together in a background. As I love the AT-AT walkers from Empires Strike Back, they will definitely be in the shot somehow.
Thanks for visiting, hope you had a nice easter. Love holidays!!!!

Bye for now.

Happy Anniversary to my beautiful wife, Sonya Crawford

To my beautiful wife - '

No matter what universe we find ourselves in, you will always be my princess my sweet love. Happy anniversary beautiful. Eternally grateful to my love, best friend. Mwah, hugs and kisses'.

 

Thanks to Han Solo and Princess Leah. Awesome. And also to Los Angeles Disney Land for the photo opportunity in 2012. Such a fun time in our lives!!

Star Wars Fan art_Han Solo Sketch

Way back in January of 2015 (in a galaxy far, far away) I said about doing a post for Han Solo. Ta-dah..here he is!!!
This sketch is for the next awesome online course through Skill-share by Patrick Brown, awesome artist. The course is called Characters in a scene - Sketch to digital. Recommend enrolling in it.

Next to follow is his partner in crime, Mr Chewbacca. Arrggghhhh (wookie sound).

As always, thanks for popping on in.

Characters in Motion - Patrick Brown part II

Alright, last image for this tutorial 'Drawing your character in a scene'. The previous post I felt that Chewie's pose was not that dynamic. So I played around with a few rough pose concepts before arriving at the above. 

For the background I went for an interior of a spaceship. This was roughly put together in Photoshop.

I can imagine Chewy launching onto some stormtroopers. Emmm, now there's a thought.

Next to post up is Han Solo, awesome.

As always, many thanks for visiting this blog. Any comments, thoughts, wishes or just to say hi please feel welcome.

Tools used:

• Mechanical pencil
• Soft 2b pencil
• Photoshop CS3

Characters in Motion - Patrick Brown

I found Patrick Brown (digital artist) during a Pinterest search and was instantly hooked with his work. So when I found out he was offering online tutorials I was super excited. Currently I am working through his first tutorial - click this link, Characters in Motion. 

The challenge is to come up with some characters in a dynamic pose. You had to choose fan art or something of your own creation. Hello Chewbecca and Han Solo. I loved these guys as a kid. Riding in the millennium falcon, nailing stormtroopers. Kinda modern sci fi pirates.

So I have started on Chewbecca. For the tutorial I have started on 'Drawing dynamic action poses' and 'Drawing convincing facial expressions' as above. The last part of the tutorial is 'Drawing your character in a scene'. I hope to have this up soon.

After Chewie is sorted I'm onto Han. And once this is all done (phew) I will go onto the next tutorial of Patrick's - Characters in a scene: Sketch to Digital. Can't wait!!!

As always, thanks for visiting and may the force be with you. I just had to say that.

Tools used: 

• Mechanical pencil
• Soft 2b pencil
• Battery erasure
• Normal clutch erasure
• Star Wars YouTube clips playing...oh yeah!!!!