Aaron McBride’s Concept Art For Shot MCB 430 Shows A Dramatic Scene From The Duel, Where Darth Vader

Happy Holidays! Hope everyone has a Star Wars project queued up.

Yoda Claus on a 1994 trading card. Art by Ralph McQuarrie.

Concept art for Watto by Doug Chiang. THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999).

Imperial Guard concept art by Ralph McQuarrie - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Older Ahsoka Tano concept art sketches Art by Dave Filoni

SW pre-production art - continued - STAR WARS   Episode  I   The Phantom Menace

concept paintings by  Doug  Chiang

From Concept Art to Screen | The Phantom Menace - Naboo

Concept art for “The Jedi” by Brian Matyas.

Rest in peace RON COBB, cartoonist and production designer whose contributions to sci-fi are immeasurable. Cobb worked with H.R. GIGER on the Xenomorph's concept art in ALIEN (1979), as well as designing the interior and exterior of the NOSTROMO. Cobb is also the one who came up with the idea for the Xenomorph's acidic blood. Besides ALIEN, Cobb helped design the STAR WARS movies, BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985), CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), the INDIANA JONES movies, and countless others.

Every now and then (I fall apart) I like to briefly spotlight a Star Wars background character. Garindan—Long-Snoot—the Imperial spy—was played by stunt woman Sadie Eden and, judging by John Mollo’s sketch, originally designed to be much shorter (image 3, top row, second character from left). (In Alan Dean Foster’s novelization the character is described as a small creature, like a scurrying rat.) The costume is so, well, cheap really, so makeshift: so wonderfully vintage Star Wars.

The art, from the Mos Eisley Cantina Pop-up Book, is by Ralph McQuarrie.

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