{"id":3821,"date":"2011-12-30T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2011-12-30T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T04:23:06","slug":"some-star-wars-fan-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"Some Star Wars Fan Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked to donate a piece of artwork for a local Star Wars<\/em>-themed charity benefit auction. I’m a huge Star Wars<\/em> nut (the movie came out when I was six, so I’m pretty much the perfect age to be a Star Wars<\/em> junkie) so I knew I had<\/em> to find time to do something fun. I decided to do a recreation of one of the original Star Wars<\/em> movie posters:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love<\/em> this image, but even as a kid, I knew that there was something odd about this poster. The drawn characters don’t look like the actors, the X-Wings have flames shooting out of them, and what the heck is that “city” about in the background? It’s a piece of art that’s hilariously out of synch with the actual film, but as fellow N.C. cartoonist (who’s also<\/em> contributing a piece to the auction) Thomas Boatwright pointed out on Twitter, this is what most folks thought SF was about pre-Star Wars: <\/em>space opera–buff guys with space swords and saucy space damsels. I remember hearing that the original Marvel Star Wars<\/em> comics had to be done so far in advance of the film that the artist had to work from just a handful of stills; I’m guessing that’s what went on here as well to some degree.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things to love about this image for sure and doing my own version of it only heightened my appreciation of it. I love the gesture of the figures–especially Princess Leah.\u00a0 The composition is flawless, and the artists (the amazing Hildebrandt Brothers<\/a>)\u00a0 have done an amazing job of getting those figures to really “pop” into the foreground via both the high light\/dark contrast and the warm tones on the cool background.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s my version. I’ll post details of the auction if\/when I get them. I have no idea if there’s any online component to the bidding, but whatever the case I hope this piece makes some bank for a good cause:<\/p>\n

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I was recently asked to donate a piece of artwork for a local Star Wars-themed charity benefit auction. I’m a huge Star Wars nut (the movie came out when I was six, so I’m pretty much the perfect age to be a Star Wars junkie) so I knew I had to find time to do … <\/p>\n

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